Hahaha sure it is.

I understand that this mapper is a difficult one.

Ever considered a Nerdy Nights tutorial on creating mappers for your Power Pak, I wouldn't even know where to start. But it seems other Nerdy Nights tutorials have proven fruitful in the development of new games.
Just a thought I know your busy keeping us all happy in other areas.

Keep it up, thank you.

Powerpak mappers are a WHOOOOOOOOOOOLE different leauge compared to programming games. Alot of knowledge on digital logic etc required.

I agree that a tutorial on creating PowerPak mappers would be really nice. I made a mapper in Verilog, and started to implement it into the PowerPak schematic, but felt sorta like I had to reverse-engineer the PowerPak to do it.. I guess what I really want is an easier way to hook a verilog module up, without everything being spread all over the schematic. But anything that would make Verilog/schematic development easier would be a step in the the right direction, IMHO.

thefox and loopy have done it, so either I'm a little slow, or just didn't put enough time into it, heheh.


jero32: But this digital logic is the same digital logic that every is using when they use the AND, ORA, EOR, instructions on 6502.  Sure, there's a bit more to it though.  But not a lot.

Well verilog in itself isn't so hard...it's making it nice and optimized. Plus working with nes you gotta understand the concepts of busses and all that kind of crap.

Woot! 6 months for controller fixes for 6 games.

I'm pretty sure he has more going on over there in California than just updating Powerpak mappers.

I'm sure he does, but it's still disappointing for the price of admission.

Where does 6 months come from? MottZilla on the nesdev thread fixed the problem almost exactly 3 years ago. Hacked Paperboy ROMs have been around 10+ years to deal with emulators like Nesticle. Poor attempt at thread crapping!

Research before investing into a product over $100 could be a good idea. Realize the price of admission is very fair. Go try to find a product that does the same thing for less, or another product that does the same thing at all. Realize this is a one man company with dozens of projects going. One man engineering, coding, running a website, shipping, accounting, ETC. Have respect for someone making little money, pouring his entire life into making your niche hobby better. If you didn't think what you were getting was fair, then you shouldn't have bought it. Don't complain about it half a year later.

Yeah like making a Ganja Farmer cart to promote the legalization of marijuana, or maybe hes just too busy smoking it.

Hippies....

It must have been some problem with earlier versions, 1.33 or something. This issue is no more... I tried 1.34 + the latest beta. I had to delete the whole POWERPAK folder and replace it with only the 1.34 or beta folder. I guess the problems I had was something like I didn't replaced ALL files or something.

Anyway: NSF-VRC6 works just fine (both in 1.34 and latest beta):

"Super Ganja Farmer" was my next game idea, had to do some intensive character research.

I volunteer to be your test subject for that game Bunnyboy. What can I do to help?

Yeah it takes a lot of time to figure out all the kinks. I think loopy rewrote the PowerPak schematics in Verilog for his mappers, I on the other hand rerouted the schematics to my Verilog module which receives and outputs pretty much every useful signal. I guess I could release that as a template at some point.

If I donate some primo BC bud, will it entitle me to an advanced copy for being a huge help in development. Ill take LE cart #10.

Send dat shit to me man. 

That might be an interesting hack for NARC

v1.35 Beta 2 now posted! Another chunk of the incompatible list gone yay.

What games are fixed now?

Changes listed in first post, fixes: 

sweet bunnyboy! I'll be sure to add the changes in my list. Thanks again for a great product.

You've outdone yourself again, bravo!

We need to set BS Satellview DS-1 chip set games like this to work automatically without having to play about in some Hex program. I don't know about you guys but I don't want to play with Hex's if I do not have to because it's a mapper related Hex problem that can be fixed by the guy who does the mappers.

I HAVE A GREAT NEWS !!! I GOT BS F-ZERO 2 to work
i think its the first bs game to work on powerpak. but i cant get bs zelda to work

how to get BS F-Zero 2 working

1. You need a rom: BS F-ZERO Grand Prix 2 (Japan).smc ect.
2. you need to remove header ( i use snesROMUtil.exe )
3. change the byte at $7fd5 to $20

ENJOY

A special feature I would like to see added now that you have SPC sound support which is the first step to full SNES media support is the ability to download box art and be able to select the jpg, bmp or gif in the menu for a game so we can have the box art and cart art in the background of the menu maybe placed in the corner or something?

Make it so that you can pick up to 4 corner graphics for your game as there are 4 corners on a screen and it means we can have box art covering every region.

Also the option to choose one graphic and to be able to stretch it to full screen as a full screen background image would be sweet as people although find it easier to see do find black a bit plain and boring after time for a menu.

Ok, I'll stop pitching ideas for new updates as it's probably not possible due to SNES limitations. The $20 or whatever it was mapper update for BS SNES games I'd say is vital though so that definitely has to be done for the current compatibility issues of some semi playable with patching games having to be patched with difficult Hex software before working. This update would also help us with Windows Vista which find it a chore even getting Hex editing software running as most of them are run in DOS and will not work without GUI in Vista.

To get BS games working I guess or your side the code is reversed so it's $7fd5 Lo-Rom and Hi-Rom just in case mapper support needing adding or something to fix these semi compatible games?

According to another article I read this may also need to be in the compatibility update as you shouldn't have to use UCon64 especially since it looks complicated to use and I can't find the padding settings part anywhere in this rubbish peice of software.

Space Invaders and Ms. Pac-Man started out as 2Mbit ROMs but would not run. They had to be padded to 4Mbit in order to work. Ucon64 was used to perform this task and the games functioned normally.

Umm yeah.. I knew I shouldnt have tried to follow this thread