PowerPak

From NESdev Wiki
Revision as of 07:16, 29 July 2015 by Rainwarrior (talk | contribs) (removing out of date info about official mappers)
Jump to navigationJump to search

PowerPak emulates mappers used in NES games, but not always perfectly.

Mapper Compatibility

The PowerPak mappers have undergone several revisions, gradually improving compatibility. After official development ceased in 2010, Loopy and TheFox have each created a supplemental set of PowerPak mappers to improve its capabilities.

Power Mappers

TheFox created a set of revised PowerPak mappers to supplement or augment the existing ones, most notably adding a savestate feature.

Download: http://kkfos.aspekt.fi/projects/nes/powerpak/powermappers/

Known problems:

  • MMC3 IRQ can cause shaky status bars and similar problems on some systems.

Loopy's Mappers

Loopy released a set of revised PowerPak mappers in 2011, adding fixes and additional support for a several mappers:

Download:https://home.comcast.net/~olimar/NES/powerpak_loopy.zip

Offical Mappers V1.34

The last official release of mappers was in 2010. It supports a wide variety of popular mappers.

Download: http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?products_id=34

TODO: list of supported mappers.

Known problems:

  • MMC3 support is insufficient for Low G Man, as the mapper 4 implementation is Startropics-compatible instead of MMC3 accurate. See mapper 4 and MMC6.