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by Knurek at 4:26 PM EST on January 22, 2013
I need your opinion, people:

For NES/Famicom (and let's assume other systems as well), do you want me to include:

a) Unlicensed USA games (Tengen, Codemasters, etc)
b) Unlicensed Asia games (those Hong Kong pirates, demakes, etc)
c) Prototypes

I'm not including them in pmh, since there's simply not that many of them - just a few Sachen Game Boy games. But there's literally hundreds of them on NES alone.

What's your take? I'm inclined to do a) and c), Asia pirates usually have very, very rough release dates and crappy music.
by Specter at 4:59 PM EST on January 22, 2013
I also think that b) should be ignored. Mostly because it's impossible to do proper documentation of these 8-bit pirates.
by strugglepoo at 6:46 PM EST on January 22, 2013
I would only be interested in prototypes.
by snakemeat at 8:17 PM EST on January 22, 2013
I like anything that has unique music. So, I would like to see all three. I'm not sure of the likelihood of unique music in (b), but I'd like to see them. As someone who grew up playing Tengen games, definitely (a)!
by Dais! at 12:34 AM EST on January 23, 2013
A, I think, is basically essential - for better or worse, those games were a noteworthy part of the American NES experience during the time when the console was still 'active'.

B can be more safely skipped, since those kind of pirates represent a range of a decade or two, many of them reuse music (a lot of which was already taken from commercial games), and that's where most of the really bad music is.

C is interesting, but is generally stuff with a niche appeal to listeners. A sub-page that gets rarely updated, maybe?

For all of them, but especially B, it might be better to make up a quick no-frills list in the *mh style for all these sets, divided by category. This list could be a separate page linked off the cmh page, or perhaps could be added to the Bootleg Games Wiki, where I'm sure it would be welcome. You might even find some people on the Pirated Games Central Forum who would be willing to create and maintain the list if you sent them the sets and any information you had on them. That would also take any obligation off you to add in new information when it comes to light.
by Knurek at 2:51 AM EST on January 23, 2013
One more thing - can anyone point me to a list containing ripper credits for NSF files? I have no problems with the newer rips, since the rippers site are still online and I just need to check whether it was kingshriek, ugetab, gil-galad or whoever else that did the rip.

But I have problems with older rips, especially those contained in Kevin Horton's pack. Not having to research the ripper would speed up things considerably, so I'd be really glad if someone could contribute something here.
by snakemeat at 9:00 AM EST on January 23, 2013
Knurek, my old clrMAME DAT files included the ripper. You can find the NSF one here: http://snakemeat.webs.com/musicother.htm

edited 9:01 AM EST January 23, 2013
by Knurek at 10:48 AM EST on January 23, 2013
You are amazing, I love you and I want to bear your children.
Also thanks. ;P

//EDIT

Finished proof-of-concept set, I've uploaded it (both cmh set and mininsf version) here

Please let me know if you'd like for me to change anything with the structure.

edited 11:33 AM EST January 23, 2013
by Specter at 12:34 PM EST on January 23, 2013
Newbie question, how can I play m3u playlists created for NSF's? It doesn't play any music at all. I haven't got any problems with playlists for other formats like GBS, SGC or KSS. I'm using WinAmp with NotSoFatso plugin.

EDIT: Nevermind. It works great with NEZPlug++.

edited 12:47 PM EST January 23, 2013
by dj4uk6cjm at 2:14 AM EST on January 24, 2013
Forgive me for my asking here but where can i get an f-zero gx soundfont? :P

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