TylerBarnes

The blatant disrespect you have exhibited is an awful color to wear. The user has requested you to refrain from addressing them this way and you are overtly doing the opposite. Your entitlement and hubris compounds the issue. LRG's first statement to you was that A: they didn't state it works on your console. and B: you need to test in on an NES. You have willingly ignored these things in favor of the belief your hardware has nothing to do with it. This is like installing windows on mac hardware and complaining to microsoft that excel is not working.

As a dev, I'm going to have to agree with fcgamer here. There should be zero expectation that the cart will run on a clone device. They are not real original hardware, and despite the emulation software being very good, the console is vastly different and nowhere close to the actual NES. One should also not expect it to work on an NES with 3rd party mods. Yes, the Blinking Light Win is a mod. It contains modern electronics, as well as solder joints, traces and other such points of possible failure. Assuming this is impossible to fail or affect performance is nieve. The only legitimate way to troubleshoot a failure of any description is to test it on the exact hardware in which the product was designed to operate on. You may very well have an issue, you might not. But assuming you do based on an unsupported bit of kit, without properly vetting it on real hardware is not the way to determine that.

This is really awesome! I like your writing style, it has a good mix of visuals. I'll have to look at this more closely and mess with these hands on some time.

It is incredible how well the ruled paper lines sell the doodle effect. Very clever use of the style

You might also put in every listing description in the future, "If orders are not payed after X amount of days, then it will be cancelled and relisted"

Yeah, what a wild story. Typically when this sort of claim happens, you want to get something from the customer stating they didn't receive. Let them know you will start a claim, Open a claim with the courier and have them investigate. If they deem the claim valid and pay the insurance, you refund the customer. If not, you did everything you were obligated to do for them, and have records of it for the PayPal dispute. Done. It is his responsibility to pick up his mail and make sure USPS has a valid address for him.

I'll buy my 1x1cm share only if they cut me off my piece.

More information would be needed for this sort of thing. To give people the best chance at helping, it is best to lay out the problem in a format that gives the other person everything they need to understand what the crux of the question is. Like what the hack is supposed to do, how the hack already works, what it doesn't do, and what you are trying to make it do, etc, etc. People are generally not going to be able to help if they need to further research independently just to understand what they are being asked. Modifying existing roms is complex, and modifying someone else's modifications can become even more complicated. Is the entire hack just replacing the A9 5F 9C that normally exists at x19C41 and replacing it with A9 F1 BF? While I am not familiar with the ROM or what section of code it is, this could either be data or instruction code. The A9 at the beginning makes me believe it is code since A9 is the opcode for LDA immediate. If this is the case the only thing this hack has done is changed the value that gets loaded into the accumulator in that small section of code. So instead of LDA #$9C5F the instruction will execute LDA #$BFF1. Essentially just loading a different value to be used elsewhere. However, without knowing the context, it is not really possible for me to tell you why this is relevant in the hack since I don't know where in memory it is getting stored, and for what purpose in the game's routines. The next part in the ROM of what I can assume is machine code (and not data), is 85 A5. Which is the instruction STA $A5. This instruction is storing the value loaded previously, but at a location on the Direct Page, since hex 85 is the opcode for STA in the direct page addressing mode. I can assume the Direct Page Register is set to $0000 since we find A9 00 00 5B in the initialization section of the ROM. This is could go on and on trying to turn hex numbers into opcodes, but I hope you see that this is not an easy ask. The original author of the hack might be best suited on questions regarding tweaks to their modification as they would have a deeper understanding of the section of code they are exploiting.

Are you trying to roll your own PCB's or make use of donor carts and solder in your own PROM chips? From what I understand the mask rom pinouts were made custom for Nintendo and there is no easy equivalent that I am aware of. I'm guessing they did this as an anti-piracy measure since NES and SNES repros became so easy when their pinouts were so close to commercial PROM pinouts. Tangentially related, what are you needing to make physical carts of?

Wow nice stuff, Apebit! A lot of variation in there to enjoy. Congrats!

My friend just asked me to try an look into this on their units. The big N looks like they are not taking in any repairs at the moment anyways so gunna attemp something. Seen vids on iso alcohol, I don't see this as a bad strategy for temp fix. Iso is non-conductive but the danger is using a low% solvent. anything in that 30% will typically be slightly conductive. I use 99%, and plan on compressed air drying. Looking into replacment sticks in the meantime while the temp fix serves it's time

I have not put it up in any complete form on youtube. I may have to one of these days.

I have not kept up with the new charms lately. I would like to sign up please. First is the chipmusic cartridge one please. Second is whichever developer/homebrew/chip artist charms you feel would apply (Brewer/ Graphic Artist / Chiptuner / Publisher) . I released/developed the music cart Moonfall all on my own. Code, graphics, music, cart production. Link to that is in my signature.

It is clear you're motivated to get ahold of the rom, I feel this is what is causing your ideas and justifications for why the public (you) 'deserve' to be able to play it too. I was not expecting you to accept this explanation, but that has no bearing on the reality. They have stated themselves that their motivation is their videos. and have no intentions of distribution. Doing so would also be illegal, and a huge disrespect to RushJet. And video editing music is not the same and would be immediately recognizable as a video edit in comparison. Level transitions, sound FX, etc would all have to be manually added and synced to reach the level of integration his rom has displayed.

The 'Finished Product' is his playthrough. The romhack work looks to be in a direct effort to create his videos. He does not have to release any code, tutorial, or rom file for people to be able to see and appreciate his hard work.

I maik muzac two.

Releases section of chipmusic.org is the main spot for me at least. https://chipmusic.org/forums/forum/9/releases/

For anyone that was waiting for their chance. Doom is back up at retail cost. https://gear.bethesda.net/products/doom-deluxe-double-vinyl-record

I never remember the cart becoming a tangible thing. HeavyW8Bit coulda made it happen though; Made some sick stuff on NES. Just downloaded the rom and looked at the mapper it uses. He is using Mapper 66 (https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/GxROM) My guess to why it was never released would be simply to the cost and time needed to acquire GxROM donor carts for production. His utility carts would not need much space, and I'm guessing he went for GxROM for NOFX only to accommodate the large amount of data that a cover cart requires in comparison to something like his NESK-1. Cheapest GxROM cart I see on ebay is around $10 are there are not many of them to gather for disassembly and reproduction.

Been waiting for this repressing for ages. Finally got one. Hotline Miami

That looks awesome!!!! Great showcase video too. However my OCD is triggered by this:

Just saw an interesting episode of Ben Heck pop up in my feed. Regarding a prototype for the Sega Pluto. Apparently a Saturn with built in networking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeGoYHx_k90 From the info in the video there are only two of them still remaining, and it was known that only 6 were made in total. Interesting stuff.

Not sure if that is changing their tune if it is mandatory

They are obviously still in 'Lets turn this company around' mode and are only looking at the traffic it would bring to the stores. I agree that it is ridiculous to claim they are an essential service. Their offerings are the definition of leisure and hobby.