03-03-2018, 03:56 PM
Whoever knew that a PM on here got me to rip a Sharp X1 game and it was disk ripped too. Thanks shadowman for the idea. I didn't get much luck with disk ripping with most games seems to either just display text, in a unsupported format and games such as Bomberman and Excitebike seem to be compressed. I really wanted to rip Stop the Express however it seems to be one of those dumped but hoarded games, judging by the other Hudson games it might be compressed anyway. At least I managed to do one even though at first, I didn't know the game that I was ripping from! It was listed as Disk 8.
Should be 2 games left until promotion. Do have a bit of Tennis done however it seems to be literally a NES port (same sprite format) and has a few issues. There's another that I think that I can do on Disk 7 however again, don't know what game it is.
[spoiler] Also I have been currently experimenting regarding some systems that are NOT on tSR yet. These are most likely not ever going to get promoted just because there's so few games on them. As for work in progress:
One of them being Commodore 16/Plus4. There's isn't much of a library with many publishers only releasing like one or two games on the systems and was more popular in Hungary/Mexico than anywhere else. Chose a few and already gave the results. Paperboy is compressed, can't be ripped. Auf Wiedersehen Monty only seems to display Monty Mole however it is a quick rip. Death Race is possible. Not sure about the infamous World Cup Carnival, can get the text to display though. Ghosts 'n Goblins is possible but it is going to be tricky because the game wasn't coded very well with Arthur displaying the wrong mode in game. If I rip how the sprites are meant to be then C64 ripper displays the sprites however for some reason the program only goes up to FFFF and many of these sprites are beyond that range so either someone could hack the program to remove that limit or try hacking the disk/prg dumps to see if they can display them by removing the earlier data.
Daley Thompson's Star Events, one of the two games that Ocean did on there (the other was a embarrassingly bad port of Green Beret) however there are missing tiles as I discovered doing the sheet. Again requires hacking.
Another Commodore system that have been looking at is the Commodore 128. Haven't had time to look however it might be possible with C64 ripper. While there might be 29 games in total, so few use the extra features of the system and really should be part of the C64 section. Whether I could do a few games remains to be seen.[/spoiler]
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Should be 2 games left until promotion. Do have a bit of Tennis done however it seems to be literally a NES port (same sprite format) and has a few issues. There's another that I think that I can do on Disk 7 however again, don't know what game it is.
[spoiler] Also I have been currently experimenting regarding some systems that are NOT on tSR yet. These are most likely not ever going to get promoted just because there's so few games on them. As for work in progress:
One of them being Commodore 16/Plus4. There's isn't much of a library with many publishers only releasing like one or two games on the systems and was more popular in Hungary/Mexico than anywhere else. Chose a few and already gave the results. Paperboy is compressed, can't be ripped. Auf Wiedersehen Monty only seems to display Monty Mole however it is a quick rip. Death Race is possible. Not sure about the infamous World Cup Carnival, can get the text to display though. Ghosts 'n Goblins is possible but it is going to be tricky because the game wasn't coded very well with Arthur displaying the wrong mode in game. If I rip how the sprites are meant to be then C64 ripper displays the sprites however for some reason the program only goes up to FFFF and many of these sprites are beyond that range so either someone could hack the program to remove that limit or try hacking the disk/prg dumps to see if they can display them by removing the earlier data.
Daley Thompson's Star Events, one of the two games that Ocean did on there (the other was a embarrassingly bad port of Green Beret) however there are missing tiles as I discovered doing the sheet. Again requires hacking.
Another Commodore system that have been looking at is the Commodore 128. Haven't had time to look however it might be possible with C64 ripper. While there might be 29 games in total, so few use the extra features of the system and really should be part of the C64 section. Whether I could do a few games remains to be seen.[/spoiler]