Bor Beta 1

[Tobriand]

And possibly music on the title screen, too, if you've got the time; its eerily silent at the moment...

 

[Squidge]

My original idea for the pak selection was to extract the title screen from each .pak file, make it 1/4 resolution, and then display 4 title screens on screen at once and allow selection with joystick. The selection would then be zoomed to fullscreen and loading initiated.

Needless to say, it never even got started, never mind finished.

Would be awesome if you could do it though

Good work so far!

 

[Nemesis]

Hey...I can't find the bor.pak file...because I'm an idiot...but I've been on for a few hours and can't find the thing...PLZ help me out here...some one post it here...PLZ

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Nemesis gp32_console

 

[thejuggler]

Nemesis,

Go to the original BOR page (http://senileteam.segaforums.com/) and download the PC game from there. That will get you the original pak file.

It won't get posted to these forums as it's around 60Mb.

 

[thejuggler]

Well here you go. It's beta 0.6

What's new in this version:

+Reset from main menu now fixed
+Auto loading of pak file if only one file is specified in the paklist.txt file
+Fixed error with sprite loading if sprite file does not exist in the pak file. Modified pak files should no longer be required. Note: This is actually an error with the pak file, as the pak should have sprites shadow1-6 in the file.

Hope you all enjoy.

As a question for all of you BOR people out there. I have a few pak files which I'm using for testing (original BOR, TMNT, Megaman (haven't tried it yet), Mortal Kombat, Sonic and Castlevania) So far, the original BOR is the only pak where I can select anything other than the default character. Anyone else got this or is it just me. Just wondering if it's something I need to look at.

[Edit] Don't worry, I've answered my own question by extracting the pak files and looking at the character data. So it's not me it's just that a lot of the charactes don't exist in the versions I've got


The Juggler

 

[thejuggler]

Here's a compresses version of the new beta. This was created using Mr Spiv's "b2fxeC v0.5c"

I can't get it to run on my firmware (I only have the European beta firmware) so feel free to try it but no guarantees. It just resets my GP32.

 

[Drumaster]

You're the best thejuggler.

 

[Squidge]

Hmmm, I wonder if this was the problem I was having with people saying BOR just reset on the european bios? Nothing to do with me, just the fxe compression I was using?

Nice work anyway !

 

[thejuggler]

Hmmm, I wonder if this was the problem I was having with people saying BOR just reset on the european bios? Nothing to do with me, just the fxe compression I was using?

Nice work anyway !

Sounds like it could well be Squidge. I have seen various things from Mr Spiv where he has made modified versions of a firmware so that it could correctly handle the compressed fxe. I'm fairly sure it will be related to the firmware you're using from what I've read.

Personally, I'm not that desperate for the 100k saved to worry too much about it B)

 

[Horscht]

great work! love that game.

 

[Hokutoy]

Humm.... it's me or BOR Beta 0.6 is lacking ingame music & skiping some "voice" effects?

EDIT: OOOPS... it's me... lol
For some reason Kill Ryu musics don't work (in any bor beta) & i was trying a old VOR mod without all music & sounds... :rolleyes:

 

[DaveC]

I can't get this new version to work on the BLU. As soon as I press "a" it just resets. What could be wrong? I am using the uncompressed version.

 

[thejuggler]

Hi DaveC,

Not sure what's happening with BOR just resetting. Only time I've had it do that is when I used the compressed version with the european beta firmware.

It could be related to the firmware on the BLU. But since I don't have one I can't check.

Send me a dump of the bios and I'll have a look to see if it's something obvious.

Anyone else out there with a BLU with BOR working / having problems ?

 

[Drumaster]

Here's a compresses version of the new beta.  This was created using Mr Spiv's "b2fxeC v0.5c"

I can't get it to run on my firmware (I only have the European beta firmware) so feel free to try it but no guarantees.  It just resets my GP32.

Your compressed version is corrupted thejuggler.

I made mine and even if the filesize is exactly the same one than yours (142 568 octets), my version works perfectly on my BLU and probably works on every GP32...

EDIT : Your compressed one doesn't work because you used b2fxec 0.5c, it's the old buggy b2fxec version.
I used b2fxec 0.5d (the last version), which is the best version, it works great now with nearly ALL gxb.

RE-EDIT : What about include savestates thejuggler?
Because finishing BOR in once is long.

 

[DaveC]

Hi DaveC,

Not sure what's happening with BOR just resetting.  Only time I've had it do that is when I used the compressed version with the european beta firmware.

It could be related to the firmware on the BLU.  But since I don't have one I can't check.

Send me a dump of the bios and I'll have a look to see if it's something obvious. 

Anyone else out there with a BLU with BOR working / having problems ?

I have the bor.pak file (original PC non compressed) in the gpmm/bordata dir along with the paklist file. The latest version that I can run is beta3 (when I move pak back to gpmm). Everything else no-go. I couldn't run this on my non-lit GP32 either, although then it gave me some sort of "mem alloc error". Do I need to edit the paklist file or something?

 

[Vimacs]

uhm, do your paklist.txt looks like this?

speed=1750
bor.pak=breads of age
"blankline"

ist the .pak and the paklist.txt in gp:\gpmm\bordata\?

 

[haranbenjomx]

hi there...

bor is working awesome in my gp32 blu european.
The original bor.pak works as well as the other mods. the only mod wich give me a memory allocation error message is x-men beta 4. in the second stage of boss mode it try to allocate ~2.4 mb more when it already uses 7.4 mb (or was 6.4? i don't remember...)

anyone else with this problem?

 

[Vimacs]

hi there...

bor is working awesome in my gp32 blu european.
The original bor.pak works as well as the other mods. the only mod wich give me a memory allocation error message is x-men beta 4. in the second stage of boss mode it try to allocate ~2.4 mb more when it already uses 7.4 mb (or was 6.4? i don't remember...)

anyone else with this problem?

gimmeeeee link

 

[haranbenjomx]

this is the link of x-men mod's creator's ftp site.

ftp://vicviper74.no-ip.info

i think it's not a problem of bor.fxe. it's probably a memory limit of gp32 ...maybe there is a way to optimize more the ram usage...i dunno..the gurus are you...

p.s. for the pc version this mod works great!

 

[thejuggler]

RE-EDIT : What about include savestates thejuggler?
Because finishing BOR in once is long.

you don't need save states as you can start the game from any level (in the options menu) h34r:

This was something that people asked Squidge if he could do, and like him, I can see no point to having a save state. Just select the level you want to play and enjoy.