miscellaNEouS files

[forgotusername]

Thank you for analyzing and patching it. I didn't think to check it under Dendy mode; I have seen other ROMs that are strictly compatible under Dendy-like emulation, but not in regards to their controls.

[NewRisingSun]

I have uploaded a v2 of the patch to my previous post that corrects the problem of stuttering ball movement as a result of the NMI race condition.

Edit: I also found out that the unmodified ROM will work if you emulate a NES Four Score, as the 9th+ bits will then come from the third controller.

[forgotusername]

Here are a few modified ROMs to fix the questionable music and collision detection in several flavors of Falling and Five Days. What I've hacked here is as follows:

*Falling was intended to use a rendition of the music previously heard in Warrior (a Night Stalker hack); however, it is massively sped up to the point of being indecipherable. This is seemingly due to the same byte being used to control the music speed of both Falling and Five Days; as such, Five Days' title theme sounds slower if run under this fix. Of all things, Penta Base runs the leftover Falling music at its intended speed; so I used the same byte change as that version to fix the music. Almost all variants of Falling retain the glitchy music, so I've attached fixes for every unique version that is not a title hack.
*Penta Base and Strafe - two graphic hacks of Five Days - change the level layouts to resemble an open net. However, they did not bother adjusting the shooting angles to accomodate for this; resulting in shots fired in a top-right angle ending before they hit the border (as a building blocked this path in Five Days). In the below hacks, I changed the angle trajectory to better match the backdrop's enclosure.

[forgotusername]

Does anyone have a dump of the Funtime 76000-in-1 (or variants thereof)? I saw that emulator screenshots were added to the Power Racer article on The Cutting Room Floor fairly recently (https://tcrf.net/Power_Racer), but I've never seen a public ROM surface.

[NewRisingSun]

The earlier revision remains undumped.

[forgotusername]

Thank you for providing it. This is actually a very late revision from approximately 2010; there are many other scattered revisions that predate it. I'm surprised that it's a mapper 256 ROM, though I guess that explains how they were able to last on the market for so long.

[lancuster]

The earlier revision remains undumped.

Ha ha! Yeah, this is a multicart from the JonTron video!

[forgotusername]

Would it be possible to restore the title screens for the VT-based Cube Technology games "Ball Switch" and "Rotation"? The actual titles for the games are Smash Futbol and Catch Copy, respectively; I was able to create full mock-ups of their original titles via the graphic code. Catch Copy also has graphics of a credits screen at the beginning of the ROM (which notably confirms some other instances of developer credits, such as the high-score table in Helli-Mission).

As a side note (which I may have mentioned here before, can't remember...), a few JungleTac games also have unused title graphics that have not currently been found or restored. The most amusing of these is Garden Maze, which was originally titled - and I'm not kidding - "Buy Drug". The others I've analyzed to have unused title logos are Dragon Fire, Fire Fighter, and Transportation.

[May_Morals]

actually, that credits screen in Catch Copy occurs when you beat the game.

[NewRisingSun]

Here is a work-in-progress picture.

[bootlegbastard]

I felt like they only renamed it because their clients didn't like having a game where you attempt to flee the police after buying drugs. I wonder what Fire Fighter's title screen looks like.

[forgotusername]

Thank you all for the information and help. I don't have full-scale mock-ups for the JungleTac title screens, but I can provide the logos; the Fire Fighter one is seemingly modified from the Fatal Fury logo, for whatever reason.

[bootlegbastard]

And Dragon Fire is literally just the title screen from the game they cloned.

[May_Morals]

Thank you all for the information and help. I don't have full-scale mock-ups for the JungleTac title screens, but I can provide the logos; the Fire Fighter one is seemingly modified from the Fatal Fury logo, for whatever reason.

You're welcome!
and i'll hit you with a plenty of other facts or assumptions:
-Maze Ball, Snack Time, Catch Copy and Wave Tiger are found along with some hacks and/or other hidden games in Dvd players for cars of the brand Land Rover (Manual with Games List are in the Attachments)
-Vani is actually Van-1 the Twinbee hack but with changed graphics and an extra Titlescreen.
-Alien Attack may be, thanks to the mechanics being described as "both A Button B Button shoot and throw Bombs", ANY shooting game containing this exact mechanic.
you're welcome and Shoutout to forgotusername for deducing Infos about Games from the Zenex 135 In 1.

[NewRisingSun]

Two restored JungleTac title screens.

Shoutout to NewRisingSun for deducing Infos about Games from the Zenex 135 In 1.

Thank you, I guess, but I don't remember anything about that. What is a Zenex 135-in-1?