Tiny Toon Adventures 3 + ROM

[Awesome Panda]

I don't get why they bothered using those fonts in the first place, seeing as the games are illegal to begin with. They might as well have stolen the font from Super Mario World or something.

[taizou]

Well PC Paint was just the graphics program they were using. why bother stealing a font from some other game when there's already one right there? (And besides not *all* their games were illegal. Most of their earlier pre-96-ish ones were more or less original. Well except the sound engines. and mostly stolen concepts. but still)

[Barver]

Someone on youtube pointed out the chests in the game are stolen from Ristar. I don't know for certain, they look similar but the ones in Ristar are sort of sideways and not straight looking at you. I guess they possibly based the design off of Ristar's.

[SpaceNinja]

I have a feeling that it's kinda unfinished. Chests ALWAYS contain hearts. I think they should have contained more stuff.

[Awesome Panda]

Barver

Aug 13 2011, 08:31:50 PM

Someone on youtube pointed out the chests in the game are stolen from Ristar. I don't know for certain, they look similar but the ones in Ristar are sort of sideways and not straight looking at you. I guess they possibly based the design off of Ristar's.[/quote]Heh, I figured those were stolen from somewhere, couldn't remember where though. What's sort of confusing though was that Ristar was released in 1995, which means that it couldn't have been one of their earlier titles. Then again, I'm not entirely convinced that they're actually stolen to begin with. It looks completely 2D for one thing, and the design on the front is somewhat different.

[codeman38]

I still wish I could figure out what the heart sprite is taken from-- I *know* I've seen it in another game, and cannot remember which for the life of me.

[Awesome Panda]

I dunno, it looks so badly drawn it might as well be original.

[andlabs]

Hi! When I reboot later I can grab and post some random memory addresses that do special things =P

I'm surprised about Thunderbolt II being "difficult to dump;" all the other "GM-95" games use very similar forms of copy protection in which the game just reads a bunch of raw registers :/ Someone should still at least try to dump it, if they have it =P

I thought I had more to say here but I forgot :/

[etabeta78]

sorry for bumping this very old thread, but has anyone got the original dump without protection patched out?
I'd like to emulate the protection in MESS...

[Azathoth]

I do somewhere, if nobody has responded by this afternoon I'll post a link.

[etabeta78]

did you have any luck with finding it in your HD?

[Azathoth]

Yep, found it. This is the untouched version from Barver's cart.

LINK

[etabeta78]

Added to MESS software list with credits, and emulated the protection (which seems identical to the one in Squirrel King)

Thanks a lot