Hey Guys,

Great work i cant wait for the TG16 stuff

i will crack on and do some more Gameboy vids this week

PS - I was just wondering if you have managed to sort out the boxart display for all the Jap games we have on the NES????

Cheers Stupot

I got some TG16 stuff up already in the main (top-part of the) thread. I was just too lazy to post it here until it was done.

By sorted out, do you mean is it included? Yes it is


UPDATES:





Okay..... that's all I'm getting done this weekend!

Got the TGCD vids uploading right now.

I'm going to be wrapping up the Atari LYNX next weekend too. I may need help with a few videos for that and I'll need you guys to tell me if I'm missing anything.

Looks like there are a small number of HQ boxarts at THE COVER PROJECT as well. I'd be mighty appreciative if somebody could download them and crop the box fronts from them for me. If you do, don't resize them. I'll take care of that myself.

Later!
~Rx



EDIT: Got the TGCD videos up there as well now. Also notice I uploaded "SAVES". Put these in the E:\SAVES\ directory on your box and you'll never get the pop-up screen before the game plays unless you press X to start the game on purpose. I always hated that the first time you play a game it had to write the save info. These saves match my naming conventions perfectly, so if you've run your roms through the datfiles to match the Artwork/Videos, the saves will work perfectly for you too.

quote:
download them and crop the box fronts from them for me
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WWBVIFP2
I didnt crop them all the way I left the AtariLynx Bar on the left none the less bro itll save you time instead of dl each..anyone wanna crop/resize them go ahead..

Cool man. Thanks!

I probably will end up cutting off the LYNX stuff just because it won't match the rest of the boxarts and I doubt that TCP will have every LYNX boxart up there in that quality any time soon.

I won't be able to do much on it until Saturday anyhow. Maybe somebody could crop that out for me to

Either way, saves me the time of downloading them now.

Much appreciated,
~Rx






EDIT: pCeSlAyEr pointed out to me that I still had the old crappy version of John Madden DUO CD in my pack. He fixed it for us. I've uploaded that video separately and put it in the TG16/CD section of my thread. I've tried to upload the fixed version to megaupload, but it finishes the upload in about a minute and gives me the exact same link as the old download (so it obviously thinks I'm trying to upload the same file, which I already knew megaupload did, but since the new video is a few MB less than the old one the zip should be different ,so the fact that it does this confuses me).

Anyways... I'll be keeping the separate video download link up there for about a week before I take it down for anyone who grabbed the old set. Get it now before it's gone forever!

Looks like I'll have to upload the fixed set to Rapidshare (blah!) Expect it up by the weekend.

Later,
~Rx

Awesome releases man!

Thanks man. Let me know if you see any problems with them. You've got a good eye for that stuff.


I do too man, so I challenge you to! Ha!

I'm always up for a challenege so... I accept your challenge! lol

I wish you luck then pCe....



Hey guys. I was wondering if somebody could start ripping images for me from thecoverproject.net?

I thinking the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800 and the Sega Master System are a good place to start.

Even better if somebody could crop the images so there is just the box front. I'm really going to try to kick that work into high gear and get these artwork packs ready for release and this HQ work is really a great addition.

Thanks ahead of time if you can do this for me.

Here's the 7800 stuff to get you started.... THECOVERPROJECT

AtariLynX-Just Needs to be Resize'd + Added some FDS Fronts
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OIET526L
Atari7800-Just Needs To Be Resize'd
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XDT61GV1

Still Needs Atari2800/Atari5200/Sega Master System fronts
(Gotta head out Ill try and do some later thought Id post this now though someone can do the others)

Hey, I've just been checking out the new enhanced artwork for NES (06-09-09) and have found that some of them are a little wrong. For example:

the box front artwork for Mr. Pacman is actually Ms. Pacman,
Mario Fantasy adventure is Final Fantasy I,
Mario Adventure is Super Mario Bros. 3,
Final Fantasy II - Return of Lich is Final Fantasy I,
Fantasy of Darkness is Final Fantasy I,
Extra Mario Bros is Super Mario Bros.,
Dragoon X Omega II is Final Fantasy,
Mario in Time is Ticking is Super Mario Bros I,
Pixel Kingdom is Super Mario Bros I,
SouthPark Zelda is Legend of Zelda,
Timescrisis - Fall of the Moon is The Legend of Zelda,
XXXX is Super Mario Bros. I,
Zelda Challenge - Outlands is The Legend of Zelda,
Zelda's Embrace - A New Legend is The Legend of Zelda

These are just the ones I've seen and some are probably intentional but they look great thanks for getting them all up.

Yeah... actually, all of those are intentional. You could remove them if you'd like.

On Update Hacks, I used the boxart for the game that was originally hacked (otherwise, there wouldn't be any boxart for them).

On my system, I have these types of games sorted exactly how they are sorted in the spreadsheets, so I think they look quite good that way. I could see where that wouldn't look right though if you just have all of your roms in a central directory.

Thanks for pointing that out though. It was all intentional though in that regard. If you see any other problems let me know.

Later,
~Rx




Oh.... thanks for those links Ultimate509! I'm going to get cracking on the 2600 this weekend after I wrap up a few other things and get the LYNX work done.

I there a new hack actually called Mr. Pacman?

Hey Rx,
great idea with the "SAVES" option. I was almost going to ask mabmab if there was a way to globally turn off the initial menu, or just click on every damn game to get rid of it. how did you do it...?

How did I do it? LOL

I actually played every game to get the title/action shots and they were made. (Well... something happened and I had to go back and re-play about 200 of them to get the complete set.

The only problem is that it will have my TV's size on it, but with madmab's ability to adjust the ratio for every game when you change it, that shouldn't really be a problem. It will just take a minute or two for your system to re-write all of these saves.

I basically just FTP'd the saves to my box and deleted any Save State information, made sure every rom I had has a matching save, zipped them up and shot them over to Megaupload.



I'm sure there could probably be a more sophisticated way to code the emu auto-write basic settings to the games, but there's really no need with these saves packs. I pretty much have the save info for every game on my lists from my testing (or plan to have all of them by the time I'm done anyhow).

~Rx

P.S. Yeah.... Mr. Pac-Man is a pretty good hack of Ms. Pac-Man on NES if you like blue borders and a more masculine Pac-Avitar.

Would someone be so kind and supply a link to the ips patch for Mr. Pac-Man. I cannot find it anywhere. Thanks

ResX i'm already part way through te 2600 ones if you want to just hold fire.

Not sure what you mean crash? You talking about getting those boxarts for me at thecoverproject?

Yea sorry about the vagueness here they are and sorry for the rapidshare link.

No problem man. Thanks for doing that.

So..... looks like we got Atari LYNX, Atari 2600, Atari 7800, NES and TG16 down from thecoverproject so far. Nice work.

Later,
~Rx



EDIT: Somebody at Megaupload must like all the traffic I'm sending their way. I don't have to wait at all anymore for downloads. I don't even have a free account, let alone a paid for one.

Either I'm really lucky, or I'm being watched more than I'd care to think.

Either way, it makes the 73 seconds I have to wait at Rapidshare all that much more painful.


EDIT 2:

Crash,

Alright... I've just gone through and converted and renamed the 2600 scans. Only missed two (don't worry, I got them and converted them). It will probably be a while before I have an official Atari 2600 release, but you can be sure your work wasn't wasted because all of these images will be in there.

I'm keeping track of the dates that I get all of the artwork from that site so we can always go and get the new ones as they come out.

Ultimate509,

I hope to get to your packs sometime today as well. Thanks again for those! You hadn't started the 2600 gathering yet, did you? Would hate to think of sensless doublework.



Xmodder deluX,

I looked and I don't have a patch for that. Unfortunately, it's against the forum rules to give you the rom. You can be assured that if I don't have the patch that this is available. Try to find a goodset or nointro torrent somewhere and I'm sure it will be in there.


Everyone,

If you would like to help gather artwork at thecoverproject and crop the box fronts, please let me know. Let's make it clear what we're doing too so two people aren't collecting the same artwork.

THANKS!
~Rx

Hey Rx,
What ever happened to "paper boy 2"...?
I though that was a fixed one, but I didn't see it in the roms pack.

It's in the non-working roms for now. XT fixed it, but he's been busy and hasn't been able to integrate his fixes with madmab's work.

Hot Potato: Downloading the Sega Master System covers from The Cover Project and cropping them.

Awesome. Thanks man.... and thanks for the heads up.

EDIT: I've integrated he Atari 2600, Atari 7800, LYNX, NES and TG16 HD shots from the coverarchive so far. The NES and TG16 shots are in the new artwork/screenshot packs on the thread. The Ataris will be available when I release the updated artwork packs for them as well.

Unfortunately, I didn't think to put the FDS HD shots in the pack. Would somebody mind collecting the Boxarts for FDS that I have included in the Xtras on my spreadsheet?

Here are the Sega Master System HQ boxarts.

Sorry to do double post but I just put these together. They are 4 of the FDS boxart front covers that I was sure of that are in the xtras. I have also downloaded the other covers that look like this but wasn't sure if you want them, just tell me if you do and I'll crop and upload those too.

[Edit]

One of the SMS ones would only download a small corrupted file which I left on there so you can see which one it is if you want to have another go at downloading it.

[Edit 2]

Is there anything else we need from the cover project?

Cheers,
Crash

Great man. I'll download them and keep them on the to-do list. I've really immersed myself in the Atari 2600 testing now and I don't really have time for much else when I focus on a project like this. I have a few other things like testing some madmab edition stuff, and integrating stupot1's 60 or so GBA videos still. These are the types of things that I like to have to work on when there seems to be down time and nobody else is really moving on anything, so I'll keep them in the boxart to-do folder I've got.

So we have...
SMS
NES
TG16/CD
Atari 2600
Atari 7800
Atari LYNX

I would say anything that there is an XPORT emu for pretty much. Genesis/Sega CD/32x would be a good start. Atari 5200/800/XE would be nice as well.

I would say SNES, but I believe between Sotu and others we have a lot of HQ boxart available to us already so we might want to wait on that. I've seen some of the touchups that Sotu has done and they really look great.

Thanks for the help crash,
~Rx

To anyone collecting covers from thecoverproject site make sure when theres 2 options "original & custom" that you choose original those are the real retail covers for instance someone uploaded the Fds covers 1 page back and those are custom made by an uploader..dont know if Resx minds or not but I think having all the original covers for any games would be alot better...

Okay......

Who wants to help out on 2600 videos?

I'm not done testing for a while, but I've made it very clear what is needed so far.

Here's the SPREADSHEET

I've eliminated every clone. (There were a few that were good enough to warrant another video, but not many at all).

We will need some US licensed videos, but primarily we will need videos for hacks, prototypes and homebrew. Some of the homebrew and hacks are actually better than any of the orignial games for the system.

The videos should be easy to create for those who have been making videos for newer systems. About 95% of games don't have a "Title sequence", so there will be no need to take two videos and splice them together.

Any takers? Give me your email in a PM and I'll give you access to the spreadsheet so people don't do double work.

Later,
~Rx


EDIT: For most of the games I think a 20 second shot is more than sufficient. Games like Venture II might benefit from some splicing of different action shots, but many of the games are just a single screen and anything more than 20 seconds would probably be redundant.

Lol, who did the video for Action 52 for NES

Best I have seen so far. Did you added the audio afterwards??

Just a suggestion for anyone who volunteers to do 2600 videos. If you could, please use Stella. I modified the sound in Z26 to be more accurate. I'll have to check and see if MESS sounds correctly or not because it does have the ability to record to .avi.

UPDATES:



Included in the Enhanced Artwork/Screenshots packs:

530 Boxart
127 Title Shots
642 Action Shots
611 Carts (and 26 Blank Carts)


All we need now is the 213 missing videos! Please help out with this. Madmab is the only one who seems at all interested and we need him CODING!!!!!

For those with a beta release, check out the hot-potato thread for the synopsis!

Later,
~Rx

UPDATES:

Stupot1 has finished the Gameboy videos. We only need Gameboy Color and Gameboy Advance now.


He has also added about 130 new videos for Japan/unlicened/hacks/pirates in the NES library. There are about 30 more of those to do. Quite a few of these are excellent additions to the NES library.

I hope to have the SNES synopsis complete by next weekend.

~Rx

Someone asked awile back if the psx videos are still amazingly they still are

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ORSH0DGG
Bloody Roar 2
Bloody Roar (only intro)
Crash Bandicoot 2
Crash Bandicoot
Final fantasy 7
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=I5GQL4UD
Final Fantasy 8
Final Fantasy 9
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=W40LH9EF
Crash Bandicoot 3
Crash Bash
Spyro 2
Spyro
Twisted Metal

thats all i did i ahve the tools i did this with
if someone wants to do psx videos pm me i will send you the tools

UPDATES:

Nearly finished with the SNES synopsis. I just have some more translations to add (to the Xtras set as well as the synopsis).

Then I'm going to see if there are any good hacks to add. Hopefully there are a lot less than on the NES.

I've still got some re-organizing to do with the current roms as well as adding new roms.

Then, I've decided, that I'm going to re-test everything in XPORT/Madmab's emulator and give findings for both emulators in the spreadsheets.

I also have to change the names of the roms with the "." character in them since XPORT emus don't read the period. This way we can use the same roms and Xtras for both emulators in the future.

Then I have to add the HQ boxart from Sotu/thecoverproject.

And also syncronize both artwork sets....

Then we'll have to get somebody to make the missing videos. (Hopefully there won't be too many)

I'm sure there's more misc stuff to do along the way....

Soon there will be a completley new Xtras pack for both emulators.

~Rx

P.S. Just realized that this sticky has the most views now. Go project RX!

Period what period? I thought I fixed that... What exactly happens again?

It's alright if you didn't. I already took care of it and left out periods in all the other emus.

If there was a period at the end of the romname, the artwork won't match the game because it can't have a period as the last character of the folder. Periods within the name are alright though.

It was only 7 or so games that I had this problem with. They've been renamed.

I thought it was a big deal to go renaming stuff when I first put the SNES Xtras up there, but so damn much has changed since then that people are going to have to download entirely new sets when I get them complete anyways. Figured now was a good time to get everything working right in both emus.

oh ok. Maybe it was the "space" at the end of a filename issue that I fixed. But I'll double check. There were a couple of things I did way back when on atarixlbox.

Like I said, no worries. I've avoided this problem by removing all periods from all romnames for the sets. The only time it was a problem was on the 7 SNES games that ended with a period. Now that I'm doing a complete overhaul, changing these weren't a problem.

So..... adding the periods for me would be MAJOR work and would ruin all the datfiles that are out there so far. No need to fix it if it's not going to be used.

~Rx

Would anybody be interested in collecting the HQ boxart on thecoverproject for the SNES?

http://www.thecoverproject.net/view.php?cat_id=8

Sotu gave me a pack, but they're all 375 pixels wide and we can go up to about 675 pixels wide without any memory problems. I asked him if he had the higher quality images still, but he hasn't gotten back to me for a few days on that.

I'm really getting close to a brand new SNES release, but I want to add as many HQ boxarts as possible. These would need to be downloaded and cropped, and then resized to be 675 pixels wide.

Any help you guys could give would be great. It's a rather large project compared to the Atari ones some of you helped me out with before. Perhaps you could claim letters to work on so nobody is doing double work. Please grab the Japan boxarts too since they're included in the set.

Thanks,
~Rx


EDIT:

Here is the list of boxarts he's already collected....

snes_7thsaga
snes_actraiser
snes_actraiser_1
snes_aerotheacrobat_eu
snes_axelay
snes_battletoadsdoubledragon_2
snes_battletoadsinbattlemaniacs
snes_breathoffire
snes_breathoffire_1
snes_breathoffire2
snes_castlevaniaiv
snes_choplifter3
snes_chrono_trigger
snes_chronotrigger
snes_congoscaper
snes_contraiiithealienwars
snes_cybernator
snes_dariustwin_au
snes_demonscrest_eu
snes_disneysthejunglebook
snes_dkc2_au
snes_donkeykongcountry_au
snes_donkeykongcountry3_eu
snes_dragonquest5_2_jp
snes_dragonquest6_2_jp
snes_dungeonmaster
snes_earthbound_3
snes_earthbound_custom
snes_earthdefenseforce_jp
snes_earthwormjim_2
snes_earthwormjim2
snes_eyeofthebeholder
snes_fatalfury
snes_fatalfury2
snes_finalfantasy3
snes_finalfantasyiimooky
snes_finalfantasymysticquest
snes_finalfight
snes_finalfight2_2
snes_finalfight3_2
snes_FrontMission_2_jp
snes_FrontMission_jp
snes_fzero_gb
snes_gradius3
snes_harvestmoon
snes_illusionofgaia
snes_junglestrike
snes_jurassicpark
snes_kirbysavalanche
snes_kirbysuperstar
snes_lionking
snes_lufia_fortress_of_doom
snes_magicalquest
snes_mariopaint
snes_megaman7
snes_megamanx
snes_megamanx2
snes_megamanx3
snes_metalmarines_de
snes_mightandmagic2_de
snes_mortalkombat
snes_mortalkombat3
snes_mortalkombatii
snes_nbajam_eu
snes_ninjagaidentrilogy
snes_ninjawarriors
snes_ogrebattle-1
snes_ogrebattle
snes_paladinsquest
snes_paneldepon_jp
snes_phalanx
snes_raiden
snes_rockmanandforte_jp
snes_saturdaynightslammasters
snes_secretofevermore
snes_secretofevermore_2
snes_seikendensetsu3_jp
snes_shinmegamitensei_2_jp
snes_soulblazer
snes_spaceinvaders
snes_spacemegaforce
snes_starfoxmooky
snes_starocean_jp
snes_streetfighterii
snes_streetfighteriiturbo
snes_sunsetriders
snes_superadventureisland
snes_superbomberman_au
snes_superbomberman2_ca
snes_superdoubledragon
snes_superempirestrikesback
snes_superghoulsnghosts
snes_superghoulsnghosts_gb
snes_supermarioallstars
snes_supermariokart
snes_supermariorpg
snes_supermarioworld
snes_supermetroidalt
snes_superpunchout
snes_superreturnofthejedi
snes_superrtype
snes_superstarwars
snes_t2arcade_au
snes_terranigma_eu
snes_tetrisanddrmario
snes_tetrisattack
snes_tmnt4turtlesintime
snes_treasurehunterg_jp
snes_unsquadron
snes_utopia_de
snes_wizardryV
snes_xmenmutantapoc
snes_yoshis_island
snes_yoshissafari
snes_ys3wanderersfromys
snes_zeldaalinktothepast

I figure, no reason doing those now since he may have them in higher quality. Anything not on that list we still need though.

Thanks again,
~Rx

UPDATES:

Added pCeSlAyEr's alternate TG16/CD datfiles on the main thread. Here they are too:

pCeSlAyEr's Alternate Datfiles

SNES synopsis is nearly finished. I just need to add about 30 more unlicensed games to it.

If anybody would like to see Xtras included for any games that aren't on the spreadsheets, now's the time. I believe I have every Translation and worthwhile hack from Romhacking included. All Prototypes are accounted for. Every US licensed game is included as well as about 100 European/Japan games.

I'm thinking if anything needs to be added still it would be any Europe/Japan games I've missed. Unless somebody is sitting on a killer hack or translation that wasn't on Romhacking.

LET ME KNOW!!!!!!

Later,
~Rx

I have a problem.

I had a complete set of snes and nes roms. however it doesn't matter what dat i use there are a large amount that are unrecognised.....it's driving me bonkers. it seems like it's missing header info...but i cant find any sets with the correct headers....

Can anybody help me...

Hold everything!

I already collected all the HQ boxarts from the cover project, for SNES! (remember rx?) so did Gilles, I think.

I can get those to you soon.

Well crap.. maybe sotu had all of them, also...
here is mine cropped and re sized. I also included the original sizes (cropped) but it missing top gear 1 and the MMX series are not cropped yet. : http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0DWY3VL7

I also have some extra boxarts and carts for games that never had them. Check-um out

later

Thanks man,

I won't have time to look at them right away since I have a looooooong work week. What size are they. The only reason I've held off integrating Sotu's stuff is because they were 375 pixels wide. We can get 675 pixels wide if we've got them.

Do you have all of them, or just a large portion of them?

Later,
~Rx

I have all of them (to my knowledge) I collected them a few months ago...
Mine are bigger .
and the originals are way bigger.

Awesome to hear that you got them all MM. I forgot that we talked about this before.

You know me... my mind is all over the map on this project.

It wasn't until I started working on the SNES synopsis about 90 days ago that I even thought I'd get back to the SNES this soon for a revamp. (BTW... I've completed the synopsis from start to finish on my own in that time ) The only thing I would need to add to it now is new games that Stupot1 wants to add, or anyone else for that matter, before the Final set goes out. The only things that would/could be missing are European games that don't have a US alternative or Japan games that I missed. Possibly some good hacks/translations that aren't on Romhacking too, but usually there aren't many, if any, of those.

There is some headline info missing on most games. I will go back and add that to the document when we have search/filter capability because being able to scroll through games and check the videos will be the easiest way to figure out stuff like "Genre".

Don't worry, before I put the HQ boxart in the set I will go through tcp.com and see if we're missing anything.

Thanks again Sotu for giving me the images you had, but since we can go higher on the pixel ratio than originally thought, I figure we should get the highest quality we can cram into the packs.

Pretty soon we'll have one more major system completely done.

Now only if we could get past that damn Gameboy project I'd really feel like my work here is almost done.

Later,
~Rx

Split it up... GB, GBC, and GBA.

I know it took me 4-5 months just to go thru the no-intro GBA stuff back when I worked on it. Sad thing is I'm sure all that is outdated and numerous ROMs have come out since. But at least the GBA releases are pretty much dead these days.

I'm pretty much done rom-wise.

It's just that we still need almost 500 videos and need to get a synopsis with about 3,500 games completed.

Two MAJOR tasks.

I'm only fluent in one of them and if I do the synopsis on my own it will probably take at least three months.

Stupot1 made the vids for all Gameboy games that needed them. pCe made about 20 games for GBA so far.

MM's been caught up with real-life stuff outside of the Game Genie NES codes and anyone else making videos has pretty much disappeared. Summer time, yanno...

I will say this though....

I'm NOT adding any hacks or translations to the Xtras on GB/GBC/GBA unless they are really f-ing stellar stuff. If 3,500 plus Gameboy games isn't enough for a video game junkie to get their fix they can move right on to the 1,000 plus SNES or the 1,500 plus NES sets.


This is kinda why I want to work on Xtras for the O2 and Neo Geo pocket for a while. They're child's play compared to what's been put together so far and might give me some time to regroup and tackle the Hydra.

~Rx

UPDATES:

Got quite a bit done on the NES synopsis for the beta release. I want to get it all done before the release comes out. I've also found a few more games we'll probably need videos for after I test them, assuming they work and aren't clones. I like doing the synopsis thing in-depth because it makes me put games in their correct categories and helps me find anything we've missed. If you've got any NES games I've missed, please let me know.


SNES synopsis is basically done. Just a few more tweaks here and there and a few more roms to test before I put that up. I think in the next week we should see the finished product of both of these.


Later,
~Rx

Nope everything appears to be all set. Just waiting for madmab to post the beta on xbins.

Hey Rx,
Remember we had a problem in the snes art work pack. All the box arts had added black space on the top in the bottom. The original emu-movies ones didn't have this and it was a matter of replacing them again.
You said it might have been something that happened in one of your converters.

I hope you remembered that. of course, there should be no problem with the ones that now have "super HQ art" for them.

later