Tanooki
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That would have been me at that time but I don't remember making an account on his site, the other name is from the 90s and early 00s. I used to talk with him off and on over chat or email though. And yeah I have no idea why but byuu packed it in and I have not seen an explanation why. bsnes still is 100% the best for accuracy, so it's not a problem, but it is left hanging in case new developments pop up and they don't get added down the line, or some mass change in OS's where things end up stop working in time.
I've seen childish self important fart sniffing level developer antics for 25 years and it rarely changed, same lines of senseless fragile ego vs arrogant ego type garbage that causes splits, quits, and deaths of projects where things will just get not just locked down, but erased entirely. MAME drama 20 years ago was peak arrogance among a few other gems.
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Wow all these years and that EXE has gotten pretty large, and I'm guessing if some system requires added files it's the usual hunt and seek. I'm curious though, if someone had been already using this, would it be normal as it was in the past having to re-download the mame game romset archive again because file names change and directories move or am I out of the loop and that finally stopped? I quit using it a long time ago as the archive kept growing and kept changing each time and it got to be a chore unfortunately.
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While not on SNES, it's PC actually, Demon's Tilt came out I think about a year ago and it's a spiritual sequel to Alien and Devil Crush/Crash on the PCE/TG which would also make it to Jaki Crush as well, the author as much said so was the intent on developing the game. I think it's on a 1/2 off special right now if it hasn't expired (on steam.)
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Ultimately I went with something I saw pop up I forgot about. The original Phantasy Star that has those quality of life improvements where you get an automap for the dungeons and a few other perks that smooth out the rough edges from decades ago making it more smooth and a bit speedier too. I just couldn't pop for Fire Emblem, just not in love with a franchise I can get nowhere near the end of on any of them.
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Yeah that's my era, used to hang out on occasion in person with TyphoonZ as he was local, him, mindrape and a few others we hung out on efnet irc too nightly. Beyond the ROM junk I'm sure you now remember Dave(conjurer irc) of Daves VGC that largest emulation site then and forum, I was a silent news editor there when he was busy or vacationing, administered the forums for years. FanWen was a friend too, helped him with FWNES in testing his FDS format he created we all use today that started there. I'm sure if you think hard you'll probably figure out my old nick.
Yeah wrong subject and it is derailing. I'm not familiar with puNES, but I also don't keep up anymore really as my time is limited so I use what I have already on my shelf or slowly add to it. If the only gripe with mesen is some filter, I'll live since I'm pretty vanilla and don't mess with fluff, never did.
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The only thing you can't use are things that require an online connection. That would include the 'free' around 100 NES+SNES games in those apps because every 1 or 2 weeks it does a fast check in to make sure your account is still active.
Anything that's stand alone, if you bought it, its yours to play. Even without the paid account, anything on the eshop that's playable without using specific narrow network features, they work. But seriously at like $20 a year, why cheap out? The cloud saving is a life safer among others.
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Hey I got a question, since we're giving recommendations...anything in particular around the $5 and less price (I'd include Fire Emblem as it's close enough) worth blowing a few coins on? I've got like 70 expiring tomorrow, rather not let them get a freebie.
I saw for $2 there were some really strange paint/draw programs so there's well beyond just games on offer.I also agree on the Pro Controller, but, also on the ugly price so when I got mine it was 1/2 off and second hand and it has been a real reward using it when I do bother with TV play.
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Recently for another package Namco officially (unofficially) made a new NES ROM for Gaplus, it was rapidly gutted from the modern package, given a header and it fires up fine in emulator or on real hardware using a flash kit. Joust and Defender II are on the NES from back in the day, they're not bad either. Galaxian (like non-shooter DigDug) also I guess since it doesn't scroll while firing Smash TV would fit technically.
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On 12/29/2020 at 11:21 AM, atarilovesyou said:NintendoAge is gone? Wow. I admit, I spend more time on FB groups these days, but mainly because it's easier to upload photos. And pe5olle generally behave a bit better...lol, a 'bit', anyway! If AA ever goes away, it would be devastating!...time to become a supporter.
Yeah kind of is dead. I mean it's there, but almost no one uses it, not seriously at least who were there in the past. GoCollect kind of snowjobbed the members, staff, owner perhaps too and when buying it out promised to do one thing, and instead gutted the place, setup this really trashy garbage setup forum, alienated the existing people, and the list goes on. Instead of putting up with it, anyone who cared left and moved over to VGS (videogamesage) and there you have the old NA kind of, a lot of variety but the elitism has gone up in smoke pretty much as it was intended for everyone to be a fresh start.
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On 12/29/2020 at 11:16 AM, Trebor said:Must have been a late(r) arrival to NES emulation.
Back in the mid 90's, it was four colors with MIDI sound for NES emulation that many were accustomed to utilizing. It pales in comparison to anything from mid 2000's onward, but circa 1997, there was nothing close to it in comparison of features and abilities.
I'll look at those three.
But...umm...no. This isn't my original online name, the other one I dumped because it is tied to stuff I did in the 90s that well Nintendo and various third parties wouldn't have been happy with back then. My first touch into emulation on the NES was actually the non-translated Japanese rendition of Pasofami, and then the very buggy early iNES too. NESticle came later, thought it was childish and stupid, but it at least did run on a slower machine. Back in those days I was one of the few that would hex edit various better updates of Pasofami, gut the Japanese from the drop down menus and translate it into English. Also was involved in putting a few dozen titles out in proper form for that emulator to use too, then moving more widely into .NES format ROM releases, ran a group, then merged it into Vertigo2099. So yeah, I remember terrible MIDI audio among other blemishes.
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21 hours ago, Grinllord said:Thanks very much for looking at the details. When I did a continuity test of every motherboard contact to the cartridge connector, I only moved one probe at a time which means I would have noticed if one contact was being bridged to the next one. Does this rule out that issue? I don't see how anything in the NES design when full assembled could bridge those contacts, but I am disappointed in my casual mistake earlier on. I might try running it without the metal shield.
No you did right, but when it all put together there are metal plates maybe something is lining up right. You have that large plate in the base, then the obvious top one over the cart slot. Both sides have large wide (at least inch) spread out flat metal surfaces that may be making contact. I'm just saying it's possible, and your little test wouldn't show that if you just checked from point A to B, not in between to see if there was open conflict, or did you? It wouldn't be hard to seal it, even if you did something cheap and lame like colored nail polish some ladies would have in a makeup bag. Anything to paint over the top, if need be use some masking or electrical tape, something to sheld the exposed spaces where it should be green.
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4 hours ago, 0078265317 said:Good catch did not see that. This one has the logo on the lable.
That's better, and honest showing the board. I just don't remember the game ever saving anything so I have to wonder about that last picture. Cart shell isn't a cheapo with plastic mold including fake screws, sticker looks right at a distance since it's not close. Not a bad deal at all for something that looks perhaps 1:! ideal from the outside.
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The .EMU emulators actually on the whole are excellent. I actually grabbed one of them even for general use on my tablet when I had been using it actively for Neo Geo stuff, in particular for vacation or too lazy for the real deal moments so I'd take any game I owned and pop the zip with the files on there and stuffed it into the storage on my tablet to play. It was a bit rough on some not often carrying a controller, but the more chill things like the sports titles (Baseball Stars 2, League Bowling, Neo Turf Masters) or puzzle games (like either Bust A Move) it was fantastic.
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Well yeah you can use MAME or whatever, but the arcade stuff usually is $6 or less, and given how much better off it is outside of that wet turd of an emulator mess, if $6 sucks wait on a sale to take it down another 1/3 to 1/2 off as they happen enough (and that $6 is for the ACA stuff.)
Beyond that I'm sure most will recommend the first party games, so I won't.
I would suggest trying both the Blaster Master Zero titles, Cat Quest 1+2, Diablo III, Dragon Quest 11S, Ghostbusters (it's the 3rd movie we never got or ever will due to Egon passing away), I am Setsuna, Panzer Dragoon, Streets of Rage 4, one of the Street Fighter packages, Capcom Belt Action,
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To start if you don't mind a digital rental over physical, the Hamster emulated/released ACA library of arcade games has some of the most stunning Neo Geo arcade shooters to download, often cost $6 but they do get pretty semi-regular sales that'll take off another $2-3. You'll find goodies in there like Blazing Star, Ghost Pilots, Strikers 1945 Plus, and more.
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I go back and forward between what I consider my favorite games let alone system console wise and the NES and SNES often is left undecided. In more recent years, I think it's the indie influence, it's the SNES because a lot of them seem to parrot more of the color and audio limits of the 16bit era and SNES in particular, but also a lot of those old classics have slowly eeked back out between GBA re-releases and then game makers reissuing those titles on mobile formats. The SNES hit this unique level of quality in the early half of the 90s no one on a dedicated console matched and was so ahead of its competition the quality still doesn't feel aged out.
Over the last decade, more so the first half I increased a base of SNES games from what I had into a huge larger pool of stuff, but in time it hit me I'd rather just stick mostly with what I know and what I had to begin with anyway and kept that. I keep a game list, and it'll pig things out a bit here, but I'm going to paste it, all 55 titles. I can strongly recommend almost every last one of these, perhaps not Ultraman, it's nostalgic cheese because I liked the rubber monster series it was based on and playing as such and not like SF2 does make it fun.
As it's a person list I'm not going to edit anything like CI, CB, or CIB means I have more than the cart, ignore it.
- Act Raiser (CI)
- Castlevania: Dracula X (CI)
- Chrono Trigger
- Contra III The Alien Wars
- Disney's Aladdin
- Donkey Kong Country (CI)
- Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest
- Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble (CB)
- Doom
- EarthBound w/Guide
- Final Fantasy II (CI+Map)
- Final Fantasy III (CI+Map)
- Final Fantasy Mystic Quest (CI+Map)
- Final Fight
- Final Fight 2
- Final Fight 3
- F-Zero (CI)
- Gradius III (CI)
- Indiana Jones Greatest Adventures (CI)
- Joe & Mac
- Killer Instinct
- The King of Dragons
- Kirby Super Star
- Kirby's Dream Land 3
- Legend of the Mystical Ninja (CI)
- The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (CI+Maps)
- The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse
- Mario Paint (Complete, No styrofoam tray)
- Mega Man X (CI)
- Ninja Gaiden Trilogy
- Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
- Pilotwings (CI)
- Secret of Mana (CI+Map)
- Sim City (CI)
- Soul Blazer (CI+Map)
- Space Megaforce
- Star Fox (CI)
- Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Bridge Simulator (CI)
- Street Fighter II (CI)
- Street Fighter Alpha 2 (CI)
- Sunset Riders
- Super Castlevania IV (CI)
- Super Gameboy ('Big Box' CIB w/Super Gameboy Guide)
- Super Ghouls 'N Ghosts (CI)
- Super Mario All-Stars (CI)
- Super Mario Kart (CI)
- Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars (CI)
- Super Mario World (CI)
- Super Metroid III (CI)
- Super Punch-Out!! (CI)
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Turtles in Time (CI)
- Ultraman
- U.N. Squadron
- Ys III: Wanderer's From Ys
- Yoshi's Island: Super Mario World 2 -
Solder joints are as they are on there, nothing weird. One thing that stands out but probably isn't it, the green layer that goes over all metals on the board (traces, etc) is pretty exposed up there along the pin connector there with some copper showing beyond the pins. Did you eat that away with your working on it? I know it's bizarre enough to point out for what I remember, but is it at all possible something is bridging due to that? Got any tape, kapton tape or something you can lay over that as a test and fire it up that way?
I'm editing this even before hitting post. That first image I'm seeing even more of the green rotted away left half of the pin array there beyond that line of little circles leading back from there those traces around the 1-5 pins is just gone down to the metal, and below that and right from maybe pin 8-12ish yet again. If that metal is exposed, and given how the NES sits in there, if any metal is making contact with that you'll have a big problem there at the least not working, if not possibly blowing it out if it got some weird power feedback off it. That entire bottom board should be a nice smooth uniform green layer to it other than the solder beads anywhere a chip, wire, etc poked through to seal it off. I'm betting you dissolved far more than you wanted to there.
I don't see any obvious cap issues, cracked solder blobs from the outside, or cut or rotted out traces. You didn't clean it and try using it still wet and blew something?
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I really don't get why after so long neither Mednafen or someone with a care hasn't made a very well done GUI for it as it's a real pain in the ass. I don't mind command line, but as your line there shows, it's a really unnecessary pain in the ass. I did forget about Ootake existing. I'll have to read that over, thanks.
Nestopia is something I haven't touched in a long time, kind of felt lacking eventually and stuck with a FCEUX variant until I came across mesen. NESticle I was never a fan of other than its crazy ability to run on ancient hardware as it was happen on a moderate 486.
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On 12/27/2020 at 1:02 AM, 0078265317 said:Most of the repos on ebay if you look at the back there is no logo. But this has the nintendo logo on the back so not sure.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/114430008062
Just got an offer to but it for 29 dollars and 63 cents.
Looks good, looks like a legit re-used shell too, but the ONE immediate glaring wrongness of that is the label flap with the ugly big unprofessional looking white printed name of the game when it should be a color mini of the one on the front of the sticker.
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You can if you want I don't mind. Nah I don't have any images from back then, if they would exist they'd be back at my parents place across the country lost in some cabinet with old photos and files thrown into it. I have an idea where, but I'm not going out there again anytime soon and I doubt they'd head into the garage and sort through some file cabinets. I wouldn't be surprised if it wasn't thrown out if it existed, dad was a camera jerk, literal jerk, being way too pushy with the thing so it would exist. Sometimes some have made me question the year, but the thing is I know Gradius was out just before Christmas of 1986. That's why I have ZERO doubt in my resolve. A grandparent bought it for me, she was a former teacher and believed in always buying us educational toys related stuff, never any actual straight up toys or games, except that ONE time. I was shocked, and that too (and she never did that again after either) I've held onto all these years and still have it.
And I know 100% for a fact I did NOT get the NES *AND* Gradius the same year. I even know vaguely in 1986 what games I did acquire, they were all (or almost all?) black box titles -- Balloon Fight, Donkey Kong 3, Popeye, and Kung Fu. It wasn't until 1987 more variety that wasn't Nintendo published if not developed happened. Castlevania, Ghosts n Goblins, etc. It's possible Gradius was my first published 3rd party NES game.
This is my current stash of NES games. Almost all of it at this rate being pared down is what I had back in the day. A few of them were bought 2nd hand in the later half of the 90s like Gargoyles Quest II and Bomberman 2, and newest probably is Mighty Final Fight a decade ago about. The Disney stuff and Nemo my brother had among a few others I don't have now. My guess is around 40 of them would be NES life span pick up period. http://tanooki.byethost16.com/nintendo.html
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Yup that's a huge issue, the GG itself these days is a huge issue with failures and failures beyond just cap death as they're just so fragile. After having 3 unrecoverable turds in a row in the last couple years I've sworn off them. Not a fan saying it, but emulation or bust. When I gave in I got the now harder (sadly since far better game list) to find 100-in-1 for the GBA format. It fits my needs more or less as the 106 was terrible compared.
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1 hour ago, 0078265317 said:I looked up some youtube videos. Looks like it is aero fighters. Cheapest on ebay is 75 boxed. Even loose is 89. And there is one loose for 475. Must be rare.
Actually there are some cheap ones from china. Not sure if those are repos.
Last time I even cared to look before I got disgusted was when it crossed the $300 mark. It had been at $200 for a time and back then we thought this asinine behavior would be a bubble, not a decade long trend leading up to a long term crash, and that was closer to 8~ years ago at that price. Anything boxed at $75 is a complete damn near correct excellent bootleg, and a loose one would be really as low as $20 I think off aliexpress and the sort while ebay people will try and hit the domestic buyers for 2-3x the price. It's really other than an Earthbound box my last loss of Nintendo regret of mine as I got it originally around 1996 or so for $10 complete minus the box (has a poster, manual, dust clip and game) and had to dump it due to unemployment and long term off that low pay issues starting in 2005. I can only say really, having 2 and 3 on MVS lessens the blow, and they are better games, but I really liked it because the stages randomly placed the enemies so it kept it fresher, longer.
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You wouldn't sell the GBC by any chance to get the money for what you need?
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I wouldn't have used varnish remover that's a new one on me. I could only guess if the combination of stuff did something in somewhere on it. Boiling should have solved it when nothing else does, and after confirming the correct alignment of the pin connector I'm leaning towards something getting killed and not just dying of old age on its own.
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