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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:17 am Post subject: VC Alternative, Week One: Buzz & Waldog |
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Man, this Virtual Console thing on the Wii is kind of a bummer, isn't it? Who wants to play classic, good games that they've already played before? Wouldn't you rather play a crappy game you've never heard of?
Well, now Lost Levels has given into your crazy, unrealistic demands! Today I present the first in our series of Virtual Console alternatives, Buzz & Waldog!
Buzz & Waldog is a cartoony platform game for the NES that was developed by Daou Infosys, a Korean company.
The game was going to be published by Innovation Tech, the publishing offshoot of a company called The Ultimate Games Club, which was a big mailorder game distributor in the early 90s.
If you can't tell by the screenshots, this game is actually really nicely made! It's colorful, it's fluid, and it's really fun. And, amazingly, this game was going to be released without a coveted (and expensive) official license from Nintendo of America, Inc., just like those Jesus games you might have accidentally gotten for Christmas. Were this released, I would easily call it the best unlicensed NES game ever produced.
The design makes me smike. It's like Daou sat around looking at Mario, Sonic and Bonk and said "okay, how do we combine these?" It works pretty well, and I'm pretty surprised at how nicely crafted each stage is. This isn't a throwaway game made on the cheap, this is the real deal.
Would you like to play it? Okay! Here you go.
What? You are too busy to play this game? Oh. I see. Well, do you want to just watch me play it instead? Sure, we can do that. Here are some Youtube links.
World 1
World 2
World 3
World 4
World 5
Final World |
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James
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 86
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:25 am Post subject: |
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Any idea why this might not load in Nestopia? FCEUltra is kind of shit :( |
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Tongueman
Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:27 am Post subject: |
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Really Cool. It looks a bit similar to one of the other games that Daou made on the Master System, Toto World. That game had plenty of ripped-off graphics too. |
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Smeg Staff
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 1600 Location: beneath enemy scrotum
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:50 am Post subject: |
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James wrote: | Any idea why this might not load in Nestopia? FCEUltra is kind of shit |
Maybe Nestopia is kind of shit! |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:52 am Post subject: |
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James wrote: | Any idea why this might not load in Nestopia? FCEUltra is kind of shit :( |
What is "shit" about FCE Ultra exactly? |
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KingMike
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:34 am Post subject: |
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I'm guessing the infinite lives is a glitch?
$9155:AD 28 04 LDA $0428 = #$05
$9158:38 SEC
$9159:A2 01 LDX #$01
$915B:8D 28 04 STA $0428 = #$05
$915E:AD 27 04 LDA $0427 = #$00
$9161:A2 00 LDX #$00
$9163:20 45 C2 JSR $C245
$9166:8D 27 04 STA $0427 = #$00
Game Genie code OTSOPPXX if you want it off.
(for some reason, hacking anything in the ROM causes the game to barf in FCEUXD SP 1.06.) |
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TheRedEye The Internet's Frank Cifaldi
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 4192 Location: Oakland, CA
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:08 am Post subject: |
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KingMike wrote: | I'm guessing the infinite lives is a glitch? |
I'm guessing it was left in for the sake of the reviewer. |
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Wonderbutt
Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 323 Location: Doritos Inc.
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:51 am Post subject: |
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This is a nice little surprise, never knew anything about this. Thanks Frank. |
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I am Christina Aguilera
Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 159
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 7:27 am Post subject: |
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Not to blatantly rip off Mario World or anything... |
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ArnoldRimmer83 Staff
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 540
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:10 am Post subject: |
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KingMike wrote: | Game Genie code OTSOPPXX if you want it off.
(for some reason, hacking anything in the ROM causes the game to barf in FCEUXD SP 1.06.) |
Nice. Oddly on the game over screen, you see a name appear on top. When you lose as the first character it says "Koko". When you lose as the second it says "Suzi". Guess their names aren't Buzz and Waldog after all? |
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Sardius Staff
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 508 Location: Austin, TX
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 2:45 pm Post subject: |
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Also worth noting: Toto World 3 is what happened after Buzz & Waldog went unreleased and Daou began hating itself. |
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James
Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 86
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Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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TheRedEye wrote: | James wrote: | Any idea why this might not load in Nestopia? FCEUltra is kind of shit :( |
What is "shit" about FCE Ultra exactly? |
There's no fullscreen stretch that I can figure, it keeps fucking up the colours after five minutes at fullscreen, and it seems to have more problems with weird garbled tiles at the edges of the screen?
(I have now been told why it will only work with one emulator) |
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Wonderbutt
Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 323 Location: Doritos Inc.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:25 am Post subject: |
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Shit I cannot get it to go on Mac OSX Nestopia, several versions.
I am trying to find the Mac OSX port of FceUltra but no luck.
My Acer laptop is being upgraded so all I can use is this Mac. |
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kap Minister of Paranoia
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 2103 Location: I hate you.
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 5:25 am Post subject: |
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You have to compile the OS X FCEU. Mednafen too, but mednafen is in darwinports I've just discovered, so it's just a sudo port install mednafen away. |
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Ichiban Crush Vaporware Detective Extraordinaire
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 578 Location: 33.884906 | -84.053758
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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I ran the game on Mednafen with no troubles.
I really like this game. Too bad it didn't make it, as it was 90 times better than the crap that came from Color Dreams. Then again, no one would have probably gotten a copy even if it was sold seeing as to how the Ultimate Game Club was pretty much the BuyRite of the 80's/early 90's. |
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handofg0d
Joined: 13 Jun 2006 Posts: 455 Location: PA
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Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2007 4:35 pm Post subject: |
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If you don't know how to/are too lazy to compile FCEUltra for OS X here's a link to a compiled version, and for you Intel kids, it's universal!
http://lamer0.com/files/FCEUltraOSX.zip
I've already tested it with this ROM and it works just fine. |
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Wonderbutt
Joined: 30 Nov 2003 Posts: 323 Location: Doritos Inc.
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: |
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Thanks handy, I fall into the dummycannotcompile category.
Works like a charm! |
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DarkTetsuya
Joined: 05 Sep 2003 Posts: 80
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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Smeg wrote: | James wrote: | Any idea why this might not load in Nestopia? FCEUltra is kind of shit |
Maybe Nestopia is kind of shit! |
I'd try it in FCEU, but the sound is always horribly offsync, I can't figure out how to fix it, if possible.
Sounds like a rather interesting Mario knock-off, for what its worth.
DT |
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ReyVGM
Joined: 08 Feb 2007 Posts: 91
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Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Good god.... Ichiban Crush is alive!
People still ask about you at the VGM forums ichi.
As for lost classics... well I still hope Nintendo wises up and starts releasing original content (or unreleased games) as they say they would a long time ago. |
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KingMike
Joined: 04 Nov 2003 Posts: 898
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Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 3:41 am Post subject: |
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DarkTetsuya wrote: | Smeg wrote: | James wrote: | Any idea why this might not load in Nestopia? FCEUltra is kind of shit :( |
Maybe Nestopia is kind of shit! |
I'd try it in FCEU, but the sound is always horribly offsync, I can't figure out how to fix it, if possible.
Sounds like a rather interesting Mario knock-off, for what its worth.
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I'm using FCEUXD SP.
It's a variant with extra ROM hacking features, but it's much less laggy for me than the official FCEU. |
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