Superior hard disk runnable games fixes - making disk image

[ParanoidLittleMan]

It was 20 years ago, and they fixed many games to be runnable from hard disks of that era. With today devices, partitionings it usually works not, but can work fine with Satandisk, UltraSatan. Only need to take care about their requirements: max 32 MB AHDI partitions, ACSI attached hard disk , max 1 GB - in fact data must be inside first GB of card of any size. To make things easier, and as acknowledge of their work, I prepare hard disk image with their fixes, so usage will be pretty easy. Most interesting are of course games, which aren't fixed for hard disks in last years. Superior fixes can not save gamestate on hard disks, only on floppies, there is no Exit to Desktop ... And of course no TT support, so very few may work on (Falcon has no ACSI port).

 

The list:

Superior 055 Enchanted Land, Synth Dream

Superior 056 Hunt For The Red October

Superior 056 Sarakon, Team Suzuki

Superior 057 Turrican II

Superior 058a/b/c Wrath Of Demon (+ Data Disk), Chips Challenge

Superior 059 Horror Zombies From The Crypt, Mighty Bombjack

Superior 060 Wings Of Death

Superior 061 Disc, World Championship Soccer

Superior 062 Crown, Prehistoric Tale

Superior 063a/b Killing Game Show (+ Data Disk), Chambers Of Shaolin.

Superior 064 Back To The Future : Part III

Superior 065 Blood Money, Super Monaco Grand Prix

Superior 066 Great Courts II, Quadrel

Superior 067 Hill's Street Blues, J.U.G., Navy Seals

Superior 068a/b Awesome (+ Data Disk)

Superior 069a/ b Moonshine Racers (+ Data Disk), Hydra.

Superior 070a/b Predator II, Z-Out Predator II (Intro + Data)

Superior 071 The Running Man

Superior 072 Jahangir Khan's Squash, Hero Quest

Superior 073 California Games, Projectyle.

Superior 074a/b Gods (+ Data Disk) , Treasure Trap

Superior 075 F-29 Retaliator, The Ball Game

Superior 076 Big Business, Stormball

Superior 077 Dark Century, Toki

Superior 078 Mercs, Violator

Superior 079 Switchblade II, Warzone

Superior 080 Frenetic, R.B.I. 2 Baseball

Superior 081 F-15 Strike Eagle II, Wreckers

Superior 082a/b/c Cj's Elephant Antics, Armalyte, ZoneWarrior, Elf (+ Data Disk)

Superior 083a/b Darkman, Hunter, Jimmy White's Whirlwind Snooker, Thunder Hawk [French] (Plus Data Disk)

Superior 084a/b Magic Pockets, Terminator II ( Plus Data Disk)

Superior 085 Boston Bomb Club, Deathbringer (Demo), Rodland

Superior 086 R-Type II, Rolling Ronny

Superior 087a/b Outrun Europa (+ Data Disk), Titanic Blinky, Wacky Races

Superior 088 Kick Off II - Return To Europe (HD-Ver), Mig-29 Super Fulcrum

Superior 089a/b Utopia, Wild Wheels (Plus Raw Data Disk),

Superior 090a/b Death Trap, Robin Hood, Street Hockey (+ Data Disk)

Superior 091a/b Face Off ((+ Data Disk), Mega-Lo-Mania, Thunderjaws (+ Data Disk)

Superior 092a/b/c Beast Busters (+ Data Disk), Super Space Invaders (Boot),World Class Rugby, Super Space Invaders (Data)

Superior 093a/b Alien Storm, Shadow Of The Beast II (+ Data Disk)

Superior 094 Deuteros, Fighter Command

Superior 095a/b Hudson Hawk, Moonfall, Smash Tv (+ Data Disk), Shadow Sorcerer

Superior 096a/b Heavy Metal Heroes,Megatwins (+ Data Disk), Oh No! More Lemmings

Superior 097a/b Black Hornet, James Pond II, Wwf Wrestlemania (+ Data Disk)

Superior 098 First Samurai

Superior 099a/b Tip Off, Steve Mcqueen - Westphaser (+ Data Disk)

Superior 100a/b/c Devious Designs (+ Data Disk)Final Blow, Obitus (+ Data Disk)

Superior 101 Exile, Populous II

Superior 102a/b/c Godfather (+ 2 Data Disks)

Superior 103 Super Ski II

Superior 104a/b Populous II (1 Meg Version), Rubicon (+ Data Disk)

Superior 105a/b Knights Of The Sky (1 Meg Only), Space Gun (+ Data Disk), Populous II, Docs Plus Deuteros Fix

Superior 106a/b Robocop III (+ Data Disk), Super Soccer

Superior 107 Elvira - The Arcade Game

Superior 108 No Buddies Land, Spot.

Superior 109a /b Big Run, Special Forces (+ Data Disk), WWI - Power Monger.

Superior 110a/b Formula 1 Grand Prix (+ Raw Data Disk).

Superior 111 FFLS Hard-Disk Driver, Harlequin

Superior 112 F1 Tornado, Video Kid

Superior 113 Spellbound Dizzy, Prince Of Yolkfolk, Kwiksnax, Bubble Dizzy, Dizzy Panic.

Superior 114 Indy Heat, Parasol Stars

Superior 115 Race Drivin' (Game+Intro)

Superior 116 Brides Of Dracula , Die Hard II

Superior 117a/b/c Deliverance(+ Data Disk), (1 Meg), European Championship1992, John Barnes Soccer (1 Meg), Space Crusade

Superior 118 Addams Family, Bonanza Brothers

Superior 119 Graham Taylors Soccer Challenge, Sensible Soccer, Striker

Superior 120 Championship Manager

Superior 121 California Games II

Superior 122 Lotus III - The Ultimate Challenge, Wizkid - Wizball II

Superior 123 Tennis Cup II

Superior 124a/b Jim Power In Mutant Planet (+ Data Disk), Tiny Skweeks, Fast Copy Pro v1.1a + German Docs

Superior 125 Duckula II, Sabre Team (1 Meg)

Superior 126 Bunny Bricks, Super Seymour

Superior 127a/b Ishar (+ Data Disk), Match of the Day

Superior 128 Columns, Cybernetics, Mt Rhead

Superior 129 Liverpool F.C. (Game+Intro)

Superior 130 Leathal Weapon, Sensible Soccer V.1.1, New Hard-Disk Driver

Superior 131a/b Archer Mclean Pool, Cool World (+ Data Disk), Vroom Data-Disk

Superior 132a/b/c Street Fighter II (Boot+ 2 Data disks), C.J. In The U.S.A., Dynablasters.

Superior 133 No Second Prize, Premier League Manager

Superior 134a/b/c Sleepwalker (Boot + 2 Data disks), (STe Only!)

Superior 135 Big Nose, Nigel Mansell's World Championship

Superior 136 Crystal Kingdom Dizzy, Robin Hood

Superior 137 World Wrestling Federation II

Superior 138 Magicland Dizzy, Vroom Multiplayer

Superior 139a/b/c Graham Gooch Cricket, Mcdonald Land, Ween, (Plus Data Disks)

Superior 140a/b/c/d Bargon Attack, Kid Kong, Lemmings II (Plus Data Disks)

Superior 141a/b/c B17 Flying Fortress, Chaos Engine, Centipede, (Plus Data Disks).

Superior 142a/b Carls Lewis, Dalek Attack (+ Data Disk)

Superior 143a/b/c AV8B Harrier Assault, Fascination, War In The Gulf, TransArctica (Plus Data Disks)

Superior 144a/b/c Fire Force, Lure Of The Temptress (Plus Data Disks and Docs)

Superior 145 Utopos (Preview STe Only!), Zool (ST or STe)

Superior 146a/b/c Legends Of Valour (+ Data Disk), Nicky Boom 2, Saint Dragon

Superior 147a/b/c Ishar II, SWIV (Plus 2 Data Disks),

Superior 148a/b/c Knight Mare, Shadow Worlds, Reach for the Skies (Plus Data Disks)

Superior 149 Captain Planet, Paradroid 90

Superior 150a/b One Step Beyond, World Class Rugby - 5 Nations Edition (Boot), Huckleberry Hound In Hollywood Capers, Truck Racing

Superior 151a/b/c Guy Spy (+ Data disk), Revenge Doc Displayer v3.00, Eos

Superior 152a/b/c Dogfight, Space Shuttle, Wind Surf Willy, (Plus Data Disks).

Superior 153 Shuffle Puck Cafe, Works Team Racing, ST-Lock

Superior 154 Fire & Ice

Superior 155a/b Captive (Boot) + Saved, Champ. Manager 93 (+ Data Disk)

Superior 156a/b/c Elite Ii - Frontier, Leander (Boot+Data 1), Unreal (Boot + Data 1).

Superior 157 Championship Manager 94.

Superior 158a/b Bart Simpson versus the World, Beast Lord (Plus Data Disk).

Superior 159a /b/c/d/e Goblins II, Magic Boy, Pixie 'n Dixie (Plus 4 Data disks)

Superior 160a/b Cannon Fodder (Boot + Data ), European Champions

Superior 161 Sensible Soccer V.1.20, Starball

Superior 162a/b/c Carlos, F1-Domark, Rock'n'roll Clams, Trex Warrior, (Plus 2 Data Disks)

Superior 163 Premier Manager II

Superior 164a/b/c/d Ishar III (Boot + 3 Data Disks).

Superior 165a/b Robinson's Requiem (+ Data Disk).

Superior 166a/b Killing Cloud (+ Data Disk), Obsession (Prev.), Stardust (Prev.)

 

I'm not sure at which # they started to use FFLS driver. Before it, hard disk running was based on using RAMdisk, so some titles (mostly lower numbers) will require 2 or 4MB RAM .

 

Let me know what games you prefer, but before it would be good to check availability at D-Bug, Klaz, PP sites.

I plan to make 128MB image, with 4 partitions. Will put there as much fit, but priority is, as said of games not fixed in newer time.

 

P.S. it seems that FFLS started at menudisk #111 , older ones may be not hard disk runnable - for instance F1 GP on #110 is without regular files on floppies.

Edited April 6, 2013 by ParanoidLittleMan

[+DarkLord]

Thanks for the list, and for all the hard work on this P!

[adolobe]

Cool, I never even knew about Superior till now. Nice list of games they had modified. Im highly interested in this topic for my ST

[TommyIII]

Same here. I got a 128mb card ready to go with this image name on it.

[AnakiMana]

Awesome! I don't know most of these, so I'll have to research before letting you know.

[GadgetUK]

PP, can't thank you enough for your driver, the utils on your site, and the HDD installs you've done over the years - I've downloaded the lot this weekend. You need to get a 'donations' link up, because the first thing I thought was 'OMG this is a treasure trove - all these games altered to run from HDD, the amount of time that must have been put in to do that many, AND the bandwidth and server used to host them...'

 

I will do another paypal when I get paid!

 

I've now got all the dbug modded games and all the ones you've done, it's like CHRISTMAS DAY lol!!

[+DarkLord]

Yep, PP, DBug and Klaz have done amazing work on getting these older games to run on the

newer Atari hardware. Can't thank them enough.

 

If you've not been to Klaz's site, you should take a look there too:

 

http://www.klapauzius.net/Old_Games.html

 

Have fun!

[GadgetUK]

Thanks =)

 

Just need Beast Busters, can't find a HDD image of that =/ But the good news is its on that 'Superior' list above =)

[ParanoidLittleMan]

I made image file. Included all menus at 111 to last one 166 . Earlier ones have no FFLS hard disk driver, so no hard disk access from games. But they may work from hard drive - need some RAM 1-2MB, then will use RAMdisk during gameplay. I included only menu disk 92 from menus before 111 (if nothing happens, press space) . If someone want some, may add self in Steem for instance. There is space on partition C for it.

There are DIRectories with menu disk numbers, so you need game list (included txt file with). I don't see other way, because there are common files, so not really possible to divide by game titles.

Image size is 116MB, so should fit on 128MB SD cards. Tested with UltraSatan - works from any slot. Should work with Satandisk, ACSI connected hard disks, via ICD adapters and similar. Of course, you can write it on some bigger card, but extra space can not be used. And works with Steem too (need Pasti hard disk emulation), should work with Hatari too (use ACSI hard disk in menu).

I did not test games much, really have no time for so many games in short period. Basically almost everything works. Only problems found: with Unreal - likely floppy image is corrupted (on Gamearchives is certainly corrupted). Don't see launching files on 144 (Lure of Tempress) .

 

http://atari.8bitchip.info/SupHD.rar 80 MB .

 

FFLS is read-only, if there is some game pos. save, it goes on floppy. Starting games goes usually by running MENUxxx.PRG and select game with F1, F2 ...

[GadgetUK]

Awesome!!!!!!!! Will check this out in the morning!

[GadgetUK]

What software do you use to write this .img to SD? I've also not been able to mount in Hatari or Steem either - maybe I am doing something wrong?

[ParanoidLittleMan]

http://atari.8bitchip.info/drimus.php

 

In Steem you need to have Pasti.dll in it's DIR. Then in Disk menu go in Pasti settings, check on 'Enabled' for hard disk and select image file, then reboot.

In Hatari must do similar - there is ACSI hard disk emul, , and there must select image file ...

 

[TommyIII]

What software do you use to write this .img to SD? I've also not been able to mount in Hatari or Steem either - maybe I am doing something wrong?

 

http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

 

http://raspi.tv/2012/how-to-make-a-raspberry-pi-disk-image-to-sd-card-with-win32diskimager

 

 

Thanks for the image PLM!

 

 

[ParanoidLittleMan]

Tried it on Mega STE with it's internal SCSI adapter, and works well. Just note it, because saw that Superior said that works not on Mega STE internal adapter - and found it strange - it is regular ACSI adapter. Of course, transfer on SCSI drive is little more complicated, but some people hava SCSI port in their PCs.