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Found this throu a swedish NES forum... And love this game, so I have been playing it on an emulator...

My eprom-programmer were delivered today, my plan is that this will be the first NES game I will use it for.

Hower, when I use "NES Mapper Reader/ROM fixer/ROM spliter 1.0" to split the .nes file I get the error "The rom did not split correctly (incorrect CHR Bytes?)"

So how do I do to split this file so I can use it? Will it work anyways just to ignore the error messages?


(Sorry for my bad english and my noob-question)

I have a program below that is a ROM splitter. ReadNES3. Just drag and drop the file on the program and it will split the file. It will tell you all the details you need to make a cart, also. If you need any more help, just ask. There should be a read me explaining how the command line version of it works, with character repetition and program repetition and the like. Good luck.

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 25&t=28549

Thanks alot! Was no problem splitting the file with that program, will give it a try and burn the eproms and see if i can get it to work

Got it to work now Thanks for the tip 3gengames!

First try dident work, then i read on the net that you have to copy the files so they fill the eproms, and now it works great

Great lindholm, you managed to do this.

I have to make a cart out of this one too. Mineshaft is really cool.

Very cool game. Great work!

nice. I tested out on my ones emulator on my kindle but I'll put it on the powerpak later. high quality game.

I know I'm rather late to the party, but I'd like to add one small critique/request. It could just be my vision, but I find it hard to tell in which direction the moving platforms go. Let's say they're made up of "striped arrows." I think this problem I find would be remedied by thicker stripes, simply. That is the entirety of my negative feedback, though. I really like the game. Thank you for the download. Cheers!

Fileden appears dead. I have reuploaded.

"The extension .nes is not allowed"?

tepples wrote:"The extension .nes is not allowed"?

Fixed. I also added .bin, .rom, .fds, .sfc, .smc, and .swc as well.

Tangenting: Would we want to put some kind of automatic explicit compression on those? Or is relying on "most web browsers transparently support gziping the stream" good enough / it's just a daft idea anyway?

Auto-gzip, and the fact that the files we trade are so small anyway. From Kasumi's rant against having to install multi-megabyte runtimes: "One of the really cool things about NESdev is downloading for less than a second, and getting a totally cool program."

lidnariq wrote:Tangenting: Would we want to put some kind of automatic explicit compression on those? Or is relying on "most web browsers transparently support gziping the stream" good enough / it's just a daft idea anyway?

It's not as transparent as you might think. The HTTP server has to be configured to permit it/honour it (and it's done by MIME type or file extension -- you can't just say "do it for .php" -- that doesn't work how you think it would), and it gets even more annoying/complex when you have CGIs or something like PHP that can include its own HTTP headers. The current server is not configured to utilise HTTP client/server-level compression from what I can tell, but even if it was, it wouldn't matter due to what I said previously. :-)

For example, attachments here on the forum kick you back a URL like this:

download/file.php?id=238

Note it's not an explicit file/URL of the .zip file itself (i.e. not files/snakes.zip) -- instead it's a .php script, so the PHP code itself has to be written to honour on-the-fly compression. That URL does not result in an HTTP redirect or anything -- the PHP script quite literally feeds you back HTTP headers and raw binary data. Case in point:
Thus: no compression.

If one was downloading something like http://nesdev.com/i_like_tepples_hat.txt, then sure, Apache could be configured to use mod_deflate + map .txt files to utilise compression. It Just Works(tm). But with CGIs/PHP/webserver-embedded Python/whatever it's a totally different mess.