Pyramid - undumped, but someone claims that the Australian version "used EPROMs from AVE". What does that mean?[/quote]It means that the HES version's ROM chips have AVE markings on them and that the HES version will be byte-for-byte identical to the AVE version.
Shipping costs are going to be an issue for Australian releases. You could start collecting the cartridges yourself and either purchase a Kazzo or CopyNES to dump them yourself, or send all of them to a dumper in a single package once you have finished collecting all of them.
- MLX
- Mar 12 2018, 04:52:25 AM
It would be way easier to bug a HES collector asking if they would be willing to dump all their cartridges themselves using a purchasable device like a kazzo rather than buying them all, if you don't have much interest in owning them.[/quote]Does anyone know such a HES collector? I do think it would be cool to own some of these games such as the Codemasters ones, but I currently am unable to buy these games. I know this one guy on NintendoAge that claimed to have dumped all HES games and 7/7 of Codemasters games (there's actually 8, so one must be missing), but I forgot his name. He had a picture of the character Rit from the obscure NES game RodLand for his profile picture.
EDIT: That guy is Werrock. Here is the post I found regarding dumping some games: http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=159549 (http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=159549)
As for HES games being identical to their AVE/Tengen/Sachen/whatever counterparts, that seems very plausible for a lot of games, as that has been revealed to be the case with ones such as Little Red Hood and Arctic Adventure: Penguin and Seal. Additionally, the Joy-Van and Sachen versions of Silent Assault are known to be identical, so it seems likely that the HES version is the same as well. However, keep in mind that not all are the same. Some of the dumped games such as Chiller, Duck Maze, and the Maxi-15 Pack multicart have unexplained differences from their US counterparts, and Twin Eagle is most certainly different than the Sachen version, as the version on HES's Funblaster Pak doesn't have a long animation of the propeller spinning on the title screen or a "No pain, no gain" screen.
Additionally, I also am unsure as for which revision of Pyramid it is the same as, as there are two versions, PRG0 and PRG1 in GoodNES.
And as for the Codemasters games, they are a whole different deal, as far as I know. None of the five dumps match the respective versions (there's some pretty significant differences in a few of these games, but it's unknown how Micro Machines (compared to the Aladdin version) and Super Sports Challenge is different (SSC just says "Quattro Sports" on the menu). A hex editor shows that there's a bunch of random bytes different in comparison. Although the US versions of the remaining three games run fine in PAL mode in my emulators, they might in fact be different, based on what we know for the other games. Fire Hawk is known to be different as it doesn't have any logos on the title screen, according to BGW.
As I said, I'm not really demanding anything, but we really need some more investigation about this, as well as to make sure everything does eventually get dumped. I am also not sure how to use a Kazzo to dump mapper 71 games yet.
https://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/dumping_2019.php
Sorry for the bump, but 2 of my carts just got a dump on cah4e3's website, and one of them is Firehawk.