Can the Konami Arcade Advanced ROMs run on an NES emulator?
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I know that the Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced plug'n'play NES-on-a-chip unit can be emulated in lr-mess, and that's all well and good.
However, both the six-game collection AND the individual titles from it (Frogger, Scramble, Time Pilot, Gyruss, Rush'n Attack and Yie-Ar Kung Fu, credited to Jungletac) have also been ripped in NES format.
(Example filename from the ROMset I downloaded: Scramble (Unl)[Jungletac].nes)
I can't get anywhere at all with the compilation version in either lr-fceumm, lr-mesen or lr-nestopia (FCEUMM says "iNES mapper #408 is not supported at all"). But lr-fceumm DOES run the individual ROMs, except with a black screen.
(You can hear the menu music and start a game and hear the sound effects playing, you just can't SEE it.)
Has anyone managed to find a way to get them to work fully? Are there any other good NES emulators on the Pi worth a try? (I see mention of BNES and EmuX, and have updated RetroPie-Setup, but no sign of them in the menus.)
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@JimmyFromTheBay My understanding from reading https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/NES_2.0_Mapper_408 then https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/NES_2.0_Mapper_256 is that they are not NES games, they are VTxx games (also known as "famiclones").
I don't know if any of the NES emulators available on retropie emulate famiclones.
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@barbudreadmon It's definitely possible - loads of rips from "Famiclone" plug-and-play machines do run on NES emulators. Just this week someone released versions of Asteroids, Frogger, Missile Command, Moon Cresta and Scramble ripped from one called the Gamezone II, and those run a treat on lr-fceumm.
And as I say, these ones ARE actually running the games, it's just the screen that isn't playing ball. So it seems like they're certainly very CLOSE to working.
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@JimmyFromTheBay said in Can the Konami Arcade Advanced ROMs run on an NES emulator?:
Just this week someone released versions of Asteroids, Frogger, Missile Command, Moon Cresta and Scramble ripped from one called the Gamezone II, and those run a treat on lr-fceumm.
Nesdev only mentions this mapper for a cartridge named "gamezone".
It doesn't use anything specific to the VTxx consoles, meaning it's a game compatible with official NES, whether it was released for famiclones or not.
In case i wasn't clear in my first post, "Konami Collector's Series: Arcade Advanced plug'n'play NES-on-a-chip" is not a NES game despite its name, and as such is not compatible with official NES. Again i'm not entirely sure if any of the NES emulators available on retropie emulates games that can't run on NES. I've seen multiple requests for VTxx support over the years but i'm not entirely sure which NES emulators decided to implement it, if any.
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@barbudreadmon I'm also sure I remember reading about someone dumping them from the device many years ago and running them on an NES emulator, but not releasing them because he was actually one of the coders of the plug'n'play device or something.
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@JimmyFromTheBay said in Can the Konami Arcade Advanced ROMs run on an NES emulator?:
running them on an VTxx emulator
Fixing your typo.
I'm not saying there are no VTxx emulators, you know at the very least about one (MAME/MESS). There might be others.
You seem to think that it's normal for an emulator to support every kind of similar hardware, but it's not (e.g. most console emulators are unable to emulate their arcade counterpart).Edit : i found this old topic : https://forums.libretro.com/t/which-core-would-you-best-recommend-to-play-old-nes-bootleg-games/36763
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