MetalVinnie Posted June 3, 2017 Author Share Posted June 3, 2017 13 hours ago, Patham said: Yeah, it's crazy but I admire the guy. I don't have the skill or the stamina to even think about attempting something like that. He was at 90 million+ and 18+ hours in a few minutes ago. That's incredible. I played the game a lot yesterday and I suck and it's a tough game to boot. I won't embarrass myself by telling you all my high score, haha. @MetalVinnie I tried out the Gyruss hack yesterday. I didn't play long but from what I could tell it was how you explained it, English intro. Might have slightly better audio as well. The cool thing for me was I learned a bit about patching ROMs with hacks in the process. I watched him for a bit. I was more curious to see what he did to take a break. He had so many extra lives that it almost didn't matter if he lost a few. But he took a break to sip his cup, lost a few lives doing it. And every time he reached 10 million, the score rolls over to 0. So he had to mark that on the video for us and that took a bit of time from him, too. Having no pause button is what really blew me away. I also just learned how to patch roms. It was easy enough to just download an already patched rom, so I never bothered until now. I was curious about Gyruss because Brad announced it on one of his videos. I guess the Gyruss translation is still too new for an already patched rom to download. So I learned how to do it myself. But I also found some patches for other games that I thought needed a translation and spent a day patching roms. It's pretty easy. I was really happy to find a translation for 'Arumana no Kiseki' or 'The Miracle Of Almana'. Haven't gotten far with it, but it's good ol' Konami greatness with a Castlevania/Indiana Jones kind of feel to it. While we're here sharing our learning experiences, I did want to tell you something else I discovered about EBOOT.PCB files in Retroarch. While I was making configurations on Retroarch for one of my eboot files, I noticed that Retoarch will save it to a file as 'EBOOT.cfg'. Unfortunately, any 'EBOOT.PCB' will save to the same config. So...I renamed all my EBOOT.PCB files to 'Name of Game'.PCB. They still work and now I can save each game to it's own config. For some reason I thought they all had to be named 'eboot.pcb' because that's how they will work on my actual PSP. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moff Posted November 11, 2017 Share Posted November 11, 2017 (edited) Great job you've done! Thanks! But can i ask you a question? By what principle did you select roms for the arcade lists? Did you select them by region? But sometimes you choose US region, and sometimes it's World revision. Why? For example why you choose 1941u.zip which is a clone instead of using 1941.zip which is a parent rom and later World revision? And another reason why i asking you about it is that there is plenty of clones that are better then parent roms. For example "TMNT Turtles in time" parent rom (tmnt2.zip in you list) doesn't let you choose characters (you can play only for Leonardo) and the better version is a clone 2 players US version (tmnt22pu.zip) Same goes to Simpsons and Sunset Riders, only 2 players clones let you choose different characters. Some games are better depending on the region, they may have better gameplay, improved graphics, even additional content. Great list of better clones you can find here: http://hyperspin-fe.com/forums/topic/26943-list-of-mame-clones-worth-playing-redux/ I really like your lists, you did a great amount of job, but i want help to make them even better. Thanks! Edited November 11, 2017 by moff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalVinnie Posted November 13, 2017 Author Share Posted November 13, 2017 (edited) @moff I appreciate your comments. Thank you. I did not select the regions/clones for the rom list. I just checked my Launchbox and didn't even know that 1941u was the main rom selected for 1941. When I right click on '1941', all the clones are listed under the same heading. I think that was due to how Launchbox bundled the roms when I imported them. I do agree that some versions of certain games are better than others, although, I didn't choose which clone should be on those lists. Honestly, that would've been too tedious for me. But, I'm also the kind of guy who likes X-Men to be the 6-player version with 3 screens and would take the time to set up my controller to the character that I like. Edited November 13, 2017 by MetalVinnie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elements604 Posted May 26, 2018 Share Posted May 26, 2018 Thanks for the list, I am just wondering does anyone have a vertical only arcade list? As these ones include horizontal as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sakt1moko Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 (edited) Ive been trying to add the playslist to my LB. I Tried to add with LB closed, but always fail, the playlist cant be added, and dissapear from the folder Any solution to this? Im on the latest beta Help @MetalVinnie EDIT1. Why this playlist its the only that doesnt work for me? Edited June 20, 2018 by sakt1moko Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garbanzo Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Really nice work, these are helping me to build my SHMUPS box. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Resident Stevil Posted October 25, 2019 Share Posted October 25, 2019 (edited) On 6/4/2018 at 6:00 AM, sakt1moko said: Ive been trying to add the playslist to my LB. I Tried to add with LB closed, but always fail, the playlist cant be added, and dissapear from the folder Any solution to this? Im on the latest beta Help @MetalVinnie EDIT1. Why this playlist its the only that doesnt work for me? Okay so I downloaded this playlist and I basically had the same issue as you before. First you have to make sure that Launchbox is 100% closed meaning check Task Manager to see if "launchbox.exe" is still present and if so kill the process before copying the file over to the playlist folder to prevent it from being deleted. Secondly, between the time this playlist was made and to now, the developers of LaunchBox seemed to have changed the way XML playlists work and added/removed some details. You need to select the drop down box underneath the search bar and select "playlist" where you should find it, then right click and hit "edit," then change the following values I've circled here. Edited October 25, 2019 by Resident Stevil detail correction 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerSchlachter Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Some Clear Logos for my SHMUP Playlist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerSchlachter Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 Additional Fanart for my SMUP Collection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin76 Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 On 10/4/2017 at 12:48, MetalVinnie said: Ho appena aggiunto una nuova playlist per gli arcade/MAME SHMUPS. Ho anche aggiunto elenchi SHMUPS per MSX, NES, SNES, SMS, Genesis e Turbo Grafx. GODERE! SHMUPS (Arcade) 1.5.xml Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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