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PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:47 pm    Post subject: Famicom Disk System on the PowerPak Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 3:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It wasn't the intent, but
http://kingmike.emuxhaven.net/Misc/smb2nest.PNG
we now have SMB2j for Nesticle because it's better than a testicle! :P
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 21, 2008 9:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

KingMike wrote:
http://kingmike.emuxhaven.net/Misc/smb2nest.PNG

Haha, nice!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 5:09 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 11:01 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The No-Intro FDS set is pretty good. You can leech a torrent on underground-gamer.com

http://www.underground-gamer.com/details.php?id=23237&hit=1
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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. Very Happy
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 3:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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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PostPosted: Sun Sep 28, 2008 2:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looking forward to testing out FDS files on this.
My powerpack still needs that fix though, first.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 26, 2008 7:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://home.comcast.net/~olimar/NES/powerpak_fds.zip

loopy's enabled preliminary automatic disk side swapping. Enjoy!
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PostPosted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:06 pm    Post subject: help me Reply with quote

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 Embarassed
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