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| | | Collection of 11 Namco NES / Famicom ROMs. M2 handled the collection, and made one of the games: Pac-Man Championship Edition, a modern NES ROM "demake" of the PS3-era game that had been supervised Pac-Man creator Toruu Iwatani, his last game.
I extracted the ROMs from the Steam version of the collection using MArchiveBatchTool, per RED-Project instructions on Github, and am playing them in Mesen (see entry 1536).
The games:
Dig Dug (Famicom) (never came to NES)
Dragon Buster (Famicom) (never came to NES)
Dragon Spirit (NES)
Druaga to Nou (Famicom) (aka Tower of Druaga; never came to NES)
Galaxian (Famicom) (never came to NES)
Mappy (Famicom) (never came to NES)
Pac-Man (Famicom) (unlicensed on NES by Tengen (Atari); late NES Namco release)
Pac-Man Championship Edition (modern ROM)
Sky Kid (Famicom)
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (Famicom) (never came to NES)
Xevious (Famicom) |
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| | | | Curiously, the games in these Archives collections seem designed for square-pixel aspect screens, just like Tetris; Pac-sprites for instance are wide ovals when using NTSC/4:3. Contrast this with say Mighty Final Fight, Tecmo Bowl, and Kung Fu, which seem too skinny as square pixels. |
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| | | | I wonder if that has to do with Namco's heavy hitters being vertical screen arcade games. |
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| | | | The full title of NES Dragon Spirit is "Dragon Spirit: The New Legend." |
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