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Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: XPort on May 26, 2006, 12:49:00 PM

MednafenX-NES - NES Emulator for XBox v8

http://mednafen.com/
http://xport.xbox-scene.com

What's New:

- Override mapper# and mirroring from game configuration menu

- Added button definitions for PowerPad 1-12/Family Trainer 1-12

- Added button definitions for HyperShot 1/2, Run/Jump

- Added button definitions for QuizKing Buzzers 1-6

- Mapper fixes :

43 - Fixed mirroring problem and reset, fixes the buggy games,
menu is still little off
187 - King of Fighters 96 [p1]
Sonic 3D Blast 6 (Unl) [h1]
Street Fighter Alpha Zero 97
Street Fighter Zero 2 [p1]
196 - Mapped to mapper #4 - for Magical Doropie (J)(TEngl1.00)
225 - Fixed mirroring problem and reset, fixes the buggy games
226 - Fixed mirroring problem and reset, fixes the buggy games
227 - Fixed mirroring problem and reset, fixes the buggy games
229 - Fixed mirroring problem and reset, fixes the buggy games

- Mapper additions:

50 - Super Mario Bros 2 (different levels) (Unl) [p2]
57 - 54-in-1 (Game Star - GK-54) (Unl)
6-in-1 (Game Star - GK-L01A) (Unl)
6-in-1 (SuperGK-L02A) (Unl)
58 - 68-in-1 (Game Star - HKX5268) (Unl)
61 - 20-in-1 (Mapper 61) (Unl) [p1]
62 - Super 700-in-1 (Unl)
188 - Karaoke Studio (J)
Karaoke Studio Senyou Cassette Vol 1 (J)
Karaoke Studio Senyou Cassette Vol 2 (J)
200 - 1200-in-1 (Alt Games) [p1]
230 - 22-in-1 (Unl) [p1]
231 - 20-in-1 (Mapper 231) (Unl) [p1]
241 - Study and Game 32-in-1 (Unl) (Keyboard)
Edu (Asia) (Keyboard)

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Diontae18 on May 26, 2006, 01:07:00 PM

Thanks for this update. Respect!

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Diontae18 on May 26, 2006, 01:48:00 PM

Yo Xport, you think you can ever get the rom "Ghoul School" to work? Just curious.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: manu_xl on May 26, 2006, 02:02:00 PM

omg omg xport is da god

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: XPort on May 26, 2006, 03:31:00 PM

QUOTE(Diontae18 @ May 26 2006, 03:55 PM)

Yo Xport, you think you can ever get the rom "Ghoul School" to work? Just curious.

Works fine for me - you may have a bad version.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: xemumanic on May 26, 2006, 03:37:00 PM

I ma not worthy, I am not worthy.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: foxxfella on May 26, 2006, 03:54:00 PM

Many thanks as always . All we need now Xport is for you to add R.O.B support with rumble and we'd be set.

This post has been edited by foxxfella: May 26 2006, 11:03 PM

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: sxxxe83 on May 26, 2006, 04:55:00 PM

Thank you, so MUCH XPort,

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Diontae18 on May 26, 2006, 05:27:00 PM

QUOTE(XPort @ May 26 2006, 06:31 PM)

Works fine for me - you may have a bad version.

Thanks for the info. It's not that I had a bad rom, it's just one of them's not supported, there's 2 ghoul school roms for the nes.
Ghoul School (U)
&
Ghoul School (U)

Only "Ghoul School (U) )" seems to work properly. When trying to play "Ghoul School (U), you'll see bricks in the background throughout the duration of the game.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: XPort on May 26, 2006, 06:41:00 PM

QUOTE(Diontae18 @ May 26 2006, 07:27 PM)

I've been playing the non-b version for about 20 minutes and sure I see bricks, but I don't see anything that looks like graphic corruption - the walls are made out of brick. It's a solid brick texture. Anyway, are you saying that your version works but for some reason you have to have the non-b version to work? If so, why?

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Diontae18 on May 26, 2006, 06:42:00 PM

QUOTE(XPort @ May 26 2006, 09:41 PM)

Anyway, are you saying that your version works but for some reason you have to have the non-b version to work? If so, why?

No, I don't need it working. If it weren't for you, I'd still be thinking that that game's unplayable with the emulator. After you gave me the heads up above that it works for you, I did a quick search and got version which works just fine. I was just stating that the version I had wasn't how it was supposed to be. Anywho, thanks

This post has been edited by Diontae18: May 27 2006, 01:54 AM

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: lusal on May 26, 2006, 07:47:00 PM

Thanks for another great update, Xport!!

By the way...I'm having a small barbecue/party for the Memorial Day weekend and you're certainly invited. We're having steaks, boneless chicken breasts and all the chips, dips, side dishes and what-not you could imagine.

Please show up and bring 1 six-pack of brewskis. You da man.

**disclaimer** I'm not urban, hip, hop, cool or whatever. Just wanted to voice my thanks to Xport and would honestly invite him over to have some barbecue as well as relations with my attractive wife to repay him for his work and dedication to the scene.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: XPort on May 26, 2006, 08:19:00 PM

QUOTE(lusal @ May 26 2006, 09:54 PM)

PM me your address and a picture of your wife and I'll see what I can do.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Odb718 on May 26, 2006, 11:24:00 PM

lmao

btw the xbox emulation repository is hosting rumble files for games now. I'm making one for Punch Out and Metroid and a few others. I know other people are making some too.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Gage on May 26, 2006, 11:50:00 PM

Good god. I've been wanting to play Ghoul School for so long and did not know it was a rom problem. Every single update to a Nintendo emulator of Xports, the first game i would load would be Ghoul School to see if it would finally work. Thanks for that. And thanks to Xport for making a port better than I thought it could be.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: foxxfella on May 27, 2006, 05:53:00 AM

QUOTE(XPort @ May 26 2006, 02:56 PM)

Xport I use select mapper It cant go back to autodetect (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) . I can only select 0-255. games wont start unless I know the mapper. get gray screen of death.

Thanks

This post has been edited by foxxfella: May 27 2006, 01:01 PM

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: XPort on May 27, 2006, 07:10:00 AM

If there are other games that don't work in MednafenX-NES but do work in other open-source emulators, let me know and I may be able to implement them.

Regarding mapper - select the mapper line, then immediately cancel with B.

This post has been edited by XPort: May 27 2006, 02:11 PM

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Jagasian on May 27, 2006, 08:04:00 AM

Xport, one reason that games will not run correctly in an NES emulator is because the ROM's header is incorrect. Auditing tools such as GoodNES do not check to make sure that the header has correct values for all fields for a particular game. Nestopia solves this problem in a manner similar to MAME, i.e., it keeps its own internal database for automatically correcting headers. In fact, it doesn't even need to change the actual ROM file, as it can simply ignore the header info in the ROM, which is most likely incorrect anyway, and instead when a ROM is loaded, it looks up the correct header data in its database.

Hence you might want to port Nestopia's internal ROM database into Mednafenx-nes. You'd be surprised how many games that didn't run or that didn't run correctly will run perfectly when using an internal ROM database.

Really though, this is a NES-specific problem, mainly do to the fact that the NES ROMs floating around the net have bad headers.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: posure on May 27, 2006, 01:11:00 PM

Thank you for the powerpad support, I will have to mod one in the near future. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Tomobobo on May 28, 2006, 01:07:00 AM

Man, all I know is that I wanted to play some 4 player Nekketsu Kakutou Densetsu and FCEUltra wouldn't let me. Now that this is out, I can kick ass all day long.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: MrQRamos on May 28, 2006, 11:15:00 AM

QUOTE(posure @ May 27 2006, 02:18 PM)

Thank you for the powerpad support, I will have to mod one in the near future. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Couldn't you somehow use a DDR Dancemat for this? Seems like the logical thing to do.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: posure on May 28, 2006, 01:20:00 PM

QUOTE(MrQRamos @ May 28 2006, 11:46 AM)

Couldn't you somehow use a DDR Dancemat for this? Seems like the logical thing to do.

That wouldn't go with my other retro controllers. Also, DDR pad doesn't have enough panels (12).

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Tomobobo on May 28, 2006, 02:39:00 PM

I can't figure out how to use the power pad. Where do I go to configure the buttons?

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Diontae18 on May 28, 2006, 07:09:00 PM

yo Xport, forgot to mention that since you've helped me rekindle that magic I used to have for Ultima: Exodus, I named a character after you. He's A Human, Class a Druid (Best Class In The Game IMO).

I'll try posting the save here tomorrow. The save's near the end of the game, all that's left to do is go to the king palace that's surrounded by this snake (Choose "Tools" and play The Flute To Make It Go Undersea), Make it to the Altar to the far north, Pray, and choose the cards in this order or you'll instantly die.
Love, Sun, Moon, Death

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: SlyBeast on May 28, 2006, 07:31:00 PM

This one just keeps getting better & better. I'm glad PowerPad support has finally been added. I've always thought it was a good idea that could be easily implemented.

@Jagasian: Great suggestion. I didn't even know about internal ROM databases. Sounds like it'd help out a lot.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: uiibaa on May 29, 2006, 08:34:00 AM

QUOTE

- Select a custom palette file

I noticed in version 7 this feature was added, but I am unable to find it in the menu or find any information on it in the documentation (using version 8 now).

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Kanyero on May 29, 2006, 11:23:00 AM

There is a problem with dragon ball z 4-1 [p1].zip mapper.

Fceultrax is able to play all the 4 games in the cartridge, but mednafenx nes is only able to play the last game (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Here is the information of the rom.

Dragon Ball Z 4-in-1 [p1][!].zip

PRG ROM: 64 x 16KiB
CHR ROM: 128 x 8KiB
ROM CRC32: 0x9c42e662
ROM MD5: 0x1ba9cd23068df4d7e982c951753b66af
Mapper: 83
Mirroring: Horizontal

I know its marked as buggy in the documents, but is there any reason why all games in this cartridge are playable in fceultra and not in mednafenx?

Another question is that if its possible to add all those mappers supported in mednafenx that are not supported in fceultra because fceultra seems to be less resource demandant.

See u (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by Kanyero: May 29 2006, 06:28 PM

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Tomobobo on May 29, 2006, 11:30:00 AM

I finaly got the powerpad stuff to work, but now the only game that I wish to play doesn't work. Well, half of it works, but the half I want to play doesn't.

Short Order - Eggsplode (U).nes

Eggsplode works, Short Order freezes whenever you press "9" to go into it. I dunno what's up with it, cause I don't know about all this mapper stuff or whatnot.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: deathx88 on July 07, 2006, 06:37:00 AM

theres alot of games that i can't get working for mednafenx-nes

one game that i would really like to get working again is kung fu, and theres some other popular games that don't work, but i forgot the names at this moment

can anyone help

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: lusal on July 08, 2006, 03:03:00 PM

QUOTE

For starters, I've confirmed that I'm running v8...it would suck if I tried to give you advice with an older version.

I just booted up v8 and played the first level of Kung-Fu to see if there were any problems. It played perfectly in 1080i/NTSC (IIRC). That's a great game BTW.

So...with that in mind...I'll ask a few more questions to see if I can help you or jog your memory.

- Did you do a clean install of Mednafenx-nes v8?
- Did you delete the prior save file / save states / cache remnants that might cause problems?
- Did this rom work fine on prior NES emulators? Is it tested to work?
- Have you tried wiping everything and then re-ftp upload again to see if it works then?

Let me know and I'll try to help out...later.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Grudge on July 19, 2006, 03:03:00 AM

not trying to bump old threads or nothing but i just wanted to thank xport on another good emu.
i was thinking earlier how th gui on fceultra was looking dated compared to newer versions of it, nd i ran across a topic saying this was now the best nes emu.
i had heard of it b4 but never paid much attantion seing i didnt think xport made it until now

but anyways thanx alot

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: deathx88 on July 24, 2006, 12:37:00 AM

QUOTE(lusal @ Jul 8 2006, 10:10 PM)

this is a late reply,

i found more games that don't work, paperboy 2, and then some ninja game its called zen or something like that

but i did do a clean install, and then reinstalled it again
i deleted my cache in e: and the saves folder for the games that don't work
and all these games did work on fce v16

it might be the bios i use, but i don't have alot of options on a 1.6 xbox
and ever since i started using my 1.6 alot of games haven't been working
like i think all my dos games don't work anymore, and some n64 don't work either

any advice anyone?

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: lusal on July 24, 2006, 07:27:00 PM

QUOTE

i deleted my cache in e: and the saves folder for the games that don't work

This could just be semantics and that I'm misunderstanding you, but I normally go into Micro$oft Dash and then find and delete the prior save file for the entire application in question (in this case FCEUltra and/or MednafenX). Or, I just navigate to the TDATA and UDATA folders via FTP and trash the saves in question.

Then, using my Chris Farley Ninja Skillz , I completely delete the offending folder of the misbehaving application/emulator - be it in your E, F, or G partition. Then, when no one is looking, I rub my rosary and do a completely "clean" install. This way there's neither a save file, .ini file, nor offending remnants of the prior emulator left behind to piss you off.

Granted, with emulators, I always leave the rom folders behind so I don't have to re-up them (too time-consuming).

You may have meant this, but perhaps not. It certainly won't hurt to try.

Let me know, mang.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: MaRcMa99 on July 31, 2006, 07:01:00 AM

Hi!

First of all sorry for my English (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

I'l try to explain myself, i'm trying to play duck hunt with my light gun on mednafen nesv8 but i can't. I can calibrate the light gun, but i didn't find the way to play with it during the game....At the beginning of the game, when you choose the game configuration, in the controller 1 or controller 2 i cannot choose "light gun".

If anybody knows how to play this with the light gun please help me.

Thanks,

MaRcMa99

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: MaRcMa99 on August 09, 2006, 01:21:00 PM

nobody knows how to play duck hunt with the light gun? :_

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Cr4z33 on August 13, 2006, 03:09:00 AM

Sorry for the noob question, but it is the first time I am using this emulator. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)
I wanted to play Duck Hunt, "inserted the coins" and then I don't know what to press to start that holy game. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Cr4z33 on August 14, 2006, 11:32:00 PM

Anybody alive? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: enderandrew on August 15, 2006, 05:21:00 PM

QUOTE(Cr4z33 @ Aug 15 2006, 06:39 AM)

Anybody alive? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Nope. It is so much better being undead. I'm heading to the mall.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: nes6502 on August 15, 2006, 07:19:00 PM

QUOTE(Cr4z33 @ Aug 13 2006, 10:16 AM)

Not sure about the Vs, version. That's the one that requires you to input a coin? Or is it the Play choice 10 version? Not sure, but for the console one, you set controller 2 as the light gun and controller 1 as the controller I think. If you did it the other way around, that would explain it. Someone else could probablly answer this better.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Retroplay on August 16, 2006, 07:56:00 AM

I have a Controller S in port 1 and Lightgun in port 4 on Xbox.
In Mednafen config select gamepad in port 1 and Zapper in port 2.
It works great with Duckhunt (haven't tried VS and PC10 versions).

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: MaRcMa99 on August 18, 2006, 07:32:00 AM

QUOTE(Retroplay @ Aug 16 2006, 04:03 PM)

I have a Controller S in port 1 and Lightgun in port 4 on Xbox.
In Mednafen config select gamepad in port 1 and Zapper in port 2.
It works great with Duckhunt (haven't tried VS and PC10 versions).

thanks a lot, now it's working (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Cr4z33 on August 20, 2006, 11:28:00 PM

So from what I am understanding is that you HAVE to use at least 2 controllers - if you don't have a lightgun to use in combination with a controller? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Foe-hammer on August 21, 2006, 06:53:00 PM

Mednafenx seems to be more taxing then fceultra was. In a handful of games, with supersai2x filter and at 720p, there is slowdowns (drop from 60 to in the 40's fps), whereas there were none on fceultra. Is there any truth to this?

This post has been edited by Foe-hammer: Aug 22 2006, 01:54 AM

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Sirmatto on August 21, 2006, 10:03:00 PM

QUOTE(Foe-hammer @ Aug 21 2006, 04:00 PM)

As far as I know, Mednafen is more accurate than FCEUltra, which means you are going to pay with more CPU cycles.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: Foe-hammer on September 06, 2006, 03:02:00 AM

@Xport

In 720p the only software filter i can use is superscale2x to get smooth frame rates. When i use super2xsai (my favorite filter for the NES) the framerate drops in most games. Is this normal, or is there something wrong (i need to fix something or delete something)? Neogenesis, Zsnexbox, and FBA-xxx, all more advanced systems, have no problem running games in 720p in any software filter besides HQ2x. Also there was none of these problems with fceUltra.

Thanks again for all your great emulators.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: XPort on September 06, 2006, 06:41:00 AM

QUOTE(Foe-hammer @ Sep 6 2006, 05:09 AM)

MednafenX-NES does a lot more under the hood than FCEUltraX.

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: xnevergiveinx on November 18, 2007, 01:45:00 AM

the emulator works great, but most games have crazy colors. i tried using the auto palette option, but it didn't seem to make a difference

Title: Mednafenx-nes V8
Post by: kimota2004 on November 18, 2007, 05:41:00 PM

That auto option palette does work man, the default settings are just like a NES. The only problem is if you adjust it there is no way of getting the default settings back again, and that's exactly what I have done doh!

Can anyone tell me what the default settings are for the auto pallete please?

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