Posted: 10/10/2021 1:22 PM
Post subject: Found a NES game not emulated correctly on any emulator.
ReyVGM
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I checked Bizhawk (not the latest version), FCEUX, NesterJ, Nestopia, VirtuaNES, Messen and none emulate Tsuri Kichi Sanpei: Blue Marlin Hen correctly. It's easy to replicate. Just start the game, press start to open the map, sail to the docks on the right (a square will light on), then press start and you'll see this: But you should really see this:
Posted: 10/10/2021 2:40 PM
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Pretty clearly a mapper issue, but I can't find any information about which one it should be. I'll look into it.
Posted: 10/11/2021 12:34 AM
ReyVGM
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Alyosha wrote:
Pretty clearly a mapper issue, but I can't find any information about which one it should be. I'll look into it.
Thanks!
Posted: 10/16/2021 9:19 PM
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When you open the ROM you have for this game in NESHawk with the log window open, what does it show? I got a copy and opened it up and the pcb says it's hvc-unrom--03. I dumped it with 128k PRG ROm and 0 CHR ORM and it runs just fine. (this is pretty standard.) EDIT: Also the hash i get matches that on no-intro.
Posted: 10/16/2021 9:52 PM
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I've found a dump that works fine. However, it's marked as pirated [p1]. 
    File: Tsuri Kichi Sanpei - Blue Marlin Hen (J) [p1].nes
  CRC-32: 92636a0d
     MD5: fc5ccb09aeb63955ae8c1ae32b177dc2
   SHA-1: b6b9573d71f785def1094984042a0c06d687cecc
 SHA-256: 8998d33d03376b031a1bfc653c9a45380f268371da248c9bc4a7a134c0dc37d7
With any else dump, it behaves like what ReyVGM showed. Note that the only good dump is this one: 
    File: Tsuri Kichi Sanpei - Blue Marlin Hen (J) [!].nes
  CRC-32: 99ef9cc3
     MD5: efc0a93ed9095fdba8ab5259ae7ece67
   SHA-1: c212c557953b6109916babc450ed471a0dea8ce7
 SHA-256: 5f2a027814e67958c62addb2984ffa707288502dbef32f38e18bdc1d1b29bae4
my personal page - my YouTube channel - my GitHub - my Discord: thunderaxe31 <Masterjun> if you look at the "NES" in a weird angle, it actually clearly says "GBA"
Posted: 10/16/2021 10:02 PM
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Seems to be just bad nametable mirroring in the header (the black box appears when it's backwards from what it should be.) I committed a fix. whatever the header says, the prg rom should have this hash: 
headerless rom hash: sha1:77241A57CB0B40D9ECAC451F86198ABBACBC717C