Topic: List of unmapped NES games

[JonLeung]

Lately i've been doing a bunch of games that can be mapped in a day, if not two in a day. This will cause the list to shrink rapidly,

As for "1.36 NES games per day", this not unreal because some games consist of one-screen "maps" or have non-platforming structure.

Yes, that's true, a quick scan of the list reveals a bunch of sports games that usually don't have too many fields/courts/diamonds/etc. I looked on a list and counted just now, there's 21 baseball games for the NES (including the unlicensed games Quattro Sports and R.B.I. Baseball 2 & 3) and seven of those that are still unmapped begin with "B", so maybe that's why that's an easy thing to spot.

Definitely a few other simple games that could be knocked out really quickly.

Getting all of the games mapped in a few months is still a stretch, though, there are still a few RPGs and adventures (the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons games, Tombs & Treasure, Ultima: Warriors Of Destiny) and a few that would be technically challenging to do justice: various flight simulators (including stuff like Star Voyager), games with unique "3D" effects (Castelian), games with peripherals that may not be easily emulated (Miracle Piano Teaching System).

Maybe it would be good to highlight the ones that might be a challenge so that those who like to figure out a way around such hurdles can already start investigating how they could be mapped, rather than leaving them right at the end.  If the gears are in motion then the "simpler" games could be mapped out while a solution for the harder ones could be worked out.

[dark_lord_zagato]

Getting all of the games mapped in a few months is still a stretch, though, there are still a few RPGs and adventures (the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons games, Tombs & Treasure, Ultima: Warriors Of Destiny) and a few that would be technically challenging to do justice: various flight simulators (including stuff like Star Voyager), games with unique "3D" effects (Castelian), games with peripherals that may not be easily emulated (Miracle Piano Teaching System).

As for Ultima: Warriors Of Destiny, i'm going to leave that alone for now just in case FlyingArmor wants it.

Looking at Miracle Piano Teaching System for the first time, I can see why this might be a problem. I thought VirtuaNES had pretty good peripheral support but even that doesn't have a midi keyboard. The only thing I might be able to do about this is go into BizHawk's hex editor and see if I can operate the game from there somehow.

[dark_lord_zagato]

Removed Battle City from international list because it was mapped by Ricardo Sallin. Thanks!

[FlyingArmor]

As for Ultima: Warriors Of Destiny, i'm going to leave that alone for now just in case FlyingArmor wants it.

*Just seeing this now* I have been mapping it on and off for the past year or so, so it is in the works!

[JonLeung]

That was quite the load of baseball games we got a few days ago.

Surprised that Base Wars wasn't in that batch... or as it is sometimes known as, "Cyber Stadium Series: Base Wars".  Wonder if, had it been more successful, they would have expanded the series with more futuristic games featuring robots playing other sports.  "Cyber Stadium Series: Hoop Wars" for basketball, perhaps?  (I guess there already is a robot football game, Cyberball...)

Funny how in Base Wars, the robots are mostly humanoid, and look similar to each other, except for their lower halves.  Some have humanoid legs, but others might have a single wheel, or tank treads, or a flying saucer-like bottom that enables them to hover.

Anyway, that's what I remember Base Wars for - for standing out a bit, with its unique setting and players, in a sea of baseball games.  Funny how the NES had so many.  I'm sure this one will be mapped eventually.  Looking forward to that.

Doing a search for "ball" on the list shows that there are not many of these "ball" games left!  Keep up the good work!

[dark_lord_zagato]

Monster Truck Rally was mapped by Ricardo Sallin. I have not played this game before so I don't know if there's supposed to be any more maps. At any rate i'll take it off the list.

I'll get to Base Wars soon. I didn't realize it was another baseball game.

On that topic, everything in the international list with the word "yakyuu" in the title is a baseball game.