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I didn't notice that you'd ported C-BIOS. That's great! I'll have to check it out when I get a chance.

Okay, I modded under4mhz's BIOS for H.E.R.O. so that it supports the joystick and keypad correctly as separate devices. This is probably also a good start at a "universal" controller routine for Coleco games on SMS.

With an SMS pad, 1 and 2 will act as the two fire buttons. Simple, but you won't be able to start the game like that. Sorry!

With a Mega Drive three or six button pad (or a Saturn pad, natch), the controls are as follows:

Quote

A = Left Side Fire
B = Right Side Fire
In order to support the keypad buttons, directional and button combinations are used with a
Six Button Genesis controller. Here are the combinations :
Y + Up = 0
Y + Right = 1
Y + Down = 2
Y + Left = 3
Z + Up = 4
Z + Right = 5
Z + Down = 6
Z + Left = 7
Y + Z + Up = 8
Y + Z + Down = 9
X = #
C = *
Start = 1 (duplicated for starting an easier game in games with a difficulty selection option)
Mode = 3 (duplicated for starting a harder game in games with a difficulty selection option)

(This is also the same scheme that the Mega SG jailbreak uses for Coleco games)

This BIOS should also be fine for two-player games, but I haven't got round to testing that yet.

Update: Now tested and working on hardware.

H.E.R.O..sg.zip (17.51 KB)

@Wafer did you attach the correct file? On a regular SMS Pad there doesn't seem to be a way to start the game? At least nothing seems to happen no matter which button I press.

Calindro wrote

@Wafer did you attach the correct file? On a regular SMS Pad there doesn't seem to be a way to start the game? At least nothing seems to happen no matter which button I press.

Oops, I probably shoulda made it clear that there's no way to start the game without a Mega Drive pad. I was more focused on implementing a full controller map that could make most games playable with an MD controller than making this one specific game playable with SMS pads. I've edited the post.

You bring up a good point though, it would be GREAT to get games like this working without extra controls. I've been thinking it might be useful to add a "virtual keypad" screen to the BIOS so that hacks can call it on demand, but I have other projects that I need to get back to at the moment.

Wafer wrote

Oops, I probably shoulda made it clear that there's no way to start the game without a Mega Drive pad.

Oh, it looks like you did. Or did you edit your post?

Wafer wrote

With an SMS pad, 1 and 2 will act as the two fire buttons. Simple, but you won't be able to start the game like that. Sorry!

I misunderstood this part:

Wafer wrote

Start = 1 (duplicated for starting an easier game in games with a difficulty selection option)

I read it as start button behaves the same as button 1 and expected that I could also start the game with button 1.

Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next.
P.S. This works on Mark III, not even Master System (1 or 2) or Game Gear would work.

Screenshot 2021-01-21 at 2.56.17 PM.png (21.85 KB)

Stokes wrote

Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next.

Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ?

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next.

Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ?

O_O
Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000.

Stokes wrote

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next.

Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ?

O_O
Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000.

Please share the youtube link please :)

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next.

Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ?

O_O
Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000.

Please share the youtube link please :)

Stokes wrote

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next.

Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ?

O_O
Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000.

Please share the youtube link please :)

Thaaaank you ! Happy Birthday again !

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

asper wrote

Stokes wrote

Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next.

Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ?

O_O
Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000.

Please share the youtube link please :)

Thaaaank you ! Happy Birthday again !

Thanks and you're welcome. :-D

Any ideas for ColecoVision to SG-1000 games?

Stokes wrote

Any ideas for ColecoVision to SG-1000 games?

Q*bert, Mr. Do!, Mr. Do's Castle, BurgerTime, Centipede, Congo Bongo, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Galaxian, Gyruss, Lady Bug, Pitfall!, Pitfall II, Roc 'N Rope, Time Pilot, Zaxxon

In some cases there are already SG-1000 versions, but the Colecovision version is different and IMO better

Also super bonus points if you can get the Sports Pad working with Centipede

Any news on Tank Wars & HERO or did everyone move to MSX conversions? :)

elfor wrote

Any news on Tank Wars & HERO or did everyone move to MSX conversions? :)

Tank Wars and H.E.R.O. are still the same. No news for now, but we'll just have to see in the future.

Here's HERO.

I've update the joystick routine to fix the directions and support the right fire button.

To start the game, hold down the right fire button and press up. (This simulates "1" on the Colecovision keypad)

H.E.R.O..zip (17.38 KB)

Also if anyone wants to be able to play the game with full keypad support, you literally just need to scroll up the page for my attempt at that. It does require a six-button pad for full controls, or a three-button MD pad for basic support. That means you can start the game at any difficulty, as though it was running on a real CV.

Update: Now tested and working on hardware.

I suspect that the changes I made to under4mhz's BIOS will also get Tank Wars working properly, so I'll give that a try tonight as well.

Here's the OP from when I posted it back in January:

Wafer wrote

Okay, I modded under4mhz's BIOS for H.E.R.O. so that it supports the joystick and keypad correctly as separate devices. This is probably also a good start at a "universal" controller routine for Coleco games on SMS.

With an SMS pad, 1 and 2 will act as the two fire buttons. Simple, but you won't be able to start the game like that. Sorry!

With a Mega Drive three or six button pad (or a Saturn pad, natch), the controls are as follows:

Quote

A = Left Side Fire
B = Right Side Fire
In order to support the keypad buttons, directional and button combinations are used with a
Six Button Genesis controller. Here are the combinations :
Y + Up = 0
Y + Right = 1
Y + Down = 2
Y + Left = 3
Z + Up = 4
Z + Right = 5
Z + Down = 6
Z + Left = 7
Y + Z + Up = 8
Y + Z + Down = 9
X = #
C = *
Start = 1 (duplicated for starting an easier game in games with a difficulty selection option)
Mode = 3 (duplicated for starting a harder game in games with a difficulty selection option)

(This is also the same scheme that the Mega SG jailbreak uses for Coleco games)

This BIOS should also be fine for two-player games, but I haven't got round to testing that yet.

Update: Now tested and working on hardware.

Thank you, working fine on real hardware (SMS 1).

Here's Tank Wars.

Once again, right button and up to start the game (ignore the blank screen on the select mode screen).

It doesn't really work very well. Once you die, the controls stop working(?), and lines still remain. From my short stint trying to fix other games, I suspect fixing these problems will probably take more time than I'm prepared to spend on it.

TankWars.zip (13.28 KB)

Thanks all for your work!
I found it surprising how H.E.R.O. on SG-1000 looked so different from MSX and Coleco versions.

From a casual observer those threads are as fascinating as they can be difficult to follow. I know Revo recently put some good efforts at cataloguing the GG2SMS hacks on the Hacks section. Do you think we should be opening section for MSX and Coleco sourced hacks too? Just wondering what people feel would be best, if there's anything to do.

Also please, whenever you shared modified rom images (which is fine) please do tag the filename with a consistent indication e.g. [MSX2SMS] or [COL2SMS]. We have ongoing work of dumping variety of Asian cartridges including xxx-in-1 with frequently contains MSX or maybe Coleco conversions from the nineties and although my dumping logs are all published, sorting through those official hacks of the 90s is tremendously difficult and it would be good to not put ourselves in a situation where we can't tell which is which :) Thank you.

If you open a MSX2SMS section, please found an other solution than the existing GG2SMS section, 'cause adding more than 300 hacks will take ages.

Revo wrote

If you open a MSX2SMS section, please found an other solution than the existing GG2SMS section, 'cause adding more than 300 hacks will take ages.

For this I would suggest opening a new thread in the Website Forum to discuss how you think the process can be improved (e.g. what takes time, what could be made easier, or faster, or less prone to mistakes, etc.).

If I look at the wiki sources for a page:

:Version:1.1
:Date:20191103
:By:[[~Revo]] and [[~Wafer]]
:Screenshots:1
:ForumTopic:14742

>><<
@@10 minutes gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSkBdx5kC0 @@

!!Battleship v1.1 GG2SMS Conversion by Wafer and Révo 2019-11-03
* Compatible with MD and Saturn pad, supports [Start] button
* Supports [Pause] button and [d] on controller 2
* Game can be started without start button

!!Battleship v1 GG2SMS Conversion by Révo 2017-01-24
*Start configured on down controller 2.

Things looks relatively straightforward. How can we improve that?
It's a little luxurious (but nice) that you made the effort of adding full changelog, but perhaps that's one thing that cost more time/maintainance.

Bock wrote

I know Revo recently put some good efforts at cataloguing the GG2SMS hacks on the Hacks section. Do you think we should be opening section for MSX and Coleco sourced hacks too? Just wondering what people feel would be best, if there's anything to do.

Bock wrote

It's a little luxurious (but nice) that you made the effort of adding full changelog, but perhaps that's one thing that cost more time/maintainance.

Not to be an ass, but it was me that did that, if you're talking about the pages that got updated at the start of the pandemic. Revo has historically been reluctant to produce anything other than pre-patched ROMs, nevermind updating the wiki. I had the blisters to prove it. It was effectively my full-time job for several days.

For my part, the wiki process is fine so long as people actually keep on top of it instead of leaving me to play catch up on their behalf. I agree though that updating the wiki with all the existing MSX hacks is going to be a mammoth task since we're already on the backfoot, and I'm back in work now so I don't have time to jump on it.

I could maybe hack together a Python script to do fuzzy matching against a list of retail titles and generate wiki formatted pages if people were willing to provide organized zips of the latest versions of their hacks.

I did something like 40% of the pages/update of GG2SMS section but yeah why not. And the last updates you did was not even complete...

Revo wrote

I did something like 40% of the pages/update of GG2SMS section but yeah why not. And the last updates you did was not even complete...

In that case, I apologize. I wasn't aware that there'd been much activity on GG2SMS since last summer, and the updates were as complete as I could reasonably get them given that I had to trawl the forum thread to get them.

Sorry for being an ass.

Anyway, the offer still stands to automate as much of generating the wiki pages as possible to catch up with the backlog, if people are interested in that.

Here's Oil's Well and Gorf.

To start Gorf, hold right button and up.
To start Oil's Well, wait for the green menu screen and press fire.

OilsWell-COL2SG.zip (12.58 KB)

Gorf-COL2SG.zip (17.14 KB)

Wafer wrote

Revo wrote

I did something like 40% of the pages/update of GG2SMS section but yeah why not. And the last updates you did was not even complete...

In that case, I apologize. I wasn't aware that there'd been much activity on GG2SMS since last summer, and the updates were as complete as I could reasonably get them given that I had to trawl the forum thread to get them.

Sorry for being an ass.

This have nothing to do with activity on GG2SMS since last summer. You just missed some conversion and update. I don't think your an ass, you just wrong by saying that I just post ROM here. I created more than 100 pages here for GG2SMS, Hack, Homebrew; and did a lot of updates (without putting my pseudo everywhere like I worked on these) ;)

under4mhz wrote

Here's Oil's Well and Gorf.

To start Gorf, hold right button and up.
To start Oil's Well, wait for the green menu screen and press fire.

You didn't notice anything special about Oil's Well? There is no enemies ah ah^^ Way more simple like that, but unfortunately there is enemies in the original game.

Wafer: you are right, sincere apologies for overlooking your contributions.

One of the reason for me noticing the very recent changes is that two months ago Maxim connected the RSS feed to Discord and now all new or edit pages appears there. I think it was generally a great move for the community. Btw history are available on a per-section basis too https://www.smspower.org/Hacks/RecentChanges for reference.

Thank you both and of course Revo and anyone involved in the greater Wiki and any pages and this forum :)

I don't exactly now the steps nor if a Python script would meaningfully be helpful and not create other issues. I personally find that when I edit the wiki for other contents, it is the addition of screenshots that takes the most time.

Revo wrote

I don't think your an ass, you just wrong by saying that I just post ROM here. I created more than 100 pages here for GG2SMS, Hack, Homebrew; and did a lot of updates (without putting my pseudo everywhere like I worked on these) ;)

Thanks for being understanding :) I'll do better in the future.

The main reason I think a Python script might help is if we could go from a list of filenames straight to a bunch of boilerplate wiki-formatted text with appropriate wiki URLs then we'd have at least an online centralized list of all the hacks that people could dive in and start adding their notes manually. It's the kind of thing I'd bash together in about an hour given a small sample set, and then adjust as necessary as I fed it more data. I'm mainly thinking about just catching up with the backlog of existing hacks that will need pages creating.

So far as screenshots go, I think we could probably afford to forego that in most cases? At least with the MSX titles most of them convert so well at this point that screenshots won't really illustrate anything of consequence.

The site structure wants at least a title screen to show for any hack, although that won’t necessarily apply for SG to CV hacks if we choose to exclude them. Of course these will generally be identical - although some additional text would be a nice addition, that’s not trivial.

BTW, actually more on-topic @under4mhz I hope you don't mind that I used your modded BIOS as the basis for my controller routine. I maybe should've asked beforehand but I was keen to get stuck into things and I'm used to just disassembling other people's GG2SMS hacks to work on the controls.

I don't mind at all. I originally ported the BIOS in the hope someone with more interest in the project would take it up.

Find attached the tool I wrote to do the conversion.

col2sg-1.01.zip (19.4 KB)

Guys.

Space Invaders Collection on SMS to MSX.
Did anyone see what's happening?

NVM, it's just the original Coleco file.

Author	Message
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 6:53 pm
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	I didn't notice that you'd ported C-BIOS. That's great! I'll have to check it out when I get a chance.

Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 7:16 pm Last edited by Wafer on Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:02 pm; edited 2 times in total
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Okay, I modded under4mhz's BIOS for H.E.R.O. so that it supports the joystick and keypad correctly as separate devices. This is probably also a good start at a "universal" controller routine for Coleco games on SMS. With an SMS pad, 1 and 2 will act as the two fire buttons. Simple, but you won't be able to start the game like that. Sorry! With a Mega Drive three or six button pad (or a Saturn pad, natch), the controls are as follows: Quote A = Left Side Fire B = Right Side Fire In order to support the keypad buttons, directional and button combinations are used with a Six Button Genesis controller. Here are the combinations : Y + Up = 0 Y + Right = 1 Y + Down = 2 Y + Left = 3 Z + Up = 4 Z + Right = 5 Z + Down = 6 Z + Left = 7 Y + Z + Up = 8 Y + Z + Down = 9 X = # C = * Start = 1 (duplicated for starting an easier game in games with a difficulty selection option) Mode = 3 (duplicated for starting a harder game in games with a difficulty selection option) (This is also the same scheme that the Mega SG jailbreak uses for Coleco games) This BIOS should also be fine for two-player games, but I haven't got round to testing that yet. Update: Now tested and working on hardware. H.E.R.O..sg.zip (17.51 KB)

Calindro Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 526	Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 8:56 pm
Calindro Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 526	@Wafer did you attach the correct file? On a regular SMS Pad there doesn't seem to be a way to start the game? At least nothing seems to happen no matter which button I press.

Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:09 pm
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Calindro wrote @Wafer did you attach the correct file? On a regular SMS Pad there doesn't seem to be a way to start the game? At least nothing seems to happen no matter which button I press. Oops, I probably shoulda made it clear that there's no way to start the game without a Mega Drive pad. I was more focused on implementing a full controller map that could make most games playable with an MD controller than making this one specific game playable with SMS pads. I've edited the post. You bring up a good point though, it would be GREAT to get games like this working without extra controls. I've been thinking it might be useful to add a "virtual keypad" screen to the BIOS so that hacks can call it on demand, but I have other projects that I need to get back to at the moment.

Calindro Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 526	Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2021 10:19 pm
Calindro Joined: 14 Apr 2013 Posts: 526	Wafer wrote Oops, I probably shoulda made it clear that there's no way to start the game without a Mega Drive pad. Oh, it looks like you did. Or did you edit your post? Wafer wrote With an SMS pad, 1 and 2 will act as the two fire buttons. Simple, but you won't be able to start the game like that. Sorry! I misunderstood this part: Wafer wrote Start = 1 (duplicated for starting an easier game in games with a difficulty selection option) I read it as start button behaves the same as button 1 and expected that I could also start the game with button 1.

Stokes Joined: 17 Feb 2020 Posts: 355 Location: United States	Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 7:59 pm Last edited by Stokes on Sat Jan 23, 2021 3:03 pm; edited 1 time in total
	Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next. P.S. This works on Mark III, not even Master System (1 or 2) or Game Gear would work. Screenshot 2021-01-21 at 2.56.17 PM.png (21.85 KB)

asper Joined: 25 Nov 2015 Posts: 119	Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:29 pm
asper Joined: 25 Nov 2015 Posts: 119	Stokes wrote Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next. Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ?

Stokes Joined: 17 Feb 2020 Posts: 355 Location: United States	Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:37 pm
	asper wrote Stokes wrote Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next. Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ? O_O Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000.

asper Joined: 25 Nov 2015 Posts: 119	Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 8:57 pm
asper Joined: 25 Nov 2015 Posts: 119	Stokes wrote asper wrote Stokes wrote Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next. Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ? O_O Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000. Please share the youtube link please :)

Stokes Joined: 17 Feb 2020 Posts: 355 Location: United States	Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:03 pm
	asper wrote Stokes wrote asper wrote Stokes wrote Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next. Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ? O_O Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000. Please share the youtube link please :)

asper Joined: 25 Nov 2015 Posts: 119	Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:08 pm
asper Joined: 25 Nov 2015 Posts: 119	Stokes wrote asper wrote Stokes wrote asper wrote Stokes wrote Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next. Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ? O_O Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000. Please share the youtube link please :) Thaaaank you ! Happy Birthday again !

Stokes Joined: 17 Feb 2020 Posts: 355 Location: United States	Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:25 pm
	asper wrote Stokes wrote asper wrote Stokes wrote asper wrote Stokes wrote Okay, while I did this on my birthday (January 21st) today, I bet you guys would be interested into having Space Invaders Collection, by Opcode, on SMS. This was supposed to be for the SG-1000, but ended up being on SMS due to size being 64kB for SMS and SG-1000 can handle 48kB ROM. The original game was only 32kB. I will see if I can get 2010 next. Isn't "Loretta no Shouzou: Sherlock Holmes" a 128KB for SG-1000 ? O_O Oh, looks like I was wrong, I also discovered there was this MSX to SMS collection by a user on YouTube that ACTUALLY runs on the SG-1000. Please share the youtube link please :) Thaaaank you ! Happy Birthday again ! Thanks and you're welcome. :-D

Stokes Joined: 17 Feb 2020 Posts: 355 Location: United States	Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 1:06 pm
	Any ideas for ColecoVision to SG-1000 games?

bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 314	Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:56 pm
bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 314	Stokes wrote Any ideas for ColecoVision to SG-1000 games? Q*bert, Mr. Do!, Mr. Do's Castle, BurgerTime, Centipede, Congo Bongo, Donkey Kong, Frogger, Galaxian, Gyruss, Lady Bug, Pitfall!, Pitfall II, Roc 'N Rope, Time Pilot, Zaxxon In some cases there are already SG-1000 versions, but the Colecovision version is different and IMO better

bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 314	Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2021 5:58 pm
bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 314	Also super bonus points if you can get the Sports Pad working with Centipede

elfor Joined: 10 Jan 2021 Posts: 5	Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:07 pm
elfor Joined: 10 Jan 2021 Posts: 5	Any news on Tank Wars & HERO or did everyone move to MSX conversions? :)

Stokes Joined: 17 Feb 2020 Posts: 355 Location: United States	Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2021 11:36 pm
	elfor wrote Any news on Tank Wars & HERO or did everyone move to MSX conversions? :) Tank Wars and H.E.R.O. are still the same. No news for now, but we'll just have to see in the future.

under4mhz Joined: 17 Jan 2020 Posts: 57 Location: Brisbane	Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 8:14 am
	Here's HERO. I've update the joystick routine to fix the directions and support the right fire button. To start the game, hold down the right fire button and press up. (This simulates "1" on the Colecovision keypad) H.E.R.O..zip (17.38 KB)

Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:59 am Last edited by Wafer on Mon Mar 08, 2021 7:03 pm; edited 2 times in total
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Also if anyone wants to be able to play the game with full keypad support, you literally just need to scroll up the page for my attempt at that. It does require a six-button pad for full controls, or a three-button MD pad for basic support. That means you can start the game at any difficulty, as though it was running on a real CV. Update: Now tested and working on hardware. I suspect that the changes I made to under4mhz's BIOS will also get Tank Wars working properly, so I'll give that a try tonight as well. Here's the OP from when I posted it back in January: Wafer wrote Okay, I modded under4mhz's BIOS for H.E.R.O. so that it supports the joystick and keypad correctly as separate devices. This is probably also a good start at a "universal" controller routine for Coleco games on SMS. With an SMS pad, 1 and 2 will act as the two fire buttons. Simple, but you won't be able to start the game like that. Sorry! With a Mega Drive three or six button pad (or a Saturn pad, natch), the controls are as follows: Quote A = Left Side Fire B = Right Side Fire In order to support the keypad buttons, directional and button combinations are used with a Six Button Genesis controller. Here are the combinations : Y + Up = 0 Y + Right = 1 Y + Down = 2 Y + Left = 3 Z + Up = 4 Z + Right = 5 Z + Down = 6 Z + Left = 7 Y + Z + Up = 8 Y + Z + Down = 9 X = # C = * Start = 1 (duplicated for starting an easier game in games with a difficulty selection option) Mode = 3 (duplicated for starting a harder game in games with a difficulty selection option) (This is also the same scheme that the Mega SG jailbreak uses for Coleco games) This BIOS should also be fine for two-player games, but I haven't got round to testing that yet. Update: Now tested and working on hardware.

Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 12:10 pm
Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	Thank you, working fine on real hardware (SMS 1).

under4mhz Joined: 17 Jan 2020 Posts: 57 Location: Brisbane	Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 8:28 am
	Here's Tank Wars. Once again, right button and up to start the game (ignore the blank screen on the select mode screen). It doesn't really work very well. Once you die, the controls stop working(?), and lines still remain. From my short stint trying to fix other games, I suspect fixing these problems will probably take more time than I'm prepared to spend on it. TankWars.zip (13.28 KB)

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8340 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:19 am
	Thanks all for your work! I found it surprising how H.E.R.O. on SG-1000 looked so different from MSX and Coleco versions. From a casual observer those threads are as fascinating as they can be difficult to follow. I know Revo recently put some good efforts at cataloguing the GG2SMS hacks on the Hacks section. Do you think we should be opening section for MSX and Coleco sourced hacks too? Just wondering what people feel would be best, if there's anything to do. Also please, whenever you shared modified rom images (which is fine) please do tag the filename with a consistent indication e.g. [MSX2SMS] or [COL2SMS]. We have ongoing work of dumping variety of Asian cartridges including xxx-in-1 with frequently contains MSX or maybe Coleco conversions from the nineties and although my dumping logs are all published, sorting through those official hacks of the 90s is tremendously difficult and it would be good to not put ourselves in a situation where we can't tell which is which :) Thank you.

Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 11:40 am
Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	If you open a MSX2SMS section, please found an other solution than the existing GG2SMS section, 'cause adding more than 300 hacks will take ages.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8340 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 2:34 pm
	Revo wrote If you open a MSX2SMS section, please found an other solution than the existing GG2SMS section, 'cause adding more than 300 hacks will take ages. For this I would suggest opening a new thread in the Website Forum to discuss how you think the process can be improved (e.g. what takes time, what could be made easier, or faster, or less prone to mistakes, etc.). If I look at the wiki sources for a page: :Version:1.1 :Date:20191103 :By:[[~Revo]] and [[~Wafer]] :Screenshots:1 :ForumTopic:14742 >><< @@10 minutes gameplay video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSkBdx5kC0 @@ !!Battleship v1.1 GG2SMS Conversion by Wafer and Révo 2019-11-03 * Compatible with MD and Saturn pad, supports [Start] button * Supports [Pause] button and [d] on controller 2 * Game can be started without start button !!Battleship v1 GG2SMS Conversion by Révo 2017-01-24 *Start configured on down controller 2. Things looks relatively straightforward. How can we improve that? It's a little luxurious (but nice) that you made the effort of adding full changelog, but perhaps that's one thing that cost more time/maintainance.

Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 5:29 pm
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Bock wrote I know Revo recently put some good efforts at cataloguing the GG2SMS hacks on the Hacks section. Do you think we should be opening section for MSX and Coleco sourced hacks too? Just wondering what people feel would be best, if there's anything to do. Bock wrote It's a little luxurious (but nice) that you made the effort of adding full changelog, but perhaps that's one thing that cost more time/maintainance. Not to be an ass, but it was me that did that, if you're talking about the pages that got updated at the start of the pandemic. Revo has historically been reluctant to produce anything other than pre-patched ROMs, nevermind updating the wiki. I had the blisters to prove it. It was effectively my full-time job for several days. For my part, the wiki process is fine so long as people actually keep on top of it instead of leaving me to play catch up on their behalf. I agree though that updating the wiki with all the existing MSX hacks is going to be a mammoth task since we're already on the backfoot, and I'm back in work now so I don't have time to jump on it. I could maybe hack together a Python script to do fuzzy matching against a list of retail titles and generate wiki formatted pages if people were willing to provide organized zips of the latest versions of their hacks.

Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 5:51 pm
Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	I did something like 40% of the pages/update of GG2SMS section but yeah why not. And the last updates you did was not even complete...

Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 6:08 pm
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Revo wrote I did something like 40% of the pages/update of GG2SMS section but yeah why not. And the last updates you did was not even complete... In that case, I apologize. I wasn't aware that there'd been much activity on GG2SMS since last summer, and the updates were as complete as I could reasonably get them given that I had to trawl the forum thread to get them. Sorry for being an ass.

Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 6:25 pm
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Anyway, the offer still stands to automate as much of generating the wiki pages as possible to catch up with the backlog, if people are interested in that.

under4mhz Joined: 17 Jan 2020 Posts: 57 Location: Brisbane	Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 8:16 am
	Here's Oil's Well and Gorf. To start Gorf, hold right button and up. To start Oil's Well, wait for the green menu screen and press fire. OilsWell-COL2SG.zip (12.58 KB) Gorf-COL2SG.zip (17.14 KB)

Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:49 am
Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	Wafer wrote Revo wrote I did something like 40% of the pages/update of GG2SMS section but yeah why not. And the last updates you did was not even complete... In that case, I apologize. I wasn't aware that there'd been much activity on GG2SMS since last summer, and the updates were as complete as I could reasonably get them given that I had to trawl the forum thread to get them. Sorry for being an ass. This have nothing to do with activity on GG2SMS since last summer. You just missed some conversion and update. I don't think your an ass, you just wrong by saying that I just post ROM here. I created more than 100 pages here for GG2SMS, Hack, Homebrew; and did a lot of updates (without putting my pseudo everywhere like I worked on these) ;)

Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 2:41 pm
Revo Joined: 26 Jan 2014 Posts: 683	under4mhz wrote Here's Oil's Well and Gorf. To start Gorf, hold right button and up. To start Oil's Well, wait for the green menu screen and press fire. You didn't notice anything special about Oil's Well? There is no enemies ah ah^^ Way more simple like that, but unfortunately there is enemies in the original game.

Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8340 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Thu Mar 11, 2021 4:23 pm
	Wafer: you are right, sincere apologies for overlooking your contributions. One of the reason for me noticing the very recent changes is that two months ago Maxim connected the RSS feed to Discord and now all new or edit pages appears there. I think it was generally a great move for the community. Btw history are available on a per-section basis too https://www.smspower.org/Hacks/RecentChanges for reference. Thank you both and of course Revo and anyone involved in the greater Wiki and any pages and this forum :) I don't exactly now the steps nor if a Python script would meaningfully be helpful and not create other issues. I personally find that when I edit the wiki for other contents, it is the addition of screenshots that takes the most time.

Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:44 pm
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Revo wrote I don't think your an ass, you just wrong by saying that I just post ROM here. I created more than 100 pages here for GG2SMS, Hack, Homebrew; and did a lot of updates (without putting my pseudo everywhere like I worked on these) ;) Thanks for being understanding :) I'll do better in the future. The main reason I think a Python script might help is if we could go from a list of filenames straight to a bunch of boilerplate wiki-formatted text with appropriate wiki URLs then we'd have at least an online centralized list of all the hacks that people could dive in and start adding their notes manually. It's the kind of thing I'd bash together in about an hour given a small sample set, and then adjust as necessary as I fed it more data. I'm mainly thinking about just catching up with the backlog of existing hacks that will need pages creating. So far as screenshots go, I think we could probably afford to forego that in most cases? At least with the MSX titles most of them convert so well at this point that screenshots won't really illustrate anything of consequence.

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 13627 Location: London	Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:21 pm
	The site structure wants at least a title screen to show for any hack, although that won’t necessarily apply for SG to CV hacks if we choose to exclude them. Of course these will generally be identical - although some additional text would be a nice addition, that’s not trivial.

Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:46 pm
Wafer Joined: 22 Sep 2019 Posts: 98	BTW, actually more on-topic @under4mhz I hope you don't mind that I used your modded BIOS as the basis for my controller routine. I maybe should've asked beforehand but I was keen to get stuck into things and I'm used to just disassembling other people's GG2SMS hacks to work on the controls.

under4mhz Joined: 17 Jan 2020 Posts: 57 Location: Brisbane	Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 3:17 am
	I don't mind at all. I originally ported the BIOS in the hope someone with more interest in the project would take it up. Find attached the tool I wrote to do the conversion. col2sg-1.01.zip (19.4 KB)

Stokes Joined: 17 Feb 2020 Posts: 355 Location: United States	Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:22 pm
	Guys. Space Invaders Collection on SMS to MSX. Did anyone see what's happening?

Stokes Joined: 17 Feb 2020 Posts: 355 Location: United States	Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2021 11:38 pm
	NVM, it's just the original Coleco file.

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