As I was working on the Tetris list I realized that the little known NP Carts have not been discussed much. A quick Google search and there are a handful of good solid reference(see below) to the Nintendo Power Kiosk and how they were intended to be the "new way" to distribute games without real carts. Sadly it never took off and so we are left with stuck in time game carts that are loaded with unknown games until you power up with your retro GB.
Summary:
There were 129 known titles
This weeks list is the EUR list as best i have found.
DMG-98003-EUR Twin Pack Big Value - Super Mario land - Super Mario land 2
DMG-98110-EUR Twin Pack Big Value - Donkey Kong - Donkey Kong Land
DMG-A2JP-EUR Jurassic Park Part 2: The Chaos Continues
DMG-A3BP-EUR Batman Forever
DMG-A3GP-EUR PGA Tour '96
DMG-A3MP-EUR Mortal Kombat 3
DMG-A3VP-EUR Bust-a-Move 3 DX
DMG-A65P-EUR Un Indien Dans La Ville
DMG-A6BP-EUR NBA Live '96
DMG-A6HP-EUR NHL '96
DMG-A6MP-EUR Madden '96
DMG-A6SP-EUR FIFA Soccer
As to-date i have only ever seen a few one OG Gameboy game with EUU as country code. Here are the known games. International Superstar Soccer is the most elusive.
DMG-A8WP-EUU World Cup 98
DMG-ACDP-EUU Cool Hand added via @Splain Thank you.
DMG-AIGP-EUU International Superstar Soccer
...along with a ton of changes to the UI.
...and I sorta overlooked a page that lets you easily skip around to different sections of the rankings. I'll work on that tonight.
...and the dropdown menu is pretty annoying and covers up the other links. I'll work on it tonight.
...and some of the links are dead because I had to cut them at the last second. I'll work on those soon.
...and I sorta broke how it looks on mobile. I'll work on that next.
...and there's still a
The guys sit down to discuss the man who is synonymous with basketball, Michael Jordan. On the journey of Jordan's life through high school, college, NBA, baseball and his father's murder they detour back to some stories of growing up playing basketball.
The guys sit down to discuss the man who is synonymous with basketball, Michael Jordan. On the journey of Jordan's life through high school, college, NBA, baseball and his father's murder they detour back to some stories of growing up playing basketball.
A Homebrew Draws Near!
A blog series by @Scrobins
Episode 5: Rollie
Introduction:
Homebrewing is a level of NES-fandom defined by both discipline and creativity. If we lived in an RPG, learning to code and develop would mark the class change/level up from being a fan who merely talks about what a fun game would look like to becoming the fan capable of actualizing it. While learning to code, brewers also discover how to implement gameplay features, and thus learn how to m
This is a bit different than what I normally do, in fact this is the first peice of equipment that uses a vacuum tube in it that I have acually worked on. So for those unfamiliar with the B&K 467, it is a peice lf test equipment meant for analyzing the health of CRT-based displays and if necessary, attempt to "rejuvenate" the tube in order to squeeze a bit more life out of it. It is particularly useful in the arcade world as many of those cabinets still have a well-used CRT in them. It is ca
Next game up was Skyblazer recommended by @Reed Rothchild and @Magus.
Thoughts:
Insanely fun platformer with a variety of interesting levels that never got boring. Good challenge, but not overly easy or hard.
Highlights:
Solid platforming with great controls
Enjoyed the ability to stock to walls and diverse range of powerups
A variety of levels and mechanics (loved the stage when you climb the tower and it moves with you)
Great visuals
Not so fun:
First recommendation on the list from @Tabonga was Shadowrun.
Thoughts:
Absolutely amazing game. Never had heard of this series before, it started as a pen/paper role playing game. I will now have to read the books.
Highlights:
Winning my freedom by killing The King
The music
Diverse and interesting dialogue and characters
Tight gameplay
Interesting environment and level design
Not so fun:
Bloody snipers!
Can be frustrating if yo
So much for keeping to a schedule postings these every Friday... geez. When work gets in the way, work really gets in the way. So from now on I'll just be posting these whenever I can.
Super Mario RPG for the Super Nintendo was an epic game that I often rented with my cousin during the summer holidays of 1997. During those memorable sleep overs, we played it nonstop the entire time only taking a break for a few hours to sleep. I had always wanted it in my collection but it constantly e
Here was a quick repair that I did this morning. About a year and a half ago I bought a pacman board that had been hacked to run a version of Ms.Pacaman without the auxiliary board. This was done by adding two extra ROMs and modifying the code a bit. As well as running the additional lines for different enables and cutting a trace so it could address the two extra ROM chips as shown in the bottom two pictures.
So I hooked it up for the first time the other day, and saw that there were graph
This one was probably one of the quickest fixes I've done. I ordered a Nintendo Popeye board as I saw it rather cheap. I got it, hooked it up, and got no boot.
First thing I do in games that don't boot like this is reseat all the chips and swap the CPU (if I can easily do that) with a known good one. In this case, I only reseated the ROM chips on the CPU board and replaced the Z80 with one of my new old stock ones I bought recently. After doing such, it booted right up!
Tur
There has been a lot of entries of Gameboy Korean but almost all are for the Consels.
How ever here is the New Region DMG--KOR or Gameboy Korean games.
DMG-QX-KOR Qix
DMG-AW-KOR Alleyway
DMG-BS-KOR Baseball
DMG-GO-KOR Golf
DMG-ML-KOR Super Mario Land
DMG-SS-KOR Solar Striker
DMG-TN-KOR Tennis
DMG-TR-KOR Tetris
Been out for a bit thought i put the CAN list out this week. Remember this is a work in progress.
this is the Confirmed list:
Cleaning Kit DMG-A-CAN-CN
Alleyway DMG-AW-CAN
Baseball DMG-BS-CAN
Baseball DMG-BS-CAN-1 add @samsamsamsmasmasma
Balloon Kid DMG-BT-CAN-1
Balloon Kid DMG-BT-CAN
Yoshi's Cookie DMG-CI-CAN
Wario Blast: Featuring Bomberman! DMG-EE-CAN
F1 Race DMG-F1-CAN-1
F1 Race DMG-F1-CAN
Play Action Football DMG-FL-CAN-1
Play Action Football DMG-FL-CAN
Gameboy Manuals DMG-
Homebrews in Focus 002 - Nebs ‘n Debs
Platforming games, oh my! In this episode, how this platforming homebrew made a big dash and won the praise of many.
CIB available here: https://shop.dullahansoft.com/products/nebs ROM available here: https://dullahan-software.itch.io/nebs-n-debs
[Limited Edition, Clear Cart in NES Front Loader]
Contents: 1. Intro 2. Origins 3. Nebs 'n Debs the game 4. Development 5. Marketing 6. Review 7. Interviews 8. Closing
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The guys sit and discuss the music of 1987. Matt and Luke found the year to be underwhelming, Jason had a hard time narrowing his picks. Matt talks about the time he met one of the biggest rock stars of all time, got backstage passes to a legendary band’s concert and met a satanic metal head.
Spotify playlist of all songs on the list:
Matt’s #5 – Aerosmith – Dude Looks Like A Lady
Matt’s #4 – Guns N Roses – Welc
The guys sit and discuss the music of 1987. Matt and Luke found the year to be underwhelming, Jason had a hard time narrowing his picks. Matt talks about the time he met one of the biggest rock stars of all time, got backstage passes to a legendary band's concert and met a satanic metal head. View the full article
The guys sit and discuss the music of 1987. Matt and Luke found the year to be underwhelming, Jason had a hard time narrowing his picks. Matt talks about the time he met one of the biggest rock stars of all time, got backstage passes to a legendary band's concert and met a satanic metal head. View the full article
This was a fun one as it was very interesting problem. The game itself worked suprisingly. However, there were issues with the graphics.
To me, this looks like an addressing error, as the game is fine but the graphics aren't quite there. I figured that it was a problem in the decoding. As shown in the schematic snippet below, this 7442 helps control which ROM bank, RAM, POKEY sound chip, or the user inputs like the trackball.
Ultimately the bad chip ended up being this 744
Genre: Shooter
Publisher: American Sammy
Total time played: 12 Hours
Short review: A pretty straight forward auto-scrolling shooter where you kill hundreds of guys while riding on a motorcycle.
Interesting links related to Thundercade
Full Game Playthrough (Arnpoly) (27min 22sec) Soundtrack Review (Take On The NES Library) Ahh… Memories
I rented this game one time as a kid and remember nothing about it but I remember a lot about the situation surrounding me renting the ga
A Homebrew Draws Near!
A blog series by @Scrobins
Episode 4: Trophy
Introduction:
The timeline for developing a homebrew is rarely brief. From a game’s first imaginings to its final publication and availability to fans, months, even years may pass. But some games can trace their history across decades to the developer’s childhood and the games that brought them joy. Though time and tide may occupy their mind for a spell, pulling their attention in myriad different direct
Battle Kid 2 is the best NES homebrew game ever made. It’s superior to the vast majority of retail NES games and probably better than the vast majority of games ever made. But if there’s a game I want to have that top spot, it’s a much less intimidating game that pretty much anyone can have fun with immediately with no unreasonable skill needed for an incredibly difficult game, no time commitment to going on a lengthy quest, and not even having to buy some weird rare old homebrew cartridge. When
