Hey flea17,

Don't know if I scared you off....

Anyways... I know I can be a dick sometimes, and I'm not always the first to admit that. Sometimes my diplomacy skills suck... depending on what personality is at the reigns a the time.

So... I'm sure I pissed you off, and I'm not going to say that you didn't entirely deserve it, but if you're game to help out, I'm game to help teach you what you need to do and/or point you in the direction of people who know what they're doing in a specific area that could get you set up. (This is about as close as I come to an apology )

Can't have no pansy-ass thin-skinners around here bro...

If you're still around and still up for it, assuming you weren't talking out of your ass, we've got plenty of undone stuff you could add your signature to on this project. If you check my spreadsheets you see that the names of people who have contributed to videos and the synopsis files all have their names there, and will make it into the final Contributions part of the Xtras info files, which I think (Internet Gods Willing) will survive long past the death of homebrew on the original Box.

Hell.... I wouldn't be surprised to see some legitimate, legal, commercial outfit come and take all of this work and release it to the public for a fee as their own if they put the internet on lockdown with the Eye in the Sky watching everything like they've been slowly trying to do for years.

Anyways... PM me if you're interested. Gotta get this done while we still can, right?

Later,
~Rx

hey rx in the nintendo section of your xtras has that been updated since june 09? or are you just waiting to get more games added videos, artwork, etc until you make a final release? I'm more interested in downloading the videos part because idk how to make videos for the missings games I've acquired and I figured it would b easier to just get it off here once it has been finalized of course. In the "Report Missing games" thread i posted the fds games that were missing so check that out see if artwork and videos could be added for those.

Also RX, in the synopsis for "Bishoujo Control" and Bishoujo Sexy Puzzle Super PIG created those games. The FDS Synopsis needs some editing to do and there are missing synopsis' for a lot of FDS games as well. I will sort thru quickly to list here what needs a synopsis

I think to make the translated games synopsis look cleaner we should change a few things. Let's take Dream World Doki Doki Panic! which in Japanese is Yume Koujou Doki Doki Panic:

Original Title: Yume Koujou Doki Doki Panic<-----this is great to refer to know that the game was translated

Platform: Famicom Disk System<----Keep

Region: Japan (Translated)<---We can get rid of the "(Translated) part because ppl should already know from the original title that it is translated.

Media: Disk<---Keep

Controller: NES Gamepad<------Keep

Genre: Unknown (Should be Platform)<--------Keep otherwise

Release Year:2001 (Should keep the original year the game was made and not the translation)<---Keep otherwise

Translated By: Vice Translations<-----Great to know who translated it so if there are more games in the future that need translations we can look up these people on romhack.net and see what's new to add.

Version: 1.1<----Unecessary because I'm sure everybody wants the latest version of any translated game so we can toss this part out

Players: Unknown (Should be 1)<-----Keep otherwise

Tell me what u guys think if it's not too much of a hassle because I know there were a lot of translated games esp. for Nes, FDS, and SNES

*EDIT* I forgot to add the Developer and Publisher line those 2 are not in any translated synopsis' and I think should be because they are in all other licensed games so we should make it look like this:

Original Title
Platform
Region
Media
Controller
Genre
Release Year
*Developer*
*Publisher*
Translated By
Players

so now tell me what u guys think

Here lies all the CONSIDERED, ENGLISH, and TRANSLATED Famicom Disk System games that are missing a Synopsis or need to be re-edited to put the finishing touches on. I have very detailed suggestions and changes because we all want this to be as perfect and near completion as possible so here it goes just over 100 games I looked at. By the way, I didn't bother to read the actual "Description of the game" to save time. In my personal opinion, I think the description part of the game should be optional just because they're all typed in different format from what I skimmed thru and for most games their is a different source where the description is from and it looks untidy. Until there is ONE source we can get all the game descriptions from we should just stick to the top part of the Synopsis and worry about the description another time so we can breeze by the Synopsis for every emulator faster. Sorry if I'm being unrealistic or asking for too much but if you guys are asking for suggestions you're going to get it LOL. AHEM! now for the list:

Ai Senshi Nicol - Missing
All Night Nippon Super Mario Bros. - In Players section it's blank change to 1
Armana no Kiseki - In Genre section is "Unknown" change to "Action"
Backgammon - Missing
Baseball (FDS) - Use the NES version's Synopsis
Big Challenge!: Dogfight Spirits - Genre is blank change to Action/Shooter/Scrolling and Players is blank change to 1

Bishoujo Control - Release Year I would just put 1985 when Superpig began making these games as it doesn't state exactly which year

Bishoujo Sexy Puzzle - Same as above
Bishoujo SF Alien Battle(Hacker International Game) - Missing
Bomberman - Use the NES version's Synopsis
Boxxle - Warehouse Evening of Tears(Translated game) - Missing
Breeder - Missing
Bubble Bobble - Use the NES version's Synopsis
Burger Time (FDS) - Use the NES version's Synopsis
Clu Clu Land (FDS) - Use the NES version's Synopsis
Crystal Dragon(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Deep Dungeon - The Heretic War(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)

Dirty Pair - Project Eden(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Donkey Kong (FDS) - Use NES version's Synopsis
Donkey Kong Jr. (FDS) - Use NES version's Synopsis
Dr. Chaos (FDS) - Use NES version's Synopsis
Druid - Missing
Egger Land(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Electrician(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Esper Dream I(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Fairy Pinball: yousei Tachi no Pinbal - Just to have the text there and to fill in the blanks let's put Unknown in Release Year and Developer put Hacker International

Famicom Grand Prix II - 3D Hot Rally - Missing
Family Composer - Genre should be Music and Players should be 1
Family Computer - Othello - Missing
Family Computer Golf - U.S. Course - Missing
Famimaga Disk Vol. 1 - Missing
Famimaga Disk Vol. 2 - Missing
Famimaga Disk Vol. 3 - Missing
Famimaga Disk Vol. 4 - Missing
Famimaga Disk Vol. 5 - Missing
Final Commando - Akai Yousai - Missing
Fire Bam - Genre should be Action/RPG and Players should be 1
Fire Rock - Players should be 1
Gal's Dungeon(Translated game) - Release Year is blank change to Unknown. Add Developer and Publisher Line and type in Super Pig for both. Take out the Version: 1.0. Changed "Hacked By" to---->Translated By. And Players should be 1

Galaga (FDS) - Use NES version's Synopsis
Galaxian (FDS) - Use NES version's Synopsis
Gall Force:Eternal Story(Translated Game) - In the Region remove (Translated). Genre should be Action/Shooter/Scrolling. Use original game release year not translated year. Add in Developer line and Publisher line and type in Hal for both. Remove Version:1.0 Line. Players should be 1

Ghost Manor(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Ginga Denshou - Galaxy Odyssey - Missing
Golf (FDS) - Use NES version's Synopsis
Golf: Bishoujo Classic - In the Release Year line type Unknown
Goonies - Use NES version's Synopsis
Green Beret - Players should be 1
Gun.Smoke (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Gyruss (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Halley Wars - Genre should be Action/Shooting/Scrolling and Players should be 1
Ice Climber (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Ice Hockey (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Kamen Rider Black - Players should be 1
Karate Champ (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Kick and Run - Players should be 2
Kick Challenger - Air Foot - Missing
Knight Lore - Players should be 1
Knight Move - Missing
Konami Ice Hockey - Missing
Legend of Zelda 2 or Zelda no Densetsu: The Hyrule Fantasy - Use NES version's Synopsis of Zelda 2
Lutter - Missing
Metroid (FDS) - Use NES version's Synopsis
Mobile Police Patlabor (Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Moero Yakyuuken (Super Pig game)(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)

Moon Ball Magic - Players should be 1
Otocky - Genre should be changed to Music and Players should be 1
Pac-Man (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Pinball (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Pretty Girl's Sexy Derby(Super Pig game)(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)

Pro Wrestling (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Reflect World - Missing
Replicart - Missing
Riddle of Murasame Castle(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Roger Rabbit - Completely Different game than "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" on the NES and the Synopsis for this is MISSING

Sailor Fuku Bishoujo Zukan: Volume 1, Volume 3, Volume 4, Volume 5, and Volume 6 - Release Year for all of them is 1989. Developer for all of them is Hacker International while the Publisher for all of them is Mimi Pro.

Samurai Sword(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Santa Claus's Toybox(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Seiken Psycho Calibur(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Sexy Invaders - Release year just put 1985 when Super Pig began making these games. Developer is Super Pig and Publisher is Super Pig.
Silviana(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Smash Ping Pong - Genre is correct but keep the same format like the "Kick and Run" game how it showed Sports - Soccer for this game do Sports - Ping Pong. Players should be 2

Soccer (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Super Boy Allan - Missing
Super Lode Runner I - Missing
Super Lode Runner II - Missing
Super Mario Brothers - On the Players line keep it to 1 because there are A LOT of games that you can say 1 or 2 Alternating and it doesn't say that. I would just refer to the title screen(Usually) if there is a 2 player option then it's 2 players if not then 1 player

Super Mario Brothers 2 Lost Levels Hack - This is indeed a completely re-make hack and is legit and fun so you can test this game yourself to see if it's worth inputting a synopsis for it.

Sword of Kalin(Translated game) - Missing (Consider using my format of the translated synopsis)
Tennis (FDS) - Use NES version's Synopsis
Tobidase Daisakusen - Use NES version's 3D WorldRunner I Synopsis
TwinBee - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Volleyball (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
VS Excitebike - Missing
Wrecking Crew (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Xevious (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis
Yuu Maze - Missing
Zanac (FDS) - Use NES versions's Synopsis

You can scratch out the Bishoujo SF Alien Battle it's untranslated and it sux ne ways. I didn't have the patience to play through to see what was so prOn about the game so no need for a synopsis for this or artwork or ne thing else.

*EDIT*
I took out Bishoujo SF Alien Battle. It's untranslated and the game blows ne ways. I had no patience to keep going to see what was so prOn about it.

shit sorry for the double post guys ignore the one right above this post im writing.

You may also scratch out Ginga Denshou - Galaxy Odyssey. I assumed it would be playable because of a partly english title but turns out it's in Japanese. No synopsis, no artwork for this either.

As well as Super Boy Allan for the same reason as the post above

wow you posted a whole page there havnt you lol

yeah bro evidently I did I didn't mean to double post the synopsis piece.

Wow... do me a favor man.

This stuff is all great to know and if there are problems, I do want to get to the bottom of them, but it's just too much for me to digest at one time. Besides the numerous posts in 3 different topics in the last two days about things to fix you blew up my IM today with another 12 posts LOL...

Seriously, I truly appreciate how thourough you're being here, but we need to develop a new method of getting to the bottom of these things. Please try to put together a document, sorted by system, of the different changes you've seen that should be made.

Thanks for the help man.

~Rx

LARGE UPDATE PENDING!!!

Hello everyone,

It's nearly time to release the (hopefully for real this time) FINAL versions for the NES, SNES and Genesis consoles.

FEATURES:

1) Likely between the three consoles there have been anywhere from 500 to 700 new games added from previous versions. (Tons more hacks/prototypes/pirates and some great foreign games we missed first time around)

2) All artwork packs are as perfect as I can make them with as much boxart and cart/cd art that I could find. Action and Title shots are also included for every game as well.

Improvements include:

- Veryfying by hand that all games have Box/Title/Action/Cart shots (Carts aren't always guaranteed)

- Upgrades to HD shots from sites such as thecoverproject and the help of some great guys here that put the packs together for me and edited the boxart where necessary.

- Also... see number 3 below....

3) Gilles made "Generic Boxarts" for the systems which look great and fill in the holes we used to have for missing artwork



Don't they look great!

4) Video representation for every game in the set. Many of them I got from emumovies, and tons of them provided by some great members here at the scene including Mega Man (?), Stupot1, Horscht, Sotu and others. We're hopefully in the process now of editing and/or replacing bad videos as well.

5) Synopsis entry for every game that has been hand tested to work with the CRC's in the set. (See in-depth info on your favorite games pulled from some of the premier video game sites on the net. All entries have the reviewer credited where available and the URL of the original page they came from).



Also, we're quickly approaching the end of the line for suggesting games to add.

If you're interested, please take a look at the following spreadsheets and see if there is a game that you would like to see added (even hacks, prototypes, homebrew... whatever).





I barely ever reject a request that isn't text heavy or a sloppy generic graphics hack. So if you'd like to see Xtras representation for a game that you like that isn't in the set, just mention it and I'll get around to adding them when I get a chance.

I'm not saying that I wont' add a game after the pending major release, I just might not be very receptive to requests after the deadline as I'll be moving on to other, much less complete things. I've also been getting very steady help from some people on videos but that comes and goes and I can't always promise somebody will be around to make the videos for us.

BIG Thanks for your help everyone who has been contributing. Look forward to working with more of you in the future.

~Rx

Update:Sounds Good, bout time...Big thanks to all you guys who chipped in to release this stuff.
make sure to check that 1 "site" out there was a lot of snes mario hacks up'd on it.

Minor setback....

Possibly major. I'll have to see how much damage is done.

I just got my rig thrashed by the nastiest virus I've ever seen. After installing a program I got off a torrent site for video conversion, it took all of 30 minutes for the thing to get 100% control of my PC. I can't even boot up windows anymore (why make a virus that kills a computer is beyond me).

I can only imagine what it was doing as thousands of virus warnings were popping up from AVG. Basically it hijacked every single executable on my C: Drive. Then it blocked me from going to AVG and several other anti-virus/anti-malware/anti-root-kit sites either through Firefox or IE, as well as blocking the programs themselves from doing any more updates. It would eventually shut these programs down and then when I would try to start them again it would tell me that I don't have permissions to access them.



Man am I bummed.... I don't know if the people here who got me up and running to convert videos are still around. Hope somebody here can help me get set up to convert AVI's to WMVs again, as well as helping me get the WME and GUI set up.

At this point, I have no idea what the fallout will be. I've not had to reset that computer for nearly 3 years so there is a lot of programs set up (like the MS XDK and all that video stuff) that I'm going to lose and will have to research all over again to set up.

What a lousy day.

Anyways.... hopefully this doesn't eat up more than a weekend and doesn't push the project back too much.

Later,
~Rx

Man... I feel for ya. Sounds even worse than the one I got a few months back. I pretty much had to do a complete re-install and delete all .exe and .html files which was a big headache, but at least my data files were intact. I'll probably be re-installing stuff for a whole year since I'm only adding things as I need them.

These days it almost seems a good idea to go the route of virtual machines. That way you can set up a virtual machine the way you want it. Store the "state" and then if you ever get hit by a virus rebuilding is easier. I'd do it but I really need to clear out some space and probably need more RAM too..

Yeah... it was the most viscous thing I've ever seen. That'll teach me to use a program I know nothing about with a crack that didn't have any commenters saying it was a good download.

The worst thing about it is that I found out right after I installed it that I had the programs I needed to make the video (before it all went haywire). My problem is I'm lazy and I don't uninstall a lot of the programs that were trials and I thought that I made those O2 videos with an expired program. (I was still able to make my two needed Genesis videos before my computer was shot).

Anyways... fresh install is up. I was able to get all of my important stuff and my to-do folders off the drive, so there seems to be zero data loss. I'm all set with my most used programs (the list I wrote down before I started the re-install). I still have to make sure that I can convert videos like I used to be able to. I have the WMEncoder on there, so I think I'm cool. I also saved my bookmarks for firefox and my settings in FlashFXP, so I shouldn't be cursing my stupidity later.

The only downside is I know what a pain it was setting up my PC for XBox development. I think a majority of that pain was setting the box up though, so that may not be too bad.


All in all, not a bad experience, assuming everything works right now. Only one day of lost productivity.... I really needed to get a bunch of bad and expired programs off my PC anyhow, so now I've got a fresh start. LOL... my internet seems to be about 5 times faster now!

I'm going to make sure everything is up and running and I've got everything I think I'll use for the Xtras and then I'm going to do a full scan on all of my drives with AVG, Spybot and Adaware. Want to make sure there isn't anything lingering anywhere before I start uploading things agian.

Later,
~Rx

Yeah once I get the machine under control I usually do some research on the virus that infected my machine to make sure there isn't anything I may be missing or on the look out for. Since alot of more recent viruses try to stop you from visiting anti-virus sites I usually set up one as my homepage. Inconvenient, but at least it provides an instant sign that something is up.

I could only identify it as "Win32/Heur" which it seems is a catch-all for stuff that AVG doesn't recognize. Spybot, Adaware and Malwarebytes all recognized it, but didn't name it.

So.... I've just encountered the baddest virus of my life and I don't even know what to call it.

I'm running scans on everything now and nothing is coming up. It seems it only effected stuff on my C: drive thankfully.

I'm having a little trouble getting my Box set up for converting AVI to WMV with our batch, but that's really all I'm having problems with. I don't think I'll be doing any XBox development for a while, if ever, so I'll jump that hurdle when I get there.

Out of all of this at least I found a use for my old 1GB thumb drive. Now it's got all the good versions of important programs the next time this happens. No more looking all over the damn place for new installs.


EDIT: Oh yeah... PCE stumbled upon about 700 PSX videos already made a while back. Since I'm in this catching up and re-org phase I started grabbing them today.

I don't know how much use we'll get out of them since the collection of PSX CD's I have on the box keeps shrinking as I do my work, but we'll have them at some point anways. Maybe I'll actually test if the PSX videos work now that I actually have some to test.

Any ideas how come the PSX emu freezes when you exit games now madmab? I know you probably don't mess with that one all that often. I haven't noticed a pattern of what makes it freeze only on certain games. It happens sometimes on the first game, other times I can play 5 or more before it freezes.

All I know is that it didn't do this before the dual preview was put in it back in January.

Later,
~Rx

Yeah bad news there RX. However in a sort of wierd way, its a good thing sometimes, cause it causes you to clean things up a bit on the PC. Performance is improved and a stark reminder to backup stuff regular. In this case its nice to know all that was lost was time.

Hells yeah man.

You know how many times this has happened to me on my other PC? I used to have to reformat and start over on that thing twice a year, but it's gotten better as I learn more about security and stuff.

The most amazing thing to me is that I don't think I lost a damn thing this time around, and for 98% of the stuff I need for the Xtras work, I had it all in just about 3 different places and I'm up and running better than I've been the last year or two.

Now all the MANDATORY stuff is on that thumb drive, and as I think of anything else it will be put on there too. My goal now is to be able to reformat, reinstall and set everything up in 3 hours the next time this happens.

I've also cleaned up and re-organized a ton of non-xbox stuff and behind the scenes xbox stuff during this.

Oh... and I mirrored my 1TB hard drive I work on about 5 months ago. You won't believe the extra amount of sleep I've gotten since I did that. Normally the thought of spending double the money for the same storage space would turn me off, but there is about 4 years of my life in that hard drive. I'm happy to have it backed up there and also 2 other times in other places.

Lesson learned... don't house ANYTHING, even stuff you think is temporary, on the desktop and not on the backed up drive. Thankfully I could get into Safe Mode to get that stuff off without having to make a new OS disk and transfering that info off with my USB universal adapter. (Saving me about 3 more hours time at least)

I would have got that damn info off the drive one way or another.

The only way the Xtras is disappearing is if there are 3 mysterious fires that take place in tandem at the very same time (it could happen, i have my own satellite in orbit up there), or Kurt Russel types 666 into that iPod looking thing and shuts the world down.


Fort Knox up in this Be'och!

~Rx

this is great news!

Hey Rx
You funny, lol....
And...
....just out of curiosity.... Is the gameboy lists all up to date as far as videos made? is stupot1 bringing any more in (or anyone else?) if so, what kind? GBC? GBA?

Thanks

oh and...
right now i'm working with dnyce1987.
he's making some nes vids...I think but is having trouble converting avi to wmv because of stupid Windows Vista. I said it wouldn't be too much trouble for me to convert them for him when they are all ready.

Yeah. I was a little amazed at that discovery myself. I haven't checked anything out yet though so I can't say anything about the quality.

I've got more videos coming our way from bc54 (at least I hope it's from him... my mind is all over the place and sometimes I forget who is doing what), so it's not caught up. I'll try to get everything for GB, NES and SNES completely caught up before I go back to work. Stupot1 has been way too busy adding new games I missed to NES/SNES/Genesis and making the videos to focus on the Gameboy yet. You'll see it in the new releases with hundreds more games to play.

Dynce must be making those videos for the FDS games and a few others he wanted to add. Thanks for helping him out there. I love adding games when the video has already been provided.

Do you know anything about the Gameboy video creation process MM? nytmar3 is interested in making videos too, but Stupot1 hasn't gotten back to him about that yet. I think he's been pretty busy himself.

So if you have a chance and know about it, it would be great if you could get nytmar3 set up on that.

Later,
~Rx

Just posting to say the PSX vids look great with the dual preview emu resx sent me a while back! The majority of the vids are great quality, but of course there are a few that are crap(mainly due to emulation issues).

I also did a few GBA vids, but I don't remember if I sent then to resx or not...

I don't think you did PCE. Whenever you're ready. I'm in cleanup mode for NES and SNES now, and I'll get to GBA. I'm expecting quite a few GBC videos tomorrow as well and then we'll be able to figure out where to go from there.

Thanks for the PSX update there too. Glad they worked out nicely.

Later,
~Rx

SNES/NES/GENESIS XTRAS STATUS:

Getting really close to what I believe will really be the final releases for the Xtras for the big three.

What's done:

1. Video preview for every game in the three collections. (Only ones missing are a few non-working games we were unable to make videos for; mostly pirates)

2. Boxart/Title Shot/ Action Shot/ Cart/CDart for every game in the three collections.

3. Synopsis entry for each game in the three collections that were tested to work with my romsets.

To do list:

1. Add the generic boxarts that Gilles still needs to make when they're available.

2. Add any final games Stupot1, dynce or I come up with last minute. Also add any suggestions that people make otherwise.

3. Go over "Current Issues" file for all three system and see if there are any lingering issues I need to take care of before wrapping all this up.

4. Add Barbie_on_Weed's alternate synopsis entries and CRCs for NES so people who would rather have the EU set will see the EU title instead of the US title. (Anyone can feel free to give me entries for SNES and Genesis too) Also remark which ones have been created in the spreadsheets so if people want to do this in the future we all know what's already done.

5. RomZip and TorrentZip all roms before creating datfiles and zipping up the Final Xtras.

6. Give a few week waiting period to see if anybody comes up with anything new (I'm going to treat this step like microwaving popcorn; when there is a very long time between additions/suggestions, I will put them up.




If anybody has anything they'd like to seen added, now's the time for real. Check out my spreadsheets to see if everything you want is in the set.

Thanks,
~Rx

to pCe: once again... you are my hero

To RX: my best advice for GB vids first off is using VisualBoyAdvance and reading through my video making guide. (hopefully nytmar3 reads this)


who else besides bc54 is making them right now?

Just bc54 now, but he has done a good deal of them over the last few weeks/months, and he said he'd try to send them my way by midnight tonight. That's about my cutoff time for getting work done today before I have to go back to work.

OK Great
Hey Rx, if anyone else wants to get started on game boy vids, have them talk to me first. (I have already contacted bc54.)

Wow. I noticed stupot1 has done a ton of work That's awesome.
Thanks for coming and filling in the lines between the lines I can't believe there was that much more to add.

I am also excited to see those new artwork packs with all the HQ boxarts in them.

Great work everyone.

Yeah... Stupot1's done a shit ton of work around here. Tons of games added that I never would have known about.

He's like another you. Remember when I said I wish I had 5 of you around here? Well we had two of you until you bailed

I let nytmar3 know to contact you, and I just got a message from drdystopia that he'd like to help out as well, so I told him to message you here. They both have questions I don't know how to answer, but seem eager to begin.

Thanks MM,
~Rx

EDIT: Just got a message from nytmar3 that he will contact you. Hope all you guys get together on this soon

Blitz!

Here is 75 GBC videos made by me: MMQuestion - (75) GBC Vids
bc54 should be taking care of the rest soon.
I know... I know... Rx

After our talk the other day... I decided to give it a try.
Maybe I couldn't help myself.
Maybe I just wanted to make the world a better place. (for video games that is...)

I am guiding nytmar3 and drdystopia onward to GBA
(Anyone else should come to me for help.)

Hey pCe
have you marked on the lists all the GBA vids that you have done?

yea they are marked or should be! I'll double check n edit this post if they are not

Great news bud.

You and bc54 were talking so you didn't do any of the same vids, right?







Guess what......?

My virus is back. I think it attached itself to my WMV to XMV converter because as soon as I used it I was getting pop-ups.

Shit.

Well... I'll see how much work I can get done tonight before my PC craps out again. I don't know what to do. This thing really has a hold on my PC. It wasn't even gone a day before it took over again.

Ok so edit sucks, but all mine are marked!

I didn't get any more work done. Typing that sentence was about the last thing I was able to do.

All reformatted and my programs are installed again.

I did a virus scan on the thing I thought launched the virus and it came up empty....

Kinda worries me. How long until I have to reformat everything this time? 22 hours?

BAH.....

I won't be uploading anything until I'm quite certain that I won't be spreading this nasty virus.

I wish there was a way I could find out which one I had at least. It keeps saying Win32/Heur, but I've read that that is not a virus name and it is a generic name. Maybe my antivirus stuff doesn't recognize it yet?

Crap Rx...

you'll kill us all!
I would reformat everything if I were you... in my experience, they never go away until then.

Thanks pCe,

Yeah Rx
bc54 and I got it all worked out.
I got nytmar3 working on w - z on the missing GBA list.

What are you using for anti-virus?

I did reformat everything... at least my C drive.

If I reformat everything else, that's all the Xtras up in smoke too.




I'm using AVG. Currently, I'm running Adaware and Malwarebytes, and I ran spybot earlier.

No problems yet on my new install. When the two malware programs are done, I'm going to scan all my drives with AVG too.

Any other suggestions?

Yes.

What about releasing those emulators you've been keeping for yourselves since months ?

Haven't kept them to ourselves man. There are plenty of people who have helped out who have betas. We also did release the NES beta several months back so you can see that all the work wasn't a hoax. Go to the usual spot to pick it up.

Actually... it's been more like a year now. I think we started back in August of last year.








EDIT: Deep scanned all the drives now. Had a few baddies in there, but I think they're gone now. Just got to wait and see if the nightmare is over now or if I'll have to resort to more drastic measures and do a little deeper research.

This is a first for me. A reformat and an OS reinstall always takes care of this. I wasn't doing anything that should have unleashed it again, and the program I thought might have been responsible was clean. I did turn off the Recovery feature. Some websites say that's a good idea since it was created without malware in mind and sometimes reinstalls infected things.




Anyways... got a bit derailed there and didn't finish the last few Genesis entries or put any of your GB videos in the set yet MM. I should be able to get that taken care of by the weekend, assuming I'm done with this virus.

Aside from those few Genesis entries and a bunch of FDS/NES stuff Stupot1 and I are adding (hopefully the last bunch), we're all caught up and have perfect Xtras/Synopsis' for all NES/SNES/Genesis games included.



Don't know where I'll go from there.... Do I try to tackle a few smaller emulators like the Neo Geo Pocket or do I just start working on the Gameboy stuff and try my best to get the beast out of the way?

Maybe I'll do that to keep the ball rolling with this new enthusiasm for video creating going on for it.

Later,
~Rx

Yeah I already knew this, at the moment only contributors can enjoy these updates and this is logical. But I don't think they are so many and all this merely restrict the public. But perhaps this is what you want after all, to keep this confidential.
I never believed all of this was a hoax as I enjoyed your packages and the beta you released this summer and I'm grateful for this. I also understand this is hard work and trust me, I respect that.
And please understand I'm not claiming or begging anything: Being curious, I ended by asking me why you are preparing a second batch of extras while the software is still unavailable for the plebs. Because I know it's been more like a year now. That's the point.

Anyway although it seems odd to me, this is your project.

So good luck and thanks in advance.

Hey waal,

I knew you weren't meaning nothing bad by it.

There's a lot of reasons why not to release this stuff to the mass public at the moment and not all of them center around getting people to help out, altough there has been some great help and things may have taken a different turn had we not done things this way.

If you've got some free time, we have plenty of Gameboy videos that need to be worked on. Some betas are there for the taking if you put the effort into it. The original folk who got betas didn't even do it for the betas and didn't ask for them. They were hella surprised though and helped out more.

Sure, this is forced interaction, but it's for a good purpose my man. No point in giving away your chips when you hold most of them. We've got a ton of work done together as a team that I would never have been able to do on my own. I'm sure at this point there is at least 1,000 or more hours that other people have put into the project that I don't have to do now. (EDIT: That's not including Madmab's emu coding or Gilles skins... just the Xtras work)


My apologies to the people who are too busy to dedicate any help to the project. You will have to wait until we decide to release beta's. If there is no benefits to it at the time, then it may be a while.


We got a great team. Some leave and don't come back. Some surprise you and come up with a big win out of left field. We're leaving an important footprint on the video game scene.

You're more than welcome to be a part of it.

Regards,
~Rx

I have been waiting for Zelda Challenge 3 to come out... going on 7 years.
I think 1 year is great time... especially since there is usually progress being made every day by at least one, or a multitude of people. There has been so much work done... it's crazy.

In the end... some may say it's just GUI and aesthetics, but this would have never been done unless people took the time to do it. It could have been far more time if we folk hadn't been crunching away like OCD maniacs.

Rx,
lets blow this damn GB out of the water, first. I think we'll still be motivated on an accomplishment level to take on the smaller emu's knowing that the big (and frankly more important) stuff is out of the way.

Thanks for your answers my friends.

To be honest, I've never been a very patient guy. I think you guessed that, eh ? So it would be a little bit difficult for me to provide videos.

But here's what I can provide right now as it's almost fully available on my hd:

- Screenshots and settings from my Amiga disks collection, maybe around 1500/2000 games. I've been on it for a while, settings are almost finished (I'm on "U"). And I have 50% of screenshots. I will get the missing ellements from gamebase amiga, so I think I can assume this task.
- Later I could do a tighter selection for Amiga HD games as I did before (and checking it more accurately this time).
- Screenshots and settings for X68000. I forgot the number of titles, I spent so many time in that TOSEC archive.
- I can also generate DAT files.

As you can see I'm more into old computers for which I have good knowledge.I could also work on MSX, Apple... and help you to make a selection.

Please let me know if you are Interested so I could prepare a package to start working.

MM? - Amen brother. Let's get this damn Gameboy done. I'm going to start working on the synopsis this week. It probably will be a few months before I get that finished.

Waal - sounds great man. I'm not a big fan of the computer type consoles myself so I wasn't going to go to in-depth with any of that stuff. The more you get completed on that end the better. Stick with what you like.





Update on the Virus... I got it again doing the very same time today as it did last time. It seems that using our WMV to XMV converter gets the virus going. I've scanned this folder multiple times with multiple programs and it came up empty.

It's got to be something with the Windows restore (I shut it off this time, but not before getting a warning that a "restore" file was infected shortly after the re-install).

How do I deep clean my hard drive? I thought a format and a fresh install would do the trick, but it seems that there must be some residue from my old Windows install and the restore stuff. I can't figure out any other cause since it doesn't look like I'm infected anywhere else. Also, when I installed the bad software, it installed new video codecs which happened right before everything blew up. (which is why I'm really leaning towards something infected in my codecs or something lingering after windows restore works that is trying to infect my codecs.

As of now, this virus has managed to deeply infect two of my other drives as I've gotten virus warnings pop up on AVG for my C, D and F drives.


This is serious and could kill the project on my end if I can't get it worked out. I'm afraid to send anything out at this point and I'm worried that even if I bought a whole new computer that it would get infected by this virus if I were to use the drives that I have my Xtras on.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Later,
~Rx

Well, when I'm finished with the Amiga, you'll see what kind of great console it was at its time !
For the videos, if it's possible to implement them, I will submit a TOP 100 or 200 list.

For the virus: Is your Windows up to date ? I mean, do you have all the security patches ? Maybe you should use a Windows XP SP2 or SP3.

Also I don't know how efficient is AVG today. I've been using Kaspersky for more than a year now and it's ok.

Yeah... I got XP SP3 on here.

AVG might not be the best, but I am also using Spybot, Adaware and Malwarebytes.




Anyways.... It looks like it's appended itself to every executable on every hard drive. That means that every program I've ever downloaded online is now infected and probably needs to be removed completely as I'm reading that the Vundo and Virut viruses often alter the executables to the point that they're not healable without basically destroying them.

Worst news about this is any DOS games that I've downloaded and set up are now going to have to be deleted as well.

F to the K.




EDIT: I may be getting a bit ahead of myself. This is an important rig, so I'm going to take my time. First thing I'm going to do is install windows and then immediately use the batch. If it spreads the virus then, I must admit I have no freakin' clue what's going on, but it will give me a starting point to go on. If it doesn't do anything, which I expect it won't, I will install all the protection stuff I can find and do whatever i can to remove the viruses from infected EXE's if possible. If that can't be done, I'm just deleting all of my EXE files and starting from scratch....

Hopefully all my good programs I've acquired over the years are salvageable... if not, at least I should be able to save all of the Xtras.


EDIT 2: Formatted, installed Windows without doing any updates, installed AVG (the virus program which always caught stuff for Vundo on the go as it was happening, even though it wouldn't fix them).

Immediately, ran the batch program that I have to convert a video.

BAM!!!!!

Trojan immediately installs itself.


At this point, I believe it's one of the three files in the batch conversion folder. A BAT file, a DLL file and I can't remember at the moment what else.

I'm thinking it may be the DLL because if I remember right, the trojan infects DLLs too. I know at least it originated from a DLL, but I can't remember if it attaches to them too.

If this is the case, that it is one of those three files, I can simply get those from somebody else and possibly never see this problem again.

My only issue now is, if I choose that route, are some of my other thousands of exe and dll files on my 6 hard drives corrupted? Why doesn't any of the anti virus and anti malware software I have pick one of those three files up? How many other corrupt files are these three programs missing?

Then of course, there is the issue of what the hell that virus was doing for hours at a time on end last night while I was dicking around, trying to figure out my next move.

I wish Vundo was a dude so I could bitch slap him.



EDIT 3: Oh yeah... this also proves that any of the software I've installed from my thumbdrive (all of the important things for creating the Xtras) is GOOD!

This is something that was going to happen whether or not I installed them, so they're cool. That, actually is a big load off my mind, even though I'm still not sure what is causing it or how bad the damage really is yet.



EDIT 4: Crap... It probably doesn't prove any of that. It just proves that nothing I was using decided to install the trojan either time until I decided to use the converter.... Still a good chance that is true though.

Damn man that dont sound like alot of fun any time i download somethign i use it alot i make a copy of the installer and back it up on something

Crap Rx...
I think you should just take your time. if the programs crap out... that is better than not having all the xtras, I don't think the virus can effect .png and .wmv files... can they...?

You'll beat this man... as far as other programs, I'm sure between the team... they are backed-up.
I just hope you don't loose anything, irreversible.
good luck man