Not a lot happening in the so called NES "scene" huh? Well things have been a bit messy where I work the past week, and actually still is, meaning that I had to work double as fast as usual, leaving me totally exhausted when I got home. Therefore no updates of NES WORLD since the 18th. Well I've had the day off today, and spent it on this site (maybe I should get a life huh? ;) By request, I've fixed the index page a little so that it now should load a bit faster on all browsers. MY ARCHIVE LIST My wanted/archive list will from now on be a bit more interesting for most of you.
I will start reviewing the games of star wars galaxy of heroes hack I own and link to the review from my "wanted/archive" page. I've received e-mails from people requesting game reviews lately and I hope this new idea will cover their *need* for reviews, heh.SOFTWARE TOOLWORKS PROJECT 88 "MOTHRA"Did you know that "Project 88 - Mothra" was the project name for the Miracle Piano Teching System which Software Toolworks developed? I was lucky to be able to take a look a the Miracle MIDI Implementation chart and discovered the project name.
If "Mothra" is a latin (or whatever) name for something, and you know what it means, please let me know.BILL HINDORFF LEAVES ATARI GAMESVice president of product development at Atari Games, Bill Hindorff, has left the company and joined the 3DO company. Bill Hindorff worked as producer on a lot of Tengen NES games and even wrote one of them, Super Sprint. Recently he has been producer on N64 games such as San Francisco Rush and California Speed. Problems with the PlayStation version of Gauntlet Legends forced him to leave the company. At 3DO he's filling a position he knows well, vice precident of product development.
He will immediately be responsible for 2 PC games in the works, Crusaders of Might and Magic and Meridian 59, as well as the Gameboy Color and Macintosh versions of Heroes of Might and Magic 3.Click here to read an interview I once made with Bill Hindorff.MORE NES PROTOTYPES DISCOVERED & CONFIRMED|tsr of |tsr's NES Archive has confirmed that the following NES prototypes exist as well as the condition of the game (complete or not): Black Tiger (Capcom) complete Buzz & Waldog (Innovation) completeCalifornia Raisins (Capcom) complete Crash & The Boys Ice Challenge (Technos) incompleteGun.Smoke 2 (Capcom) unknownMetal Man (Codemasters) completeMr. Gimmick (Sun) completeStreet Battle (Innovation) completeSquashed (Jaleco) complete War on Wheels (Jaleco) complete While we're at comfirming protos, let me confirm that the following carts were made for the Aladdin Deck Enhancer, by codies. Some of the titles are missing, but I'll try to get them sometime (spoke to a former Codie programmer back in February 1999).
Dream World Pogie (complete)Skyhigh Stuntman (unknown)Stunt Kids (complete)Ultimate stuntman (complete)C.J's Elephant Antics (complete)Boomerang Kid (complete)Bignose the Caveman (complete) A Pinball game was also made along with 5 different Dizzy games, but titles are unknown atm.NSF'S NOW AT NES WORLDI know I havent wrote much about the NSF players, in fact nothing at all. But it's actually a quite cool format and that you're able to listen to the good old NES tunes without having to pop in a cartridge. Click here to check out more about the NSF player and ripped music.NAMCO SPECIAL DELAYEDSadly the Namco Special will be delayed for an unknown period.
I've stumbled into some stuff which requires more time.NES EMULATOR FOR THE N64Everyone who owns a N64 backup unit might've heard of vNES64, a NES emulator created by JL_Picard. But only 2 versions of the emulator was released and the public hasn't heard of it since, what happened? did Jean Luc decide to scrap the emu? The answer? well kinda. Jean Luc made a deal with the authors of RockNES, one of the best DOS based emulators, to port their emulator to the N64. The work has been going steadily over the summer and a release should be just around the corner. There has been a few major problems tho, which vNES64 also suffered under.
The engine was too slow and sound/gfx didnt update as it was supposed to, meaning that the sound was "delayed" heavily. But the emulator has been rewritten a bit and now works great and not as slow as the vNES64. A new GUI has also been created, RockNES64 looks like a commercial product now :)NEW LINKSNew links added, feel free to check them out!THE LOST DR. DOS PRANK CALLSDr. DOS finally contacted me after being MIA for quite some time.
He told me that he once had made some pranks live on iParty, here's what he had to say about one of them: Yah, it was a lot of calls too.. I wish someone recorded the one about my Tetris blocks going the wrong way and the nintendo guy asks if I'm holding my gameboy the right way.. I start yelling at him and he got scared.. Unfortunately he didnt record these calls himself, so unless someone else did, they're gone for good. On the bright side, he promished that once he got opportunity to make some new ones, he'd be sure to record them.CRACKOUT PASSWORDIf anyone knows any passwords for Crackout, please let me know. Here's a password I've made (passwords for 4-10 and 4-11 are in the cheats section):
Level 1-08 : N08G5Y7GZTPO4NEW CRYSTAL MINES GAME ON THE ATARI LYNXKen Beckett, creator of Crystal Mines which was released by Color Dreams, is working on a new Crystal Mines game calles Crystal Mines II: Buried Treasure, which will appear on the old Atari Lynx, released by Songbird. Who knows, maybe we'll get a NES port? ;)
