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I want to know how to use the MAME Pallette to toggle and switch certain sprites and items that get in the way making some arcade games hard to map. Up to now I have never used the Pallette because I relied on the freeze dip switch, but difficulty has reached its peak in my arcade mapping process. I already that F4 turns on the pallette and I only just about zoom in and out, but I don't have a clue how to toggle or switch the colours and so on. Any useful info?

Hey Nintendo Legend of Zelda fans and mapmakers. Here's a link which will fascinate you and you'd care to try this one out. On http://www.freegamesblog.org/zelda/ ,you will find a flash game of "Zelda" a remake of the SNES classic game. If you enjoy it, why not say what you think. I don't find it as enjoyable as the original game but do try it out. It must be a fan game so I think mapping it out is out of the question.

It seems up to now that most titles for multinational distributed games are named in the map indexes, are always named their US American Title. For example, Jon, the third Spyro game had two titles, "Spyro Adventure" the European title and "Spyro Attack of the Rhynocs" the US American title and you chose "Spyro Attack of the Rhynocs". Is every game going to have US American titles if its been released in countries other than the USA? I am not thinking this is racism, but why always USA titles? Are the USA titles more commonly well known around the world and people would hardly know or recognise the European titles let alone know the Japanese titles? I'm just wondering about it. The strategy I would prefer when indexing in map archives is to hand pick the most fancy of nationality titles balanced with the likiliness of visitors understanding. Would anyone understand the title "Bubble Symphony" instead of "Bubble Bobble II". Does anyone else have a good idea about USA and European titles?

Has anyone ever heard of the console PC Engine? I have been doing a little research and I believe it is more or less the same as Turbografx-16. The emulator that I use to rip maps from games is called "Magic Engine". It has a similar method of toggling Sprite and Background layers like the Super Nintendo emulator "Zsnew142".



The PC Engine game I am currently mapping is "Ninja Gaiden", similar to the NES & SNES versions by genre and storyline (Yes it's got the Demon statues and that incident with Ryu's father) only the game has square power rechargers replaced by round ones. The graphics are outstanding compared with the SNES version, and sadly you can't follow the storyline very well because its all in Japanese. I have just attached a sample of a completed map. Enjoy.

Have you ever considered a mix up with game port initials for something else? Well try this.



Sega Master System (SMS)- Mix that up with the mobile acronym.



Gameboy (GB) - Mix that up with Gigabyte



Sega Master System maps are mostly already named Master System to avoid an obvious confusion, but what about Gameboy. I think Gameboy should be renamed Gameboy Monochrome (GBM). No one has ever called Gameboy, Gameboy Monochrome but I have adopted that title in the popuw.com forums and it makes perfect sense, to all visitors. Don't you wish Gameboy Monochrome was called that in the Gameboy section? It would be fun to adopt that title, only isn't original. I wonder what Nintendo would think of this.

I have been thinking, but I wonder how many girls' games with maps are on the website? So far I have done Sailor Moon - Genesis (I have no intention of finishing it its not very good to me), The entire SNES Sailor Moon Quartrilogy, My Little Pony - GBA (I haven't gotten around to continuing it) and now I'm currently doing some rounds from the Arcade game "Pretty Soldier - Sailor Moon". I know what you are thinking and probably the same as me, I'm the only male who is mapping games for girls (or so I think, if you don't think my remark is prejudice), I only wondered if girls who visit the site would have felt a slight exclusion from lack of those games so I made sure some of those games were mapped and here they are. Believe me, I am sensible and I do not believe being girl is all about pinky, cute, cuddly, soppy and such like. If you're wondering how I can stand such content in a game, it's easy for me. Any game short of ugly cartoons like Powerpuff Girls or bad titles like Pokemon (I really don't like it) and I'll attempt to map it, but I must also say I don't like games with wimpiness in it like "Home Alone". Anyway I wonder who else is into mapping games like these.  

Hey Jon, you've broken your own record on this site by updating 4 days in a row, which I've never before seen. Sweet! I wonder what it would be like to update 31 days (in other words a month) in a row.

Hello Geminiman, so I see you have begun "Garou: Mark of the Wolves" and I'm impressed, that someone else decides to make Neo-Geo maps and battle stages. How amusing. In fact Garou: Mark of the Wolves is one of the latest games in the Fatal Fury Legacy. Keep up this brilliant work, I do so want you to accomplish something Neo-Geo fans from www.neogeoforlife.com can witness.

Say Jon. I've done some research on Neo-Geo fansites and I have found out the approximate titles of the Metal Slug Stages. Can you rename when you have the chance?



Mission 1 - Indonesia, Malaysia

Mission 2 - England, London, River Thames

Mission 3 - Finland

Mission 4 - Germany, Munich

Mission 5 - Slovakia

Mission 6 - South Africa

It's been many months and not once had I recieved comment or compliment about my Neo-Geo maps or any of the multiple versions of some their games transferred onto Megadrive, SNES and so on. Can it be that nobody has interest for Neo-Geo games? Or does no one know much about them because my maps do not tell much about them? I'm beginning to think that it is because the games are mostly fighting stage games with almost no proper maps. If anyone wishes to know there is a big Neo-Geo fansite called www.neogeoforlife.com , which contains much information you could need to know about the games but they might discuss a few Capcom games as well. NeoGeoForLife doesn't yet know about Jon's website but I'm sure they would love to witness everything this website has.

I have all the rooms and all the places in the entire game which would add up to the total map count of 31, but I don't think its fair considering most of the rooms are screenshot size (248 X 169) and I want somebody to help make all 31 maps into one big map. Whoever volunteers, I will post you my materials. I assure anyone who gets started on this, that all 31 maps are perfectly well finished, showing all money, enemies. In addition I will also post to the volunteer a simple rough map of where the rooms link directly (don't expect any trap links from the chain room). I look forward to seeing a fine piece of work done by any SMS Mapmaker.

I have not yet voted for polls because I don't find many polls suiting to me as the polls seem to consist of brand new games and consoles which I am very new to. I would like it if there a poll on TV series related to your favourite games. For example why not ask the poll, "Which of the seven kooplings in Super Mario Bros. 3 do you prefer?". If you can't wait to find out what I would answer I will tell in my next post.

I have just finished doing all 5 maps for the NES game Harry Potter (Yep it's the Philosopher's Stone) and when you have ever imagined beating up Dudley, Aunt Petunia and Uncle Vernon in a game. Next I've done the NES version stages of Fatal Fury 2 (I never thought that version existed) and finally I've completed the NES version of World Heroes 2 which has characters extracted from TV or old games like Goku (From Dragonball), Leo (From Ninja Turtles), King Koopa (From Super Mario) and many others. I will turn my attention towards the NES games 'The King of Fighters 96'' and KOF 99'.

Jon just today I would to report that WOD1980 just swore twice with a double post on a map request. That language is uncalled for. Don't know what sort of person he is but this is no way to talk to those who make points about maps and games.

I know that we are a little far from getting the 10,000th map on this site, but in when the time comes, if Jon and everybody else likes the idea, I think we should do something special on the website as 10,000 is a the largest number of maps we could achieve shortly. When doing something special I think it should be differently from the Super Smash and Megaman anniversaries. Any ideas?

There are about 27 different computer and console versions of Prince of Persia:

Amiga: NONE (There is no need to map it. It's identical to the DOS version)
Amstrad CPC: COMPLETED by me
Apple II: NONE
Atari ST: COMPLETED by me
Commodore 64: COMPLETED by Rekrul
DOS: COMPLETED by TerraEsperZ
Gameboy: COMPLETED by me
Gameboy Color: COMPLETED by me
Gamegear: NONE (There is no need to map it. It's identical to the SMS version)
Macintosh: NONE
NES: COMPLETED by me
PSP: NONE (There is no need to map it. It's identical to the DOS version)
Genesis: COMPLETED by me
Sega CD: COMPLETED by me
SMS: INCOMPLETE.
Sharp X68000: NONE
SNES: COMPLETED by Captain Drake. Demo level done by me
Turbografx 16: NONE

Of course the list does not show all the 27 but some of the computers and consoles have not yet been introduced to the site.