I think I read about someone on this forum ripping a single game from a ROM of a multicart, and putting it into it's own. How easy is this? Because I wanted to try it on a couple games.
Is it very often that we find games on multicarts that aren't found on their own?
I would think that putting same mapper games on multicarts that exist for them more demanding... it's been done before. :-\
I mainly asked because I wanted to rip SMW from the 45-in-1 ROM I have. I could turn it into it's own .NES file, and put it into a cart. I was thinking of doing this with Pandamar, too. But they're different mappers. So they couldn't go in the same cart (I think)
Is this SMW you speak of unique from other SMWs? This would be a question best asked at NESDev.
Pandamar's been done.
EDIT: Actually, both have been done.
/\ Do you have any links to where I could buy them, or download ROMs? If you do, PM me.
Also,
Quote from: Jedi QuestMaster on May 28, 2009, 03:09:30 pm
Is this SMW you speak of unique from other SMWs? This would be a question best asked at NESDev.
I'm talking about the one specifically on the JY Company 45-in-1, since that's the only one I know that has the full game on it.
Well, the rom for the multicart needs to be dumped, first. I did the Pandamar one and could possibly do the SMW one (although finding the data for a pirate original will be a bit harder than finding the data for a hack...).
I have the 45-in-1 ROM if that's what you want..
I have a rom of the full SMW if you're interested.
Ah, well if it's already in its own ROM, there's no sense in me trying to separate it out of a multicart :P
PM'd Son_ov_hades and UglyJoe
Um. I kinda had already said SMW full existed as it's own ROM. :P CaH4e3 site has almost everything.
Most of his dumps don't work on my emulator. At least not the ones I've played so far.
Try using FCEUX. It's not the most accurate emulator out there, but it stays up-to-date with pirate mappers.
1. Not the most accurate?
2. Is that for PC? My laptop's broken, so that's not an option.
Oh, forgot what forum I was in. You probably don't care about accuracy.
It's PC/Linux only, afaik, there might be other ports out there, though.
You can rip it and all but it's not that easy to place it on a cart. I have tried it before with a friend so good luck and if you do I'll get one of the repros!
I wasn't going to do it myself, seeing as I have absolutely no experience in that kind of stuff, so I was just gonna send the ROM to gamereproductions and have it done there...I'll need to find a cheaper alternative for Pandamar. There's no way I'm spending $30 on that!...
Actually, I forgot I had money, I think I may just get a PowerPak.
Yeah do that. I tried it with mario 8, SMW, and others that could be worth making a repro of and they all failed. There is something about the code that makes them unreproducible
Quote from: nintendodork on May 29, 2009, 08:29:14 am
Actually, I forgot I had money, I think I may just get a PowerPak.
Pandamar will work on a PowerPak, but I'm 99% certain that SMW won't.
Yeah, you're probably right. I could check the mapper in Nestopia, but when I *obtained* the SMW file, it automatically opened in VirtuaNES, and whenever I try and right click and click "Open with" and select Nestopia, it doesn't show up, and just opens it in VirtuaNES
Quote from: UglyJoe on May 29, 2009, 07:59:47 am
Oh, forgot what forum I was in. You probably don't care about accuracy.
It's PC/Linux only, afaik, there might be other ports out there, though.
I still don't know what you mean by accuracy in an emulator. The method I play it? I have a USB gamepad.
Accuracy refers to how accurately it emulates the NES hardware and cartridge hardware. Most emulators (FCE* included) are more concerned with getting the games to play at all, and not so much concerned with acting exactly like the real hardware. This mindset is a holdover from the 486/Pentium I days when it was infeasible for an emulator to be 99% accurate. They had to sacrifice accuracy for speed so that they would run at all on the hardware they had.
This is more of an issue in the rom hacking scene, since you have hacks that will work in emulator X, but not on the real hardware, because the emulator is not being accurate.
Nestopia (http://nestopia.sourceforge.net/) and Nintendulator (http://www.qmtpro.com/~nes/nintendulator/) are considered accurate emulators (not that they're 100% accurate, but their goal is to be as accurate as possible -- these are as close as it gets).
Ah. So, accuracy includes slowdown, flicker, and everything. Emulation is more complex than I thought. Yeah, I prefer being able to play the games over accuracy.
But for being able to play weird pirate games, you need as much accuracy as you can get :P.
Dammit. Those emus are for PC, and my laptop is broken beyond repair.
Unless you have the Homebrew Channel and a lot of patience, I'm afraid you're going to be without an emulator.
No, I'm against homebrew and piracy on consoles with upgradeable firmware. Brick potential.
Does that mean you like your homebrew and piracy on consoles w/o upgradeable firmware? So you like soldering modchips and replacing BIOSes huh?
No, that means I'd rather use my GP2X, PC, or Dreamcast.
Does anyone know if the Donkey Kong Country 4 (not the new game, the FC pirate) rom is available as just DK4 & not DK4 + Jungle Book 2?