Topic: NES Castlevania HD Packs

[Corpsecrank]

11/13/2017

Now that the first initial HDPack is up I guess I can change up this first post I will update here as I make changes so you can bookmark/subscribe to this or whatever to keep up with any updates. The download link leads to my blogs download section which will also contain any other stuff I work on.

We will need to play around with this pack and test it. It takes a bit of work to record these so I want to iron out any issues with this pack since it is the smallest/easiest to deal with. As soon as we have a handle on how these packs work and I better understand a few aspects of recording it we can move on to the other 2 games.

Things that would be swell to know:

- How much shit is missing?
- Do the pngs work properly after scaling up?
- How do we add music too! (I can probably read up on that one myself)

If I can think of any other stuff we might need to work out I will mention it here.

I am still working on writing up really good documentation for this. There is a whole lot more to these packs than what you see but most of it is really advanced stuff. You can edit the hires.txt to change the locations of tiles on the sheets and all kinds of crazy stuff if you really want to dig into it. Because of that I want to make sure anyone willing to go that far has proper resources to reference. So I will probably be updating the blog all afternoon to finish adding my projects and the documentation.

Download: https://thetilepile.blogspot.com/p/downloads.html

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Upload the sets, please!

[Foffy]

I am most interested in how you make a NES game HD, so add me to suggesting you share this!

[theplottwist]

I am interested!

[FanOfDracula]

me too me too!!

[Corpsecrank]

Alright good to know there is interest in this!

I'll start with the "Castlevania (U) (PRG1) [!]" rom since it comes from the goodnes collection and should be in most collections. If we need a pal version or a different version after this one then maybe I can grab that also. If any of you guys have any requests for a specific rom version don't hesitate to post it.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

I can't seem to open the *.rar file...
"Castlevania (U) (PRG1) [!] HDPack 1.0.rar"

[Corpsecrank]

I can't seem to open the *.rar file...
"Castlevania (U) (PRG1) [!] HDPack 1.0.rar"

Really? All I did was right click and rar it up. Let me take a look here and I will see if I can figure out what is going on with it.

Ok so I just tried downloading the rar and opening it and it seems alright on my end but I had the same issue opening a rar I downloaded from another site also recently. This is feeling like a problem with winrar at this point.

Give it one more shot and try downloading a new copy if it still is broken I might 7zip it and re-upload.

[Jorge D. Fuentes]

Why not just use .zip from the get-go?
I don't have WinRAR, I have 7Zip.

But I will try once more just in case.


EDIT (Update): Still fails to open with 7zip...

[Corpsecrank]

I just installed the latest 7z and it can open the archive no problem. I tried opening it with an older version of winrar and it was a no go.

I am switching to 7z here as winrar letting me down even this once is enough for me to drop it. I used winrar for years and it worked so well but this is unacceptable to me.

I will rezip with 7z and upload again.

[VladCT]

Why not just use .zip from the get-go?
I don't have WinRAR, I have 7Zip.

But I will try once more just in case.


EDIT (Update): Still fails to open with 7zip...

Just for the sake of process of elimination here, you do have the latest 7zip here, right? Seems like later versions of WinRAR and 7zip broke compatibility with earlier versions for some reason.

[Corpsecrank]

Just for the sake of process of elimination here, you do have the latest 7zip here, right? Seems like later versions of WinRAR and 7zip broke compatibility with earlier versions for some reason.

Yeah you got it for the most part. It's more like winrar became incompatible with older versions and the latest 7zip will open them but a couple versions back might not still. I guess ol igor fixed up 7z to open the newer winrar archives because he's awesome.

So basically get the latest 7zip and you should be fine.

Later today I am going to be working on finishing up converting my files over to 7z archives and I will finish correcting links and stuff. I already have the temp link up so you guys can grab the files directly from here for a now.

Gonna be a long day

[Corpsecrank]

Alright guys blog links are updated and temp links etc removed from main post. Sorry for the wait things got a little busy on me for a minute there.

I will be updating this with some documentation on how to actually use the packs shortly so for anyone that hasn't already figured it out or something just hang tight.