hansolo77

Yeah I was about say, the rules say to use 1944 romset, not 1944j or anything, so it should be the USA. Honestly though I don't think it matters, other than the fact that you can't understand anything (unless you read/speak Japanese ).

There's a MAME hitotext, maybe this could be useful? Thanks for the find.

I'm liking them all right now!

Yeah I remember using Partition Magic years ago (like 15+ it seems) but don't remember how it works exactly. The problem with just choosing by size/space is that there's no real way to say "I WANT THESE SECTORS". If it just arbitrarily decides where to split the partitions, it won't solve my problem. What if it puts the "unused partition" at the beginning of the drive instead of at the end, or somewhere in the middle between the 2 I can use? I'll have to do some research and see what I can find. Hiren's Boot CD (EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE THIS BTW!!!) has a utility I glanced at called "DiskGenius" which does things with partitions, but I didn't play around with it long enough to really see if it could do what I need. Thanks for the suggestion though Draco. Nice to know somebody out there cares and wants to help!

This game is part of our competition because it was voted on during the month of June to be our Game of the Month. If you would like to participate in the voting for future rounds, please visit the thread labeled "Poll for the GOTM". Currently (at the time of this writing) we are voting for the August game. You can cast your vote here: http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/12728-poll-for-the-gotm-of-august/

helpman - July GOTM winner (169,420) Wonder Boy 3 Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 Yung-Jedi 342,860 2 ExedExes 308,300 3 KRC 289,080 4 Mame Offender 231,810 5 helpman 169,420 6 wolfman24 168,700 7 GimmeClassics 152,070 8 jedah 138,080 9 DazzleHP 134,840 10 be77amy 67,980 Last Updated by hansolo77: 01-14-2018 11. rtkiii - 61,700 (link) 12. hansolo77 - 57,470 (link) 13. Adultery - 7,320 (link) Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Wonder Boy 3: ROMSet: WB3 Unknown: Off [both] Lives: 3 Bonus Life: 5000 / 10000 / 18000 / 30000 Difficulty: Normal Test Mode: No Special Rules: Continues are NOT allowed! ---> All settings are appropriate on DEFAULT. No need to change anything. ---> Be sure to use ROMSet "wb3" and not "wboy3". ROMSet wboy3 is Wonder Boy 1 - set 3 and not Wonder Boy 3 !! # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide > link # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide > link # general rules for submitting you hi-score > link # the above settings are the default Twin Galaxies settings > link -Han

I'm here! Making changes as I'm eating dinner lol. Good job to all who participated! Lets have a great new round!

Congrats on the selection, can't wait to start playing these games!

Hey all, I'm half way back.. Would have been back sooner, but I'm having a lot of work related issues. First of all, anybody who lives in the USA or Canada pretty much know what July 4th is all about. For those that don't, look it up (Independence Day, Canada Day). That means everybody's either outside grilling for their cookouts, or they're going to the Deli cause they're lazy and they wanna buy my ribs and chicken wings, and our potato/macaroni salad. Or people wanna buy stuff to make subs. Needless to say, the last EIGHT (yep, that's right) days have been absolutely hell for me. Plus on top of that, our company has developed a new scheduling system that was designed to not only allow us to view and manage our schedules from home, it was also being promoted as a new sure-fire way to make customers happy by having a better management of bodies during high traffic times. Unfortunately, that new schedule system went live THIS WEEK of all weeks, and needless to say, it's broke. They have MINOR's (one of my friends in particular) scheduled to work 8.5 hours with no scheduled lunches. They have people coming in at odd times like 1:45 instead of 2:00 and leaving at 3:15 instead of 3:00 or 3:30. Those quarter hours are just their to prevent the necessity of the store management to be required to give you a break. How? Because they have people coming in at 1:00 and staying until 3:45, thus no break unless you work at least 4 hours. Plus one of our girls was only scheduled to work from 5:30pm till 6:45. Whats up with that? An hour and 15 minutes... And today, we had only one person scheduled to be working between 5:00 and 6:30. The busiest time of the day, on a holiday evening when we've been sooo busy already. ANYWAY..... I've completed a sector scan on the drive that died. The first partition is 100% safe (C:\ drive, ie; Windows). The second partition is apparently 99% safe (E:\ drive, ie; Recorded TV). Of the entire drive, the sectors don't start failing until around 20,000 remaining. I'm not sure exactly how many of the final 20,000 on the drive are bad and how many are safe. I've been running a utility on it for the last 4 days/nights that does a read/write/read/verify pass on each sector until the sector is verified as working. If it doesn't complete a verify after 2 passes, it marks the sector as unrecoverable and swaps in a spare sector from the drive's spare sector pool. It does this intelligently, not literally, by making changes in the drives 'firmware' to say when you hit "This Sector" use "This Sector" instead. So far, after the 4 days of "regeneration" it has recovered over 3,000 sectors. I can now pass those sectors when I re-perform the sector scan. But, like I said, I have no way of knowing how many of the 20,000 sectors are truly bad, and I won't know until the process has completed. If I'm only at 3,000 sectors after 4 days, 20,000 is going to take more than 20 days to recover (if they're all bad). I don't have that kinda time to wait. So what I'm going to do is just continue the process for as long as possible until I get a replacement drive. Hopefully it'll recover some data I wasn't able to copy over before, but if not, I'm just going to swap it out with the new one. One thing I tried to do, but didn't really seem to help (maybe I did it wrong?) is use HPA (Host Protected Area) which essentially hides a specific region of sectors from being accessible from Windows and other programs that aren't designed to directly access the HPA. My theory was to just hide those 20,000 sectors, thus preventing Windows from accessing that part of the drive altogether. It doesn't seem to be working though. I think what I might have to do is just repartition the drive and leave the last 100mb or whatever as unpartitioned. The problem with that though is that I don't know how to re-partition on a sector level. Windows' built in Disk Manager only does it by apparent free space megabytes. Anybody know of any program/utility that will let you repartition on the fly a drive using sector ranges rather than space? So yeah, been a crazy week so far. The drive dies, the work sucks, and I just haven't had the time/energy to really do much more than just scan the drive. But I'm closer to a solution, which is good.

Yeah, need a Kindle Fire HD version and I'll buy it right now!

Very exciting! Hope we get lots of people interested and join in on the fun! See you there!

Crap crap crap! I hate coming home from work and finding my computer dead. Looks like my primary hard drive on my primary computer bit the dust today. I'm ok to a point on that, because I now know how to get a restore to work via the WHS. Unfortunately, the drive was partitioned into 2, and the 450Gb of the 500gb available were set aside for recorded tv from the media center. So if I'm unable to access that partition, I'm going to be out of a lot of stuff I recorded, like Warehouse 13, and Falling Skies. I haven't seen any of those shows yet for this season, and I have like 10 episodes each. I could always download them though. But this is all sucky sucky sucky. Until I get a replacement drive for my master/boot partition, I'll be out of the loop. I can't really do any of the high score stuff on my Kindle. My dad has a computer in his room though, so o should be able to at least get the next gotm started... we'll have to see.

Awesome!

Nice job, beat me at least. Updated OP.

Those Sega Genesis artworks look amazing. Can't wait to see what else you can come up with!

Headkaze released a program yesterday that might do what you need: http://www.gameex.info/forums/topic/13064-release-texture-animation-generator-10/

Just like to say this looks awesome, and those logos are the best I've seen in a long time, kudos!

Heh yea, I never even played it before. Can't wait! Of course, there's no reason not to play it now anyway, it's just more fun when EVERYBODY plays.

Are you able to load the table outside of GameEx? As with all other emulators and GameEx, you MUST make sure you can run the emulator and rom outside of GameEx first. If you're getting an error, that's a good place to start. If you're just returning to GameEx, that's usually a sign that your config is wrong and the emulator didn't understand what you wanted to do so it closed and GameEx restarted. Go into Start / All Programs / GameEx / Utilities and run the "Run Last Game" program when GameEx does what your saying. See what exactly is happening.

Glad we got a little more activity/votes in. Thanks everybody!

-= BUMP =- Haven't seen much activity on this thread in awhile, we need to get more votes in! Please vote!

And why AREN'T you participating? HMM!?! Lol, just messing with ya. Anyway, I think RSS feed could work. I don't really know anything about how to make it, and I never configured GameEx to use them. But if there was a way to have a ticker run across the bottom of the screen that says what the current online scores are, that would be awesome. No extra plugins really needed. I think it would have to involve building a custom RSS feed though that only lists the scores/names.

I've never heard of the site or their products. As for getting A+ certifications, I am eager to hear how you do. When I was graduating from high school I did a bunch of book reading to prep myself for taking the test. Turns out it's a lot more complicated than just saying "lets go," and take it. There are 2 parts, each costs $300 (at least that's what it was, might be more now). The hardware and software tests. Hardware tests include going clear back to the 60-70's when calculators were the size of buildings and used magnetic film reels for storage clear up to present day. The same is true about software. At the time, I only needed to know up to Windows 2000, but now theres 2003, XP, 7, 8, etc. Then theres all the APPLE side of the equation too. I never owned any Apple computer so to me if the tests were going to include any part of Apple knowledge, I would flat out fail. If you fail, you have to wait 6 months to a year (again, it might have changed) before you can take it again, and you have to take them BOTH over, and they BOTH cost $300 again to take. So I decided to not take the chance and fail and be out all that money. Without a better garauntee of me passing, I couldn't justify spending that kind of money. If you DO take the test, I'd really like to know what all was involved, what you really had to know, what it cost, etc. I'm still wanting to get my certs.

Oops! Fixed.