R.Cade Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Pitfall II - Lost Caverns (1984) (Activision) [!].a26 This doesn't seem to work for me in Z26 or Stella. The file is supposed to be a verified dump and is 10,496 bytes. I found another (in the AA bundle) that is byte-for-byte identical, but is missing the very last byte, making it 10,495 bytes. Strangely, the shorter one works and the other gets a black screen in both emulators. Anyone know the story? It would seem that a 10k cart would be 10,240 bytes, which neither of these are. R.Cade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Mine works fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room 34 Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Deleted because I didn't read the whole post and now my answer is irrelevant. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eckhard Stolberg Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 The binary for Pitfall II contains 8K of code, 2K of graphics data and 255 bytes from the pseudo random number generator. Therefore the 10495 bytes binary is the correct one. I don't know where the extra byte in the longer binnary comes from. But since emulators are recognizing games by file size and checksum, the binary can't be detected properly and therefore would be playing with the wrong bankswitching format. Ciao, Eckhard Stolberg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Csonicgo Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Mine works fine THAT's the SAME EXACT ICON I USE!!!!!!!! FREAKY! anyways... try renaming the file to Bin? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCmodeler Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 Here's my solution Play the 5200 ROM. Why? Because the 5200 version has a second maze to explore. So it's like having 2-games-in-1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanglyman Posted January 17, 2004 Share Posted January 17, 2004 I think the good one is named "Pitfall II - Lost Caverns (1984)(Activision)[b3].bin" by good2600, it's the only one that works right for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted January 18, 2004 Author Share Posted January 18, 2004 Yeah the is supposed to mean "bad" dump, but who knows who rules over this collection. Is it Good2600? Who dictates that? R. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted January 18, 2004 Share Posted January 18, 2004 Yeah the is supposed to mean "bad" dump, but who knows who rules over this collection. Is it Good2600? Who dictates that? Good2600 is a ROM renaming program, so the programmer of the tool "dictates" the names (though you can parameterize the names a bit). If there are mistakes, you should send him a mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted January 18, 2004 Author Share Posted January 18, 2004 The [b3] rom matches the one from here (AtariAge) perfectly. It seems to be the correct ROM. The others are all actually bad. The [!] is technically an overdump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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