miscellaNEouS files

[forgotusername]

You're mixing us up; I have the Zenex 135-in-1 console and added its information to the wiki (I plan to video record it soon). For context, it has one of the original Cube Tech VT03 games on it, Snack Time, among some other weird things ("Luga Open" hack of Tennis, Waixing VT03 conversion of Hit-Mouse, etc.)

As a heads-up, the game logic seems to be broken in the Fire Fighter ROM, though the title restores themselves look good.

[NewRisingSun]

Third attempt. 

[May_Morals]

You're mixing us up; I have the Zenex 135-in-1 console and added its information to the wiki (I plan to video record it soon). For context, it has one of the original Cube Tech VT03 games on it, Snack Time, among some other weird things ("Luga Open" hack of Tennis, Waixing VT03 conversion of Hit-Mouse, etc.)

oops! I thought NRS was the one who got the console. Excuse me, My Bad!!!

[NewRisingSun]

Jungletac restorations are difficult. I hope I did not break something again.

[NewRisingSun]

This one was not as difficult as the others.

[NewRisingSun]

This one very much so. In case this game should be too difficult for you, here are the end credits with correct palette as well. The original VT03 game would not have music in-game, so I moved the music to the title screen.

[bootlegbastard]

It's some VT03 Famiclone he bought with the original VT03 versions of Cube's games, and other stuff

[forgotusername]

All of the restorations look good, thank you for fixing them. Out of curiosity, what is the incorrect Catch Copy credits palette the result of (assuming the prior screenshot was captured from emulator)? I have observed some other presumed-VTxx to VT369 (as well as VT32) conversions having odd palettes in later parts of the games, I question if it's a related issue.

[NewRisingSun]

This is the last one of the ones that were mentioned.

what is the incorrect Catch Copy credits palette the result of (assuming the prior screenshot was captured from emulator)?

The VT369's compatibility to the VT03 does not extend to the palette. VT03's palette uses the HSV color model, while VT369 uses a 5-5-5 RGB color model, and the VT32 uses a 4-4-4 RGB color model. Each byte must be "translated" or converted, and Cube Tech only bothered to convert those palette bytes that they noticed. They did not bother to convert the palette bytes of the removed title screens, and forgot to convert the palette bytes of the end credits screen. Nice Code usually properly converted all static palette bytes but neglected or forgot to convert the palette bytes used for color cycling, such as the ones used for the waterfall animation in Curly Monkey.

So when I fixed the end credits screen in Catch Copy, I converted the palette bytes from VT03 to VT369 format that Cube Tech forgot, since I had to perform that task anyway for the palette bytes of the restored title screen.

[May_Morals]

thank you very much. now i cannot wait for the Video of the Zenex Exclusives by forgotusername.

[bootlegbastard]

Does the vt369 version of Fire Fighter still contain bits from the unused vt03 title screen, or could it be from a new title screen? When I was playing for a bit, the screen glitched out, the background became corrupted, and these "Fire" tiles appeared below the HUD.

[forgotusername]

The VT369's compatibility to the VT03 does not extend to the palette. VT03's palette uses the HSV color model, while VT369 uses a 5-5-5 RGB color model, and the VT32 uses a 4-4-4 RGB color model. Each byte must be "translated" or converted, and Cube Tech only bothered to convert those palette bytes that they noticed. They did not bother to convert the palette bytes of the removed title screens, and forgot to convert the palette bytes of the end credits screen. Nice Code usually properly converted all static palette bytes but neglected or forgot to convert the palette bytes used for color cycling, such as the ones used for the waterfall animation in Curly Monkey.

I see, it is interesting that they didn't even bother converting the title screens properly before removing them. I (somehow) hadn't noticed the cruddy waterfall in Curly Monkey before, but I definitely see it when comparing the VT03 and VT32 versions.

Does the vt369 version of Fire Fighter still contain bits from the unused vt03 title screen, or could it be from a new title screen? When I was playing for a bit, the screen glitched out, the background became corrupted, and these "Fire" tiles appeared below the HUD.

It's attached to the HUD like that in the ProjectPNP copy, just in a rather close color shade to the backdrop. I don't see any graphics resembling a title screen otherwise.

[May_Morals]

as i went through that Games List of the Car DVD Player, i have sorted out these games, that haven't been covered yet.
nevertheless i will give my assumptions to them:

Match - either a shortening of the IR Genie Game "The Photo Matches" or some other puzzle game
Shark - Unknown Fish game or just the Shark! Shark! Hack by nice code
Space Flight - Unknown Space game
Fighter 2006 - Eventually a Fighting game with YMK's own characters
X Battle - Unknown action game
Alien Attack - The one NES Hack with Both shooting and bombing simultaneously mapped to both buttons
Jester's Ball - Unknown Juggling game
Space Trek - Unknown Spaceship shooter
Magic Ball - VT03 Port of the VT369 Counterpart

In case someone knows anything about these, may respond to that letter of mine.
thank you in advance 

[forgotusername]

It appears that the descrambling method of the dreamGEAR Wireless Video Game Station (dgun2572) was identified in MAME (https://github.com/mamedev/mame/commit/d9d53e4ed13d9da6b6c0c2b402c74e3d69a8c0f5); this console is based on the "upscaled" VT369 hardware with the doubled-resolution versions of the Cube Technology hacks. Would anyone be able to post a modified/unscrambled ROM under these specifications? I couldn't determine how to decode it myself.

[forgotusername]

Gameplay of the more notable games from the Zenex 135-in-1: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGqmY_QVHIWDypPhoRFb1EpM1D1pAQWr2