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by Xkeeper
Mon May 30, 2022 6:24 am
Forum: NESdev
Topic: Weird PPU writes
Replies: 27
Views: 9628

Re: Weird PPU writes

I expanded the search a little bit. 1450 of 2650 ROMs matched a test where the first two bytes could be different; 1350 matched the exact thing. https://mini.xkeeper.net/etc/weird-pals.txt Nintendo also came up with a different way of doing it later on: Other games may have different methods that ar...
by Xkeeper
Mon May 30, 2022 6:01 am
Forum: NESdev
Topic: Weird PPU writes
Replies: 27
Views: 9628

Re: Weird PPU writes

hey thread! fancy seeing you here i bumbled across another game that does this (TMNT 1) and got curious once i heard about the mystery. i did a simple scan for this sequence of bytes: A9 3F 8D 06 20 A9 00 8D 06 20 8D 06 20 8D 06 20 I compiled the list here (note that the bytes in the header are wron...
by Xkeeper
Wed Jan 13, 2021 11:47 pm
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: FDS and $4018/$4019/$401E
Replies: 4
Views: 4076

Re: FDS and $4018/$4019/$401E

FDS.

The code is here -- look for byte_4018. This was a segment of the Air Fortress FDS prototype we dumped a while ago that occupies the program space from $C300~$CFFF (some of it has been lost).
by Xkeeper
Wed Jan 13, 2021 5:51 pm
Forum: NES Hardware and Flash Equipment
Topic: FDS and $4018/$4019/$401E
Replies: 4
Views: 4076

FDS and $4018/$4019/$401E

This is a little strange to ask, but is there any known hardware or method to communicate with a device listening on these addresses? Specifically: - Writes to $401E - either #$40 (reading) or #$00 (after read) - Reads from $4019 - seems to be some sort of status register where the top two bits are ...
by Xkeeper
Tue Sep 29, 2020 12:12 pm
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: Looks like NESCartDB is down (again)...
Replies: 80
Views: 106050

Re: Looks like NESCartDB is down (again)...

I'm still waiting to hear back about the actual site data.
by Xkeeper
Tue Sep 22, 2020 5:29 pm
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: Looks like NESCartDB is down (again)...
Replies: 80
Views: 106050

Re: Looks like NESCartDB is down (again)...

In #nesdev on EFnet, tehcloud mentioned nesdir.github.io ( source ), which uses the last NesCartDB XML as its data source, as a stopgap until NesCartDB can get rehosted. If this database is brought under the umbrella of TCRF, how would outages (if any) be reported? same place tcrf ones are: discord...
by Xkeeper
Tue Sep 15, 2020 8:32 pm
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: Looks like NESCartDB is down (again)...
Replies: 80
Views: 106050

Re: Looks like NESCartDB is down (again)...

running and refurbishing old php stuff is exactly what i do and i'd be more than happy to take whatever 'turd' you think you have and host it. a few people can probably vouch for my ability to do this as well

if you want you can email me at xkeeper at gmail dot com
by Xkeeper
Mon Apr 23, 2012 6:19 pm
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: All's Well That Ends Well...
Replies: 96
Views: 41232

I would like to make an addendum to my previous posts and say that if I get a tar.gz of the site's files and database, I can have a copy of this thing running in no time flat, for free, for a long time. (We are paid up on hosting bills for a long time and have funds in our account that will last lon...
by Xkeeper
Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:54 pm
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: All's Well That Ends Well...
Replies: 96
Views: 41232

...to add something since there seems to be a lot of discussion elsewhere of how to move things: - a tarball of the site files. (This is easy enough if it's stored sanely.) - mysqldump of databases (compressed) From there it's just extracting and changing the auth information and possibly the root p...
by Xkeeper
Sun Apr 22, 2012 9:49 pm
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: All's Well That Ends Well...
Replies: 96
Views: 41232

I'm still offering to host it on my DreamHost account (for free*). I've been using it for about 4 years for various projects (including very high-bandwidth areas) and... no real issues. (This offer sort of extends to a few other parodius things depending. Things like sl1me/blargg's domain, etc. I ha...
by Xkeeper
Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:16 am
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: Is an archived version of the current nesdev forum worth it?
Replies: 67
Views: 27931

Let me be the first to outright state that any solution that does not satisfy the condition that the current forum must remain as live as it is now is no solution at all. Having had to re-start sites (even with archives...) is a massive pain and means that any time someone wants to reference that ol...
by Xkeeper
Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:13 am
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: All's Well That Ends Well...
Replies: 96
Views: 41232

TCRF only successfully loads about 45% of the time, no hosting from their host, please. This is still an issue on your end. While the site is slow for others (what do you expect? It kind of outgrew the original space...) it doesn't have nearly the kind of issues that you have. ... But to expand on ...
by Xkeeper
Fri Oct 08, 2010 9:58 am
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: smwcentral doesn't make any sense
Replies: 52
Views: 17561

I sense a pending invocation of Godwin's law. ObWikiLink: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law (wtf, no matter how I edit this url, when viewed it gets truncated at the apostrophe, or the entire url is not clickable.) [It's a bug in phpBB 2. You have to change apostrophes to "%27"....
by Xkeeper
Thu Oct 07, 2010 10:56 pm
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: Voice your problems with me (blargg) here
Replies: 37
Views: 14847

your name is similar to byuu which makes it hard to distinguish, please consider using "BLARRHGHGHGHHBFKHBFLBFKHBDFlbKHFDLBKHFBL" to make it easier.
if you can't tell these posts are sarcasm and the first one was also wrong, mistook him for byuu
by Xkeeper
Thu Oct 07, 2010 8:25 pm
Forum: General Stuff
Topic: smwcentral doesn't make any sense
Replies: 52
Views: 17561

My humor was spot on and yet unappreciated.

Shame.