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Map Requests / Re: Mega Man Maps

« Last post by G.E.R. on April 08, 2024, 05:23:00 am »

I saw game info and video reviews. Non-difficulty gameplay.
How do you think, are we need to map this levels? Will it bу interesting/useful?

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VGMaps Social Board / Re: YouTube channel! (JonLeung1)

« Last post by JonLeung on April 07, 2024, 05:39:30 pm »

Here's a review of "NES Endings Compendium: Vol. 1: 1985-89".
If that sounds familiar, it's an upgraded version of a book I'd reviewed earlier, that one only went up to 1988.  1989 was a big year for the NES, so this book is considerably bigger!

Apologies that this took so long.  It's a video I had promised to do, but I had some setbacks, the Japan trip from almost eleven months ago really took a toll on my intended video releases.  I'm glad it's done, and I think it's just as good as any other review video I've done.

I am considering reapplying for monetization soon... so any views you can get on this would certainly be appreciated!

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Gaming / Re: Vertical loop glitches in Sonic Superstars

« Last post by TerraEsperZ on April 02, 2024, 03:48:17 pm »

Those are some *very* obvious seams. It's kinda sad that Sonic games from 30 years ago did such things better.

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Gaming / Vertical loop glitches in Sonic Superstars

« Last post by G.E.R. on April 02, 2024, 05:37:37 am »

Two interesting glitches related to a vertical-looping sections: sloppy seam in top/bottom extreme areas and rings out of reach.
Vertical wraps realised by hidden triggers and teleportation script and some rings placed  too higher/lower wrap triggers. You see them but you can't get them because wrap trigger will activate earlier. After this you'll get rings, but it's another rings.

https://youtu.be/vGadmzOI7cY
https://youtu.be/Fg9KFsJdxw4

(how to post video to here?)

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Maps Of The Month / 2024/04: Knuckles' Chaotix (32X) - G.E.R.

« Last post by JonLeung on March 31, 2024, 09:48:39 pm »

Knuckles' Chaotix

For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to G.E.R.'s Knuckles' Chaotix (32X) maps.

Dr. Robotnik's latest scheme involves stealing the Power Emerald that provides energy for Carnival Island, an amusement resort that is just about to open.  Knuckles rescues his friends, the "Chaotix": Vector, Mighty, Charmy, and Espio.  Along with Robotnik's rogue "Mechanix", Heavy and Bomb, they will use "Ring Power", which acts like an elastic tether between two ringbearers.  Adding snapping and swinging to the usual sprinting action seen in Sonic adventures, Knuckles and the Chaotix can move like never before, and use this new physicality to try to save Carnival Island before its grand opening!

This 32X-exclusive Sonic The Hedgehog spinoff puts Knuckles and Team Chaotix in the spotlight, and Carnival Island is as colourful and vibrant as they are.  Though Knuckles' Chaotix was intended for the Sega Saturn, it was instead released as a 32X game - probably one of the very few must-haves in the tiny 32X library of only a few dozen games.  It hasn't seen a plethora of rereleases, like many mainline Sonic games have over the years and across multiple generations, so it's good that our resident Sonic fan, G.E.R., has mapped this out so that we will always remember the first time Knuckles did his own thing without Sonic around.

So to recognize the effort put into this 32X killer app, G.E.R.'s Knuckles' Chaotix (32X) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for April 2024.

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Map Requests / Re: JonLeung's Requests

« Last post by TerraEsperZ on March 27, 2024, 04:41:16 pm »

Even weirder coincidence: I've been slowly making my way through Hardcore Gaming 101's Top 47k Games of All Time podcast over the last three years and just yesterday, I listened to their episode on Nightmare on Elm Street for the NES.

I remember starting to map Friday the 13th in 2009, thinking I was clever in handling the "parallax" background by doubling the lenght of every segment. I remember giving up after starting the cave because I really wasn't a fan of game in the end. My goal would have been to try and make a unified map covering the whole game but the way the game is structured, what with featuring several concentric circles, would have made the whole thing quite inelegant.

Anyway, great work as always zagato blackfist, finally providing maps to so many overlooked "classics"!

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Map Requests / Re: JonLeung's Requests

« Last post by dark_lord_zagato@yahoo.co on March 26, 2024, 06:56:23 pm »

That is one spooky coincidence. Even if I had known that you were buying these games I never would have guessed the exact day they would show up in the mail.

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Map Requests / Re: JonLeung's Requests

« Last post by JonLeung on March 26, 2024, 11:34:01 am »

zagato blackfist keeps the NES request fulfillment train going with two LJN NES horror games based on slasher films: Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street!

I maintain that Friday The 13th is not as bad of a game as so many people make it out to be.  I don't know why I like the repetitive music to it.  That same track is also heard at 0:24 in one of my favourite videos of Felicia Day, "The 8-Bit Haunted Dance Party".
The "Happily Ever After" NES game that was never finished and released has some Friday The 13th music too, as heard here at 5:44 in this video playthrough of that prototype.

A Nightmare On Elm Street is notable for being the only NES platformer with four-player support.  (Most other four-player NES games are sports, other than Bomberman II, Gauntlet II, and Swords & Serpents, I guess.  It's still in rare company.  Speaking of which, it is by Rare Ltd.)

For an upcoming project, I wanted to get all the LJN NES "black box" games, and potentially for a later project, these two games specifically.  So I ordered these two NES cartridges on eBay recently, along with a few other LJN games that I didn't already have.  It'd be a neat coincidence if they arrive today, too!

EDIT: I just NOW got today's mail, and I received the NES cartridges of Friday The 13th and A Nightmare On Elm Street!  What a fluke that I would get the games themselves AND the maps on the same day!  No word of a lie!
(I also got T&C Surf Designs and The Uncanny X-Men, which isn't a coincidence, other than that I have an X-Men/'97 opening comparison YouTube Short that's doing extremely well this week...)  I'd say getting these games on the same day as getting the maps is an even bigger coincidence than the time I bought the "Left Bros." variant of Super Mario Bros. 3 before I realized that the seller I was buying it from is "Two Brothers Games", LOL.  If only I got these games/maps on an actual Friday the 13th from someone who lives on Elm Street, but that'd really be too freaky...

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Gaming / Re: Your favorite anime games for PC

« Last post by GirlSilver on March 22, 2024, 01:50:47 pm »

Super smash flash 2 is the best game I have ever played. the name is also known as SSF2 unblocked. play the game with us and enjoy.

Yeah, you are right it is a best game I also ever played.

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Gaming / Nintendo 64, Game Boy and Genesis music files

« Last post by JonLeung on March 18, 2024, 11:00:57 am »

As you probably already know, I recently made YouTube videos featuring One Minute of Music from EVERY NES Game (almost 12 hours long!) and One Minute of Music from EVERY SNES Game (12 hours exactly!). The Super NES one has the 720 games released in the United States and Canada; I should soon follow that up with a second part for all the PAL region and competition cartridges, anything else special I missed, and MAYBE Star Fox 2.  (EDIT: I did do that, here.  But to continue the series, I should do videos with one minute of music from every Game Boy, Genesis, and/or Nintendo 64 game.

Ideally, I need the music rip files for all of these games, as it's the easiest way to quickly hear all the music and then to extract the one-minute tune that I choose.  I download video game music files from Zophar's Domain and joshw.info (specifically, Game Boy GBS files here and Nintendo 64 USF files here).  Even so, they don't have music files for every official game.

I guess I should look into the Genesis ones.  But for the moment, I just finished auditing my Game Boy and N64 music files, and the lists below are of what games I'm missing music for.  If you know of other sources of video game music files, or at least know where I can get specific ones, let me know.  It's going to be very difficult or at least take much longer to make these compilations if rips of these games don't exist or can't be made for some reason...  Thanks in advance if you find anything!

EDIT: I've also added a list of 226 missing Genesis VGM files.  I've only found one big source of them so far, which is at Zophar's Domain.  EDIT: Found eight more at Project 2612.  I haven't looked into European Mega Drive ones yet... though that's only a concern if I need to, since it has a different name (like how I didn't do Famicom/Super Famicom games)...

Game Boy - North America (96 games)
Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle And Friends, The
All-Star Baseball 99
Arcade Classic - No. 1 - Asteroids + Missile Command
Arcade Classics - Super Breakout + Battlezone
Asteroids
Barbie - Game Girl
Beavis And Butt-Head
Best Of The Best - Championship Karate
Blues Brothers - Jukebox Adventure, The
Bo Jackson - 2 Games In 1
Boggle Plus
Boy And His Blob In The Rescue Of Princess Blobette, A
Bubsy II
Casino FunPak
Centipede
Championship Pool
Chessmaster, The
College Slam
Crystal Quest
Days Of Thunder
DragonHeart
Elite Soccer
F-15 Strike Eagle
Game Of Harmony, The
George Foreman's KO Boxing
Getaway, The
High Stakes Gambling
Hit The Ice
Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York
InfoGenius Productivity Pak - Berlitz French Language Translator
InfoGenius Productivity Pak - Berlitz Spanish Language Translator
InfoGenius Productivity Pak - Frommer's Travel Guide
InfoGenius Productivity Pak - Personal Organizer
InfoGenius Productivity Pak - Spell Checker And Calculator
Jeopardy! - Platinum Edition
Jeopardy! - Sports Edition
Jeopardy! - Teen Tournament
Jeopardy!
Jordan Vs Bird - One On One
Lamborghini American Challenge
Madden '95
Madden 96
Mickey's Ultimate Challenge
Miner 2049er
Missile Command
Monster Truck Wars
Mortal Kombat & Mortal Kombat II
Mouse Trap Hotel
NBA All-Star Challenge
NBA Jam
New Chessmaster, The
NFL Quarterback Club
Oddworld Adventures
Out Of Gas
Paperboy 2
Paperboy
PGA European Tour
PGA Tour 96
Pit-Fighter
Race Days
Real Ghostbusters, The
Ren & Stimpy Show - Space Cadet Adventures, The
Ren & Stimpy Show - Veediots!, The
Riddick Bowe Boxing
Road Rash
RoboCop Versus The Terminator
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
SeaQuest DSV
Simpsons - Bart Vs. The Juggernauts, The
Simpsons - Itchy & Scratchy - Miniature Golf Madness, The
Solitaire FunPak
Spider-Man And The X-Men In Arcade's Revenge
Sports Illustrated - Football & Baseball
Sports Illustrated - Golf Classic
Sports Illustrated For Kids - The Ultimate Triple Dare!
Spy Vs Spy - Operation - Boobytrap
Star Trek - Generations - Beyond The Nexus
Star Trek - The Next Generation
Super Battletank - War In The Gulf
Super Off Road
Super Scrabble
Swamp Thing
Taz-Mania 2
Titus The Fox
Top Rank Tennis
Total Carnage
Toxic Crusaders
True Lies
Turn And Burn - The F-14 Dogfight Simulator
Urban Strike
Wayne's World
WCW - The Main Event
Wheel Of Fortune
Wordtris
WordZap
XVII Olympic Winter Games - Lillehammer 1994, The

Game Boy - PAL Regions (12 games)
Alien Olympics - 2044 AD
Beethoven
Choplifter III
Cool Hand
Dropzone
Fire Fighter
Franky, Joe & Dirk - On The Tiles
Indien Dans La Ville, Un
Lingo
Montezuma's Return
Reservoir Rat
Star Hawk

Nintendo 64 - North America (128 games)
Bottom Of The 9th
Brunswick Circuit Pro Bowling
CyberTiger
Dark Rift
Donald Duck - Goin' Quackers
Dual Heroes
ECW Hardcore Revolution
F-1 Pole Position 64
FIFA - Road To World Cup 98
FIFA 99
FIFA Soccer 64
Fighting Force 64
Fox Sports College Hoops '99
Golden Nugget 64
GT 64 - Championship Edition
Hercules - The Legendary Journeys
Hexen
Hot Wheels - Turbo Racing
Hydro Thunder
Indiana Jones And The Infernal Machine
International Superstar Soccer '98
International Track & Field 2000
Jeopardy!
Jeremy McGrath Supercross 2000
Ken Griffey Jr.'s Slugfest
Knockout Kings 2000
Kobe Bryant In NBA Courtside
Madden Football 64
Madden NFL 2000
Madden NFL 2001
Madden NFL 2002
Madden NFL 99
Major League Baseball - Featuring Ken Griffey Jr.
Mia Hamm Soccer 64
Midway's Greatest Arcade Hits - Volume 1
Mike Piazza's Strike Zone
Milo's Astro Lanes
Monaco Grand Prix
Monster Truck Madness 64
Mortal Kombat Mythologies - Sub-Zero
MRC - Multi Racing Championship
Ms. Pac-Man - Maze Madness
Nagano Winter Olympics '98
NASCAR 2000
NASCAR 99
NBA Courtside 2 - Featuring Kobe Bryant
NBA Hang Time
NBA In The Zone '98
NBA In The Zone '99
NBA In The Zone 2000
NBA Jam 2000
NBA Live 2000
NBA Live 99
NBA Show Time - NBA On NBC
NFL Blitz - Special Edition
NFL Blitz
NFL Blitz 2000
NFL Blitz 2001
NFL QB Club 2001
NFL Quarterback Club 2000
NFL Quarterback Club 98
NFL Quarterback Club 99
NHL 99
NHL Blades Of Steel '99
NHL Breakaway 99
Nightmare Creatures
Nuclear Strike 64
Off Road Challenge
Olympic Hockey Nagano '98
PGA European Tour
Polaris SnoCross
Power Rangers - Lightspeed Rescue
Powerpuff Girls - Chemical X-Traction, The
Rainbow Six, Tom Clancy's
Rally Challenge 2000
Rampage - World Tour
Rampage 2 - Universal Tour
Rat Attack
Razor Freestyle Scooter
Re-Volt
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing - Round 2
Ready 2 Rumble Boxing
Resident Evil 2
Road Rash 64
Roadsters
Robotron 64
Rugrats - Scavenger Hunt
S.C.A.R.S.
Sesame Street - Elmo's Letter Adventure
Sesame Street - Elmo's Number Journey
South Park - Chef's Luv Shack
South Park Rally
Space Invaders
Spider-Man
Star Wars - Episode I - Battle For Naboo
Star Wars - Episode I - Racer
StarCraft 64
Stunt Racer 64
Supercross 2000
Superman
Tarzan
Tigger's Honey Hunt
Tonic Trouble
Top Gear - Hyper-Bike
Top Gear Rally
Top Gear Rally 2
Transformers - Beast Wars - TransMetals
Triple Play 2000
Twisted Edge - Extreme Snowboarding
V-Rally Edition 99
Virtual Chess 64
Virtual Pool 64
Waialae Country Club - True Golf Classics
War Gods
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey '98
Wayne Gretzky's 3D Hockey
WCW Backstage Assault
WCW Mayhem
WCW Nitro
Wheel Of Fortune
World Cup 98
World Driver Championship
Worms - Armageddon
WWF - No Mercy
WWF - War Zone
WWF Attitude
WWF WrestleMania 2000
Xena - Warrior Princess - The Talisman Of Fate

Nintendo 64 - PAL Regions (4 games)
F-1 World Grand Prix II
HSV Adventure Racing!
Premier Manager 64
Taz Express

Sega Genesis - North America (226 games)
6-Pak
688 Attack Sub
Adventures Of Rocky And Bullwinkle, The
Amazing Tennis
Andre Agassi Tennis
Arcade Classics
Art Alive!
Barbie - Super Model
Barkley - Shut Up And Jam!
Barkley - Shut Up And Jam! 2
Barney's Hide & Seek Game
Bass Masters Classic
Bass Masters Classic - Pro Edition
Battle Master
Beauty And The Beast - Belle's Quest
Beauty And The Beast - Roar Of The Beast
Berenstain Bears' Camping Adventure, The
Best Of The Best - Championship Karate
Bill Walsh College Football
Bill Walsh College Football '95
Bonkers
Brett Hull Hockey '95
Bubsy II
Buck Rogers - Countdown To Doomsday
Bulls Vs Blazers And The NBA Playoffs
Bulls Vs Lakers And The NBA Playoffs
Cal Ripken Jr. Baseball
Centurion - Defender Of Rome
Champions World Class Soccer
Championship Pool
Chavez II
Clay Fighter
Cliffhanger
Clue
College Football USA 96
College Football USA 97 - The Road To New Orleans
College Football's National Championship
College Football's National Championship II
College Slam
Cosmic Spacehead
Crystal's Pony Tale
CutThroat Island
David Robinson's Supreme Court
Davis Cup World Tour
Death And Return Of Superman, The
Death Duel
Desert Demolition
Dick Vitale's Awesome Baby! College Hoops
Dinosaur's Tale, A
Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story
Escape From Mars - Starring Taz
ESPN Baseball Tonight
ESPN National Hockey Night
ESPN Speedworld
ESPN Sunday Night NFL
Evander Holyfield's ''Real Deal'' Boxing
Ex-Mutants
F-117 Stealth - Operation - Night Storm
F-22 Interceptor
Family Feud
Fantasia
Fantastic Dizzy
FIFA 97 - Gold Edition
FIFA International Soccer
FIFA Soccer 96
Foreman For Real
Frank Thomas Big Hurt Baseball
Frogger
Fun 'N' Games
Generations Lost
Goofy's Hysterical History Tour
Greatest Heavyweights
Hard Drivin'
HardBall '94
HardBall '95
Haunting - Starring Polterguy
Head-On Soccer
Home Alone
Home Alone 2 - Lost In New York
IMG International Tour Tennis
Incredible Crash Dummies, The
Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Instruments Of Chaos - Starring... Young Indiana Jones
Izzy's Quest For The Olympic Rings
Jack Nicklaus' Power Challenge Golf
Jammit
Jeopardy! - Deluxe Edition
Jeopardy! - Sports Edition
Jerry Glanville's Pigskin Footbrawl
Joe Montana Football
John Madden Football '93 - Championship Edition
Jordan Vs Bird - Super One-On-One
Judge Dredd
Jurassic Park - Rampage Edition
Justice League Task Force
Kawasaki Superbike Challenge
La Russa 95
Lakers Versus Celtics And The NBA Playoffs
LHX Attack Chopper
Lost World - Jurassic Park, The
M-1 Abrams Battle Tank
Madden NFL 94
Madden NFL 96
Madden NFL 97
Madden NFL 98
Magic School Bus, The
Mario Andretti Racing
Mario Lemieux Hockey
Math Blaster - Episode 1
Menacer
Mickey's Ultimate Challenge
Micro Machines
MiG-29 Fulcrum
Miracle Piano Teaching System, The
MLBPA Baseball
Monopoly
Ms. Pac-Man
Muhammad Ali Heavyweight Boxing
Mutant Chronicles - Doom Troopers
Mutant League Hockey
NBA Action
NBA Action '95
NBA All-Star Challenge
NBA Hang Time
NBA Live 98
NBA Showdown 94
NCAA Final Four Basketball
NCAA Football
Newman-Haas Racing - IndyCar - Featuring Nigel Mansell
NFL 98
NFL Football '94 - Starring Joe Montana
NFL Quarterback Club
NFL Quarterback Club 96
NFL Sports Talk Football Starring Joe Montana
NHL 95
NHL 96
NHL 97
NHL 98
NHL Hockey
NHL Hockey 94
NHLPA Hockey '93
Normy's BeachBabe-O-Rama
Olympic Gold
Olympic Summer Games
Out Of This World
Outlander
Pagemaster, The
Paperboy
Pat Riley Basketball
Pel‚!
Pel‚'s World Tournament Soccer
Pete Sampras Tennis
PGA European Tour
PGA Tour 96
PGA Tour Golf
PGA Tour Golf II
PGA Tour Golf III
Phantom 2040
Pirates! Gold
Pit-Fighter
Power Monger
Primal Rage
Prime Time NFL
Prince Of Persia
Pro Quarterback
R.B.I. Baseball '93
R.B.I. Baseball '94
R.B.I. Baseball 3
R.B.I. Baseball 4
Revolution X
Risk
RoadBlasters
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
Rolo To The Rescue
Rugby World Cup 1995
Scooby-Doo Mystery
seaQuest DSV
Sesame Street - Counting Cafe
Shanghai II - Dragon's Eye
Slaughter Sport
Soldiers Of Fortune
Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic The Hedgehog
Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic The Hedgehog 2
Sonic & Knuckles + Sonic The Hedgehog 3
Spider-Man Vs Kingpin
Starflight
Steel Talons
Super Battleship
Super Battletank - War In The Gulf
Sword Of Sodan
Syndicate
Taz-Mania
Team USA Basketball
TechnoClash
TechnoCop
Tecmo Super Hockey
Tecmo Super NBA Basketball
Theme Park
Thomas The Tank Engine & Friends
Time Killers
TNN Bass Tournament Of Champions
TNN Outdoors - Bass Tournament '96
Tony La Russa Baseball
Triple Play - Gold
Triple Play '96 Baseball
Troy Aikman NFL Football
True Lies
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3
Unnecessary Roughness 95
Urban Strike
Valis Syd
Wacky Worlds
Warlock
Wayne Gretzky And The NHLPA All-Stars
Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego
Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego
Williams Arcade's Greatest Hits
Winter Challenge
World Championship Soccer II
World Series Baseball
World Series Baseball '95
World Series Baseball '96
World Series Baseball '98
WWF WrestleMania - The Arcade Game
X-Perts
XVII Olympic Winter Games - Lillehammer 1994, The