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Map Requests / List of unmapped NES games

« on: December 14, 2024, 10:03:33 pm »

We've been talking about this a lot lately. I wanted to check on it's progress so I made a list by comparing the index of GameFAQs to the index of VGMaps.

First a quick explanation of what this list is all about. This is all the NES games that were sold as physical cartridges in North America from 1985-1996.

This list includes: Everything that we commonly accept as "official" NES games. Also, unlicensed games that were still sold in stores, like Tengen black cartridges, Camerica gold cartridges, and Wisdom Tree games.

This list does NOT include: Games that were sold in other regions but not in the United States or Canada. I'm keeping a separate list for those. Also, games that were cancelled and not sold in stores before Y2K. Some of them have had official releases in more recent years and most of them had their ROMs leaked to the internet, but they are kept on the other list. Homebrew and aftermarket games are not included. Anything that was sold on or after January 1, 2000 is not included.

These are games that are not on VGMaps at all. The incomplete map sets on the VGMaps index are not included, mostly because I haven't played every NES game in existence and can't tell at a glance whether most of these are complete or not.


278 games left...

1942
3-D WorldRunner
720 Degrees
Abadox: The Deadly Inner War
Acclaim's Star Voyager
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Dragons of Flame
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes of the Lance
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Hillsfar
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Pool of Radiance
Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends (The)
Adventures of Tom Sawyer
After Burner
Airwolf
Al Unser Jr.'s Turbo Racing
Alex DeMeo's Race America
Alfred Chicken
American Gladiators
Arch Rivals: A BasketBrawl!
Archon
Arctic Adventure: Penguin & Seal
Back to the Future
Bad Street Brawler
Bandit Kings of Ancient China
Bard's Tale (The)
Baseball Simulator 1.000
Baseball Stars
Baseball Stars II
Bases Loaded
Bases Loaded II: Second Season
Bases Loaded 3
Bases Loaded 4
Battle Chess
Best of the Best: Championship Karate
Bible Buffet
Bigfoot
Bill & Ted's Excellent Video Game Adventure
Bill Elliott's NASCAR Challenge
Billiard Congress of America presents Championship Pool (The)
Black Bass USA (The)
Blue Marlin (The)
Blues Brothers (The)
Bo Jackson Baseball
Bomberman
Bomberman II
Boulder Dash
Break Time: The National Pool Tour
BreakThru
Burai Fighter
Capcom's Gold Medal Challenge '92
Castelian
Castle of Deceit
Challenge of the Dragon
Chessmaster (The)
Chubby Cherub
Circus Caper
City Connection
Classic Concentration
Cliffhanger
Cobra Command
Cobra Triangle
Conan
Conflict
Crash 'n' the Boys: Street Challenge
Crystal Mines
Cyber Stadium Series: Base Wars
Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
Dash Galaxy in the Alien Asylum
Days of Thunder
Deathbots
Defender II
Defender of the Crown
Defenders of Dynatron City
Demon Sword
Destination Earthstar
Dick Tracy
Die Hard
Dirty Harry
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Double Strike
Dudes With Attitude
Dungeon Magic: Sword of the Elements
Dusty Diamond's All-Star Softball
Eliminator Boat Duel
Escape from Atlantis (The)
Exodus: Journey to the Promised Land
F-1 Sensation
F-117A Stealth Fighter
F-15 City War
F-15 Strike Eagle
F-15 City War
Family Feud
Fantasy Zone (Tengen)
Ferrari Grand Prix Challenge
Firehawk
Fist of the North Star
Flight of the Intruder
Formula One: Built to Win
G.I. Joe: The Atlantis Factor
Galactic Crusader
Galaxy 5000: Racing in the 51st Century
Garry Kitchen's Battletank
Gemfire
Godzilla: Monster of Monsters!
Godzilla 2: War of the Monsters
Golf Grand Slam
Golgo 13: Top Secret Episode
Greg Norman's Golf Power
Gun Nac
Hatris
Heavy Shreddin'
High Speed
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Hudson Hawk
Hunt for Red October (The)
Image Fight
Impossible Mission-II
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1991)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Infiltrator
Jack Nicklaus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf
Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper! (The)
Jim Henson's Muppet Adventure: Chaos at the Carnival
Jimmy Connors Tennis
Joe & Mac
John Elway's Quarterback
Joshua & the Battle of Jericho
Karate Champ
Kickle Cubicle
King Neptune's Adventure
King of Kings: The Early Years (The)
KlashBall
Klax
Knight Rider
Krazy Kreatures
Krusty's Fun House
L'Empereur
Last Action Hero
Last Starfighter (The)
Lee Trevino's Fighting Golf
The Legend of Prince Valiant
Legends of the Diamond: The Baseball Championship Game
Lethal Weapon
Linus Spacehead's Cosmic Crusade
Little League Baseball: Championship Series
Mach Rider
Mad Max (1990)
Magic Darts
Magician
MagMax
Major League Baseball
Master Chu and the Drunkard Hu
Maxi 15
Menace Beach
Mendel Palace
Metal Fighter
Metal Mech: Man & Machine
Metal Max
Michael Andretti's World GP
Micro Machines
MiG 29: Soviet Fighter
Might & Magic: Secret of the Inner Sanctum
Miracle Piano Teaching System (The)
Mission Cobra
Monster Truck Rally
Moon Ranger
Motor City Patrol
Mutant Virus: Crisis in a Computer World (The)
Nigel Mansell's World Championship Racing
Ninja Kid
Nobunaga's Ambition
Nobunaga's Ambition II
North and South
Operation: Secret Storm
Orb-3D
Othello
Overlord
P'radikus Conflict
Palamedes
Paperboy
Paperboy 2
Pesterminator: The Western Exterminator
Phantom Fighter
Pin Bot
Pinball Quest
Pipe Dream
Pirates!
Power Punch II
Predator
Puss 'N Boots: Pero's Great Adventure
Puzzle
Puzznic
Pyramid
Qix
Quattro Arcade
Quattro Sports
R.B.I. Baseball
R.B.I. Baseball 2
R.B.I. Baseball 3
Rad Racket: Deluxe Tennis II
Raid 2020
Rally Bike
Rampart
Ren & Stimpy Show: Buckaroo$! (The)
Road Runner
RoadBlasters
Robodemons
Rock'n' Ball
Rocket Ranger
Rocketeer (The)
Roger Clemens' MVP Baseball
Rollerball
Rolling Thunder
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Roundball 2-on-2 Challenge
Sea of Dreamland
Secret Scout in the Temple of Demise
Seicross
Shingen the Ruler
ShockWave
Silent Service
Simpsons: Bart vs. the World (The)
Simpsons: Bartman Meets Radioactive Man (The)
Skull & Crossbones
Sky Kid
Sky Shark
Slalom
Smash T.V.
Space Shuttle Project
Spider-Man: Return of the Sinister Six
Sqoon
Stack-Up
Stanley: The Search for Dr. Livingston
Star Force
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Starship Hector
Stealth ATF
Stinger
Stunt Kids
Sullivan Bluth Presents: Dragon's Lair
Summer Carnival '92: Recca
Sunday Funday: The Ride
Super Cars
Super Glove Ball
Super Sprint
Super Spy Hunter
Super Turrican
Swamp Thing
Sword Master
T&C Surf Designs: Thrilla's Surfari
Taboo: The Sixth Sense
Terminator (The)
Terra Cresta
Tetris 2
Thunder & Lightning
Thunderbirds
Tiles of Fate
Toki
Tombs & Treasure
Total Recall
Trog!
Trolls on Treasure Island
Twin Cobra
Twin Eagle
Ultima: Warriors of Destiny
Ultimate Air Combat
Ultimate Stuntman (The)
Uncharted Waters
Untouchables (The)
Vindicators
Werewolf: The Last Warrior
Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?
Wizardry: Knight of Diamonds - The Second Scenario
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Wrath of the Black Manta
Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth
Xenophobe
Zanac

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Map Gab / The mini map of Link to the Past, but the palettes are swapped

« on: February 18, 2024, 03:38:01 pm »

So recently I was recording some scenes from LttP for my youtube channel, which is mostly just game hacking, modification, and research. I had the idea to enable the use of the flute in the Dark World, and after trying many different cheat codes I finally discovered a way to do this. The game rewarded me with a mini map that was physically still the Light World, but with the same color palette as the Dark World.

Since I was successful, I decided to take a screenshot of this. I also decided I wanted to compare it side by side with the normal Light World map. Instead of using the flute again though, I just went back to the Light World and pressed X because I thought it would be the same map. That's when I noticed there are subtle differences...

On the left is a screenshot of the LW map you get from using the flute, but with the sprites turned off. On the right is a screenshot of the LW map you get from pressing X. If you open one of these up in paint and paste the other one of top of it, then hold ctrl and start tapping the z and y keys, you will see how these are different.


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I sat there scratching my head for a few days when I finally realized what was going on. Mode 7. I tried this again in ZSNES and got my screenshots from vSNES, and the maps are identical whether they come from the flute screen or the X button. I suppose the orientation must be slightly different in game. I kind of suspected they looked different when I was playing this back in the 90s but I had no real way of comparing them back then.

Just for fun i'll share the screenshot of the LW map with the DW palette below, and also my more recent mode 7 rips of both worlds with and without their palettes swapped.

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Maps In Progress / My mapping projects

« on: March 22, 2016, 12:35:39 pm »

In Progress

Conquest of the Crystal Palace [NES]


Stumped... (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

Beavis and Butt-Head: Bunghole In One [PC]
Can't view maps because no freedom of movement. I actually have the original CDs for both of these games but i'm not sure how exactly I would hack a PC game.

Beavis and Butt-Head: Do-U [PC]
Can't get the HUD or the sprites off the screen.

Double Dragon [Game Gear]
I can't seem to find a ROM of this game that actually works.




Atlas Videos has my permission to use my maps in their Youtube videos.

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Map Gab / Roger Rabbit (NES)

« on: September 02, 2014, 03:14:31 pm »

Now that this project is finished i just thought i'd say a few things about the maps. I would have included all the item locations but unfortunately this game determines their spawn points at random when you start a new game. Even if i showed the items from my play through they wouldn't show up in the same spots for anyone else. It's easy enough to find the will, at least, if you talk to Dolores and Baby Herman in LA25 and Toon23, and Jessica in the Ink n Paint club.

Another thing that almost made me not want to map the indoor areas is that most of the buildings in Toon Town are just palette swaps of each other.

Hopefully at least the world map will be helpful to anyone using it. That one turned out the way i wanted it to.