James Pond 3 bugs

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 11:32 am

James Pond 3 has a couple of display / gfx bugs...

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: jpond3.smc
Name: OPERATION STARFISH Company: U.S. Gold
Header: SWC Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 16 Mb
Country: Euro/Asia/Oceania Video: PAL
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x126D CRC32: 9D3E313F
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: James Pond 3 - Operation Starfish
Country: Europe Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Unknown Genre 2: None

The first bug I noticed is on the map, right when you start a new game... Your character should appear on that star on the left... while he appears to the right of it.

The 2nd bug is a glaring one, the character sprite is messed up while in a level... It's split in several parts. (eyes and arms appears to the right of the character...)

These bugs have been introduced in Zsnes v1.337, everything worked fine in v1.31b... And Snes9x has none of those bugs.

Aerdan · Post by **Aerdan** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 3:39 pm

Please try using the latest version of ZSNES.

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Tue Feb 22, 2005 9:05 pm

Aerdan wrote:Please try using the latest version of ZSNES.

I always do...

And it has the bug. It's in all the ZSNES versions from v1.337 to the February 10 WIP.

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:57 am

Hello ? Did this bug get noted or something ?

By the way, here's another ZSNES bug, with the game "Dragon"... The text that appears right when you launch the game isn't displayed right...

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: dragon.smc
Name: DRAGON BRUCE LEE Company: Acclaim
Header: SWC Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 16 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x48B5 CRC32: 407C5C24
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story
Country: USA Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Fighting Genre 2: None

Player1 · Post by **Player1** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:39 pm

The bug with Dragon exist as long I can remember, starting from Zsnes 0.60 or something, the developers know about it and I don't think it gets fixed.

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:50 pm

That one works fine with Snes9x by the way...

ipher · Post by **ipher** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:20 pm

Stifu wrote:By the way, here's another ZSNES bug, with the game "Dragon"... The text that appears right when you launch the game isn't displayed right...

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: dragon.smc
Name: DRAGON BRUCE LEE Company: Acclaim
Header: SWC Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 16 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x48B5 CRC32: 407C5C24
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Dragon - The Bruce Lee Story
Country: USA Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Fighting Genre 2: None

Bugzilla Bug#9

As for the James Pond III bug: No it hasn't been reported before, and ill look into it.

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:25 pm

Alright, thank you.

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 12:57 pm

Posting other ROM bugs here so I don't spam the place with new topics...

Zero the Kamikaze has bugs with the hero's sprite... It works fine with the new gfx engine disabled.

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: zero.smc
Name: Zero the Kamikaze Company: Sunsoft
Header: None Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 16 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x8150 CRC32: 5397D5BC
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
Country: USA Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Action Genre 2: Platform

ipher · Post by **ipher** » Sat Feb 26, 2005 1:15 pm

Stifu wrote:Posting other ROM bugs here so I don't spam the place with new topics...

Zero the Kamikaze has bugs with the hero's sprite... It works fine with the new gfx engine disabled.

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: zero.smc
Name: Zero the Kamikaze Company: Sunsoft
Header: None Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 16 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0x8150 CRC32: 5397D5BC
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel
Country: USA Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Action Genre 2: Platform

Sourceforge Bug Tracker: # 1052997
And to save our (and your) time, please check both bugzilla and the old SourceForge bug trackers (make sure you check Open and Pending on SF)

Hopefully pretty soon you'll only have to check one place

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:32 pm

Hi there the James Pond: Operation Starfish bug is still there after all this time, and has never been addressed?

I just downloaded ZSNES 1.50 (windows) and the bug is still there.

This is the only game I play in Snes9x - due to not having a choice.

The sprites are all over the place in Zsnes which is a terrible shame.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:34 pm

Post the NSRT+Frontend info of your ROM, to be sure.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Dec 24, 2006 8:21 pm

Code: Select all

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
       File: James Pond 3 - Operation Starfish (E).smc
       Name: OPERATION STARFISH     Company: U.S. Gold
     Header: SWC                       Bank: HiROM
Interleaved: No                        SRAM: 0 Kb
       Type: Normal                     ROM: 16 Mb
    Country: Euro/Asia/Oceania        Video: PAL
  ROM Speed: 120ns (FastROM)       Revision: 1.0
   Checksum: Good 0x126D              CRC32: 9D3E313F
        MD5: 9DF7471059E5BDD708F1E868142F02B6
--------------------------Database--------------------------
   Name: James Pond 3 - Operation Starfish
Country: Europe                 Revision: 1.0
 Port 1: Gamepad                  Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Platform                Genre 2: Side Scrolling

I'm surprised that no one else has posted about this bug since this thread was opened - is it not suffered by anyone else?

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 11:35 am

Another bug with JP3 and ZSNES: the "Star Wars style" text, at the end of the intro, is supposed to get darker as it's about to disappear. (Also, garbage lines appears at the top of the screen because of that text, but that kind of bug is also there in many other games)

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 9:47 am

Is anyone looking into this? You would really make my year if this was fixed after all this time.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 10:51 am

Emulation fixes will come in time.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 5:01 pm

Still exactly as broken in v1.51.

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:36 pm

Guest wrote:Still exactly as broken in v1.51.

No need to bump this. It won't be fixed until they say it's fixed.

Post by **pagefault** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:12 pm

I've completely overlooked this, I will look at it next.

Stifu · Post by **Stifu** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:41 pm

Scratch what I said, you did well to bump it. :p

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 11:10 pm

Many thanks!

BugMeNot · Post by **BugMeNot** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 11:19 am

It's a year later... did this ever get looked at?

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Thu Jan 03, 2008 1:07 am

It'll eventually get fixed in a future version. One has to be patient.