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Glider also uses bank switched chr ram to have a full screen bit map. Only way to get those backgrounds it has. Still limited by ppu bandwidth so i dunno how useful it would be in other games.

Depending on the mapper the usb copynes + powerpak lite is really fast. Supports lotsa mappers, ~$120

Official Nintendo Seal Official Nintendo Seal Official Nintendo Seal Funny part is Famicom games don't have the Official Nintendo Seal, even ones that are completely Nintendo programmed/fabricated! I get the pun, byuu, but why is something I am trying to preserve being used to smash me? The preserv...

Would you just accept defeat and develop for Nesticle by coding for all its mapper hacks and wrong behaviors, essentially making your homebrew incompatible with the system and emulators more like the system.. I am going to agree with Bregalad here, MWAHAHAHAHA! You bring up homebrew but your idea c...

You are so not getting this. I am saying Nestopia only goes half way, but if iNES really was this huge problem it could use a full header database. But that's inconsiderate to those who want to work with and store this data in its native form without specialty tools. Anyone working with the data wi...

You are so not getting this. The Nestopia feature requires the user to know things he can't possibly know and make conclusions he won't possibly come to. Explain to me how a person having a mapper issue KNOWS its a mapper issue and not an emulator bug to report to the author? You are so not getting...

So you believe the average person can be expected to know: (a) the difference between a header problem and not an emulation bug No, I expect the EMULATOR to do this. Completely independent from the average person. Just as you expect the emulator to do the work. (b) that the option called "data...

Listing those 50 games would go a long way to promoting this idea. Looking at the iNES 2.0 discussions there are far fewer than that in the licensed set which need to be handled. That's not the only issue. Missing or incorrect headers are the larger issue. Think about how many new dumps have been r...

Because 1.0 takes care of 99.99% of games. More like 98%, but 2% is 50 games Listing those 50 games would go a long way to promoting this idea. Looking at the iNES 2.0 discussions there are far fewer than that in the licensed set which need to be handled. including Final Fantasy I+II (J), which is ...

# What about games that I hack myself? I guess that these are no different than uncatalogued 'homebrew' from the point of view of the emulator. Any modification generates a new checksum, so you'd have to use iNES until it's finished and then create a patch. Patches don't interfere with checksum loo...

I must be missing the whole point. This idea is for a better format than iNES, but only for licensed games. How many licensed games fail with correct iNES headers anyways? 3 or 4? Game info is looked up with a checksum. That can already be done on an iNES file and the header ignored (or FIXED by the...

Waste of time, good tutorials already exist like Nerdy Nights on nintendoage.com. People just find and use the craptastic ones instead.

3gengames wrote:Real hardware is not a NOAC system or any other clone.

It is the controller that decides the data returned, not the system. A real Nintendo brand console with a third party controller is still real hardware.

I think it's perfectly legitimate to release a ROM and have cartridges available for sales. If someone downloads the games and like it, they buy a cart to support the developer(s) if they want. This sounds a good deal for everyone to me. That is exactly why there are demo roms. I tried battle kid, ...

Provide cart artwork with seal, do testing (or have testers) so its mostly bug free, don't distribute full rom while carts are available. Demos are fine, see Battle Kid, Frogger, etc. If you are going to give out a full rom for all to make carts, why would anyone be paying you royalties? Production ...