ngpc games

[jtmiki]

These games don't work or work with some problems. Tested them on the 24/9/2024.

Title	Problem
Big Bang Pro Wrestling	Blank screen
Cool Boarders	Blank screen
Dive Alert Becky's Version	Blank screen
Dive Alert Matt's Version	Blank screen
Infinity Cure	There are white lines at the top and centre of the left side of the screen respectively, flashing all the time
Kikou Seiki Unitron	Can see the intro part with music but can't put the character's data
The King of Fighters Battle de Paradise	Can see the intro part with music but can't select games
The King of Fighters R-2	After Elena's introduction, blank screen
The Last Blade	Can see the intro part with music but can't select games
Memories Off Pure	Can play but there are lines at the top and centre of the left side of the screen respectively, flashing all the time
Mezase! Kanji-o	Can hear music only
Ogre Battle Gaiden	Untested
Pocket Love If	Can play but there are lines at the top half of the screen and flashing all the time
Pocket Tennis color	Blank screen
SNK Gals' Fighters	Untested
SNK vs Capcom Match of the Millennium	After selecting a character, blank screen

Commit: da6cb73

[Brianvgplayer]

Pac-Man has this issue on the NGP core too. Wasn't it listed as working early on? The game has a flashing Namco logo at startup. Could that be causing issues?

[Zet-sensei]

'Samurai Shodown! - Pocket Fighting Series' on the NGP(/C) cores.
The game isn't responding to controls anymore on version jtngpc_20240831.

[Zet-sensei]

As I don't see it on the current list and this need a special note after my tests.

• Some games like 'Metal Slug - 1st Mission' were redumped cleanly some time ago, without any save file attached to the ROM file.
  That newer clean dump doesn't load on the current NGPC core anymore (jtngpc_20240831).

• The controls on 'The Last Blade' aren't responding anymore with the clean saved file too, but the game was playable with that version under jtngpc_20240818 (MiSTer).

After some more tests and the video from PixelCherryNinja, it seems to be that the current up-to-date NGPC set (with save cleaned flash chip) isn't working as intended on the core as of now, but games were working on a previous beta version.
And we must use an older set with save inits already present on the dumped flash chips.

You must use the older dump which contains already save init from 0x1E0000 to 0x1E00FF.
If you want these games to work on the core at the moment.

So something to check with the core source code.

Thanks to PixelCherryNinja during his video & confirming these games are working under that conditioon.

[AskaLangly]

Would like to add that Sonic Pocket Adventure is not saving. It's playable, but it isn't able to save.
Verified by restarting the core.
Also note that by editing the game ROM to run in debug mode (edit 0x1F as FF), it refuses to save, but is more prominent with error messages. In an emulator, it does not do that.

Unedited Game CRC32: 356F0849 // jtngpc Core Version: dc4548b