Will RetroZone ever have a Powerpak mapper Update?

theNESadvantage · Post by **theNESadvantage** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 8:26 pm

I've been waiting since I got my Powerpak last December and it's still at mapper set 1.12 yet RetroZone keeps releasing NES repros and homebrew games. Does anyone know of any 3rd party mapper updates or why RetroZone isn't supporting Powerpak updates right now?

noattack · Post by **noattack** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:11 pm

bunny seems to be a pretty busy dude and already does a ton to contribute to the NES community. it's probably just a matter of time and priorities.

BMF54123 · Post by **BMF54123** » Wed Oct 15, 2008 10:48 pm

Designing new mappers is also a very difficult and time-consuming process, since (AFAIK) you're basically recreating the original hardware at the circuit level. Not many people are capable of, or willing to invest the time in doing this.

Jagasian · Post by **Jagasian** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 9:13 pm

Castlevania periodically locks up on stage 14 on the PowerPak. Does anybody else have this problem?

BMF54123 · Post by **BMF54123** » Thu Oct 16, 2008 10:03 pm

If you're playing PRG0, that's a bug in the game itself. I got stung by it when I was a kid on more than one occasion.

Jagasian · Post by **Jagasian** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:36 pm

BMF54123 wrote:If you're playing PRG0, that's a bug in the game itself. I got stung by it when I was a kid on more than one occasion.

Scratch that. It is actually stage 15, not stage 14.

Yes, it is the PRG0 version. The bug only happens in a specific area of stage 15, i.e., where you have to run to the left with knights and those flying medusa heads coming at you. It seems as though the lockup occurs when too many things are going on at the same time.

Are you sure that the PRG1 version doesn't have this bug? I've never played through the NES Castlevania games, and I wanted to start from the beginning. Are there Game Genie codes for starting at specific stages? I'd prefer to just start at stage 14 so that I can knock Castlevania 1 off my list of games that I have yet to complete.

BMF54123 · Post by **BMF54123** » Fri Oct 17, 2008 5:51 pm

Jagasian wrote:Are you sure that the PRG1 version doesn't have this bug?

Positive. I've never encountered it on my PRG1 cart.

For some reason, I usually encountered the bug in the area before the hallway with knights and Medusa heads, after climbing the left staircase. Did the status bar disappear or shift left/right when it locked up on you?

Jagasian · Post by **Jagasian** » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:45 am

BMF54123 wrote:
Jagasian wrote:Are you sure that the PRG1 version doesn't have this bug?
Positive. I've never encountered it on my PRG1 cart.

For some reason, I usually encountered the bug in the area before the hallway with knights and Medusa heads, after climbing the left staircase. Did the status bar disappear or shift left/right when it locked up on you?

Yeah. It doesn't happen with high probability. I leave my NES on for days at a time, because I've yet to beat stage 15 without cheating and I only play 15 minutes or so at a time. It seems as though after about 10 times going through that stage, a lockup will occur.

mumbly · Post by **mumbly** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 11:32 am

Please don’t buy something from RetroZone (like the SNES or NES Powerpack) !!! They rob you !!! I can prove you that they are not honest, they keep your cash and they never send the products ! Follow my advice...

Post by **Memblers** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 12:14 pm

mumbly wrote:Please don’t buy something from RetroZone (like the SNES or NES Powerpack) !!! They rob you !!! I can prove you that they are not honest, they keep your cash and they never send the products ! Follow my advice...

That's a very serious accusation to make. In the US, mail fraud is a federal offense. Don't jump to conclusions. So the questions are, did you wait long enough (how long)? Did you get a tracking number? And was the package insured?

Clearly, most people don't seem to have problems getting their stuff.

Jeroen · Post by **Jeroen** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:17 pm

I have a powerpak here that seems to say differently....I think you were just unlucky dude.

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 1:21 pm

Well it shipped all the way to my country fine. Tough what sucks is that it don't accept too small CF cards like mine

However it's true you can get unlucky with mail I guess.

Banshaku · Post by **Banshaku** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 5:37 pm

I sent a package to Brazil from Japan to a friend and he never received it. So those things happens. It doesn't mean that the cause was that it was never sent.

naI · Post by **naI** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 6:25 pm

I have bought a PowerPak and four different games from Retrozone in the past, and each time, I find the quality and expediency of the shipment to be exemplary. The descriptions are honest, and every product I have bought from them so far has either met or exceeded my expectations. I intend to do business with them again in the future and recommend them to my friends, as RetroZone is more trustworthy than most other retro-tech-related online stores I've dealt with.

Jagasian · Post by **Jagasian** » Sat Nov 07, 2009 7:21 pm

I've bought several items from RetroZone over a period of the past few years, and I've never had a problem.

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