NES to DC porting

[Marchegiano]

Self booting Legend of Zelda DX coming soon, then Darkwing Duck Advance.

Not really for this community but if any of y'all got requests I'll hook you up. These are not emulator+romset discs. They're single games that run just like any other game except since Dreamcast doesn't have a select button you use the Y button.

If you have a dreamcast and want an NES title ported over to it let me know and I'll drop you a cdi to burn. I do make my own cover art images but they're ass cause i'm not an artist:

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[siablo14]

Emulator is where it's at.

[Anthony342]

They should all be on discs anyway. Annoying having to often clean carts or blow out dust on them. Discs you only have to wipe off dust and prevent scratches from getting on them.

[Marchegiano]

Emulator is where it's at.

They should all be on discs anyway. Annoying having to often clean carts or blow out dust on them. Discs you only have to wipe off dust and prevent scratches from getting on them.

you can get the whole NES library on one disc pretty easily, but, personally I'm not a fan for a few nit picky reasons.

I'm not trying to talk about into NES games on Dreamcast or single discs over compilations. I'm just letting youse know I can do it so if you want any let me know and I'll make you an image to burn. I'll muse my reasons but they're not meant to be debating points, if you disagree it's cool




1: Never seen cover art for a compilation I ever liked.

2: I don't like scrolling through 1200+ files to play one game but I do like looking at a shelf just plumb full of them hoes.

3: The interfaces are ugly and there's little to no chance of doing anything like emulation station front ends for dreamcast emulators, most of which came from one dude called chewie so they're all a bit the same style.

4: Emulators for Dreamcast, IE the X4all series, have not seen updates from the original authors in like a decade. So while it is possible to find a say Genesis on Dreamcast emulator it's quite a bit harder than you might think to find any emulator that actually plays games 100%, framerate, sound, everything is perfect. They're not titted out like the PC and Pi, etc, emus are these days. This is stepping backwards in time to do something new with the progress made in the interim.

5: Tweaks, it's pretty impossible to tailor the emu on the fly per game. You're getting a general emu that will work for most but will **** up some. If you're lucky, it's only a small effect. Retroarch DC, to my knowledge, is not a thing. Whatever you set is set. Like how I explained select is Y on my ports. Same deal bubba, **** is set. You need to change the emu config itself before you compile the bin before you make the CDI before you burn it. That's as far from on the fly, all in one, single disc does everything, as you can get....so really my way is just more honest. This is why Nintendo only does a few games at once. If they all use the same mapper it's easier to make one emu to run them, but, the whole library doesn't work.



I know at dreamcast-talk Ian Micheal of IRM Technologies has done amazing work with a lot of the emulators, updating them and getting them running at good speed if not perfected. He's also your source for DreamBor stuff. So, like a proper genius. Last I knew he was making a porting solution for Amiga along with a new media center program for the Dreamcast getting that old hoe to play more recent movies and such.

So I wouldn't be shocked if these dudes making full library discs on Ebay and such are producing decent products that run well, but getting the emu to run worth a **** is only one of my sticking points. The others, like tailoring the emu specifically for the game, are still quite the measure for the Big N let alone us fools.

I took Josh Prod's approach. He reworked the needed tool so his ports would run better on DC and instead of making a disc with hundreds if not thousands of game he released single games that self boot....for way too much money mind but the technical ****s is nice. Also to be clear, I wouldn't be charging or anything, Josh is a bit of a **** or maybe licensing has him by the balls, I dunno, I'm pirate so I give 0 ****s. I'm not paying nintendo **** so I'm not charging ****. He's on the up-n-up and legit so maybe that's why he charges 60 bucks for 30 year old games ported to a nearly 30 year old system.

I'm uploading at the moment and I thought it'd be done by now but it isn't ... so... let me drag this out

Other projects I'm working on include an NAS intranet arcade. Just ****ing everything, it is my magnum opus on emulation. All the tweaks and gimmicks and bull**** like that one could possibly have with a few on my own **** just for ****e. At the end of the day though it's basically some Pis and PC all connected to a central PC with the games, bioses, configs, and all that ****s on it.

Converting roms to swf or in other words Nintendo to Flash. Really no good reason except for legal loopholes. I may want to open my NAS Arcade to the public, for money, without licencing **** 'cause that's how I do business. I breaks them rules and live in the grey.

My own machine. You want to talk ports? Son, son, let me take you back to the cart era but with modern games though. No, I do not mean game on a flash drive, I mean all automated and **** to run. You just turn it on with a cart in and you get game, any game...except the new console exclusives, windows, mac, linux, all the consoles folks love to emulate, old 8 bits, whatever. Tiger electronic bull**** if I like. Anything can run on it because it is the same just newer as the old consoles. There's no software at all built it, there's no storage, there's just hardware for running games and software in the carts. Simple. Installs? They installed, past tense, no ****ing around with direct x or visual redistributable packages, drivers, none of that ****, ever. Put in game, turn on console, be playing in less than 10 seconds. Might sell it too but none of this game ****s is really for money. I just a hobby, like boxin'

It's done uploading...finally, damn.

[Anthony342]

If they can be put on discs with Game Genie codes on PS2 discs, I'm in dude.

[siablo14]

you can get the whole NES library on one disc pretty easily, but, personally I'm not a fan for a few nit picky reasons.

I'm not trying to talk about into NES games on Dreamcast or single discs over compilations. I'm just letting youse know I can do it so if you want any let me know and I'll make you an image to burn. I'll muse my reasons but they're not meant to be debating points, if you disagree it's cool




1: Never seen cover art for a compilation I ever liked.

2: I don't like scrolling through 1200+ files to play one game but I do like looking at a shelf just plumb full of them hoes.

3: The interfaces are ugly and there's little to no chance of doing anything like emulation station front ends for dreamcast emulators, most of which came from one dude called chewie so they're all a bit the same style.

4: Emulators for Dreamcast, IE the X4all series, have not seen updates from the original authors in like a decade. So while it is possible to find a say Genesis on Dreamcast emulator it's quite a bit harder than you might think to find any emulator that actually plays games 100%, framerate, sound, everything is perfect. They're not titted out like the PC and Pi, etc, emus are these days. This is stepping backwards in time to do something new with the progress made in the interim.

5: Tweaks, it's pretty impossible to tailor the emu on the fly per game. You're getting a general emu that will work for most but will **** up some. If you're lucky, it's only a small effect. Retroarch DC, to my knowledge, is not a thing. Whatever you set is set. Like how I explained select is Y on my ports. Same deal bubba, **** is set. You need to change the emu config itself before you compile the bin before you make the CDI before you burn it. That's as far from on the fly, all in one, single disc does everything, as you can get....so really my way is just more honest. This is why Nintendo only does a few games at once. If they all use the same mapper it's easier to make one emu to run them, but, the whole library doesn't work.



I know at dreamcast-talk Ian Micheal of IRM Technologies has done amazing work with a lot of the emulators, updating them and getting them running at good speed if not perfected. He's also your source for DreamBor stuff. So, like a proper genius. Last I knew he was making a porting solution for Amiga along with a new media center program for the Dreamcast getting that old hoe to play more recent movies and such.

So I wouldn't be shocked if these dudes making full library discs on Ebay and such are producing decent products that run well, but getting the emu to run worth a **** is only one of my sticking points. The others, like tailoring the emu specifically for the game, are still quite the measure for the Big N let alone us fools.

I took Josh Prod's approach. He reworked the needed tool so his ports would run better on DC and instead of making a disc with hundreds if not thousands of game he released single games that self boot....for way too much money mind but the technical ****s is nice. Also to be clear, I wouldn't be charging or anything, Josh is a bit of a **** or maybe licensing has him by the balls, I dunno, I'm pirate so I give 0 ****s. I'm not paying nintendo **** so I'm not charging ****. He's on the up-n-up and legit so maybe that's why he charges 60 bucks for 30 year old games ported to a nearly 30 year old system.

I'm uploading at the moment and I thought it'd be done by now but it isn't ... so... let me drag this out

Other projects I'm working on include an NAS intranet arcade. Just ****ing everything, it is my magnum opus on emulation. All the tweaks and gimmicks and bull**** like that one could possibly have with a few on my own **** just for ****e. At the end of the day though it's basically some Pis and PC all connected to a central PC with the games, bioses, configs, and all that ****s on it.

Converting roms to swf or in other words Nintendo to Flash. Really no good reason except for legal loopholes. I may want to open my NAS Arcade to the public, for money, without licencing **** 'cause that's how I do business. I breaks them rules and live in the grey.

My own machine. You want to talk ports? Son, son, let me take you back to the cart era but with modern games though. No, I do not mean game on a flash drive, I mean all automated and **** to run. You just turn it on with a cart in and you get game, any game...except the new console exclusives, windows, mac, linux, all the consoles folks love to emulate, old 8 bits, whatever. Tiger electronic bull**** if I like. Anything can run on it because it is the same just newer as the old consoles. There's no software at all built it, there's no storage, there's just hardware for running games and software in the carts. Simple. Installs? They installed, past tense, no ****ing around with direct x or visual redistributable packages, drivers, none of that ****, ever. Put in game, turn on console, be playing in less than 10 seconds. Might sell it too but none of this game ****s is really for money. I just a hobby, like boxin'

It's done uploading...finally, damn.

You on that Billeau sh-t.

I aint with jive right now.

If you can, tell me the best games for GBA.

[Marchegiano]

You on that Billeau sh-t.

I aint with jive right now.

If you can, tell me the best games for GBA.

Drill Dozer

[Marchegiano]

If they can be put on discs with Game Genie codes on PS2 discs, I'm in dude.

That's a very interesting suggestion, I'll look into it.