Broken NES ROMs

[stevetb]

The below NES ROMs are broken and not working correctly. These were tested using lr-nestopia on a RetroPie:

A Boy and His Blob: Trouble on Blobolonia
Bases Loaded (although REV A and REV B work fine)
Battleship
Big Nose Freaks Out
Bigfoot
Blackjack
Boulder Dash
Caveman Games
Magic Johnson's Fast Break
Peter Pan and the Pirates
Puzzle
RacerMate Challenge II
Sidewinder

Note: All ROMs were downloaded and tested several times to ensure they indeed were broken

[The Researcher]

Don't blow into them. Unless that's not what you did.

[Warrior]

They are not broken, its a emulation issue since you are missing a required file.

This this XML file where ever the Bios's are set to - NstDatabase.zip

extract the XML and put it where it needs to be, no idea on the retropie but in vanilla it goes with the Nestopia.exe, in retroarch it goes in the bios folder.

Once that is set all problem games will be perfectly emulated.

[stevetb]

Hi Warrior,

First off thank you for your help. I appreciate the reply, truly.

I don't think the BIOS or emulator is to blame. I went through and have tested 800+ ROMs and these are the only 13 which have issues. If it was the BIOS or the Emulator I would think there would be failure on the other ROMs. But yes, it is a possibility and I will test on my Windows PC with Nestopia to confirm tonight.

Did you have a chance to re-download and verify on your end? Hopefully someone can.

To work around this, I have gone to other sites and re-downloaded the ROMs. This corrected my issue but wanted to pass this along to the site so that these ROMs are corrected for the next user that comes along and has issues.

Proud Premium EP Member,
Stevetb

[Warrior]

That file is not a Bios, it is a file that makes the game run correctly if it has a different way it was programmed, check the nestopia directory and see if its present.

Try various games to see the difference , most likely reason the mentioned games were broken is they had a different hash and were not recognized so they were not auto corrected.