Cool. I would like to add that rumble file when you think it's worthy. Don't do any more synopsis for A or B. I've got that all covered.

UPDATES:

Datfiles: DOWNLOAD
NES Video Pack 1: DOWNLOAD

I'll be sure to post when the next part is done.

QUOTE

Datfiles - I'm only making 7 of them this time. No need to make 30 of them and have one for each folder like I did with SNES. I think it was too confusing. The spreadsheet is detailed enough for people to figure out what to delete if they don't want a certain sub-category.

That should also make your work of updating the datfiles a lot less complicated too MM cool.gif

But, I already made 30 for the last dat release. Haha, 7 should make it easier for sure. Looks like I'm going to get at it then.

Awesome man.

I'm working on the rest of A and all of B for the synopsis now while the videos upload. The artwork is zipped and ready to go, but it will be at least 3 hours before the second set of videos is ready.

EDIT: NES VIDEOS PART 2 - DOWNLOAD

NES VIDEOS PART 3 - DOWNLOAD

NES ARTWORK: DOWNLOAD

Edit: I thought there'd be more excitement than this......?

Hey Rx,

The revamped dats are taking a lot longer than I expected. I keep testing and moving things in order. I basically have been working on them all day. With the new hacks on the list, I have found in the Goodset and I'm syncing and test for the dats.

There are no FDS games in the NES Good Set, and hardly any Updated Translations. People will have to get these by hand. The good news is that a lot of the new added hacks are in the good set already. The bad news is: I have to test them by hand and add them from scratch , because the CRC's don't match the current ones.

EDIT: excitement? I am excited and exhausted, Yeah! come on people wake up!

Oh crap.....

I should have said something before.

When it comes to translations and hacks, unless it matches mine exactly, it's probably not the same rom.

You should just leave those with the ones I have or you're probably adding older versions. Especially the update hacks, since I patched those myself with the newest patches. You know where I go to get things. There is a translation one there, but those will have matching CRC's and it's completely up to date.

I hope you didn't change too many of them already.

Later,
~Rx

Hey Rx,
Don't worry, I'm actually relieved. I was just about to test all the roms I picked out,
But I have already made a full set of dats before I though that I needed to do this.
So, I should be able to wrap it up a lot easier now,

Thanks

That's a relief...... I didn't want to make a ton of extra work for ya.

Even better if it makes it easier for you. I know it won't be the easiest thing in the world for people to get a full set right now because a lot of the translations are hard to find and a lot of the hacks are unobtainable at all now unless you learn how to patch, but these things have a way of making their way into the mainstream eventually. When they do, we got all the Xtras for them.

I'll have to send you the synopsis when I'm done working on it a bit more tonight. Looks really cool and has most of the games through B now with all of the hacks and translations and FDS games too.

Later,
~Rx

so i guess its videos are good to get now and artwork which emulate are you using btw


sorry been gone awhile i turned my computer into my tv with a capture card 20 dollars at that man its was a great deal

RessurectionX, thanks so much, as well as everyone else who helped out. I've been trying to get my XBox to perfection when it comes to emulators, and I was waiting on this, as well as CoinOpsGold and I'm finally set! Thanks again guys!

I'm going to seem like an idiot but I have a quick question.


I downloaded the DAT files first, to change all the names of my romset (I've had a complete NES romset for years now).
So I opended up Romcenter, loaded up the DAT file "All NES Roms" and set it to the right rom folder. It doesn't change the names at all, and all of the new DAT file names come up under "Missing Games"

Sorry to be a pain but can someone help me out a little with this?

Hey ataxiariot,

First, you should have your roms zipped up. Don't know if you do or not already.

Second, you may have to wait until MM?'s dats come out because I use a lot of old roms that aren't even found in the TOSEC collection.

It should rename about half of your roms though.

What exactly is the problem you're having and what you're seeing?

There are going to be a lot of hacks and translations that you won't have too. I patched a lot of them by hand because there weren't any roms available. Hack patches can be found in the information column of my spreadsheets. You're on your own patching though. It's not especially tricky, but not something that I really want to get into teaching. Plenty of documentation of it on the net.

~Rx

Rx, Mega Man, etc,

Great work on the videos and box art, everything looks like its coming together nice. Cant wait for the updated emulator to see the NES at its best!!!!!

RX- Thanks so much for the quick response. I really appreciate you helping everyone who's not 100% on doing this.

First, My roms are unfortunately not zipped. They are all ".nes" files. This is how I've always used them with all NES emulators.
So I'm guessing that is the problem, and I'm guessing I'm going to have to zip all 950 individually, aren't I? Is there a way to select many files at a time, and have them create their own zip files individually?

Second, even if you have a lot of roms I don't, that's not a big deal. For my specific files it should still rename them, I believe (I might be wrong here. Are we talking about the fact that they may be different versions of the same games?)

Basically, in Romcenter, I select your dat file, and my roms folder. I press "Go", and in the right window (where you normally have the renamed files) I have nothing at all under "Playable Games", or "Incomplete Games". The only thing that has any files is the category "Missing Games", in which it names all your files.

Crappy. So yeah - I'm guessing it's the non-zipped thing. During the summer, when videos were released for SNES and Sega Genesis, I just downloaded complete torrents of everything (emulators, games and artwork/videos) already configured, made sure it had all the games I had (and added any that were missing), and I fear that's how this will go for me here as well, unless I can get my hands on a program that makes a duplicate zip file of each existing file.

Hey ataxiariot, First things first,

You have "winzip" right? Highlight all of the roms you want to zip and right click "add to archive" A window will pop up. Click the 3rd tab at the top named "files". At the bottom, look at the two boxes. Check the "put each file to separate archive" box only. make sure you are creating zipped files and not rar files (if you have winrar)
go back to the first top tab to check, named "General". Make sure the archive format is checked "ZIP"

Second, Wait for my dat file to come out and try it as well. If you have a random collection of roms, You may have to use Rx's and my dat to get the most out of your roms for the Xtras. I will be finishing my dat probably by tonight.

Go back and try an older version of Romcenter. The format varies from version to version and some of the features you are talking about, I am not even familiar with anymore. I use "Romcenter 2.71" and I believe Rx's tutorial (on the front page) was made with the same version.

You can do it man, just be patient and read carefully.

Hey Rx,

I am almost done with my dats. When I am done, the folks with a good set should be able to get every licensed game on the list except, Twin bee I (couldn't find a working version in there )
I'll IM you with more info.

Mega Man(?) - Thanks so much! I did that (wasn't sure Winzip could do that multi-file thing).
I re-did the files as Zip files, and put them through Romcenter - about 40 out of the 900 were found, so I'll definitely take your advice and wait for your dat file.
I am interested in why this current DAT file wouldn't find all the roms if they are the same? If I remember correctly, I put all my SNES/N64/Sega roms through it and they all seemed fine.
Also - the Romcenter I am using is 2.71 - I specifically got it because of the tutorial.
I might have just explained it foolishly.

Thanks alot for helping, I'll be back to look for your DAT file soon

It doesn't find yours because it's looking for a specific CRC for the game. There can be 40 CRCs for a game and if you don't have the right one it won't find it. I have no clue what the problem is with your roms that you can only get 40 of them to match though. Quite a few of mine are not even in the TOSEC collection, so that doesn't surprise me, but I would think that you should get at least 1/3 if not 1/2 of them going.

I'd just wait till MM releases his dat and try it. I'm having a feeling that you're going to have to get new roms too though. I recommend finding the latest goodset you can find and running them through MM's datfile.

Later,
~Rx

Beep.... Beep... Beep...

DING!!!....

Dats done : Mega Man (?) RXtras NES Datfiles (12-17-08)

Hey Rx,
I think I made it count. I made a nice little (neutral) Readme file as well to help these guys out with what the dats are and how to use them.

Hey ataxiariot,
I second Rx, If you are only finding about 40 now, my dats probably wouldn't help enough. Do yourself a favor. Get a Goodnes v3.14 (Goodset)

Grabbing them now

Let us know what you think nate. Sure would like to have some feedback from ya'all when you get a chance.

Just be sure you look at the last sheet of the NES compatibility spreadsheet to remove any of the Adult games if you desire. I tried my best to remove them all to a separate category that the user could then decide if they wanted them, but I missed at least 3 or 4 of them, as pointed out by Mega Man.

Damn.... I spent all that time taking it slow and rushed it at the end to get the release out before Christmas... oh well. I'll just have to let people know which ones to remove. We're still adding games as we speak here. Any hack worthy of somebody taking the time to make the video for is welcome. Maybe there will be another NES release in the future. I just hope nobody starts seeding this now and putting half-assed torrents out there with this stuff now. Still plenty of work to go on before it's time to call it quits and let it out for other people to work on.

Maybe not perfect.... but damn sure sweet as she is, ain't she?




............ So...................... Who's up for Genesis next?

~Rx

dats are perfect mega man nes wise

the fds games are hard to find i got a pack of 199 fds games the dat don't like nay of them

on a side note i will have to make a video of super Mario rpg legend of the seven stars i tried all the website i could think of just have to wait to get a replacement rca cable for my xbox

I looking in the future to help but college kids hard to do lol i love the project though
the main things im waiting on after this is
PlayStation art work
sega genesis
game boys

Interesting. Yeah I knew about the CRC tag but I kind of thought it was all inclusive (like if there were 5 different versions of Super Mario Bros, they would all have the same CRC) - maybe that's a very foolish thought.
Thanks very much you guys. I put them through with the new DAT - no luck, so I'm trying to find that Goodnes 3.14 set - no luck so far (currently downloading 3.10 - we'll see how that turns up).
I'd love to find a torrent somewhere of the entire Xbox-NES emulator with the vids, roms, and artwork already set up. That's what I'm really hoping for.

After 3.10 downloads I'll let you guys know how things match up. Thanks again

QUOTE(nate1579 @ Dec 17 2008, 10:46 AM)

the fds games are hard to find i got a pack of 199 fds games the dat don't like nay of them

I'll have to get some more FDS games of my own and look into this. I might make an addition/update to my alternate dat if there is a more common set of FDS games.

Hey ataxiariot, your 3.10 set will definitely help you the most. There is a 3.10 - 3.14 update set out there, that will give you all the roms added to the v3.14, to give you a full 3.14 set.

got luck guys.

You won't find one man.......

That's what this work is all about. Maybe someday I'll get around to doing it, but I couldn't advertise it here. I really hope nobody goes and puts out half-assed torrents of this work when it's not complete.

Seriously though man, the little amount of work required by the end user now is about 1/1000th of the work that other contributers and I have put into this.

RX,

For the NES Boxarts why did you use low res shots? I have almost all the US released games in pretty high quality if you want them.

Thanks Mega Man - downloading the 3.10 - 3.14 update now.

I understand ResurrectionX, but I've been able to download a few different torrents for things (SNES, Sega, N64, All handheld, CoinOPS Gold) that are 100% complete - they have complete romsets (besides CoinOps) and videos/artwork for every single game. They are really really well-done.

Also - I know where you're coming from, I wouldn't want it to be put out if it isn't finished, but at this point (where just about every game works right, the emulators are great, and there are video/artwork previews for each game) for me, I'm extremely set with what has been released so far, and I definitely appreciate all the work you've put in to make this all work.

I still don't think it'd be such a bad thing if someone released a torrent of the emulator, with all roms/videos/artwork renamed and working right off the bat. I mean, I do think that's what we're all trying to achieve here - I certainly know that for my friend who lives down mystreet, I'm going to give him a copy of all the stuff finished and renamed when I get it all right, instead of making him try to figure it out himself.

What emulator is everyone using for the artwork for the nes?

ataxiariot,

Nope..... nobody is going to release a torrent of this as it is with my blessing. There is still far too much work to do. Anyone who posts this in a torrent anywhere right now is a prick.

There aren't any complete artwork/video sets around for any of those systems you mentioned earlier either, so I have no clue what you're talking about. That's why MM had to make over 400 videos for the NES right now, horscht made around 400 videos for the SNES before release, and I have a whole list on the first page here detailing how many videos are needed for the other systems. Plus, I have personally spent many entire weekends collecting this artwork and putting it into the folders that XBox needs them in to recognize them. Any idiot can download 800 boxart for NES games. Try finding somebody who takes the time to hunt down the extra 300 or so for unlicensed and foreign games as well, and then puts all of these into folders that the XBox reads.... that's what nobody has done before ever.

Also, CoinOPS doesn't even support video the last I heard, and when it does, I'm going to be organizing people to make videos for that project. I have 4 DVDs worth of MAME videos now, but I'm willing to bet it's only about 2/3 of the games if we're lucky.

If you want to help, be my guest. If this isn't what you're looking for then move along. Please don't spread any more false information regarding what type of content is out there in this thread.



As for the resolution of the NES artwork Goonie, I'm fine with it. I couldn't find a higher def set at the time. It takes about 50 hours of work to create all the folders from scratch and to rename and place everything perfectly, so if you'd like to create a higer resolution set yourself be my guest. When there are dual previews available, you're probably going to want to put more emphasis on videos anyhow. My screenshot/boxart window is only about 1/5 to 1/4 the size of the video window and it looks great.

Anything larger than about 150kb as far as boxart is concerned is pretty much a waste of space anyhow since the law of diminishing returns says that you don't get much more bang for your kb after that.

excuse my last post , I'd written before I had opened the archive. Can see the directory structure now

Good work

It would be handy to have an amiga one like this with all the long names they have, all the artwork comes with the gamebase.

I don't like or want to be condescending, but in light of our efforts...

Hey guys
I guess I'm a huge asshole? That's fine.
The notion of me wishing there was a final full, done, emulator with a complete romset is really that awful? Also, fine.

I'm sure you'll take this as hostile, but it's not - just to be clear: I completely understand you guys are releasing something and you want it specific, but I guess what I don't understand is this:
(and please understand this is a real question, because I do not understand the difference)

You're releasing a three-download set of videos, a set of artwork, two DAT files, as well as advising people to download specifc Goodnes sets of roms (3.14), right?

So if someone download all those vids you released, the artwork you released, the DAT files of roms you released, and then the set of roms you recommend to download, and ran all the DAT files through to match up everything, and made it work - how is that different from releasing (and recommending, on account of the 3.14 romset) all the individual stuff you guys are releasing? Isn't the only difference that it's less work for the people who to get to download the torrent?

Again - I'm sure people will be pissed off that I asked this question but I really am trying to get a grasp on that. What is the difference? A public torrent download isn't any more "final" then a public mega-upload download link. Is that wrong?

Hey ataxiariot,
I believe there are some mutual misunderstandings here.
First: We can suggest numbers and info about roms, but can't release them or give info on where to find them.

[It is against this sites policy.]

Second: I believe what Rx meant was, that our work is not exactly complete and for people to have a bunch of incomplete torrents out there, would not be right or respectful. This would cause probably mass confusion. The folks here are the ones taking the time to learn how to use this stuff and follow its progress. Hopefully they will respect the project . I am sure this is why Rx has released it at all. especially in its progressing stages. Its assumed that if you took the time to learn how to set up the Xtras and use them, that you would be conscious enough not to abuse them. I also personally think that one would deserve to use them at this point. (of course, we all can't ultimately stop each others actions)

I don't think your an "asshole" and I am not about to get caught up in drama. You should just do a little research so you understand a little better of what is going on with the project and why.

peace

EDIT: Even the stuff that Rx released on the NES is still not complete, it is just a treat of things to come.
And, I was laughing (with my mind boggling) earlier because, I am pretty sure (from experience) that there is no true "complete rom set" This has been one of our woes here, getting the datfiles and the synopsis together.

MegaMan - understood - I really wasn't upset at your rolling eyes/laughing comment, and my use of "complete romset" was a poor choice of words.

I'm just saying - this all seems a little presumptuous.
I guess what I'm supposed to understand is that the people here can release multiple-file downloads and guides to complete a project (even if the project is not 100%), and thatt's okay because it's explained that it's incomplete and an on-going process.
If that's true, that would seem to mean that it's okay to release a torrent download of the completed progress up to this point, as long as one provided the same explanation - but somehow that falls into the category of "abuse", even though it's just a much simpler release of exactly what's here, with the same explanation. I do not get that.

I've been closely involved in the X-Box mod scene for the past five years, and have probably had every single new version of every emulator of NES, Genesis, Colecovision, Intellivision, SNES, MAME, N64, and PSX that have ever been released, as well as many different versions of X-Mugen. I've gone through a lot of bullshit finding all the different things I've wanted, constantly trying out new and different versions of emulators, and I understand how time-consuming and shitty it is to get everything perfect, I just don't get why we can't share every step.
I feel that I have done alot with X-Box emulation and am certainly no noob when it comes to it, and I'm not one of those people who's not reading the instructions.

I downloaded the 3 video sets, the artwork set, "Goodnes v 3.10" and the "Goodnes 3.10 - 3.14" - those two together gave me over 16,000 files (as you stated would be given in your README file). They were in various formats, so I unzipped them (when in rar or 7z format) and I zipped them all individually to turn each into ".zip" files, and ran them through Romcenter 2.71 - I ran the "MMQuestion" dat file (ALL ROMS).
It found 1174 working games.

So now - I'm pretty much set. I have the WMV files, but I just don't know how to turn them into XMV files - or actually, if I even need to, as I remember a while back that Xbox would read some WMV files. Are these videos okay to load up, or do they need to be encoded to XMV files?

I'm done debating semantics and etiquette, I'm no authority. I'll leave it to the boss to say his peace.
(I guess I am personally just going by my own conception of an honor code)

Moving on to something useful: You must put the videos in XMV format for them to read off the emulator.
There are instructions on the front page (of this thread) on how to turn the .wmv into .xmv

Rom center found 1174 "working" games? That would be all of them. I don't think that it would do that. You have every game green? Using the same setup, I only get 948 roms out of the 1174. Good set doesn't have all of them. It doesn't have the FDS games and all of the new translations, so I think you might be doing something wrong. Check the color indicators at the bottom for the count.

It falls into the category of "abuse" when that torrent contains ROMS with copyrighted material and/or emulators compiled with the microsoft SDK (which is also considered illegal). If you have an issue with that then I suggest you take it up with the site admin's, microsoft, and all the companies who still own the copyrights on the gazillion ROMS out there.

Well.... there's the answer to your question right there...... over 16,000 files. All perfectly named, all with the most complete artwork collection compatible with the XBox that the world has ever seen, all with a video to go along with every included rom, a synopsis that at this point details information about over 500 games which will be complete hopefully by madmab's release. I just went public with this a few months ago, but it is about 3 years of my life work that I'm sharing with everyone here in return for a little bit of help so I'm not doing this another three years.

I just don't want to hear any bitching about how tough it is for you and we're cool.

As for the torrents, until I get everything situated on my PC/Box the way that I want it in its final stage, I see no reason to waste hard drive space by having identical copies of everything to host. Plus that takes up a huge amount of time when my time is currently much better spent doing work that most people just won't do. There are still about 6 emulators that I definately want to get to before I'm done and probably more will get done along the way.

Call it presumtious, call me a prick or whatever, but bottom line is I'm doing you a big goddamned favor here and I don't feel any pity for the 24 hours you spent getting what it took me and a few other guys worth talking to on here months of our free time to do.

I'm not an asshole, and I don't like getting this way, but don't piss on the work that me and the other people who don't bitch and get the work done have given to you. I don't need you to sing my praises, just keep it to yourself from now on if you have a problem.

This type of crap makes me want to close up shop and let the ingrates fend for themselves.

~Rx


EDITED TO ADD: I apologize to anyone here about that rant and even apologize to you ataxiariot. I don't think you're an asshole yet, and I realize that I may be getting a little too excited over this. I simply have my plan of how this should unfold and I haven't wavered from it at all. We have some regular helpers on this project now, as well as individuals who do just a little bit and then move on.

This has become almost a family project, and although some of these guys live half a globe away I feel like they're my friends. Selflessly, we work during a great deal of our free time on this and instead of just sharing amongst ourselves (which sites like megaupload would easily allow us to do if we broke away from XBscene and our desire to respect the rules of the site), we chose to share it with you and others who have commented and the countless others that lurk in the shadows and just download and run. (The post has almost 22,000 views so far, so even though I've only spoken with or seen about 15 unique names on the thread, I suspect many more have been watching and waiting).

I hope you enjoy it. Sorry about the 24 hours it took you man, but that's the way it's going to go for now. I can only hope people respect the work and the desires of those who have given it to everyone.

My ultimate plan is to make everything as user-friendly to set up and use as possible. I'd like to make this easier than making yourself a Pop-Tart someday. Not just for me. Not just for my family and friends. For everyone.

Enyoy this, our future work, and the future work of those who continue on doing it after we pass the baton. Maybe you'll lend a hand one day. Maybe you already have and I'm calling bullshit on somebody who worked on the mendafen NES emu long before I was ever messing with the XBox. Who knows.....?

No more fighting. That's why I said a while back that you can talk about anything in here but no politics in this thread. This ain't politics, but it's the kind of thing I'd like to avoid. I don't like censoring myself and taking down things I've said, so it remains up there, but I hope there's no hard feelings.

Later,
~Rx

so mega man did you find anything on a more complete collection of fds

rx is any of the PlayStation art work ready that's all i really want for that system and i only have like under 50 games


oh rx btw i seen a torrent for your snes set a while back after i got my stuff off here and i went to look for good sets i saw it looked like your work i downloaded it to check but it was like they put there name on all the artwork etc etc etc i deleted off my computer thinking you knew about it i forgot were i found it but if you want me to ill try to find it again for you

sorry missed the 15 min mark but have you seen that launcher program
click me to see

if i understand right hes playing the videos but he converted them to animated gifs

couldn't you make videos for any system in this way

Megaman, madmab, RX - I'm also done fighting.

Megaman - The folder I have only has 1061 roms (obviously, I moved all the good ones to a different location) - I thought it came up as that but maybe I was reading a different area in romcenter (the numbers are pretty close) and wrote down the wrong number. I have 1061 through Goodset 3.10, the update, and my previous collection.
Interesting - my problem was that I have the XMV Encoder program (which I'm fairly sure I got with the SNES Xtras) and when I made sure to install the wm8eutil program, it wasn't installing. I ended up getting a different converter (that would only do them one by one) and on a whim, a re-installed the first one, clicking "Run as administrator and it finally worked!
Previous to that - I did scans of this entire thread, as well as a google search - but I got it now. Thanks.


madmab - no offense, I know you do a lot of work for all this and I definitely appreciate it, but let's not be foolish - none of this work would be possible or useful without breaking copyright laws. No one here currently owns 1,200 original NES catridges. Never once did I say to post a torrent on this forum (I know it's against the rules).
We've all depended on torrents or at least large downloads from other people to get these games. Insinuating that putting up a torrent somewhere would "break copyright law" is a little foolish. We need to break copyright laws for people to find this useful.

RessurectionX - undserstood. I've been part of the scene for a long time now. I'd say that 90% of any forum hopping (that I do on this or about 5 other forums) is through PMs trying to help people figure out things that I've figured out myself. I really have paid attention to everything going on, and I have my personal set-up (Colecovision, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Sega, N64, Arcade) really polished and well put-together, as well as every single Xbox related piece of software I can find (as well as as many romsets as possible) backed up on my external terabyte hard drive.
On CoinopsGold (release last month) BritneysPairs told me that it wouldn't run off a disc yet, and I worked on it for about a week until I actually got it to do so.
So - while I don't consider myself to have worked on figuring new things out (like creating and displaying videos) I definitely consider myself knowledgeable about everything going on, helpful to new people involved in the scene, and not someone just waltzing in and asking for one of you guys to mail me a modded Xbox and a DVD-R that I can pop in and play.
I think my wishful thinking where I said "I wish someone would upload a torrent of this" came from the fact that I'm busy as hell (as, I know, everyone is), I've been trying to get a final emulator set since the summer when I got everything else set the way I want it (and was waiting for Coinops Gold and the NES vids), and also my extreme frustration with Coinops Gold when it first came out (long story short - I wanted it for one game - NBA Hangtime - and that game would not work unless you didn't add any roms to it - and it didn't come with the four player versions of the Simpsons Arcade, or any of the four player TMNT games).
I also think it was slightly misunderstood here as "Why don't you guys put this all in a torrent so I can get it easily?" That definitely was never my intention - I just know that, regardless of whether or not it's still in progress - the work IS being released here. At the end of this release, I'll have a Mednafnex folder, that has all the right roms, all the right artwork and all the right videos, and so will everyone else who does it. It just made sense to me to publicly display what all these people will eventually have if they're really doing this. I mean, rationally, that does make sense.
I absolutely appreciate all the stuff you guys do. And again - I'm sorry if that whole thing was taken as "YOU GUYS should do this" or "YOU GUYS should do more work" because that certainly wasn't the sentiment.

by the way - I AM an asshole, it seems - I am having no luck with these screenshots. Videos all work great.

My set up is that I'm running it off a DVD-R - Mednafenx v10

I have my roms and videos in the right folders, and I created an "artwork" folder to drop all the screenshots in.
They are in that "artwork" folder in normal format (example: a folder for "1942" with 3 screenshots in it, labeled "0001.png", etc).
I change the default directory to D:/artwork (as my roms are read off D:/nesroms, and videos off of D:/videos) and .... nothing.
I even tried the Zsnex method (an "artwork" folder with "Shots 1" folder in it, and for each rom, a picture - example: D:/artwork/shots 1/Aladdin.png)

So, I'm trying to trouble-shoot here but I don't know what I'm missing.
(Also, I did go into Configuration and Screenshot/Movie Preview Configuration, and set it to "Movies 1st, Then Screenshots" - so for all the roms that don't have movies, the shots should come up)

Never mind - searched everywhere - google, this forum, other forums - no luck on the artwork formatting of Mednafenx-NES that gave the fix.
But I looked at the Genesis emulator I use (also Xport) and it was D:/screens/sega/)
So I added a "NES" folder in the screens folder, threw the pics in there, and voila - all set.

Why yes... I did nate, just for you! (Thanks for the testing and the feedback)
Here is my new updated dat file (inspired by nate) where I updated some of the FDS and Pr0n FDS games.
You should look for the fds 330 pack. The rest are brand new translations and you're on your own with those. Of course, I always recommend everyone trying both mine and Rx's dat, to get the best results from their roms, especially with these FDS ones.

Update: MMQuestion RXtras NES Datfiles (12-18-08)

lol. Usually it's the other way around. People have had trouble figuring out where to put the videos.

worked great i got them all now dats are perfect so can the nes emulator already use the videos and box art right now?

Is that what you were talking about then nate? Yeah... I don't think that's "our" stuff.

Hopefully it's not. Like I said, I don't mind other people grabbing our work in any form, but I'd like to have official Xtras releases here until we're done working on it. Not that I could do anything about it if somebody jumps the gun and starts putting incomplete stuff out there.

Later,
~Rx

no i saw a torrent with znes preloaded with roms and your stuff looks like no one seeding it anymore so i guess it dont matter

btw way can a PlayStation emulator play a animated display file

Hey man. I never tried an animated display in PSX. I'm not sure if it can handle it.

I know you wanted that boxart for PSX. I'll have to look where it's at. I bounced back to NES and lost track of where I am there.

Later,
~Rx

Maybe I'm just dumb about the games and my love for old school shit (and their history's behind them, both their individual history and all the games and systems that came before I was born even that are like great great grandpas now to Fable 2 and Dead Rising) but I barely play anything at all right now cause I'm so busy just working towards and thinking about one system that will eventually play every single playable game from all of these different consoles from our childhoods, with video and artwork previews, and a synopsis full of reviews, controls, hints, gameplay and storylines of games created by the users, manuals, FAQs, rumbles and all the extras, all on beautiful fully-customizable skins created by talented professional artists like Gilou9999 and his partner in crime Odile FACHE.

I've changed my mind about something...

If people want to share this now, go ahead and share it as it is. Things will change down the road, but that will be the work of the people playing now to do later as new stuff comes out.

This work is for everyone. No reason to keep it to ourselves.... it just would be nice to keep the people who brought it all to everyone in every generation of this project remembered as the legacy gets passed on.

Just thinking about that makes me think it would be a good idea to find documentation on our project. How many steps have been taken before we got the baton? Who contributed, great or small? I'm certainly no coder, and I never would have been able to imagine the ability to copy a cartridge to a computer, let alone make it happen. I'm a tweaker, and I'm surrounded by the best and most selfless fellow tweakers I've ever known. I'm okay with that.

Let's give em somethin' to talk about!

Come on people. Everyone who's enjoying this and wants to see more and add input to the solution. People who love the games and have just a little time to devote to finishing this project. This is open source. This is the definition of open source. Just check the compatibility lists if you haven't yet, and you'll find that all the steps taken so far have been documented and by who did the work or who played the game to the end, or who made the synopsis or manuals or anything else that's being done.

We're the nameless team. Working for almost a year now with all the info from everyone who took the time to give it.

~Rx



~Rx

UPDATES:

Over 700 NES manuals converted weighing in at about 4.5GB. I need to test them in an emulator to make sure they work right before I upload them. They are very large and should zoom in well. Currently there seems to be a glitch in the "View Screenshots" function because they are not viewable in there. I know that I used that function in XPORT's emus to view manual scans before. I'm just too lazy now to check it in an old version, so I'll wait to see if madmab is having the same problem.

Sega Genesis is now completely tested, for translations as well as hacks too. Artwork and videos still need to be completed. The missing videos can be found in the compatibility spreadsheet.



Genesis synopsis has a complete translation and hack section now. No other synopsis work started on Genesis.

I'm pretty sure that there is more than 1 light gun game but I wasn't paying attention. If somebody knows any of the Genesis lightgun games, let me know and I'll get it moved into the right category.

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TG16 & TGCD are now completely tested, with translations added. No hacks that are out are going to make it into the set. Still have to do the artwork for it, and there's plenty of videos to do.



Merry Christmas,
~Rx

Hey Rx,
Can you replace my 12-17 nes alt dat with my updated one, for the front page?

UPDATE: MMQuestion RXtras NES Datfiles (12-18-08)

It now gives people a second chance with about 30 of the FDS/Pr0n FDS roms.

Thanks

Got it

Thanks man,
~Rx