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TheRedEye
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| rbudrick wrote: | | TheRedEye wrote: | | Airball is the same game as like half of the ZX Spectrum's catalog. My favorite is Batman, because there's something awesome about the dark knight having to stack up severed elephant feet and climb them like stairs. |
Must be Adam West batman, then.
-Rob |
Yeah, Adam West hates elephants. |
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TheRedEye
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 1:36 am Post subject: |
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| yemtrader wrote: | | Have you guys ever started a donation drive to free more privately held prototypes? or is that giving in to their greed... |
Oh, I forgot to answer this. We've done this many, many times. The overwhelming majority of the stuff we put out on the internet was a result of greasing palms, either with cash or with original prototype cartridges. Lost Levels is kind of expensive! |
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kap
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| Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| So, anyone dump their Airball cart yet, or are they even shipping yet? Rom would be nice. |
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linlhutz
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| Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 3:47 pm Post subject: |
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| kap wrote: | | So, anyone dump their Airball cart yet, or are they even shipping yet? Rom would be nice. |
Just arrived today. Pretty sweet - with box and manual (all 6 pages of it).
As far as the ROM, it's dumped already. You just have to look around a bit. |
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Farlight
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kap
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| Posted: Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:17 am Post subject: |
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| So are you guys keeping your copies of Airball mint in box for maximum buttery collectibility? Anyone actually playing their cart? |
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cheerio
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| Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2007 10:48 am Post subject: |
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| linlhutz wrote: | | As far as the ROM, it's dumped already. You just have to look around a bit. |
Anywhere but super-elite-underground-efnet-channels? |
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Skrybe
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| Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2007 12:37 am Post subject: |
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| yemtrader wrote: | | As an aside, I thought Tengen cancelled this game because the board required for it was unique and costly back then? It probably is cheap to build now though? I guess you probably won't see any copies made with donor cars for this one, but I might be wrong? |
I've heard the rumor about Airball using some kind of custom hardware too, but bunnyboy's repro uses standard UNROM. Airball should work on any of the donor carts that work with California Raisins. |
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deepnes
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 1:17 am Post subject: |
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| Skrybe wrote: | | yemtrader wrote: | | As an aside, I thought Tengen cancelled this game because the board required for it was unique and costly back then? It probably is cheap to build now though? I guess you probably won't see any copies made with donor cars for this one, but I might be wrong? |
I've heard the rumor about Airball using some kind of custom hardware too, but bunnyboy's repro uses standard UNROM. Airball should work on any of the donor carts that work with California Raisins. |
I had assumed the "extra hardware" rumor for fact too, but then one of the proto owners sent me a picture. The proto was definately just on a tengen unrom clone. These pictures make it pretty clear too:
http://www.nintendoage.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=NES.Game&Game_ID=60
I read somewhere that unrom was the only mapper that nintendo patented, and I've wondered if there could be a connection. That could be a huge red herring... LAUGHING OUT LOUD |
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ArnoldRimmer83
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| Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2007 4:51 am Post subject: |
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| Impossible Mission 2 wasn't the only Nes game by Novotrade. They also made Tiny Toon Adventures Cartoon Workshop, and the conversion of Qix. |
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hybrid
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sorry for the necropost but why make a new topic
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TheRedEye
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:09 am Post subject: |
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| hybrid wrote: | here's Airball
sorry for the necropost but why make a new topic |
Where did this come from? |
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B00daW
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Skrybe
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| There are graphical changes between the two dumps that are too superficial to have been made by Retrozone. I'm pretty certain this is a different build than what Retrozone used for their release. Not sure which build is closer to final, though. |
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hybrid
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| i got that rom from a friend who had held onto it for a while i'm unsure how he obtained that build of the game though |
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BMF54123
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Judging by a couple of altered graphics I noticed:
hybrid's version is likely newer than the Retrozone version. The original "spell" on the left was probably hard to read on an NTSC TV, so they straightened out the lines a bit. The demon head was probably deemed a bit too scary and changed into the generic dragon on the right, leaving a couple of tiles empty in the process (usually a good indicator of a late graphics change). |
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hybrid
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| Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:41 pm Post subject: |
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another diffrence is the retrozone's Difficulty has Easy, medium,hard
the rom i brought you has training, easy and hard |
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B00daW
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| Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| hybrid: Where did you acquire it and do you know any history behind it? |
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TheRedEye
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Remember how mysterious homemade Airball carts used to pop up on ebay occasionally? Those came from a known manufacturer of homemade carts, he bought an original and was slowly trickling out these copies to make his money back. I'm guessing this ROM was from his version.
Portnoyd, wherever the hell he is, has a copy also that he was supposed to send out ages ago. |
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Necrosaro420
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