Quote from: lancuster on February 10, 2024, 02:44:57 PM

I could have converted the title screen and the missing graphics from the original if the game had been converted to the standard NES format.

What do you mean by "standard nes format"? You can't just convert a game from VT03 to NES.

This is possible if you rewrite the registers to fit the standard NES mapper, and redo the graphics to the standard 2bpp format.
The program code, sound engine, and so on in the game are still sharpened for NES hardware.

Quote from: APM on May 19, 2024, 12:18:02 PM

Oh you actually bought that one? Neat. Frankly my initial excitement of getting a Fire Bird has dwindled since we last talked about it but if I find an opportunity to get one then I certainly would consider it, lol.

If you've gotten the opportunity to dump the ROM from the working unit, can you confirm if it's identical to the common ROM? I'd also be interested in seeing what that weird link cable option at the bottom of the main menu does on real hardware, as going by emulation of the ROM, it still has the menu cursor for some reason and pressing the A button shows a loading dialog with changing hex values, which probably isn't how it's supposed to work? I'm willing to be proven wrong though. :p

The link cable thing didn't work when I tried it on cart. Probably doesn't activate unless you plug something into the link cable port. Maybe it's for copying codes between devices

Edit: Translation software says its for updating the device

Compared your ROM to the common ROM with WinMerge, and apparently there's a big number of differences in bytes between the two files. Notably, there's additions of large sections of "BANK XX" (X's being numbers) data in the common ROM that include the ROM header name and some other data in areas that aren't present in your dump, and vice versa. I'm not sure if it's the result of a custom mapper or what. If you got the same result for your dump during multiple attempts though then I guess it might be a different revision of the cheat card or something.

Also, interesting about the Fire Bird having the ability to update itself. Wonder how that was supposed to work. Did they provide a device to allow it to send updates downloaded from the internet from a serial port on a computer to the link port or did they have kiosks or something similar? Guess we'll never know until a boxed copy of this thing shows up that hopefully clears that up.

Here's the linear version of Devil Land by Vast Fame. This is the Kongfeng release. Use hhugboy and use the unlicensed copy protection mode for Taiwan versions of Vast Fame games. I'll also include a copy of this ROM with the English mode pre-enabled

Oh you actually bought that one? Neat. Frankly my initial excitement of getting a Fire Bird has dwindled since we last talked about it but if I find an opportunity to get one then I certainly would consider it, lol.

If you've gotten the opportunity to dump the ROM from the working unit, can you confirm if it's identical to the common ROM? I'd also be interested in seeing what that weird link cable option at the bottom of the main menu does on real hardware, as going by emulation of the ROM, it still has the menu cursor for some reason and pressing the A button shows a loading dialog with changing hex values, which probably isn't how it's supposed to work? I'm willing to be proven wrong though. :p

Thanks!