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HKR posted:I'm pretty much guaranteed to give it a try at some point this year. If you don't have an EEPROM burner and understand schematics/EE you're going into a very large uphill battle. A decent burner is $70-100 and chips are $10-15 a pop. On top of this cartridges mostly use 5v ICs so you have to really screw around with circuitry to tie in any current memory as most all runs off 3.3v. Just be aware doing this kind of stuff isn't for the weak hearted.
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flyboi posted:If you want to get really crazy, NES is about impossible to reproduce unless the game was made by Nintendo. Reason being is that Nintendo has mappers that hooked up memory chips differently and allows banking in any fashion a developer desires. Because of this there are ~200 different mapper configurations for Nintendo and to make a rom "work" with a different one requires quite a bit of assembly knowledge. The vast majority of official NES/Famicom games only used a handful of mappers. NROM (no mapping), UNROM, CNROM, MMC1, MMC2 (only used by Punch-Out), MMC3, MMC4 (only used by Famicom Wars and Fire Emblem), MMC5, Konami's VRC2/4/6/7, Sunsoft 5 and maybe a couple of others. The other 200-something mappers are really only used by pirated games or multicarts. The_Franz fucked around with this message at 19:00 on Jan 13, 2013 |
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flyboi posted:
I wouldn't say it's the ONLY copy....possibly one of 2 though. 
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Random Stranger posted:Continuing the saga of my copy of Super Monkey Adventures, a.k.a. the absolute worst Famicom game ever created.... JJJJJS just finished up repros for this game (in English, no less).
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Is there any real reason to go for a SD2SNES over an Everdrive if you don't really care about MSU-1? I mean, SuperFX would be neat but at the price of the cart I could just build the two SuperFX games I'd want and I wonder if he plans to have SA1/CX4/SDD1 support or not. Only thing is games that are SA1/SDD1 all used TSOP memory instead of DIP which makes for one fugly cartridge internally.
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flyboi posted:Is there any real reason to go for a SD2SNES over an Everdrive if you don't really care about MSU-1? I mean, SuperFX would be neat but at the price of the cart I could just build the two SuperFX games I'd want and I wonder if he plans to have SA1/CX4/SDD1 support or not. Only thing is games that are SA1/SDD1 all used TSOP memory instead of DIP which makes for one fugly cartridge internally. Cx4 is supported already. Basically the only stuff now supported right now is SuperFX and SA-1 which sounds like will come within the next year. Personally I'd get a SD2SNES just so I never have to worry about it ever again. Also SD cards are a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to buy than CF.
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Djarum posted:Cx4 is supported already. Basically the only stuff now supported right now is SuperFX and SA-1 which sounds like will come within the next year. Personally I'd get a SD2SNES just so I never have to worry about it ever again. Also SD cards are a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to buy than CF. Ah gently caress it I'll just waste the money didn't know it was open source too which will be handy for personal projects
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univbee posted:JJJJJS just finished up repros for this game (in English, no less). I'm going to wind up having spent more on Super Monkey than they probably spent on development... I'm currently playing PS2 roulette with my giant stack of caseless PS2 games I got from Game Stop. Random.org says I should play game 7 in this stack of 54 games and that's... (dig dig dig) Pryzm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn. Let's see how long I can stand this... Edit: This is amazing in the wost way with the cut scenes... Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 04:49 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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Random Stranger posted:Pryzm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn Oh gently caress. I remember watching Frank Cifaldi and Scott Sharkey play that. Man did it ever look (and sound, thanks for repeating the same quips every ten seconds) awful.
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Pryzm is one of the rarest breed of lovely games: a bad Spyro clone.
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Silhouette posted:Pryzm is one of the rarest breed of lovely games: a bad Spyro clone. It can't be worse than Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue.
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WendigoJohnson posted:It can't be worse than Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue. I don't see how Lightspeed Rescue could be worse than Pryzm. I was going to link to the start of game cut scene to prove my point but it appears that no one has actually put a clean video of it online. It's so bad that the only person who has a video of it got it by pointing a camcorder at their television screen and talking over it. No one wants this thing remembered. I think I may record a bit of it later because the world has to see this thing...
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Wise Fwom Yo Gwave posted:What's the usual ETA for an SD2SNES, anyhow? I ordered 3 days ago, but don't know what the turnaround is from purchase to ship. I'm in California, so I'm expecting a week's transit at the earliest. I bought mine on the 15th Dec (i think from stoneagegamer), then on the 27th Dec biokrik@gmail.com sent me an email to say they'd sent it. I got it on the 4th of January, i think. Not sure if it normally takes that long or whether it was just a Christmas rush kind of thing. Hang in there! 
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Kreeblah posted:A really lovely power supply could possibly do that. It's a little pricey, but I use this with my Framemeister and it puts out very clean power. Quoting this from AGES ago, but I bought this power adapter to try to fix the noise issue on my HD Box Pro... aaaand it doesn't come with a plug that fits the HD Box.  Might try to hit up Fry's to find an adapter now. the VM1898 is a really nice lookin' power supply, so I don't want to send it back or anything. I'm sure I have other uses for it if not the HD Box. Maybe my Twin Fami, since the power supply I have on it has an L shaped plug that doesn't quite fit right. [if I can make the VM1898 do center-negative or whatever the Twin requires, probably just flip the plug around or something like the one I have for it now, won't do it without reading up first though!]
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As threatened, here's the opening cutscenes for Prysm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn: With Songs By America. http://youtu.be/FhTL1VtyHWs . They've really got to be seen to be believed, especially the second one that acts as the actual start of a new game. Just look at this unicorn: This came out only seven days after the same developer published Battlefield 1942. I'm sure that was an interesting office to be in... Random Stranger fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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Random Stranger posted:As threatened, here's the opening cutscenes for Prysm: Chapter One: The Dark Unicorn: With Songs By America. http://youtu.be/FhTL1VtyHWs . They've really got to be seen to be believed, especially the second one that acts as the actual start of a new game. Just look at this unicorn: I was terrified at 12 seconds in. Also this is some of the worst poo poo I've ever seen in my life, and I watch Godfrey Ho movies for fun Bing the Noize fucked around with this message at 09:00 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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I've been in a general funk about what to play of late, and found myself with an itch to play some Final Fantasy 6, which led me here seeking information about the "right" way to emulate. This of course convinced me that I do not, in fact, want to emulate, and catch the retro collecting bug. I owned a lot of consoles and games from Atari forward as a kid, but unfortunately I'm starting from scratch now. On the bright side, I've got this EDIT: My mistake, it appears that it's actually a 216 lbs, 15 oz behemoth. Stoomie fucked around with this message at 12:52 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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Stoomie posted:I've been in a general funk about what to play of late, and found myself with an itch to play some Final Fantasy 6, which led me here seeking information about the "right" way to emulate. BSNES on an HTPC going to your TV. Or if you have a Wii, the Virtual Console is indistinguishable to the real deal (Nintendo finally got something right on their newer consoles).
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:BSNES on an HTPC going to your TV. Or if you have a Wii, the Virtual Console is indistinguishable to the real deal (Nintendo finally got something right on their newer consoles). Yeah that's what I'm doing temporarily, but I've already started putting the feelers out locally to get my hands on some hardware and games. I've got a friend coming over tomorrow with a Genesis he doesn't have a use for anymore, so I guess it's begun!
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Stoomie posted:Yeah that's what I'm doing temporarily, but I've already started putting the feelers out locally to get my hands on some hardware and games. I've got a friend coming over tomorrow with a Genesis he doesn't have a use for anymore, so I guess it's begun!  ONE OF US ONE OF US  The gently caress is this thing??  This looks like something I can make fat beatz on
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The PV-16 is an MSX1, right? Because that's a pretty similar arrow keyset. e: And then I notice the MSX logo on it. Yes.
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Is there a really good reason as to why there are no repro copies of Famicom Wars? Seems like something the repro community would have tackled by now.
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Technowrite posted:Is there a really good reason as to why there are no repro copies of Famicom Wars? Seems like something the repro community would have tackled by now. Famicom Wars is MMC4 and only 3 games ever used it. To reproduce it would be troublesome without editing the game which even still would be a PITA. MMC4 introduced WRAM as a means of helping save SRAM from vanishing as it tends to do on Zelda/FF carts due to the battery not kicking in fast enough after power is pulled from the system. (This is why they tell you to hold reset while turning off the system, the SRAM is still provided juice but it is lower which triggers the CIC to tell the SRAM to connect to battery. The MAD-1 in SNES was able to address this much better which is why you no longer have to hold reset while turning games off on SNES. EDIT: Interesting, according to nesdev wikit it actually might be possible. I don't have a NES or anything so couldn't really test the theory out. http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/MMC4#Variants Edit x2: Where's the cheapest place to get a decent s-video cable for snes/sfc? flyboi fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jan 14, 2013 |
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:
PC-Engine designed to look like a space ship. The only PC-Engine that can't have a cdrom hooked up to it. It also happened to have one of the most comfortable PC-E controllers.  And a it had a weird box. 
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JumpinJackFlash posted:The only PC-Engine that can't have a cdrom hooked up to it. Challenge accepted.
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JumpinJackFlash posted:PC-Engine designed to look like a space ship. The only PC-Engine that can't have a cdrom hooked up to it. Where is Copper Vein?
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Anyone recommend what a/v cable I should use for a dreamcast?
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lilcasino posted:Anyone recommend what a/v cable I should use for a dreamcast? http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dreamcast-V...#ht_4678wt_1397 This box gives you every official Dreamcast hookup except SCART.
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Does the top/bottom black bars on pal consoles affect other consoles than the SNES? I'm thinking about expanding my collection a bit and have a NES and a N64 in my sight. I'll prefer to get a PAL console, since I can get some free games from friends and relatives. I seem to remember that the black bars were gone on the 64. But I can't remember if the NES had them. Does anyone have any info?
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Baron FU posted:Does the top/bottom black bars on pal consoles affect other consoles than the SNES? I can confirm the PS1 has them (if you don't mind losing a few pixels top and bottom, you can fudge widescreen PAL Final Fantasy VII/VIII/IX with the Zoom view setting that most TV's have), but I don't think the NES does.
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PAL is inferior in every conceivable way, is that correct? Lower framerate, lower res? Or is there something better about it I may be missing?
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Lower framerate but higher resolution. Colours are handled much better in PAL than in NTSC. IMO PAL is superior mainly because it was designed with colour in mind whereas NTSC had it hacked in.
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For retro gaming purposes NTSC is usually better though since very few games are properly remade. The higher resolution generally just means you get black bars at the top and bottom of the screen, the lower FPS usually causes the game to literally run at 5/6th of the NTSC speed, and the better color handling doesn't make much difference.
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OSI bean dip posted:Lower framerate but higher resolution. Colours are handled much better in PAL than in NTSC. The top/bottom black bars are incredibly annoying though.
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Even worse is the framerate difference usually also means sounds/music at a different pitch. Your classic tunes will not sound quite the same!
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Miyamotos RGB NES posted:PAL is inferior in every conceivable way, is that correct? Lower framerate, lower res? Or is there something better about it I may be missing? Its framerate is a flat 25/50 as opposed to 29.97/59.94 so there's that.
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Hello, retro friends. I've posted a thread in SA-Mart with a selection of NES, SNES, Genesis, PSX, and PS2 titles for sale. Have a look! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3528270
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Dross posted:Its framerate is a flat 25/50 as opposed to 29.97/59.94 so there's that. Oh; not sure what that really means other than the debacle of getting my Happauge PVR 1212 to record SNES might have went a lot better if it were PAL. It's funny; I notice the frame rate drops when playing PAL games on my US SNES or SNES emulator but I don't really notice that kind of frame drop in a 3-d game.
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