tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7502648817656094522024-02-06T21:58:50.558-06:00AllGoodThingsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-23090010640845398572016-12-05T09:17:00.001-06:002016-12-05T09:17:27.604-06:00In case you missed it!I've been working on SeventeenOrBust for a long long time now. Our team 'TeamRetro' was for a long time in the top 5 producers. The project switched to PrimeGrid this year, and has finally (after 7+ years) found its next target prime. If you have CPU just idling away, think about joining the project. With enough CPUs, the next target won't take 7 years!<br />
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<a href="https://primegrid.com/download/SOB-31172165.pdf" target="_blank">The Announcement</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-19610040586151422282016-04-03T15:03:00.001-05:002016-04-03T15:03:38.753-05:00New Good7800New Good7800.. read the docs for important changes<br />
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For people cross posting this to news sites:<br />
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You can always get to this blog from http://cowering.blogspot.com/<br />
regardless of how my fight with the bureaucrats at Neustar ends up.<br />
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<a href="https://mega.nz/#!OYlHBQhA!snrSepY-add2_WZ36-vOtKz8YrNxaP1HH5a-hhEMvrQ" target="_blank">GoodTools Suite Apr 3rd, 2016</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-58940921020623077742016-03-13T15:59:00.000-05:002016-04-03T15:04:56.708-05:00Two New GoodTools, Six BugfixesUPDATE: I forgot to enable 'convert' in last GoodSNES.<br />
I'll fix that in a couple days along with some more updates :)<br />
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Two New Updated GoodTools : GoodWSx and GoodGCom<br />
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Six Updates to fix a bug in .zip handling:<br />
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GoodN64, GoodSNES, GoodGBA, GoodSV, GoodCoCo, GoodNGPx<br />
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If you already scanned with the last six, don't worry, there was nothing added to the database.<br />
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<strike>GoodTools Suite March 13, 2016</strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-23198291106293588152016-03-12T15:50:00.000-06:002016-03-12T15:50:27.598-06:00Four New GoodToolsCome and get em.<br />
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New GoodN64, GoodNGPx, GoodCoCo, and GoodSV<br />
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<a href="https://mega.nz/#!zJkFHAJC!U41GyqERghvL8KLz0f_2-8iI2a5hRrC29FRORGhyP0c" target="_blank">GoodTools Suite March 12, 2016</a><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-68152001918512213052016-02-27T13:49:00.000-06:002016-03-12T15:50:48.435-06:00New GoodGBANew GoodGBA!<br />
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It has been quite a while for this one.. enjoy.. I'll update GoodSNES for newest finds in a few days.<br />
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Please read the docs for important changes.<br />
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<strike>GoodTools Suite February 27th 2016</strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-85535737057481770892016-02-24T14:28:00.001-06:002016-02-24T14:28:32.427-06:00See how f'cked up the US is right now...Hey all, I got a msg from some fly by night place named Neustar to prove I am a US citizen in order to keep this domain. I'm not going to hand them identity papers to let them fall into who knows whose hands.<br />
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Can you believe they would take a green card (easily faked) as proof of being a citizen? Those two don't even go together. <br />
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Those of you that know me know that I am the most 'US citizen' there is. Sadly, this is just how f'cked up the US is right now. <br />
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So, if this domain suddenly becomes some shitty porn distro site, you know why. Blame the US government.<br />
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You can always use www.blogger.com/cowering to get to the blog. <br />
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Everyone knows my email address, so if you have any ideas (LOL fake ID documents!) let me know within a few days.<br />
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I have a new GoodGBA and updated GoodSNES ready to go, but no sense posting them yet if they will just disappear.<br />
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Cow<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-58210461662840279202016-01-24T16:49:00.002-06:002016-02-27T13:50:55.023-06:00New GoodSNESA few fixes (including WinXP 32 bit)<br />
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get it here<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-37421744773176481302016-01-17T13:43:00.001-06:002016-01-24T16:50:09.009-06:00New GoodSNESHappy New Year!<br />
I was trying to get this out before the end of 2015 but Real Life makes things slip a lot.<br />
I'll try and get the older GoodTools that don't work in Windowns 8 or 10 redone in the next<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-5982959743906455632015-06-19T15:53:00.000-05:002016-01-24T16:50:21.349-06:00NEW new copy of GoodTools SuiteHere is a copy posted on MEGA sharing site. Copy.com tech support is completely useless and I am sorry I ever suggested that ANYONE use them. Please bad mouth them everywhere you can!<br />
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<strike>GoodTools Suite</strike> (use newer version)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-12471122234037521972015-06-05T20:06:00.000-05:002015-06-19T15:53:40.816-05:00New copy of GoodTools SuiteUse this new link (updated 3 times now because copy.com is a POS FUCKED UP SYSTEM) (now a .7z file)<br />
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GoodTools Suite (link removed)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-77483043073514249952015-06-05T15:38:00.001-05:002015-06-05T15:38:43.175-05:00Something wonky at copy.comFor some reason, some people can't load the Apr 26 copy of the GoodTools Suite. Give it a few hours to see if copy.com's servers get fixed. I'll upload a new copy otherwise.<br />
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I know it has been a long time since last post! Busy with all kinds of projects.. Here is just one.. a complete set of Vtech V.Smile consoles, addons and games (well, the cyber pocket glared too much and the dance pad was too big for the table). I hope the picture is available full size once I post it. <br />
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I don't know how to dump the BIOS out of each console.. but left to right on center row is the original V.smile (no microphone) V.Smile (with microphone) V.Smile Baby (with the pretty rare bailey bear controller) and the V.Smile Motion with the wireless controller and V.Link port.<br />
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If you are not in the USA and have a big pile of V.Smile games, please let me know.. They are easy to dump once you make the dumper out of a donor console. V.Smiles were sold in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, France and the UK.<br />
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The complete list of games that I have been working on is at<br />
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https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/hash/vsmile_cart.xml<br />
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and i'll update it this week for my latest finds.<br />
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...Yes, still working on other GoodTools!<br />
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Happy Thanksgiving!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-9056686802518966972014-04-26T12:10:00.000-05:002016-01-24T16:50:57.996-06:00New GoodSNES and GoodNES (Take 2)Sorry, but had to fix another bug in 'fixnes'.<br />
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Here is the new link (deleted, see newer post)<br />
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<strike>GoodTools Suite April 26, 2014</strike>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-77923952199991051912014-04-25T13:40:00.001-05:002016-01-17T13:44:36.730-06:00New GoodSNES and GoodNESIt's been a long long time, but here is a new GoodSNES! I am positive I forgot to add some translations that were emailed to me by a few groups. I'll get those added after I sort all the ^@*$ Mario hacks<br />
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GoodNES also is fixed for 'fixnes' command for some users of 32bit CPUS/OS combos.<br />
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<strike>GoodTools April 25th 2014 Pack</strike> (updated version now available)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-70148066499172735492014-02-13T13:37:00.004-06:002014-02-13T13:37:57.334-06:00Does anyone have email for...Just a shot in the dark. Does anyone have a working email for 'BoboPJ64'? He was active until a few years ago and I need to ask him about some of his dumps.<br />
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Much appreciate any info!!<br />
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Cow<br />
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P.S. Yes, I know about the 'fixnes' problem some of you are having with certain Windows configs and GoodNES. I've fixed it and will release a new one ASAP.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-28277595975936250572013-12-29T16:11:00.000-06:002016-01-17T13:45:18.604-06:00YAY, New GoodGBA and GoodNESFinally!<br />
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I got rid of that f*cking DropBox POS. I'm using copy.com for now. Seems to work the same for end users and I don't have to install an app like with DropBox just to get files synced from one PC to the cloud.<br />
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If you want to help me with some more storage space, use this to login to copy.com :<br />
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<a href="https://copy.com/?r=98aXiZ" target="_blank">copy.com referral</a><br />
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If I get enough space, I'm seriously considering backing up all my scans that I have not had time to pretty up. People can then help me with them, and I can look at them while on the road looking for undumped carts. The scans are much too large for even a 64GB SD card on my tablet :(<br />
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Now to the news most people care about!<br />
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New GoodGBA and GoodNES. These are the two that most people ask about (GoodSNES being almost a tie)<br />
GBA and NES also have the largest number of hacks coming out of China right now, and I want to test the new UTF-8 ability. Let me know if you encounter anything 'strange' while renaming or scanning.<br />
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Oh, and RAR support is gone for now.<br />
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Here is the link for the complete set of GoodTools. For now I'm going to just keep one file with everything in it. It is only 15meg and everyone will have latest files. If no bugs are found in these two tools, I'll release loads more right after New Years Day.<br />
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Have fun<br />
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Cow<br />
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Da Link : <strike>GoodTools Suite Dec 29, 2013 Version</strike> (updated version available)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-37578005022269338862013-12-28T19:07:00.001-06:002013-12-28T19:07:18.759-06:00Wow.. thanks a lot!Nice move.. some asswipe is constantly downloading the suite of tools. Now I'm over my dropbox limit (which should NEVER happen normally). So much for a pre-New Years release.<br />
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I'll upload the suite somewhere else if someone provides a good service. I don't like Box, nor anything with anonymous links since I can't track the number of downloads.<br />
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Cow<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-46290754358634625412013-11-21T07:08:00.001-06:002013-11-21T07:08:47.798-06:00To RAR or not to RAR?Well, here it is another six months later and I still have no release. Besides being very busy, I can't get unrar5 to work with unicode/utf8 properly.<br />
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Do you guys even give a crap about RAR? If I could decode all the C++ wrappers in 7zip to just add its unrar to the existing LZMA stuff, I'd try that, but I'm quite bad at following that code for some reason and have never figured it out :(<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-20130828482355088712013-06-08T08:14:00.000-05:002013-06-08T08:14:13.606-05:00Out of the blue......I make a post! Real life has been at 0% idle level lately, but I'm still working on GoodTools and other stuff. I would release a new version, but there is still a nagging bug in RAR file handling that causes a BSOD and no one likes those. If I had code to create RAR files i could figure out why my code can't decode some of them, but alas it is closed source. Still I forge ahead.<br />
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I did get time to work on Tandy 1000 emulation in MESS last week. It is not as well done as I'd like as many of the chips and BIOS ROMs are not dumped 100% correctly. If you've still got a Tandy 1000 from mid 80s-mid 90s lying around, email me and we can try and get em all dumped properly. Models include things like the HX RX TX SX SL RL, etc etc.. Tandy made lots of variations.<br />
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Be back soon!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-18953134698317386152013-02-19T10:35:00.000-06:002013-02-19T10:35:41.196-06:00Been a while...Wow.. real life has taken a while to catch up on :( I've been fighting bugs in RAR and 7z for a while as I convert the GoodTools to Unicode, but I'm almost done.<br />
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I've also got a line on a batch of Jap Pico carts, but I've not kept up with Team-Europe in a while and don't want to waste money buying dupes. If someone has a nice single link or site for their scans and dumps, just shoot me a comment.<br />
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Finally, I've been trying to help out a school system with some ancient junk. If anyone has driver disks for fiber optic cards made by 'Raylan' from about 1991 for the PC or the MAC, please let me know where to get the image. Raylan was bought out by AMP in 1993 and completely disappeared. Most valuable part of the company was their domain name rl.com LOL!<br />
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More soon (promise!)<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-26798989122940030332012-11-08T13:57:00.004-06:002012-11-08T13:57:41.434-06:00New GoodPSIDNew GoodPSID<br />
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<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/98424635/GoodPSID_V322.zip">GoodPSID V3.22</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-21967180105034631092012-11-08T13:56:00.004-06:002012-11-08T13:57:52.894-06:00New GoodSPCNew GoodSPC<br />
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<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/98424635/GoodSPC_V322.zip">GoodSPC V3.22</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-10905107182955923582012-11-08T13:55:00.001-06:002012-11-08T13:55:42.078-06:00New GoodTools SuiteGoodTools Suite (minus recently updated tools)<br />
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I see 25 comments right now asking valid questions (not ROM begging) but with 'anonymous' as the contact info. That does not help either of us resolve the issue!<br />
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If you want to post a link to unknown ROMS you have found, feel free. I promise I won't let those comments become publicUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-750264881765609452.post-32221929311885360022012-10-20T13:51:00.000-05:002012-10-20T13:51:37.718-05:00New GoodGenNew GoodGen<br />
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<a href="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/98424635/GoodGen_V321.zip">GoodGen V3.21</a><br />
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