Crazy request
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Crazy request
Does anyone still have copies of Pasofami WinG 2.5 or 2.4, Super Pasofami WinG 1.1(a non-cracked version), LandyNES(dc-nes.zip), the dNESe alpha by Tandrum, pre 0.5 versions of iNES, pre 0.17 versions of NESA(excluding 0.13), PCNES < 0.12b, fwNES(versions other than 0.302, 0.15, and 0.151 Linux) and/or "Famicom.exe" versions 1 through 3?
I've been trying to find most of those myself for years now. Maybe even have some of them.
What is quite clear is that the only place known on the net to host things like LandyNES is an in-accessible directory, due to it being on a private directory since 1996.
Best chance is to find an FTP site at this point. Most "Internet" sources are useless now for most of those. Of course us emu-collector types have lots of stash from the day
It is fascinating how some of these emulator projects started out.
Mista P
What is quite clear is that the only place known on the net to host things like LandyNES is an in-accessible directory, due to it being on a private directory since 1996.
Best chance is to find an FTP site at this point. Most "Internet" sources are useless now for most of those. Of course us emu-collector types have lots of stash from the day
It is fascinating how some of these emulator projects started out.
Mista P
Personally I have no interest in Pasofami or Famicom/Famtasia, I have several older versions and don't feel the need to go back in time into it's development further.
The whole reason I want to see LandyNes in action, is that it isn't available anywhere normal on the net, it has this whole legendary story yet you cannot try it out. With Landy working with Marat on the whole creation of the iNES format I want to see how he interpreted it in his emulator attempt.
Of course I have not tried contacting them. Most authors of single works have a long history of losing their work due to things like hardware failures. Besides, the chase is what makes it so exciting
You game collectors know what I am talking about............
Mista P
The whole reason I want to see LandyNes in action, is that it isn't available anywhere normal on the net, it has this whole legendary story yet you cannot try it out. With Landy working with Marat on the whole creation of the iNES format I want to see how he interpreted it in his emulator attempt.
Of course I have not tried contacting them. Most authors of single works have a long history of losing their work due to things like hardware failures. Besides, the chase is what makes it so exciting
You game collectors know what I am talking about............
Mista P
on the topic of this guy's older emulators, what the hell is up with this?koitsu wrote:And I'm not sure you'd want to risk downloading *ANY* version of Pasowing given that some versions would nuke C:\WINDOWS or do other nasty things.
i think byuu(?) said once on rhdn there was a version of super pasofami that would just shit all over the windows installation if it wasn't a japanese version or something equally insane.
anyway, i really like reading about the really early emulaiton scene although there doesn't seem to be many pages on the topic. seems that alot of the early authors were in it for the money haha.
It may be Super PasoFami that I'm remembering and not Pasowing.
The program would delete the entire contents of your C:\WINDOWS directory if it detected that it had been cracked. I don't remember the technical details of how it determined that, but my guess is that it had a self-CRC check and if the internal CRC it compared against wasn't changed along with the crack, it would nuke C:\WINDOWS.
And yes, many people got bit by this.
There's also some emulators and tools for console development stuff which are Japanese-only in the sense that the author(s) do not want them made available to non-Japanese individuals. There's entire Limewire-like services which do the same thing (deny access to everything except for network blocks that are verified to be in Japan). I can't say it's a form of racism, but it is a form of discrimination. I don't pass judgement on some Japanese being this way either -- why not? Try to imagine what would happen to something like Nico Nico Douga once Americans got access to it -- in a matter of days it'd become like Youtube and SomethingAwful combined.
The program would delete the entire contents of your C:\WINDOWS directory if it detected that it had been cracked. I don't remember the technical details of how it determined that, but my guess is that it had a self-CRC check and if the internal CRC it compared against wasn't changed along with the crack, it would nuke C:\WINDOWS.
And yes, many people got bit by this.
There's also some emulators and tools for console development stuff which are Japanese-only in the sense that the author(s) do not want them made available to non-Japanese individuals. There's entire Limewire-like services which do the same thing (deny access to everything except for network blocks that are verified to be in Japan). I can't say it's a form of racism, but it is a form of discrimination. I don't pass judgement on some Japanese being this way either -- why not? Try to imagine what would happen to something like Nico Nico Douga once Americans got access to it -- in a matter of days it'd become like Youtube and SomethingAwful combined.
By the way, there's an emulator you're missing: VeNES, which Mr. Snazz and I worked on. Wikipedia states it's "unreleased", but Mr. Snazz did release it on his website some years back:Mista P wrote:That would be great, if it is possible.
Mista P
http://www.joshmckee.com/~jmc/shoebox/venes/
But don't blame me if it doesn't work -- Borland Pascal had this wonderful bug where it would crash (divide by zero error) on machines with bus speeds >33MHz (e.g. 486 DX/50).
I'll have to edit Wikipedia with a link. :-)
Like I mentioned in another thread, I may have found by accident yesterday the website for pasofami and he's still selling it. I will put the link in this thread since it's more relevant than the other one. Will try to confirm the details later. He seems to sell all kind of stuff for dumping but this is just guessing.
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