/vr/ - Retro Games

Wow it's fucking dead in here.

I finally managed to get my Game Boy audio driver to a point where I'm happy with it. Not much to show for it, though. Music was never really my thing, so you'll just have to take my word for it.

The biggest new feature is support for multi-channel percussion. Using the noise channel by itself for percussion ends up sounding pretty thin, so a second channel is sometimes used to give it a fuller sound. This is done briefly enough to add body to the sound without interfering with the rest of the music.

Before, it was possible to do this manually by writing both the percussion part and the regular part onto the same musical "score". It's horribly messy doing it that way, though, so I came up with a better solution: hijack the existing sound effect system and use it for percussion, too. Basically, turn the percussion into sound effects. Because sound effects can use multiple channels, and they take priority over music, supporting multi-track percussion comes naturally. Just dedicate one music track for percussion, and it becomes as easy as playing regular notes.

https://32bits.substack.com/p/twinbee-time-attack-stands-alone
https://32bits.substack.com/p/independence-for-psyth

Some new pre-patched roms (not (yet, at least) on CDRomance):

>The Bard's Tale - Tales of the Unknown - Uncut Japanese Edition (with Bracers6 bugfix patch applied also) (for NES, by MetHy aka Ness)
http://files.catbox.moe/ng4l7p.nes
more info here https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7179/
& here
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8388/

>Koneko Monogatari - A Kitten's Tale - The Adventures of Chatran (for Famicom Disk System)
http://files.catbox.moe/ibcwwy.fds
Note: This exact version (just the Japanese title screen WITHOUT the ending fix applied) may actually be on CDRomance, but posting here just in case.

>The Adventures of Milo and Otis (plus ending-fix "NoYodaSpeak" patch applied) (for Famicom Disk System)
http://files.catbox.moe/qfx8tr.fds
See here for more info: https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7242/

>Zelda - Interconnected Strongholds (for SNES)
http://files.catbox.moe/x0z2d0.sfc

And, for now, last but definitely not least,

>Nekojara Monogatari - Kat-ching-Tale (for Game Boy, in English by Asbestoast)
http://files.catbox.moe/vvh3bc.gb

>>10780510
Relevant link for the Nekojara translation:
https://github.com/Asbestoast/NjmgTool

I forgot that I posted some more pre-patched games in a Toriyama thread, so,

Here's the newest, 3.0 version of the hack called Chrono Trigger+ (adds playable Glenn, a new era, restores beta content and lots of other things) It's on CDRomance, but he added the Auto-Run patch to his versions, while these versions here still let you run by holding B. I included the author's readme in both files. See here for more info: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/3691/
NOTE: Older version save files work, but act weird (for example, every party member in my last-version file now looks like Crono, sprite-wise)

>Chrono Trigger+ - The Alternate Timeline.sfc
https://files.catbox.moe/h9ukbv.7z

>Chrono Trigger+ - The Alternate Timeline (Balanced Difficulty version).sfc
https://files.catbox.moe/76onip.7z

And since I couldn't find the English translation of Super Butoden 1 on CDRomance, here it is pre-patched (based on the French version rather than the Japanese, so apologies if its 50hz (you may be able to apply a 60hz patch to it, if so)):

>Dragon Ball Z - Super Butoden.sfc
https://files.catbox.moe/4jti0h.sfc

Now what is this interesting "King of the Eye" hack posted >>10779210 in the OP pic?

>>10780213
This is cool. Thanks for sharing this

I recently found out that not only does one of my favourite gameboy titles of all time (Gargoyle's Quest) have a sequel on the NES, but that it was officially ported as a Japanese Gameboy title. There is a hack that translates this to English using the NES release. So my plan is to play the original gameboy title (which also has a romhack with an improved English translation) followed by the sequel. And then the Demon Crest SNES title (which also has some romhacked improvements albeit controversial ones) to complete the trilogy. And all this on one chinese handheld.

>I-Ninja (GBA) dumped
I remember seeing the advert for the this game in my Soul Calibur II case, then reading about this (formerly) unreleased handheld version on Wikipedia or something a couple of years ago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9bDfZ-2mool

>>10780598
Here's the relevant link if you don't care about watching that video: https://archive.org/details/i-ninja-prototype-unreleased-gameboy-advance

I'll mirror the rom download if I found that somehow that Archive link gets shut down.

>>10780598
>>10780604
Just found out that the game may not have been dumped correctly (causing Level 3 to freeze on some emulators and flash carts). Hopefully they redump the game or at least patch their current file.

I want to hack Budokai Tenkaichi 2 to give it portuguese dub voices. Do you think it's possible?
I'm definitely over my head with this, but man, I want to do it so much

Want to try SR2-style camera in Legacy of Kain Defiance.
Can't make it work. Using ntsc version, tried omniconvert to use raw codes in cht, but without success.

https://www.thelostworlds.net/Defiance/Codes_Playstation_2_Cheat_Device.html

OPL cheat system is working, widescreen fixes works flawlessly

any worthwhile Pokemon HGSS romhacks? i always find it hard to sift through pokemon romhacks because there are so many, and most are complete shit.

Official B3313 v1.0 has received a new (silent) hotfix update
B3313 v1.0.1 TRUE final hotfix 3 (March 16th, 2024) - Released without announcement, same as the second true final hotfix but with Randomized Realm Piranha Plant fixes + Chroma Tundra's night music removed as Chroma Tundra is now set to always daytime, which means even if it's nighttime it'll take you into the daytime version instead each time you enter the Chroma Tundra painting. The actual true final one, and is much more polished than the previous official B3313 v1.0 releases.
https://archive.org/details/b3313-v1.0
https://romhacking.com/hack/b3313-super-mario-64-internal-plexus
Pre-patched: https://files.catbox.moe/twbvtn.z64
>b3313 V1.0 hotfix.z64 (yet again)/B3313-1.0.1-hotfix-TRUEFINAL-3.z64

Trying to get this Gradius II hack working but I can't find a compatible rom. Can anyone post a patched rom here?

https://messatu.wordpress.com/2021/03/28/gardius2_ac_death21/

>>10779210
that boy ain't right, i tell you hwat

>>10781942
https://files.catbox.moe/drwvn3.nes

anyone know if there are any decent x68000 emulators for DOS? I've been doing various programming projects on FreeDOS recently, have a wild hair to try to either mod Star Cruiser or make a similar type of game, but would love to be able to do everything from my little dos laptop. only thing I've found was x1emu which appears untranslated from japanese

>>10779210
i'm building a cellular automata physics thing in 2d just for fun (webgl). I am taking my time all i did today when i started it is create an html console and scaffolded out the cell_lattice (snake case ftw) and cell module. Thinking of porting to 3d and making a real game MAYBE eventually. Just physics fun for now.

>>10780098
based and audio-development pilled. I also eventually want to do some sounds / synth stuff in c language maybe on pc first then snes or something.

>>10782773
Audio on PC is a whole different beast, but interesting to get into. It's a lot more free-form (just fill a buffer with samples). You can make it do whatever you want. Not that I have much experience with it myself. Pic related is about the extent of that-- a crappy emulator I made years ago. The audio emulation isn't much (just a few hundred lines of code), but I learned a lot from doing it.

>>10782772
>i'm building a cellular automata physics thing in 2d just for fun (webgl).
Okay. Now port it to the Atari 2600 (browser and all).

>scour the internet for heckin artisanal aftermarket commercial ROMs
>find them
>they're fucking SHIT
every time, imagine paying

>>10783525
>they're fucking SHIT
I beg to differ.

Tanya, you WHORE.

>>10781942
https://anonymfile.com/r1NY5/gradius-ii-ac-death21.nes
The docs say you have to use another patch first; here's your ROM with all the patches bro.

>>10783674
>>10781942
an FYI on this hack, Mesen's sprite limitation hack causes some garble during play. Nestopia and FCEU's sprite hacks seem fine though.

>>10783534
d... did you pay for this?

>>10783674
>>10783690
Now it works, much appreciated Anon!

>>10783525
I retract this statement somewhat for Astebros.

>>10783534
Chiyo-chan, no!

>>10782772
What's all that shit got to do with homebrew?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsBnlkQHkpA

>>10781225
>SEVERAL fucking hotfixes for a ONE POINT O release
>they don't fix crashes that aren't a part of le spooky
>they don't polish the geometry and UVs
>they don't optimize the hack
I am losing my fucking mind over this goofy ass shit.
People know damn well the only reason Chris got off his ass to realeasio 1.0 was because he knew his project would get another publicity boost from SimpleFlips/VineSauce January Charity Stream.
>be Chris
>man, fuck this game! i'm supposed to be beaner guitar hero rockstar!
>also Chris
>(a popular streamer has an event coming up)
>botched, half-assed update comin up!

So, I'm in a dilemma and I'm not sure if this drama was blown out of proportion or not.
But essentially, I'm translating a game originally for the SNES, the lead translator who translated 90 percent of the script wanted to keep this project very secret as she was afraid Koei might send a cease and desist on a 30 year old game.
While that agreement was made, we desperately needed a programmer to continue the project so I asked the official otome games tumblr to send a help wanted for a programmer. It worked! And I sent the opening cutscene in english on reddit.
The lead translator went on a rant everywhere about it after finding this information.
I understand that I was in the wrong, a promise was broken, and she just doesn't want this project to get into any trouble.
However, from my perspective, that was the quickest and best way to receive help, and making it known that it was going on is what other fan translators do to make it known that people can join the team or to stop others from making their own to waste energy.

>>10785957
YOU FUCKED UP RETARD

>>10785957
>>10786000
>samefag
>trying to stir up interest for a nothing burger with imaginary controversy

>>10783546
Link to this stream?

>>10783534
post it

Beating the bad guys with gift wrap
(all weapons have at least their individual color palette, and some of them also have their own spritesheet).

Video with sound: https://webmshare.com/play/3KMNG
Slow alt link: https://files.catbox.moe/a90ym8.webm

>>10787908
cute frog

>>10787908
What game?

>Most of the work on the patch was done under quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic; Nikita and Cirosan communicated via Discord to develop the patch.
Do fan translation groups usually work in person?

>>10790092
Which fan translation you talkin about, dude?

>>10789664
https://c3-project.itch.io/c3/devlog

>>10780510
I see that Interconnected Strongholds was one of several hacks made in a sort of competition with a time limit. Did you choose that one because it's the best? At random? Are the other ones worthwhile?

>>10786861
https://youtu.be/U-GOwq4dbVo

i make a boing boing

>>10792068
sovl

>>10792068
He looks like he doesn't want to jump at all lol.

>>10792638
"Oh God. I'm an indie pixelshit platformer. Hope he jumps me off a cliff next."

>>10790780
Frankly, I just saw a featured review of it on Romhacking, read it and thought sounded interesting, then looked for it on CDRomance (but it wasn't there). I also thought I would forget about it if I didn't post it here, but everyone benefits also if it's (hopefully) good and posted here. Don't know about any of the other ones, but I'd enjoy hearing if any of the others are good.

Also, here a couple of new pre-patched games:

First, a new hack of SMB1 called Super Mario Bros.: Definitive that combines the levels of SMB1 and The Lost Levels into one game, and also makes Luigi play like he does in Lost Levels. Two different versions of the hack are here (mostly having to due with compatibility of the hardware you want to play this on), see the web page for more info https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8509/

>Super Mario Bros. - Definitive
http://files.catbox.moe/nug36s.nes
(MMC3 version) (v. 1.1, the latest)

Super Mario Bros. - Definitive
http://files.catbox.moe/p40sw8.nes
(VRC3 version) (v. 1.1, the latest)

Second, a EarthBound hack which improves upon its Debug Menu. See its RH page for more info https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8368/

>EarthBound - New Debug Menu
https://files.catbox.moe/fbnq6e.sfc
(v. 1.2, the latest)

>>10793724
*an EarthBound, pardon my embarrassingly retarded typo

Finishing the first floor of the second dungeon.
Since I'm using mode 7 like stuff for dungeon maps, I can't show more than 128 different tiles, so there's not much room for different gfx in the same floor.

>>10793968
Is that an unsucked penis?

>>10794086
Well it can't suck itself

Attempting my first sonic 1 hack this weekend. I saw that SonED2 seems to be the way to go. I'm thinking about taking features from other hacks and combining it into one ultra hack as a start. Does anyone have any advice ?

I want to mod Twisted Metal 2. I found someone working on a disassembly, but it's for the PC version. That would be great except I've read you need the physical disc which can fetch upwards of 500 bucks from my cursory search. Is there any way around this? I'd much rather help this guy out and piggyback off what he's already done than start from scratch with a PS1 ISO

>>10794324
https://archive.org/details/TwistedMetal2USA-PC

bro tip: always search archive.org first for your old PC piracy needs.

>>10794324
>>10794485
Hey thanks anon. I just didn't know if I needed a physical disc because the repository says
>The game normally requires the user to have the CD in a CD drive, even with the game installed on the PC. It will continuously loop looking for a CD drive with the file "tm2.ico" and pull up a MessageBoxA asking the user to insert the CD if it is not found.
Although I have since learned about virtual CD drives, so I think this caper may be solved

>>10793968
>I'm using mode 7 like stuff for dungeon maps, I can't show more than 128 different tiles
That seems like a pretty severe limit. I would've assumed the GBA could do more than that. But even so, it looks like it's not holding you back. That must be some efficient tiling to fit in only 128 tiles.

>>10793968
I like this style. Kind of reminds me of Suikoden.

>>10794987
>I would've assumed the GBA could do more than that
If it was a SNES instead of a GBA, the limit would be 64 tiles, not 128.
Also the GBA has two affine layers instead of one, what allows bottom-top tile combinations.

>>10783525
most commercial ROMs are shit too, it's just that history did the filtering for you instead

>>10795550
History works a little faster than it used to.

>>10779720
Yeah, I've been working a lot on my own project for a while now and havent seen much activity here, not sure why.

>>10796286
This looks neat, what is it

Making a vanilla hack.

>>10796638
I'm afraid you're about 30 years too late

>>10796663
xD

>>10796634
A Castlevania 3 ROM hack I've posted about before. Been in development for 4 years. We got item dropping ala Dracula X, mid air movement and near instant character swaps. On top we got new enemies, levels, music and bosses.

>>10796902
kino

>>10796902
Neat. We gonna get it before we're dead?

https://twitter.com/yuzokoshiro/status/1771537450415857984

>>10797596
I'd like to see it through, right now personal life is getting in the way. Soo...
Lets give the magic 8 ball a spin.

>>10797624
Sweet.
Honestly, not my type of game yet that made me excited about it still.

>>10797624
I like that there are top of the line games that have hundreds of millions of dollars or more poured into them that don't excite me like seeing that ship spin around in 3D.

eyyy i'm scrollin here

>>10798929
H-he's fast!

>>10798929
Nice.

>>10798929
Stop cheating

metaquarius if you read this... HURRY UP I AM ALREADY FOR 9 YEARS. please just finish fusion-x so I can move on with my life.

>>10798969
Hey, it's not his speed. He must be using the debug mode to warp!

Some new pre-patched games (all latest updates):

>Shin Zelda Densetsu.nes
https://files.catbox.moe/vpotwy.nes
(V33 Bugfixed) https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/2192/

>The Legend of Zelda - Outlands.nes
https://files.catbox.moe/g6mxvq.nes
(v. 1.0) https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/10/

>Star Fox Exploration Showcase (Legacy).sfc
https://files.catbox.moe/nc8vub.sfc
(v. 8.48.1) (not to be confused with the newer hack called "Star Fox EX") https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5510/

>>10800598
baste

>>10779210
BUMP OF LIFE

More pre-patched games time!

>AI Shogi 3.n64
https://files.catbox.moe/ij19dv.n64
(v. 1.0) (exhibits the same problem described here >>/vr/thread/10718789#p10727583)) https://www.romhacking.net/translations/7249/

>Star Fox 64 - Survival.n64
https://files.catbox.moe/63gn4a.n64
(v. 1.4) (patched to OoT NTSU-U 1.0)

>The Legend of Zelda - Escape from the Facility.n64
(v. 1.5) (patched to OoT NTSU-U 1.0) https://hylianmodding.com/competition-2023

>Zelda 64 - Dawn & Dusk.n64
http://files.catbox.moe/rtto3h.zip
(v. 2.0) (patched to OoT NTSU-U 1.0) https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5816/

>Zelda 64 1996 Temple Experience Demo.n64
http://files.catbox.moe/23fs65.n64
(can't remember which version it is, but it was the one contemporary with the following YT video's release) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1j03LZpkjY

>Koopa in a Hurry.nes
http://files.catbox.moe/cyn3tf.nes
(v. 1.0) https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/7117/

>The Legend of Zelda - Outlands - Zed Edition.nes
http://files.catbox.moe/p21vyv.nes
(v. 1.15) (different hack from the original Outlands hack in a post above) https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/1993/

>EarthBound - New Debug Menu.sfc
http://files.catbox.moe/u8mo9g.sfc
(v. 1.3) (updated since the 1.2 version posted above) https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8368/

And finally, the hack featured in >>10779210,

>GoldenEye 007 - King of the Hill.n64
https://files.catbox.moe/qaid4h.n64
(v. 0.98 aka v. 1.3) (regular version) https://www.moddb.com/mods/goldeneye-king-of-the-hill/downloads/goldeneyekingofthehill

>GoldenEye 007 - BLOODY King of the Hill.n64
https://files.catbox.moe/vkw4v2.n64
(v. 0.98 aka v. 1.3) (same header as reg)

>GoldenEye 007 - BLOODY King of the Hill.n64
https://files.catbox.moe/nrsxnl.n64
(v. 0.98 aka v. 1.3) (different header, in case you want separate save files from regular ver.)

>>10803027
*
>The Legend of Zelda - Escape from the Facility.n64
https://files.catbox.moe/4es95r.n64
(v. 1.5) (patched to OoT NTSU-U 1.0)https://hylianmodding.com/competition-2023

(also, typo correction: "NTSU-U" is obviously "NTSC-U" in every instance)

REQUEST TIME:
Can anyone patch and test the Zelda Indigo Chapters 1 and 2 hacks? I tried patching them, but they failed for me. I'll upload the ones I patched, plus the source for patching your own, to check whether or not it's an emulator problem or wrongly-patched problem:

>The Legend of Zelda - Indigo - Chapter 1.n64
https://files.catbox.moe/qka7h0.n64
(v. 0.1.10) (patched to OoT NTSC-U 1.0) https://github.com/krm01/oot-indigo-mod/releases/tag/v0.1.10

>The Legend of Zelda - Indigo - Chapter 2.n64
https://files.catbox.moe/bo3ihr.n64
(v. 0.3.16) (patched to OoT NTSC-U 1.0) https://github.com/krm01/oot-indigo-mod/releases

>>10803027
sovl

DON'T LET THE FLAME DIE OUT!

https://twitter.com/kakikukecat/status/1771749520927326354

>>10804921
ludo

>>10783864
I mean, to be fair, the game is 90 yen
https://www.dlsite.com/maniax/work/=/product_id/RJ193852
That said, it was uploaded to the author's pixiv fanbox at one point and consequently has been scraped to kemono, so you don't HAVE to pay for it

>>10805861
Cute (and funny) little game. Last chick took a few tries, but I got it.
https://litter.catbox.moe/ocaf7c.png

>>10803045
here's chapter 2, I played it about a week ago for a stream I did and everything worked fine.

https://files.catbox.moe/xyv738.z64

i don't know shit about homebrew stuff but what exactly can cartridges do? Can they function as expansion packs that offer more performance like RAM or even another CPU or something? Because I see games like this

https://twitter.com/yuzokoshiro/status/1771537450415857984

That say they're running on a real MD so I wonder how much heavy lifting a cartridge can do.

>>10806597
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzVN9kIUNxw

>>10806597
>That say they're running on a real MD so I wonder how much heavy lifting a cartridge can do.
Even if it's just a regular cart, ROM is much cheaper nowadays, so instead of using a 1MB ROM like with Thunder Force IV, they can use 4MB or more to bake shit like the spinning 3D ship.

>>10806597
A cartridge just has to put data in the right place at the right times for the hardware to read, there are no technical limitations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jee4tlakqo
But what a cartridge can have inside it that's still in the spirit of the original hardware is subjective. Personally I don't find tech demos with an RPi wired to cartridge pins very interesting.

More pre-patched games time:

First, two Super Mario World hack families by romhacker Big Brawler

>>Onegai My Melody - My Melody Adventure
https://files.catbox.moe/t9qrsr.sfc
(v. 1.1) (based on Sanrio character "My Melody" - popular topic a thread or two ago) https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=37004
>Instruction Booklet/Manual
https://files.catbox.moe/tn3nxs.pdf
>Map
https://files.catbox.moe/emuaph.pdf
>Demo 1 - Onegai My Melody - My Melody Adventure C3 Demo Fixed version
https://files.catbox.moe/2g0u3u.sfc
>Demo 2 - Onegai My Melody - My Melody Adventure (Second C3 Demo) (Summer 2023)
https://files.catbox.moe/kqh7t0.sfc
>Resources/Extras pack
https://files.catbox.moe/xnxr7i.7z

>>TEN A-Side
https://files.catbox.moe/26n8uj.sfc
(v. 1.2b) https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=32788
>>TEN B-Side
https://files.catbox.moe/wsvge7.sfc
https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&a=details&id=33142
>TEN series patches & readmes
https://files.catbox.moe/v46vtv.7z

Second,

>>Goodboy Galaxy.gba
http://files.catbox.moe/9mmly0.gba
(apparently v. 1.2 - supposedly the latest version, though I hear there may possibly be a v. 1.3) https://www.goodboygalaxy.com/
>Manual (NA)
http://files.catbox.moe/ounu3n.pdf
>Manual (EU)
http://files.catbox.moe/v5qbpq.pdf
>Manual (JP)
https://files.catbox.moe/ja3m65.pdf
>>Goodboy Galaxy DEMO - Chapter Zero.gba
http://files.catbox.moe/bjbwtr.gba
(v. 1.0.7, English) (prequel to the main game) https://goodboygalaxy.itch.io/goodboy-galaxy-demo
>All languages for Chapter Zero
https://files.catbox.moe/e65i2d.zip
>>Starbi Daytrip Cassettedisk.gba
http://files.catbox.moe/o1evj0.gba
(Goodboy Galaxy mini-OST bonus rom)
>>Goodboy Galaxy included comic (EN & JP text)
https://files.catbox.moe/te5o4p.pdf
>Comic raw files
http://files.catbox.moe/3fol6r.7z

*Also, for >>10803027, forgot to list source for SF64: Survival: https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/5566/

>>10806563
Awesome anon, thank you! I'm going to test this one right away.

Another homebrew game:

>>Pineapple Kid - The Puzzle Adventure.gb
https://files.catbox.moe/ldf4vu.zip
(unknown version) https://www.bitmapsoft.co.uk/product/pineapple-kid/
>Demo
https://files.catbox.moe/hoamte.gb
https://hz83.itch.io/pineapplekid

If anyone has any other Bitmap Soft games to share, please do here.

>>10806563
It works for me! Guess I screwed up patching those, then. Thanks again, anon!

Addendum for >>10806702

>Goodboy Advance
https://files.catbox.moe/hc0q5c.zip
(original prototype of Goodboy Galaxy) https://www.gbadev.org/demos.php?showinfo=1486

>>10806597
Depending on the system, yes. They essentially connected directly to the memory addresses of the system, if not also had additional connections to what was the equivalent of a system bus. You still have some limitations though. You are limited by how much current the system can supply to the cart, by the system's sound and video output, and how fast it can process that even if you make the cart do all the work, but beyond that if you can fit it on the cart you can do damn near anything.

Their main limits at the time was your options for such small CPUs and their cost as well as the cost of storage and RAM at the time. Nowadays you can easily jam a 1Ghz CPU, 1TB NAND, and a few GB of RAM on an NES cart if you wanted to.

Case in point, >>10806604

I personally never cared for this though. It's literally just jamming an entire significantly more powerful self-contained PC on an NES cart and outputting the resulting audio/video to the NES while taking inputs from it's controller port. At this point why even bother, you aren't using the NES as anything more than a over-glorified and poor quality A/V adapter for the cart itself, you would literally get better video and audio just plugging the cart into your TV directly at that point.

And like >>10806620 mentioned with that much space you can also just put as much sprites as you want on the cart. It's not like the Genesis technically could not do (bad) FMV, just that it would have taken an insane amount of space at the time. There was a SNES game that had short FMVs on the cart. So you don't have to create a super-amazing-optimized 3D engine on the limited hardware just for that effect now when you can just put a giant ROM chip on the cart and pre-render the sprites, provided you can read them into the console fast enough.

Something like the Overdrive2 tech demo, that was some amazing coding, the 3D AFAIK was not just pre-rendered images.

>>10807064
>Something like the Overdrive2 tech demo, that was some amazing coding, the 3D AFAIK was not just pre-rendered images.
Normally, demos like that are done by rasterizing a form of vector graphics. All of the transform, lighting, and clipping operations are pre-calculated. It looks like Overdrive 2 is no exception (source: https://jix.one/pushing-polygons-on-the-mega-drive/ ).

>>10807102
Yeah, I know it wasn't a full realtime 3D engine, I was just saying that it wasn't just individual pre-rendered frames that was essentially just a FMV and is far more impressive work than just that Doom on NES cart.

>>10779210
is this the place to discuss wii u hacks/mods?
i have a modded wii but am wanting a wii u so I can do more and play wii u games

>>10807341
Wii U is outside the scope of the board as a whole, so chances are posts about it are going to get deleted. You might want to check out /vg/'s /hbg/ instead.

>>10807341
This board is for 6th gen and older consoles (Which means the latest systems by Nintendo would be the GameCube and GBA), WiiU and even the Wii is out of the scope of this board.

>>10807343
>>10807350
oh ok thanks bros havent been back to it in a long time

Hey, everything going alright over there champ? Anything you wanna talk about?

>>10807935
uoh

>>10787908
I feel like I've heard this song before
Did you rip the tune from modland by chance?

I still wish either AVI or MP4 files got support on 4chan. What gives, anyway? Why not even just on >>>/gif/, >>>/wsg/,>>>/wsr/, and >>>/r/?

>>10808390
4chan is an imageboard. WebMs were a mistake in the first place.

>>10808443
Oh anon, I DISAGREE!
Videos are not by themselves bad or detrimental to the site. At the very least, they can be relegated to the aforementioned boards I directly linked to. the word filter on /g/ for Nakadashi, and most boards' filter of $0yboi in its truest sense as well as on CH@N archive are worse. They are pointless.

>>10781225
Once again, new hotfix update
Fixes the colored goombas (Internet Archive is inaccessible for most people so I don't think the item will get updated)
https://romhacking.com/hack/b3313-super-mario-64-internal-plexus
Pre-patched: https://files.catbox.moe/k16a0s.z64
>b3313 V1.0 hotfix.z64 (yet YET again)/B3313-1.0.1-hotfix-TRUEFINAL-4.z64

>>10785503
The hotfixes doesn't stop. Hopefully this is the final one.

>>10808701
>Internet Archive is inaccessible for most people so I don't think the item will get updated
Welp, it did. Just checked now.

>>10808359
It's from modarchive.org.

>>10808701
I just made my own versions of the B3313 1.0 Goomba Hotfix.

Debug menu restored:
https://files.catbox.moe/i0f13m.z64
>b3313 V1.0 goomba hotfix debug.z64

Press L-Trigger ingame to display various stats such as what map you're in, how many red stars you have, AI difficulty scaling values etc.

Press C-Up + L-Trigger once to access a sound test.
D-Pad Left and Right selects a song ID and L-Trigger plays the song.
D-Pad Up and Down allows you to change the sound font, tempo etc.

Press C-Up + L-Trigger twice to access no clip mode.
D-Pad Left activates no clip.
D-Pad Right displays a random AI message.

Benedani's tweaks added:
https://files.catbox.moe/akw7c1.z64
>b3313 V1.0 goomba hotfix tweaked.z64

Benedani's tweaks fix the captain flyguy boss, red star progression and remove debug mode. I ported them over. None of Benedani's stuff was touched except the colored goomba fix.

Figured I could share this too. The most recent version of the Dinosaur Planet N64 Restoration.

Default models:
https://files.catbox.moe/45qj9q.z64
>DP_03_03_2024.z64

HQ models:
https://files.catbox.moe/o31r02.z64
>DP_03_03_2024_HQ.z64

For those who want to play DP with the higher quality player models that were left unused in the game. Probably causes slowdown on real N64 hardware, use default models instead.

Here's another random thing.

Glover 2 Bugfixed:
https://files.catbox.moe/wjhpbi.z64
>Glover 2 (USA) (Proto 2) Bugfixed.z64

A couple of bugfixes for the most complete Glover 2 prototype. Made by Skelux and Zoinkity some 10 years ago. I just combined their fixes and trimmed the overdump data. Sharing it so it doesn't get lost again.

Majora's Mask Debug PAL2NTSC:
https://files.catbox.moe/mkpcaj.z64
>MM EU Debug NTSC.z64

- Music adjusted to NTSC speed (thanks to wareya)
- Map Select translated to English
- Inventory Debug translated to English

That's all for now. Maybe someone finds it interesting.

How is the progress on this?

>>10808701
>hotfix only changes a halfword (2 bytes)
>a hiccup so small it could've been resolved over half a year ago

>>10806702
Nice

>>10810082
What the fuck even is that image?

>>10798929
>Vertical Scrolling
I threw up in my mouth

>>10779210
Don't know if this is the best place to ask but someone is offering to sell me an Xbox with OpenXenium installed. I don't know shit about modchips, and to be honest I don't care about hacking or running any custom shit on an Xbox. I just want to play my normal disc-based games with the normal OS. Is OpenXenium intrusive? Can it be "shut off" without physically removing it? Does it interfere with the Xbox's ability to just run stock?

>>10810804
I think you can make a /bst/ - Buy Sell Trade thread and ask for that. Or check eBay if you're okay with scammer prices.

>>10810819
I don't think you understood my question.

>>10810821
I misread, but I'm sure the discs work fine. If you just want to use your Xbox like a stock system you can. It's just there if you want low-level control over it for homebrew and other mods.

>>10810284
it's based on one of the levels in the my melody hack

>>10810928
That's good to know, thanks.

Some new SM64 hack just came out
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XKUKy6bxhoJtfvNhI-TnQzhRfrVkcRKH/view

>>10811012
I don't see that romhack listed here, what game is it for?

>>10811160
nigga, did you even follow the reply chain?
>>10806702

>>10807367
If you're discussing homebrew and hacks for retro games on the Wii U, it's fair game. Hardware is not against the rules, otherwise shit like the mister or handheld threads wouldn't be allowed either. Out of the box the wii u emulation is hit or miss, half the official virtual console games have a dark filter applied to them, you need to use UWUVCI AIO to remove them. With the same program you can also apply pixel perfect scaling. Start looking at gbatemp threads to get you familiarized what can be done.

>>10792068
Gbstudio?

MEGA KINO JUST DROPPED
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/8528/

Best thread on /vr/ (as usual)

>>10811501
Nice. That hacker is on fire lately, with two Goemon games and now this. I saw that thread in the catalog about the JP-only MML PSP collection. This is a good compromise. Next, it would be really cool if someone retooled Mega Man 64 into a Mega Man Legends 2 N64 complete conversion!

>>10811120
Give me a quick rundown on this one

Main character's mysterious friend changes disguise depending on the current dungeon.
Video: https://webmshare.com/play/nO66d
Slow alt link: https://files.catbox.moe/nokkut.webm

>>10811874
benis

>>10811874
>Three Dick
Took me a second.

>>10811479
RGBDS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql5edE8zje4

>>10812008
What is that?

maybe i should restart work on my famicom game...

>>10812161
It's for writing stuff in assembly.

>>10796902
Wow looks great
>>10797596
ETA is shortly after mega Man X corrupted

>>10812181
Pics or it didn't happen.

>>10812008
pretty cool, you got collisions, gravity, slopes, tilemap management

>>10811874
good progress

>>10812239
>assembly

Ok, good luck with that

To what extent do you concern yourself with avoiding copyright infringement in free/libre homebrew games? I don't know if you even can legally copyright 8x8 generic shapes for the same reason you cannot legally copyright a bitmap font

Not sure if this is the place, but fuck it.
Recently got an original Xbox 1.0 (opened it and saw the fan GPU. Also removed the clock capacitor. No damage to the board but the capacitor started to leave dust from it's pins.)
Tried softmodding using endgame and two legacy save exploits (Splinter Cell and MechAssult), they end up freezing and never go past a blank screen and I leave it alone for 10 minutes before giving up.
Did I fuck up something or should I just go for the hard mod?
More info: The drive is a Thomson, which is known for being terrible drives, but they boot both games fine.

>>10813039
I wouldn't worry, especially because homebrew development is overall niche. Most people probably don't know that their childhood systems are still getting new games, at least not without Youtubers making videos about them. People make homebrew ports and games with copyrighted characters all the time.

bvmp

Mesen now supports the GBA: https://github.com/SourMesen/Mesen2

>>10813573
I do not understand multi-emulators like this. Who would ever use them? Quality > quantity, which is why RetroArch makes more sense because you can get this experience while curating the emulators in use (not that I use RetroArch either)

>>10813656
Mesen is the tits, if it has a core, it's top quality.
Using its event viewer with games is like looking at girls under their skirts too.

>>10813664
I'll give it a shot then but I'm not convinced. Have you used mGBA's dev tools? I use their devtools for debugging and NanoBoyAdvance for play testing because it's always been hardware accurate where mGBA frequently is not.

>>10813780
Mesen now has the best GBA debugger.

>>10810284
Dolphin Bomber from Bomberman Jetters, she appears in 2 levels of the hack