Searching: Presentation-advertising-promotional NES/FC rom

jpx72 · Post by **jpx72** » Tue Oct 19, 2010 11:32 pm

Hello
I was wondering if any of you can help me find some homebrew or original rom for using in NES and FC display... Something that shows how much this system can do, some auto-playing demos, NES/Famicom logos flying around, promotional texts like "8-bit POWER", color palette display rolling and stuff like that.
I am buliding a glass display with NES, pads and a small color TV (and the same for Famicom) and want to insert a repro-cartridge with this set to actually show what it can do, or to advertise itself.
So far I've found the Bad apple demo, which is quite nice, but it's not really what i've been looking for.
Thanks!

I took inspiration from Game Boy Color Promotional Demo (video)

thefox · Post by **thefox** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 1:05 am

There's some stuff in here: http://www.pouet.net/prodlist.php?platf ... e=1&order=

Post by **Memblers** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:28 am

Most of the more advanced-looking demos seem to be PAL mode.

It's not homebrew, but have you seen the M82 demo ROM? That's the 'official' NES demo/intro ROM.

Post by **tepples** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 9:46 am

Memblers wrote:Most of the more advanced-looking demos seem to be PAL mode.

That's because North America never got a vibrant demoscene, unlike the European continent. This in turn might have something to do with the fact that North America quickly took to locked-down consoles while Europe largely stuck with home computers (such as C64, Spectrum, Atari ST, and Amiga) during the third generation of video games. By the time computer gaming took off again in the mid-1990s, the IBM PC had been steadily increasing in speed, and the mentality of throwing next year's hardware at the problem had taken hold. This can be considered an optimization technique, in the sense of optimizing for programmer productivity rather than for execution time on a fixed piece of hardware.

jpx72 · Post by **jpx72** » Wed Oct 20, 2010 10:38 am

Wow thanks for the tip! The M82 rom is perfect! It's a pitty that there isn't more graphics involved, but it's ok!
I'm wondering now if the Famicombox menu was dumped.. can't find it...

kevtris · Post by **kevtris** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 7:40 am

jpx72 wrote:Wow thanks for the tip! The M82 rom is perfect! It's a pitty that there isn't more graphics involved, but it's ok!
I'm wondering now if the Famicombox menu was dumped.. can't find it...

I dumped it, but it won't run on any emulators. It needs a bunch of hardware mapped in and it needs more RAM. It has 8K of RAM at 0000-1fff and uses 0800-1fff for the menu stuff (it can actually restrict how much RAM the game sees, and usually forces it to 0000-07fff).

jpx72 · Post by **jpx72** » Thu Oct 21, 2010 11:27 am

Thank you for the insight, I spent entire afternoon searching for the Famicombox rom

Anyway, it's out of the question now, because I don't have the knowledge to be able to run it on NES or Famicom. I can mutilate a cartridge to run normal roms but this is far beyond my knowledge.