14 November 2010, 12:49 | #1 |
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Hi,
I didn't realise until today there is no IPF of Nitro. Is it still due to bad mastering?? Or are all overwritten with the high scores? Thanks. |
14 November 2010, 23:09 | #2 |
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There are 4 Psygnosis Amiga games which use a very special encoding which would require special programming to support them as ipf. Nitro is one of them.
See http://www.softpres.org/wip:2003-04-04 for details. |
15 November 2010, 09:37 | #3 |
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Wow, that's interesting.
So even with Kryo we still wouldn't be able to dump Psygnosis recording format disks? |
15 November 2010, 13:23 | #4 |
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They are perfectly well dumped and have been even with Amiga.
The problem is that I never support data that is blindly stored in a file - and those games require a special encoding/decoding implemented in the analyser and ipf library. Very small return for quite some work, so it has to wait. |
15 May 2021, 06:26 | #5 |
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Care to reconsider ? That instant classic fails to load on my A500. |
15 May 2021, 13:17 | #6 |
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15 May 2021, 16:28 | #8 |
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What's the deal with the 'Unofficial' one ?
Arnie/SPS/Non TOSEC IPFs - Unofficial/Nitro (Europe,Australia)(Unofficial ipf) |
15 May 2021, 16:55 | #9 |
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The unofficial IPF is fine!
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15 May 2021, 18:00 | #10 |
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Let me rephrase : As far as the canonical cracked versions are concerned e.q. melnok's, the game loads fine. Trouble is it doesn't transition from Disk 1 (intro) to Disk 2. That's why a Scoopex version bearing the intro and the game on the same disk image is most welcome.
Just curious, what prevents this batch of IPF's from gaining official status then ? Some kind of reluctancy to cross the red line that was drawn by the big cheese @SPS ? |
15 May 2021, 18:29 | #11 | |
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15 May 2021, 20:44 | #12 | |
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There are 5 or so Psygnosis games where although SPS understands the format and knows it inside out, because this format was written blind with no checking of the data as it wrote to floppy, means that SPS cannot guarantee that what is in the IPF, will be correctly written to floppy. So these 5 or so games were never officially released as IPF because of this issue. Its basically SPS ensuring that anything contained in the IPF format is 100% verified so that its a trusted format. They don't modify IPF files, they don't fix broken versions of games, they preserve them warts and all. Its simply SPS being meticulous. |
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Hi,
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03 May 2024, 15:45 | #14 |
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Can't say for sure, but the ADF was posted in the zone in 2017. Intro (during startup, left click to watch intro, right click to play according to cracktro) of said release doesn't seem to load on my machine (no biggie).
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03 May 2024, 20:04 | #16 |
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1 Mo chip ECS A500 equipped with Gotek and latest FF
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03 May 2024, 21:17 | #17 |
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03 May 2024, 22:18 | #18 |
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The intro fails (again, not the game) to load, no error message, just a colored horizontal stripe flashing. Just to make things clear, it's the game itself that matters to me, so I am cool with your release. There is not much more that comes to mind, maybe related to the way it is packed inside the tracks (aka the ECS chipset that would have a hard time dealing with Shrinkler intricacies ) ?
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04 May 2024, 00:15 | #19 | |
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It's very very very very slow to depack the intro on 68000 |
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04 May 2024, 00:37 | #20 |
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Ah, I've just seen it! Not to be nit picking, but I must say that colored stripe that displays while it's depacking is pretty seizure-inducing, not sure I will repeat the experience anytime soon .
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