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B00daW BANNED
Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 135 Location: Gehenna
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:47 pm Post subject: Famicom Disk System on the PowerPak |
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loopy has recently engineered a way of making single-sided FDS games working on the PowerPak.
http://home.comcast.net/~olimar/NES/ < Check the bottom link here. |
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KingMike
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Skrybe Staff
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Posted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:49 pm Post subject: |
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Haha, nice! |
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Carnivol gay dickhead
Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 576 Location: confirmed
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: |
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That is pretty awesome.
I noticed that a new set of PowerPaks are in stock at RetroUSB these days too. [Edit]No, they're not! Seems like they're already sold out[/edit] Hope there'll be more mapper updates for it :) |
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Blitzwing Staff
Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 288 Location: las vegas
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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i've fiddled with this a bit, the first batch of fds images i tried none of them worked at all (I have ancient fds images aparently) after digging around the second batch of games I tried I got a few games running (the graphics are all garbelled but they do run) of note most of the black box sport games run (baseball volleyball etc etc) and strangly the fds version of zanac works (but crashes on the first boss)
a very neat addition and I hope it gets updated more , do we know who is working on it? |
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B00daW BANNED
Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 135 Location: Gehenna
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Posted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Blitzwing wrote: | i've fiddled with this a bit, the first batch of fds images i tried none of them worked at all (I have ancient fds images aparently) after digging around the second batch of games I tried I got a few games running (the graphics are all garbelled but they do run) of note most of the black box sport games run (baseball volleyball etc etc) and strangly the fds version of zanac works (but crashes on the first boss)
a very neat addition and I hope it gets updated more , do we know who is working on it? |
Blitzwing, read up, sirbuddy...
1.) loopy of loopyNES is working on it.
2.) Only single-sided games work.
bunnyboy of Retrozone has expressed earlier that FDS emulation on PowerPak wasn't going to happen. I'm not sure if it will be officially supported or not, but loopy aims to support it. loopy also aims to get MMC5 emulation working. |
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Blitzwing Staff
Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 288 Location: las vegas
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:09 am Post subject: |
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yup I read all that, they've made a few comments that the graphics aren't as currupted looking as what i'm getting, i'm just curious if I just have really bad fds images , is there currnetly a source for the most recent "dumps" of fds images? |
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Tongueman
Joined: 27 Feb 2004 Posts: 631 Location: Japan
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:01 am Post subject: |
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I'm also getting corrupted graphics when games load on my regular Famicom; and the FDS BIOS screen is completely garbled (and refuses to load any games) on my Famicom Titler. So it's not just you. Perhaps the BIOS needs some interrupts or the screen disabled or something... |
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Blitzwing Staff
Joined: 01 Nov 2003 Posts: 288 Location: las vegas
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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heres a few of the "roms" (i guess now they are technically called roms ?) that boot up for me:
http://www.green-ranger.com/nes/fds/
keep in mind they "work" but most aren't very playable yet. |
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B00daW BANNED
Joined: 24 Feb 2008 Posts: 135 Location: Gehenna
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KlarthAilerion Staff
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 673 Location: New Orleans, LA
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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Blitzwing wrote: | (i guess now they are technically called roms ?) |
Well, if it's from a disk (which it is), I'd still call it a disk image. But I'm ancient like that. |
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B00daW BANNED
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:16 am Post subject: |
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KlarthAilerion wrote: | Blitzwing wrote: | (i guess now they are technically called roms ?) |
Well, if it's from a disk (which it is), I'd still call it a disk image. But I'm ancient like that. |
Technically they're disk rips since being disk dumps of the FDS file system are not copied sector by sector. What's missing is the hash code inbetween files. ;P I thought you were older than me, Klarth! |
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KlarthAilerion Staff
Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 673 Location: New Orleans, LA
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Posted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:35 pm Post subject: |
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B00daW wrote: | Technically they're disk rips since being disk dumps of the FDS file system are not copied sector by sector. What's missing is the hash code inbetween files. ;P I thought you were older than me, Klarth! |
Semantics, though. When you rip a CD, what are you left with? A disc image, in whatever format(s) you specified in your ripping program. The rip is the action, the image is the result. |
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B00daW BANNED
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:42 am Post subject: |
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KlarthAilerion wrote: | B00daW wrote: | Technically they're disk rips since being disk dumps of the FDS file system are not copied sector by sector. What's missing is the hash code inbetween files. ;P I thought you were older than me, Klarth! |
Semantics, though. When you rip a CD, what are you left with? A disc image, in whatever format(s) you specified in your ripping program. The rip is the action, the image is the result. |
Ripping a CD gets rid of a lot of "unnecessary" sector information; ripping what is desired from the entire image. Dumping a full CD is to get an exact disc dump. Dump an exact disc image and burn the image from sector start to finish. Rip an almost exact disc image to let the burning program fill in the gaps. It is semantics, but they have practical uses in discerning data integrity -- especially with CD-based games with copy protection or prototypes. |
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ProgrammingAce
Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 580
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: |
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I bought one of the first batch of power packs and still haven't taken it out of the box... I need to dig up a working NES. |
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BMF54123 Staff
Joined: 28 Aug 2003 Posts: 743 Location: Henderson, NV
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:32 am Post subject: |
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ProgrammingAce wrote: | I bought one of the first batch of power packs and still haven't taken it out of the box... I need to dig up a working NES. |
First batch? You should probably read this, if you haven't already. |
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ProgrammingAce
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Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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Very cool, thanks. I had no idea the board was faulty.
I hate bypassing damaged traces with a passion, so i'll be sending mine back in after i move. |
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bucky
Joined: 27 Sep 2008 Posts: 13
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Looking forward to testing out FDS files on this.
My powerpack still needs that fix though, first. |
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B00daW BANNED
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damdu73
Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 4
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Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject: help me |
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hello, excuse me for my language I'm french, I helps me to google translation to understand you and I bought the powerpack NES but I can not install a card, someone help me please |
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