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NEWS ARCHIVE
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SEPTEMBER 2007
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COPYRIGHT
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FEB.13.2009 |
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FEB.13.2009 |
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DISCLAIMER
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Please note that NES WORLD is a non-profit, non-commercial, website offered to you free of charge. It has no affiliation with
Nintendo or any other commercial company.
NES WORLD is not a store or manufacturer of video games, which means that you can not buy what you see here, atleast not directly
from this site, so please do not send any more orders, thanks :-)
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V.2005 - 1.00LS
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POWERPAK FIRMWARE + MAPPER UPDATE
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17 SEPTEMBER 2007 - 20:00 CET
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Okay so this bit of news is old, I should've posted this about a week ago, but was busy with an update of NES WORLD which got scrapped, yet another to the pile
of crappy designs to improve the site. But anyway....
Well the PowerPak has received an update of the mapper pack, twice even, and the change log is as follows:
Mappers v1.11
· Corrected loading/saving of battery ram
Mappers v1.10
· Reset only detected when button pressed for ~3 secs or more
· Better (perfect?) MMC3 IRQ
· Better (perfect?) RAMBO IRQ
· Fixed MMC2 graphics bank switching (Punch Out)
· Fixed MMC4 graphics bank switching
· Fixed iNES 119 graphics bank switching (Pinbot, High Speed)
· Options screen: start button goes back to intro
· Options screen: select button displays mapper number
· SAV screen: start button goes back to previous screen
· Fixed stack pointer init
· Fixed frame IRQ disable
Also the boot ROM image for the cart has been updated with the following changes:
Boot v1.10
· Added small CF card support (under 32MB)
· Fixed INC A bug
· Fixed stack pointer init
· Fixed frame IRQ disable
· Fixed WRAM load/save bug
Please note that the boot ROM can't be uploaded to the cart without the use of a CopyNES device in hand, however RetroUSB offers lifetime boot ROM updates
for free, all you have to do is mail them the cart and they'll return it updated.
For more info about the powerpak, please check "our" review here.
Oh yeah and there's still PowerPak's available at www.retrousb.com.
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SUPER MARIO BROS 2 LOST LEVELS ON VIRTUAL CONSOLE
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17 SEPTEMBER 2007 - 19:55 CET
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I noticed a rather pleasant surprise on my Wii today, when browsing the Virtual Console Shop. It seems that we Europeans have been treated with a nice gem, being
the long lost Japanese version of Super Mario Bros 2, also known as the Lost Levels. I of course had to get this nice but insanely tough to play game downloaded free fonts
on to my Wii and noticed that a small price change has appeared on the Wii aswell.
Until now a NES game has sold for 500 points in the shop, but strangely SMB2 Lost Levels is selling for 600 points. Nintendo knows that a lot of people may download
this one as most havn't played the game, unless they've had access to a Famicom Disk System, so I guess they decided to squeeze a little more money out teenagers
as well as the old fart running this website.
Nintendo, you are greedy bastards, but thanks for bringing such a nice game to the Virtual Console :-)
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HES ARTICLE REWRITTEN
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11 SEPTEMBER 2007 - 00:38 CET
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I'm finally done with my rewite of the HES article I published ages ago. Hopefully it now includes a bit more information to make it
worth reading... click here to check it out.
Oh I just noticed what day it is, the day neither of us will ever forget.
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