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SmokeMonsterPacks / Nt-Mini-Noir-Jailbreak

Custom "Jailbreak" firmware for the Analogue Nt Mini V2 "Noir"
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Some games shown as color rectangles #6

Closed edrozenberg closed 3 years ago

edrozenberg commented 3 years ago

Some of my titles are displaying as color rectangles when I load them.

For ex. here is how Journey to Silius loads when interpreted into these modern cuboids :) -

Journey to Silius

Another classic reinterpreted as modern art: Balloon Fight -

Balloon Fight

Most other games load fine.

Using the latest 2020-11-23 firmware (ntmv2_firmware_verJB6.2.bin) on Nt Mini Noir.

Tried using Normal speed setting for the SD card, rebooting the console several times, reinserting the SD card. Seems like a software/firmware issue of some sort, nothing to do with the console or SD card. Or maybe I need to do something to some of the game files related to headers?

Thank you for this great project and thank you for any hints on this issue!

edrozenberg commented 3 years ago

Was able to fix the issue by using some other version of each of the game files that didn't load properly. Also ran across some game versions which would display Bad Header when trying to load - was able to successfully use different versions of those also to get the title to load properly.

sociaIism commented 3 years ago

I'm having the same issue! I'm worried as to whether I'm using the wrong ROM set or if it's a core issue. What's strange to me is that homebrew ROMs (Battle Kid pictured below) work flawlessly, but all of my "official" ROMs (SMB 2 & 3 below) are registering objects as minimal squares. It's worth noting however that games with visual issues sound perfectly normal. Regardless, a definitive solution to this would be great. Battle Kid - Fortress of Peril Super Mario Bros 2 Super Mario Bros 3

sociaIism commented 3 years ago

I was also able to fix the issue by using a different ROM pack. That being said, I'm now getting a "Bad Header!" error for a few ROMs.

SmokeMonsterPacks commented 3 years ago

These are very typical ROM-related issues, so I'll close this.

edrozenberg commented 3 years ago

...That being said, I'm now getting a "Bad Header!" error for a few ROMs.

I've seen this also. Try a few other versions of each of those ROMs. For 1 ROM I tried 3 different versions until I found one that worked.

MrUNIVAC commented 3 years ago

I had this exact same issue on practically every other ROM with the No-Intro romset. I was able to fix it by updating all of my ROMs to NES 2.0 headers. Once I did that, all of the previously “blocky” ones worked fine!

There’s a Python script you can use on a database to automate that process. Nerdly Pleasures explains how to use it in this post: https://nerdlypleasures.blogspot.com/2020/04/fixing-nes-headers-and-renaming-nes.html.

Here’s the latest XML database: https://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=19940

Good luck!

edrozenberg commented 3 years ago

@MrUNIVAC thanks for the tips! I suspected it was related to headers somehow but didn't have enough Retrogaming cred(its) to figure it out myself.