Lost Levels

Video Game General :: RE: Semi-official rare Famicom cart dumps found on the Internet

Author: BFC
Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 12:45 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 11

Quote:

http://kotaku.com/5100263/this-konami-famicom-game-is-crazy-expensive-rare

Didn't cah4e3 post an image of that cart's pcb a while ago? Maybe he dumped it?

Off Topic :: RE: "NES Inspired" Beer

Author: Ichiban Crush
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 5:23 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

I had to quit drinking for health reasons, but damn if I don't appreciate an ultrahoppy brew. Terrapin's Hopsecutioner is... was a godsend. Unless this beer had the aroma of a freshly opened NES system, I doubt that it would bring me back to my days as a squirt playing Super Mario Bros. 2 (US), but I would try it.

Unreleased Games :: RE: Unreleased NES Box Art, via VidPro

Author: Evan
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:56 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

Look at this thread:

http://www.nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?StartRow=21&catid=3&threadid=61476

Off Topic :: RE: "NES Inspired" Beer

Author: BMF54123
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 6:44 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

It's okay, Smeg. We can form the Hops Are Nasty Club together.

NO THEREDEYES OR NIXONS ALLOWED
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- BMF

Video Game General :: RE: Semi-official rare Famicom cart dumps found on the Internet

Author: marvelus10
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2012 4:34 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 11

etabeta wrote:

yeah, those carts really came out of nowhere (I first saw them posted by a chinese guy which periodically releases packs of hack and new dumps, but I have no info on the source)

concerning Mr. Splash, the Columbia versions appears to be really the original game, while the other versions are hacks containing levels built by BBS members, according to the website of the developer ( http://akiba.geocities.jp/consolehomebrewprogramming/download/index.html )

more info I collected for the MESS software list

Code:

This was included in the DVD release of a 2008 Japanese TV show describing the creation of a Famicom game.
It was also distributed in form of Famicom carts, whose checksums (according to the developer website) match this set
Also available (in form of IPS patches from the dev) some hacks featuring alt. levels: Mondo21 hack, gg version & Meteor version

Has anyone played this extensively to figure out the difference between each hack?

Off Topic :: RE: "NES Inspired" Beer

Author: Smeg
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:58 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

Sorry guys. Hops are nasty

Off Topic :: RE: "NES Inspired" Beer

Author: nixon
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 7:09 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

Smeg wrote:

Yay NES! Boo IPAs! Would love to try it if I didn't think it would taste so terrible

And here all this time I thought you were a reasonable man.

Off Topic :: RE: "NES Inspired" Beer

Author: TheRedEye
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 4:24 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 6

Smeg wrote:

Boo IPAs!

you shut your god damned mouth smeg

Signed, The Residents of Northern California

Video Game General :: RE: Still more secrets in SMB3

Author: Xkeeper
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 6:48 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

The variable is reset every time you clear a level (and a few more times just to be sure) as part of the usual clear-RAM routine, so it doesn't look like it.

Video Game General :: RE: Still more secrets in SMB3

Author: ICEknight
Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:29 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

Cool, it always felt to me that the slot machine minigame was way too short compared to SMB2.

I'm guessing there's no evidence of any object ever altering that "chances" RAM value?

Perhaps the coins won in the alternate dice game could have been used as additional tries for this?

Video Game General :: RE: Still more secrets in SMB3

Author: KingMike
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:56 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

I recall the Satellaview version would make you replay it until time ran out.
But obviously they probably didn't have that in mind when making the NES version.

Video Game General :: Still more secrets in SMB3

Author: Xkeeper
Subject: Still more secrets in SMB3
Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2012 9:21 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 3

I was streaming the corruption of some games and it turns out that there's code to let you replay the slot machine!

You get as many tries as that RAM address says until you either run out of tries or win, in which case it dumps you back to the map like usual.

Just goes to show you that even really popular games like this still have code paths we'll probably never know about.

Unreleased Games :: RE: Snes Central Unreleased Games Project

Author: Carnivol
Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2012 7:49 am (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 79

The "Swedish Magazine" would be either Nintendo Magasinet or Super Play/Power Player (the rebranding of the mag when they branched out to cover non-Nintendo platforms).

As for actual pictures of this supposed Mario FX thing; NONE. Can't recall ever seeing anything there. I don't have all the mags, but I did have a subscription and I've posted lots of pics/scans of early and/or unreleased game footage from it here on the boards and other places.

Most of their "big" stuff came from either their own visits to electronic/game shows, Nintendo Power or several other larger magazines from different regions (such as Famitsu).

Pretty sure I've probably mentioned it before too, but if my memory serves me right regarding the whole "Mario FX" game thing, the rumor that was featured in some mags about it (with no accompanying pictures) was that it was a tech demo (platform "supposedly" being SNES) of a polygon Mario in some sort of open space/field/area/room that was able to interact with a box placed at the center of this play area.

Unreleased Games :: RE: Snes Central Unreleased Games Project

Author: Evan
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:18 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 79

647 wrote:

Wow! All beacuse of me, he wrote an article! Wow! I'm special!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh, I was reasrcing it, and I found the link to the scan! Scroll to Freede's post. http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=198

I didn't write the article because of you. Some guy on IRC yesterday was talking about it, and I said it didn't exist. So I decided to ask Dylan Cuthbert about it, and he gave it a negative. This is something I have been planning to do long before you posted your nonsense.

BTW, the scan of the article is a broken link. If you read my article, I have the translated quote in it. :p

Unreleased Games :: RE: Resident Evil GBC

Author: Carnivol
Posted: Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:05 pm (GMT 0)
Topic Replies: 16

That's very much true. When this thing first popped up, we had a hard time figuring out whether certain items and triggers just didn't work/exist or if they were just f-ing pixel perfect hard to interact with. (Everytime we did a rerun of it, we had to update the "This is how far you can play before it's broken beyond being able to progress" statement in our notes...)

Anyway, the coolest thing about this game is how absurdly identical it is to its PS1 counterpart under the hood. It is a creepishly faithful port, just with scaling/rotation of sprites being used for characters instead of a polygon engine and all that jazz.

Of course, sprite scaling and rotation on the GBC is a pretty big deal too.