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Map Requests / Re: JonLeung's Requests
« 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 / Nintendo 64 and Game Boy music files
« 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.  But then, after that, if I 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!

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


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The creator, ImJohnJohn, heard my suggestions and actually implemented them!

In the v1.91 version that he released today, the big things are that the text cleanup doesn't convert everything to lower-case, newline characters (like with Enter keys) aren't turned into commas, and you can right-click on the "Browse..." button to select a path to a different folder for the text files (so that it doesn't clutter the folder of images).

I chose to uncheck "Cleaning Text on Save" and checked on "Auto-save", and it remembers these options now.

I know the original purpose was for tagging images with keywords, but I think it's incredibly useful now with the intent of writing larger descriptions about images without having to alter the image files directly or having text files crowd up the folder.

It's nice to be heard and to feel like I've contributed to a new tool that's useful (even if it's, or especially, for my specific needs).

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I guess I'm the only one that posts here about MAR10 Day, huh?

I know I'm still behind on my Mario RPGs, so, no more excuses, yesterday I moved the Wii U down to the basement (almost all of my gaming time is while I'm walking on the WalkingPad™, after all, no one can criticize my gaming if I'm exercising at the same time) and this morning I finally started Paper Mario: Color Splash (Wii U).  Good timing, as apart from getting all the Alcremie (still working on that), I think I've exhausted what I can do in Pokémon Scarlet, so it's perfect timing to start something new anyway.  I heard Color Splash is not one of the better Paper Mario games, but I semi-recently got through Paper Mario: Sticker Star (3DS) which is considered the worst, and I still enjoyed that.  I'm pretty sure I played Super Paper Mario (Wii) when it first came out in 2007, so it's pretty crazy that it's been 17 years in between playing two console Paper Mario games that are only one generation apart.  Liking Color Splash so far, but as it's been my first day, I'm only an hour and a half into it, and am in the third area (with the waterwheels).  Concerned about the battle system, but again, Sticker Star's is way worse and I still got through that, so I'll manage.  I'm glad the stand I got for tablets actually fits perfectly into the tablet slot of the handlebar of the WalkingPad™ and that the Wii U GamePad fits snugly on that, so it's possible to walk at 4.5 mph and not worry about dropping the GamePad.  Might keep the Wii U down there for a bit, there are other games I haven't gotten to that are on there.  I recently learned that if a 3DS and Wii U both have custom firmware, it's possible to stream 3DS games onto the Wii U, so maybe I could have started Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (3DS), as it's the one game I keep pushing off... whoops.  Not that I couldn't just play it on the 3DS, but again, if I want to put it in my morning exercise time, it's probably safer to play it on the Wii U now that I know the GamePad can be safely used.  But at the same time, maybe I could put the New 3DS XL on there the same way... something to look into.  Who would've thought ergonomics and physical logistics are things to consider in my gaming these days?

Related to Mario, I tried out the Princess Peach: Showtime! demo (Switch) yesterday.  The cookie-making part of the Patissiere Peach section was actually a little challenging; I had to do it four times to get it perfect.  I like the variety of gameplay.  I know I'm probably not the intended target demographic for it, but as a game, it seems well-made enough, it's inoffensive, why not?  Well, it's a little lower priority compared to other things I could play, but that's about it.  It's the kind of game that, if renting games was still a thing, I expect I could probably finish in a few days and be done with it.  Not sure if I'll pick it up - I'm behind on my games - Mario games, even.  Aside from the Mario RPGs, my brother and I STILL haven't finished Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Switch) because we're playing it together and therefore it's only possible when we're both able and willing to spend the time.  As I'm always busy trying to catch up on YouTube videos I intend to make, and he's always training Pokémon for competitions and such, it's really when we both think we deserve a Mario break at the same time.  I think we still have to do Worlds 5 and 6 to get through, but at least we've 100%ed every stage we've come across so far...

Last year on this day, I mentioned getting a ridiculous amount of hits on my YouTube channel because I reposted The Super Mario Bros. Movie trailers, which got TONS of views around March 10.  Turns out YouTube doesn't like reposted content when it comes to counting watch hours.  The prerequisite for monetization is 4000 watch hours in the past twelve months.  I've been denied monetization twice already because despite having 11,000 hours, as many of those watch hours were for copyrighted material (either the Mario or the Animaniacs stuff), and each time I'm denied I have to wait some time to reapply - now it's three months.  I tried and failed the second time in December, so the means to reapply opened up again last week, but I'm going to wait a few more days for last year's MAR10 spike to go away (so it doesn't show up in my last twelve months) to see what a "normal" amount of watch time is and so the copyrighted stuff - certainly the Mario stuff - doesn't work AGAINST me in terms of monetization.

So that's what's been up with me and Mario, how about you?

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Map Requests / Re: Sega Genesis Mini 2 - full map set
« on: March 07, 2024, 10:11:11 pm »
Thanks, John Brain!  Your submission of a map set for Vectorman 2 gets us moving!
We've started off on this trajectory for more Genesis maps!  (There's a geometry/physics reference in there somewhere, I'm sure.)

Is Vectorman one of those characters we haven't heard from in a long time?  Is the character just done?  No talks of any rerelease or reboot/remake/remaster/whatever?
Good to preserve what there is of his adventures, then.

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Ah, I think I found it.  It's called "img-txt_viewer".  It works exactly as I imagined.

https://civitai.com/articles/1952/img-txtviewer-quick-and-easy-manual-captioning

It makes text files in the same folder as the images itself, which could get messy, not sure yet if there's an option to change that, but otherwise, it's great!

EDIT: Maybe it's still meant for tagging because you have to go into Options and uncheck "Cleaning Text on Save" to be able to allow capital letters.
And it handles commas like tag separations, rather than for prose.  Hmmm.  So close.

...

I know I'm just talking to myself here, but I'll keep this topic here in case someone else is looking for something just like this.

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Hyper-specific question: does anyone know of any Windows software that lets you have text/notes alongside an image?

I don't mean image captioning in the usual sense.  When it comes to putting keywords/tags/captions in JPEG metadata, I know there're already lots of programs like that, including Windows Explorer.

I'm really envisioning something more like, in a hypothetical program, I would load up a folder, and can then view its images one-at-a-time on one side of the screen, maybe navigate through them with some arrow keys or something.  Then on the other side, a space where I can write text that would be specific to that image.  (I would imagine it would auto-save it as a text file in a specific folder, with the same name as the associated image file).  Then anytime I load up that image in that program, I can see the associated text.  I don't want the text to be embedded in the images at all, just seeing the text only through that program (or I suppose looking at them as text files if I navigate to that program's folder).  The point is that the original image files would not be altered in any way, but I can have notes about them.

(I seem to recall, like over a decade ago, something like that actually existing, but I don't remember the name, and it's really hard to search for, since all I get are references to captions/tags in metadata.)

Does anything like that exist now?

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Maps Of The Month / 2024/03: Alone In The Dark (PC) - VGCartography
« on: February 29, 2024, 09:00:03 pm »

For this month's "Maps Of The Month" featurette, I wish to draw your attention to VGCartography's Alone In The Dark (PC) maps.

In 1924, Jeremy Hartwood, the owner of the mysterious Derceto Manor, dies by apparent suicide.  His niece, Emily Hartwood, believes a piano in the attic of the mansion has a clue to her uncle's death, while a private investigator, Edward Carnby, is asked to procure the piano for an antique dealer.  You choose to play as either character and, upon entering the mansion, you find yourself trapped inside.  As you look for a way out, you will learn of the evil that inhabits this place, and how the world at large might also be dependent on your survival.

Alone In The Dark is significant in gaming history.  It is often cited as the first 3D survival horror game and one of the best games ever made.  A remake is coming out this month, with Hollywood talent Jodie Comer and David Harbour.  The original game's legacy includes being an influence on the Resident Evil series, whose director, Shinji Mikami, has said that the first Resident Evil game might have had a first-person perspective, if not for Alone In The Dark and its fixed camera angles.

Indeed, the fixed camera may have been due to technical limitations, but also allowed for scenes to be framed in intentional ways to build tension.  Games with such a look make for interesting "maps" and, thanks to VGCartography, who is quite skilled at his craft (and we love his craft!), we not only have all the screens you may see, but also hand-drawn interpretations of the Derceto Manor and the Underground Maze below.  These original diagrams serve well as actual maps and require artistic and interpretive skills beyond taking screenshots.  These maps that are both "original" and "ripped" are a feast for the eyes, and are quite helpful if you ever find yourself... alone in the dark (in Derceto Manor).  Great job, VGCartography!

So to recognize the effort put into mapping this landmark horror classic, VGCartography's Alone In The Dark (PC) maps will be known as VGMaps.com's Maps Of The Month for March 2024.

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Map Requests / Re: JonLeung's Requests
« on: February 24, 2024, 04:02:58 pm »
zagato blackfist has awesomely fulfilled a long-standing request of mine, maps for the totally rad NES game, Totally Rad!

Also as requested, the cutscenes with all the dialogue are included, because it's way cool slang that is essential to its whole vibe.  No mention of Totally Rad can go without referring to its bodacious text!  No duh, am I right?  But colour-coding the text is a really dope choice I hadn't thought of; wicked!

The game came out in 1991, and I made maps for it in 2005 before giving up on it.  That's 14 years.  I'd said a few times that I probably wouldn't get around to it, but that it would still be nice to see it mapped.  Then, 19 years after that, it finally has!  Still surprised it took so long (as the game is totally decent), but in any case, it's all done now!  Gnarly!  Tubular!  Awesome!  Way Cool!  ...And other such '80s/'90s surfer/valley girl slang.

Thanks yet again for fulfilling a request, zagato!

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As you can see, I finally released my "One Minute of Music from EVERY SNES Game (US & Canada)" video!  This is why I needed the music.

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VGMaps Social Board / Re: YouTube channel! (JonLeung1)
« on: February 17, 2024, 10:16:09 am »

You've probably seen/heard my "One Minute of Music from every NES game" video, but now here's the next one... "One Minute of Music from every SNES game (US & Canada)"!

Excluding Super Copa (a reskin of Tony Meola's Sidekicks Soccer which apparently came out in Mexico, not just South America and some Central/Latin America countries as I previously thought), there are exactly 720 games that were released for the Super NES in North America, and 720 minutes (12 hours) happens to be the current maximum length of a YouTube video.  That was one of the reasons I felt it was too fitting to not make, and this easily is my longest video ever.

I'd actually been working on this on and off since the NES one, usually as a way to keep myself from burning out when I needed to step away from other video projects.  It's been sitting on my hard drive, completed for a while, and figured I might as well get this out there.  It's hard to know how many actual hours it took, but there was a LOT of cleaning up of box art.  Most are originally from The Cover Project, but hundreds of those still needed a few obvious scratches to be removed and for the black background to be made solidly black.  This may be the cleanest Super NES box art on the 'net!

This and the NES music video are great to have running in the background while you do your work.  ;)  Hope you enjoy this!

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Map Requests / Re: JonLeung's Requests
« on: February 16, 2024, 10:12:28 pm »
zagato blackfist, no stranger to NES mapping, submitted maps for Cowboy Kid today!

Though many of my requests include popular games that I'm surprised haven't been mapped yet after all this time, some games are on the list BECAUSE they're obscure, like this one.  Cowboy Kid is a rare NES game that plays somewhat like The Legend Of The Mystical Ninja / Ganbare Goemon games.  Though while those games are very Japanese, Cowboy Kid is very Western... the Japanese title is literally "Western Kids".  Like the Goemon games, there sure are a lot of buildings you can enter... zagato's maps will help with that.  Anyway, I'm glad that a rare game gets some maps, it means that more people can see and experience this game!

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Map Requests / Re: Sega Genesis Mini 2 - full map set
« on: February 09, 2024, 09:37:09 am »
I whipped up that list quite quickly, so it's quite possible I made some errors and I didn't have time to look into some details.

-Like how/if the Genesis and Sega CD versions of the two Ecco The Dolphin games are different.
-Or how the bonus games are enhanced, and if the Space Harrier II maps we have count, or if the enhanced version needs its own maps.
-It looks like Rainbow Islands Extra is a Japanese Mega Drive game.  Haven't checked to see which other games, if any, are not originally North American releases.
-Not sure if the green "O"s (to mark completed map sets) are all correct.  Also have some blue "?"s for some that I am not sure if they are actually complete.

If any Genesis fans see any errors to be corrected or things to be tweaked in the listing, definitely feel free to let me know.

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Map Requests / Sega Genesis Mini 2 - full map set
« on: February 09, 2024, 09:30:02 am »

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Map Requests / Re: JonLeung's Requests
« on: February 08, 2024, 08:49:46 pm »
John Brain, Genesis fan for life, has contributed maps for Daze Before Christmas (Au)!

I originally requested the Super NES one, but the Genesis one is apparently pretty much identical.  But only released in Australia for some reason... (where Christmas is in the summertime.  Hmmm.)

There really aren't many Christmas games, especially on consoles, so this is a nice one to have mapped.  Thanks again for supporting that Genesis page, John Brain!

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