SMS/SG-1000/GameGear-Dat Report

Using SMS Goodset -

SMS: 270 Green - 50 Red out of 320 total

SG-1000: 59 Green - 9 Red out of 68 total

Using GoodGG 3.13 -

GameGear: 305 Green - 9 Red out of 314 total


The findings look pretty good Rx. I will probably make an alt dat for these (small) differences. (fortunately it will be much easier)

Can someone make a video preview of this game and upload it here. thanks in advance.

Mike Tyson's Intergalactic Power Punch! for NES has been released just a few days ago.
The original cartridge was purchased by members of Nintendo-Age for $1,500!

Sweet...

This is what I was talking about in the "Add" thread.

I will do the honors of making a video for it. Is there any particular use or need for a vid? ultimate509?
(other than to add to the xtras)

looks like you just gave us the box art. I hope this plays like the originals.
Awesome

MM(?) it doesn't play like punchout if thats what your thinking...

it plays like crap lol

Well that is what I was hoping for.

Thanks for the heads up and laugh. I'll have to see for myself.

Any challengers to his statement??? hmm? hmm? Round 1 .... Fight!

I just finally did this madmab and it worked like a charm. Pretty cool playing these games again after all these years. Too bad the screen goes all apeshit when you leave one area and go to the next on Kings Quest VI. You wouldn't know any way of tweaking this so it runs better, would you?

Big thumbs up to the WHD files separated for each game. Once you know how to actually start the games it works pretty cool.

Yeah I've been having a bit of fun with the WHD stuff lately. It's something that is fairly easy to work on in small spurts. I might eventually set them up like killergorilla where the autolaunch. But I kinda like having access to documentation, maps, etc.

If you didn't know. Hold down the fast forward to skip past the whdload load screen.

As for the blinking it only seems to happen with CD32 games from what I can see. I'm not sure exactly why. I have noticed, though, that the "clip borders" option can cause issues with the skin (memory or writing to wrong memory?). So I'm gonna have to switch this sucker into debug mode and see. I already changed some of that "clip border" code to not allow the screen size to go under 320x400.

Wow..... I'm shocked.

I just got King's Quest VI working (what seems to be) perfectly on DosXBox. Not the crappy disk version either. I'm talking full-fledged CD with music and voice.

That emu is a lot more impressive than I gave it credit for.

I already done a video for this game and sent the game & video to resX about a week ago
so i beat all of you lol

Really?? Coool. What'd you do? Image the disc and copy it over or just slap it into the DVD tray?

I'll have to try that I think I have an original laying around somewhere.

LOL.... yup... stupot got it all done. I forgot about that. (TOOO MUCH GOING ON.... MIND... LOSING... TOUCH........... )


I kinda just press a whole bunch of things madmab and get the DOS games to work. One tip I can say is that you need to run the setup or sound files on games first before playing the main executable (which is often a guessing game in itself)


I couldn't give you exact instructions, but i had an iso I loaded as a disk image, from there I installed the "Large" install (about 16 additional MB) and then I ran the executable that was created in the default location. The sound didn't work, so I had to go back into the install/setup (you could probably use the iso again, but the install made a file called "install.exe or bat or whatever").

Once the sound settings were done it was up and running beautifully. Some of the graphics stutter in the FMV sequences, but the game plays perfect and there is no stuttering in the music or voices.

Man I loved that game when I was a kid.

Later,
~Rx

Well, that settles that, then. Thanks stupot1, I didn't get to this yet anyway.
SMS/Sg-1000 vids almost done.

Hey bigby,
how you doing on those GG vids?

Nice work guys. I'd LOVE to get that emu wrapped up and shipped out.

We're also VERY close to a complete TG-16 set thanks to PCE... (He even added a few games himself, and I'm hoping that's the end of games I missed for that system, but I'm sure something new will come up...... it always does)

May could be a very big month for Xtras releases.




Now.... if we could only knock those 600 Gameboy videos down. Here's hoping our new friends stick around for that. 150 or so videos a piece seems a lot more doable than the daunting task of 600 alone.


From there, it's only the Atari 800 videos if anybody is even interested in doing them, and maybe a few small rom collections like the Odyssey II, Sega VMU and the handful of games that are going to make the cut for the X68000 and DOSBox and we really may be looking at the end of the video creation journey.

I wonder what the tally for the video count is now? I'm sure it's got to be nearly 5000 videos or more at this point.

Except for my brother, nobody I know has seen any of our work. I've been keeping it to myself for now and I'm looking forward to buying a Box and hard drive and making a Box for my good friends and some of my family. I've already got 5 other boxes just waiting for this work to be complete for that task.

Thanks guys... I'd be doing this until I was 40 if I was doing it alone. I'm really glad I brought my work public. This is exactly the reason why I did it, and although I get a little disheartened that we haven't gotten more people to help along the way, it's really cool the hard work and dedication that a few have really brought to this project.

Later,
~Rx

Well this should finish up the HUCard roms... sorry it took so long o_O

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FHI1M3UB

Cross Wiber - Cyber Combat Police
Cyber Dodge
Dai Senpu
Darius Alpha
Darius Plus
Detana!! TwinBee
Die Hard
Digital Champ
Don Doko Don!
Doraemon - Nobita no Dorabian Night
Download
Drgon Egg!
Dragon Saber - Story of Dragon Spirit
F1 Circus '91 - World Championship
F1 Triple Battle
Final Blaster
Final Soldier (Special Version)
Final Soldier
Fire Pro Wrestling I - Combination Tag
Formation Soccer - Human Cup '90
Fushigi no Yume no Alice
Ghouls 'n Ghosts
Gomola Speed
Gradius
Gunhed - Hudson Gunhed Taikai
Hana Taaka Daka!
Hanii in the Sky
Hanii on the Road
Hatris
Heavy Unit
Image Fight
Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes
Jigoku Meguri
Jinmu Denshou
Kyuukyoku Tiger
KickBall
Kiki Kaikai
Knight Rider Special
Kunio-kun Soccer
Madou Ou - Granzooto
Maerchen Maze
Makai Prince Dorabocchan
Metal Stoker
Mizubaku Dai Bouken
Moto Roader II
Mr Heli no Daibouken
Naxat Open
Super Dodgeball
New Zealand Story
Ninja Gaiden
Operation Wolf
Override
P-47 - The Freedom Fighter
Paranoia
Parodius da! - Shinwa Kara Owarai he
Populous
Power Drift
Power Gate
Psycho Chaser
Puzznic
Shinobi
Skweek
Soldier Blade Special - Caravan Stage
Space Invaders
Special Criminal Investigation
Spin Pair
Street Fighter II' - Champion Edition
Strip Fighter II
Super Metal Crusher
Tatsujin
Tenseiryuu - Saint Dragon
Terra Cresta II - Mandoraa no Gyakushuu
Titan
Toilet Kids
Toshi Tensou Keikaku - Eternal City
Toy Shop Boys
Volfied
Valkyrie no Densetsu
Wonder Momo
World Beach Volley
W-Ring - The Double Rings

Aoi Blink
Bubblegum Crash! - Knight Sabres 2034
Crest of Gaia
Lode Runner - Lost Labyrinth
Maison Ikkoku
Photograph Boy
Puzzle Boy
Shanghai
Son Son II
Tower of Druaga
Wonderboy in Monster Land

I Also included a xml with some proper names and clones, but I'll leave it up to you guys for the naming.

Will upload the .DATs that work with the current GoodSet once we are set on the final rom naming(assuming we change any at all).

Currently working on some videos for some lesser known Japanese CD games... I will also hunt down the artwork and take screenshots of each(by all means consider this a seperate undertaking).

Well the list was way too long and I couldn't edit my post so I corrected it here.

stupid Excel...

Nice work pCe.

So... there is another new (actual) "Punch-out" game released. It is a hack called "The All New?: Punch-Out"
Now this is one I am interested in. (watch here)
I think I saw that Gilles brought it up somewhere. Gilles: Why haven't you posted this info here? Looks like a must, to me.

Nice work PCE. I'll do what I can to get these all released. I will still have to go through all the artwork and make sure the vids and art work with all the games before releasing it. Since you said you have a few videos I still have a little time. I'm going to be pretty busy the next few weeks, but I'll see if I can squeeze a new release in.

Thanks!



Looking forward to trying out that Punch Out game..... both of them.

Later,
~Rx

Guess I will hold off getting those SMS/Sg-1000 vids out then. (they are almost all done, too)
No rush on releases, Rx . I'll keep them together so you don't get disorganization with the stuff you are currently working on.

Later

Game Gear vids are all done on my end too!

Just say the word and I'll post a link to them.

Awesome Bigby!
looks we can look forward to 2 releases soon here.

I seems as if the battle for helms deep is over... The battle for middle earth is just beginning! (Gameboy vids )

Who's with me...?


PS. Yeah... I just did that...

Go ahead and post them guys. I'm cool. I'm very organized if nothing else, and the vids you guys make take top priority. Even if I forgot that I downloaded something, it's in a "spot" waiting for me to get to them. I'm d/l PCE's TG-16 stuff right now as we speak.

Great work!

~Rx


EDIT: Wow.... just tested a new NES beta by madmab. It's not perfected yet, but let's just say we've gone from a 14.5 second load time for .CUT files to an 8 second loading time for .CUT files.

A must have, especially the dialogs are hilarious, like:
The looser is you!

Between that, Fantastic work with the vids guys!
Can't wait for the pce and master systems videos release!

Here they are: MMQuestion - SMS-SG-1000 Vids
That's 92 more Videos made by me.

I couldn't make 3 on the list. I marked them in red and made some notes. maybe bigby can check them out and use fraps with another emulator. (they didn't load in fusion.)

We'll figure something out.

Later

Hey pCe,

Thanks for the vids and the name fixes. Everything is adjusted according to the spreadsheets you've been providing. I'm wrapping up artwork and making sure everything is tight on my end. I'll romzip and torrentzip the set too before creating new datfiles. Looking forward to what else you have to offer on this system before we put out a release.

Do you have any Japan boxart? Seems pretty hard to get for this system.

Nevermind. I think I found a good place. I may be missing a few of them when all is said and done though.

EDIT: Would you mind making a video for John Madden Duo CD Football too? The one I have is crappy and bounces all over the place. I'm not sure why it's so bad since the game play is fine when you use the FMV hack.

EDIT2: Which CD games were you going to make videos for that aren't already on my lists?



Hey MM.. Great work on the vids man. I'll take a look at them when I can get to them and then I'll wrap up that system as well (as soon as we get the Game Gear vids from bigby too)


Thanks everyone,
~Rx

And here's the Game Gear vids - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7LXMJ0D3

These vids are all 160 x 144. I've kept my original edits, if higher quality is needed.



MM - I'll check out those games you mentioned.

Is that the standard size we were using bigby?

How program do you recommend for converting wmv to xmv?

Huh?

What do you mean "standard size" Rx?

I used 160 x 144 based on MM's guide stating that the native resolution of the Game Gear was 160 x 144.

I can easily batch encode to a higher res if needed.

I'll check them out. I don't know about that stuff. I'm just thinking that we want them looking good so just want to make sure they're a large enough size. 88mb just seemed to be a little small until I relized there weren't a ton of Game Gear games that still needed videos.

I'm sure they're okay. I'll let you know.

Thanks man,
~Rx

I just checked out your vids bigby.
It looks like you did everything right. (in my opinion) Nice work.

There is no standard resolution. It is cool that you kept your original just in case. Since GG has a native resolution of 160 x 144. I guess you could compensate by doubling that. It is hard with the "hand held's" in this because they were meant to be viewed and played on a very small screen.

Depending on your TV you won't be viewing vids that much larger anyway, but you could probably get away with upping the quality, since they look pretty good even in compressed 160 x 144 and don't take up that much room thus far.

What does pCe think?


Like in fusion, it captured my SG-1000 games a 640 x 480.So I just cropped and had to do a double edit to compensate.

Nah... I think bigby's stuff is just fine.

I have a ton of work to do before I get the SMS/GG stuff out. I didn't realize how far behind I was on that one. From the looks of pCe's spreadsheet, we have a lot more CD videos and artwork that need to be added that I was unaware of to the TG16 as well (why he said it was a project all in itself). Don't worry about the CD artwork pCe. I've got that covered.

Later,
~Rx

MM, my original edits that I have kept are 320 x 240, so that's the best I could batch encode them at.

Managed to get "Sangokushi III" and "Terebi Oekaki" (sg-1000) to work using mekaw emulator and have made vids for them.

I'll try Dallyeora Pigu-Wang next (was marked orange, now red!)

It was marked red in the Japan section. I accidentally had it in both folders.

Duel previews do not work in the dynamic skin. Boxarts and Videos play in the same box. Tried every preset and they all do the same thing.

also what wmv to xmv .bat does everyone use?

Great, thanks bigby.
Hey, why don't you give 256 x 230 a try. (it is isn't too much trouble.) I know that is what pCe suggested and when you gave the comparison images, it looked better.

Thanks man.

What emu are you using? dual previews only work in zsnexbox, as of now. The madmab betas have yet to be released.


I only know of: "WMV to XMV Converter" with the new © Edit (thanks bigby)

Hey,
is it possible to (significantly) reduce loading times by having all your roms unzipped in this case?
I think my snes dat may be the only one that won't have matched files after they un-zip.

"with the new © Edit"

What is the "© Edit" and where do I download it? I'm guessing this makes the xmv less bloated.

Sorry for noobing the place up but I've been out of the loop. Only reason I got back into xbox (and added a 500GB) is because of the awesome work you guys have been doing with the emulators.

EDIT: Nevermind found bigby's post. edit run.bat. LMAO I need to meet this bigby we think alike I discovered the same thing. Damn now I need to redownload the snes previews and compress them. Really should add a little section on converting wmv to xmv resX. Ok I'm now caught up and waiting for madmab emulators like everyone else.

for /f "tokens=*" %%a IN ('dir /b ^"*.wmv^"') do xmvtool -ic "%%a" -o "%%~na.xmv"

Here's the 3 vids MM mentioned earlier - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LBQZ1HAD

Hope you like the car I made in "Terebi Oekaki"

Nice to meet you The MaSTeR 3

Glad you're enjoying the work bro. That info is in there though. I know the top thread is a lot to read through, but that's because I put as much info as possible so people don't have to ask questions.

Aren't you the guy with the first post on the thread telling me I don't explain things very well?


EDIT: Hey megaman. Good idea. I'll test out the roms unzipped. I don't imagine it would save much time since the games are really small, but who knows how long that takes loading a game? Games load up pretty quickly within the emulator though, so it's probably very minimal. I think it's just the emu stuff loading up. madmab doesn't think he'll be able to do anything else himself to minimize the loading time from 8 seconds. It's still MUCH better than 14.5 seconds.

lol I knew this was going to be an epic thread so I wanted to get the first post in. All this time and I still cant get romcenter to rename my goodsets properly.

"That info is in there though. I know the top thread is a lot to read through, but that's because I put as much info as possible so people don't have to ask questions."

Actually it says nothing about converting wmvs to xmv. Only about avi to wmv and how to properly record the previews. If I didnt already convert videos for snes last year I would have never found the encoding tools. xmvtool and run.bat should be inlcuded with the wmv packages.

He may be right about that part Rx.
You could edit the tutorial to show how to use the xmv converter and with the new C edit fix. I could put it in, if you give me editing power to the document. I already have had to thoroughly explain it 3 separate times.

Master 3. You aren't aloud to post the xmv tool, because it was made with xdk, (I believe).

Hey wait a minute?
I was just in mednafenx-nes and we already have the "Mike Tyson's power punch 2" in there.
What's all this about it being new? and that would mean I think stupot1 must have given us that vid after?
Unless Rx, re-upped the video pack some time after. I am not sure

EDIT: It is in the licensed game folder (at least in my dat) I cant find it on the compatibility list.
And... If this is part 2, where is part 1???

What's going on?

Rx, I've redone the game gear vids at 256 x 230, if you want them.

Also I've cropped:

gg - chase hq
gg - olympic gold - barcelona '92
gg - rastan saga

which had black borders.

Here's the link - http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9CZ67LYZ

Huh? I don't have it in the Licensed games on my rig? I did a search on the NES rom folder on my PC and it isn't there either. You sure you didn't just put it in there after stupot1 made the vid for it? You boozing when you do this stuff too MM?



I don't really have a tutorial for this I guess. I've seen some great information you've posted for this in the other thread. It doesn't really belong with any of the other tutorials, so I've opened a new one for you titled "Converting WMVs to XMVs". Check your email....

Let me know when that's done and I'll get it up on the main thread. We need to pacify the petulant element that never fails to make it's way around these parts every once in a while.

And yes, we can't host that XMV tool here. I found that out the hard way. I wasn't aware when I first started this thread and put it up here that it was made with prohibited code...


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Bigby,

Thanks again for all your hard work. I'll integrate those new videos you put up. Before I go to all the work of integrating all these larger videos, have you noticed a difference in quality between the smaller and larger GG sets you posted?

Also, would one of you guys make a video for SMS "Walter Payton Football"? I had one with that name, but when I was scrolling through games to make sure the vids worked it seems it's just a garbage video that flashes red and black.

There may be several others that need a video as well. I'll keep this thread updated with my findings. Any games for these systems (SMS/GG/SG-1000/TG16/TGCD) that I'm missing? Let me know before the release is out.

~Rx

Naw, Rx... well, maybe only a little bit...?

It is in the licensed list #480. and in me dat.

name "Power Punch II"
description "Power Punch II"
rom ( name "Power Punch II.nes" size 393232 crc b4402fe5 )

I think it is the same game.
I'll make that xmv tutorial very soon. (it's not big)


I'd say so. It is not a huge difference, but well worth the extra 30mb the new pack is. Thanks bigby.
Rx, he also re-cropped 3 of the vids that needed it, so don't forget to use those. (you'll see which ones) I just want to note that because, he included both cropped and not cropped for those 3, in the pack.


EDIT: Hey Rx,
I see there are games on the list that are blue and have no video, also SG-othello. I guess you'll confirm and post the missing ones when you get a chance.

Ah.... sure enough, it is there. Everyone was calling it "Mike Tyson's Power Punch II" before so I didn't find it in the "M's" and a search for "Mike" came up empty in Windows.

All that ado about old news.... lol. You test the thousands of games that I've tested and you don't even remember what you've worked on anymore. I'd be so lost if I didn't have my documentation....



Sure... whenever.



Got it....



Yep.... shouldn't be too many. I am assuming that most of those even will be cut since they look like foreign names. (I told you I still had a lot more work on this than I had thought.... Where the hell did these things come from and why are they in my licensed US roms folder?????)

Anyways.... Definately need a vid for Othello and for the SMS Walter Payton Football I mentioned earlier. I'll update this thread with whatever others we need.

Later,
~Rx


EDIT:

Back to this...

I tried it on NES and there is no difference. I didn't think there really would be. There may be difference in some larger games on larger systems, like one of the 32MB Harry Potter games for the GBA, but for small files like this any difference is negligible. (Those 32MB games freeze the Box if their zipped anyways, so they're already unzipped in the set).

When the time comes, I will see what happens if we have the larger games unzipped. I'm really just messing around with this .CUT stuff right now since there is more "real" work to do on the Xtras at the moment.


EDIT2: Good news....

We only need 4 videos for SMS/GG unless you guys have more games to add.

SG - Othello
SMS - Walter Payton Football
SMS - Alex Kidd - BMX Trial
SMS - Sonic's Edusoft

Those last two are non-working games right now, but you know I like to have them in case of updates if possible.


EDIT3: Got about 1/2 the artwork for SMS/GG checked. Most of it was done already, so it's just a matter of filling in the blanks. I'm going to have to see if I can find SG-1000 Boxart.

I'll help you find box art and cart art for sg-1000, Rx There isn't much, even if we double each others work a bit. I can also crop and edit images that need it.

Hey bigby,
You think you could do those last 4 vids. I already know 2 of them aren't working in fusion.

Thanks

I take it back, Rx
Most stuff is over at Gamefaqs. I will send you a small cart scan pack. Happy, plucking

Lets talk NES dat, when you get a chance. I want to move that power punch 2 game over to the prototypes or unlicensed section. (I guess we won't change the name to have Mike Tyson in it, eh?)

Before adding any on the "suggested fixes" list to my dat. I what to know if you have that all in your newest dat?

To update my dat I will have to:

1. Alter the names of the Indiana Jones game and SMB 1 name, like you recently did. (any others?)
2. Add the games on the "suggested fixes" last. I am not sure what the colors mean anymore (for some) because you moved them around and changed the category's after you fixed them for yourself.

I guess we gotta add that new "all new? punch-out" game to the homebrew section/list, also. (making a vid and art for it of course.)


EDIT

Oops.... sorry I didn't post here earlier. I already have 100% of the available artwork for the SMS/GG now. I'll be making an upload for it as soon as I verify everything and get the dats going.

I will respond to the rest of your post after I check your PM(s).

To be continued....


EDIT: To tell you the truth... I don't know what little changes I've made here and there on romnames since the last dats went out. Seems like you're on top of that more than me...

I'm not overly concerned about the romnames or the placement in the dats anymore as hopefully in the future the synopsis headline info coupled with a sort/filter function in the emus (and hopefully one day XBMC) would take care of both of those problems. My only real concern at this point is that we find a way for those damned "&" signs to work, or we've got a lot more renaming to do.....