http://pikensoft.com Useful websites Software, Emulation Dwayne Robinson 2007-11-11 17:00:00 PST en-us http://pikensoft.com/ Emulation hidden pikensoft Utilities, Documents, ... sitemap.html Map of website links.xml links XML form of all links on website news.xml news XML form of all news on website index.html menu Main home page. news2007.html menu Website news. thoughts.html menu Thoughts I've had about miscellaneous subjects docs.html menu Documents I've written or collected programs.html Programs I've written programs.html#emulation menu bgmapper spc2midi pixelai tilemapview upfront Emulation related utilities programs-bgmapper.html menu programs vsnes Savestate viewer and image exporter, to help make SNES video game maps. programs-pixelai.html graphics Viewer menu programs nana tiled tilelayer Raw graphics viewer programs-tilemapview.html menu programs Tilemap viewer programs-spc2midi.html menu programs SNES SPC player and MIDI converter programs-upfront.html Emulation Utility menu programs cybergoth Front-end for a few of my utilities written by CyberGoth programs.html#graphics menu programs.html#other menu pictures-artwork.html menu pictures-camera.html menu pictures-artwork.html menu Pictures I've drawn pictures-maps.html menu bgmapper Maps from various games music.html menu spc2midi music.html#midis menu links.html menu Useful websites about.html menu About the author and website programs/spriteview-1.6.6.20030310@pikensoft.zip hidden download Latest version of SpriteView programs/bgmapper-1.7.7.20030310@pikensoft.zip hidden download Latest version of BgMapper programs/tilemapview-1.8.7.20021110@pikensoft.zip hidden download Latest version of Tilemap View programs/spc2midi-1.3.0.20021001@pikensoft.zip hidden download Latest version of Spc2Midi programs/spc2midi-1.1.6.20011213-source@pikensoft.zip hidden download Latest public version of Spc2Midi source programs/upfront-1.3.20000616@pikensoft.zip hidden download Latest version of UpFront (utility front end) antires Emulation Utility spctool spc2midi SNES SPC player and converter http://vsnes.aep-emu.de Emulation Mapping Utility vsnes maps bgmapper creaothceann SNES game savestate utility (can help make maps like ones you see on vgmaps). It's like BgMapper, but newer, more capable, and more user-friendly. http://www.zophar.net/ Emulation home emulation 2007-11-11 An encompassing site for emulation in general. Check out their collection of utilities, SPC/savestate archives, docs, and forum. Thanks to them for hosting my utilities long ago. http://www.emuxhaven.net/ Emulation emulation 2000-00-00 Looks like a good site for emulation related interests. http://vgmaps.com/ Images Maps home maps 2008-11-30 The Videogame Atlas, with lots of maps of old 2D video games. http://ian-albert.com/misc/gamemaps.php Images Maps bgmapper maps Ian Albert 2005-11-08 Detailed level maps of few old games - like Zelda LTTP! (overall, seems like an interesting fellow too). http://www.snesmaps.com Images Maps maps 2009-02-22 Hobbyist (Rick Bruns) who has made a few maps of SNES games. http://snesmusic.org/v2/ Emulation home music emulation spc spc2midi 2008-11-30 Large SPC music archive of old games http://www.ocremix.org/ Music home music spc2midi 2008-11-30 Great archive of remixed video game music! "Founded in 1999, OverClocked ReMix is an organization dedicated to the appreciation, preservation, and interpretation of video game music." http://www.vgmusic.com/ Music music spc2midi 2008-11-30 Good archive of video game music MIDIs that's been around > decade. http://alpha-ii.com/ Emulation home music about emulation spctool spcamp 2008-11-30 Useful emulation programs by AntiResonance (SPCTool particularly) http://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/ Emulation home about emulation 2008-11-30 Useful utilities by Fusoya (like Lunar Magic and ZCompress) plus translation goods. http://www.geocities.com/Qwertie256/ Emulation about emulation 2000-00-00 The most helpful SNES docs out there (SNES Knowledge Base!) plus the emulator SneQr. http://www.korosoft.net/ about friend 2008-11-30 Site of a Canadian friend. http://koro.dyndns.org/ 2008-11-30 Site of a Canadian friend. http://www.cybergoth.force9.co.uk/ emulation defunct emulation 1999-06-13 An early acquaintance who wrote a decent front-end for my DOS utilities. Also has lots of useful links and ramblings I fully agree with. http://ragegames.classicgaming.gamespy.com/hacksdemos.html emulation hacks emulation Jay McGavren 2000-00-00 Interesting old NES hacks and SNES demos, plus old game reviews and Game Genie codes. http://rpgd.emulationworld.com/ emulation translation emulation 1998-00-00 We can thank them for translating many good console RPGs for us English speakers. Perhaps you've heard of Neil Corlett? http://rpgd.emulationworld.com/klarth/oldindex.html emulation translation emulation 2000-00-00 Klarth We can thank them for translating many good console RPGs for us English speakers. Perhaps you've heard of Neil Corlett? http://www.nintendoland.com/ nostalgia games emulation 2000-00-00 Great site to find out about Nintendo's video game classics. "Prepare for a nostalgic journey." http://www.romhacking.net/ Emulation emulation docs 2000-00-00 Large library of documents and utilities related to console game 'customization'. http://emureview.ztnet.com/developerscorner/ Emulation emulation docs 2000-00-00 Lots of technical SNES documents, assemblers, disassemblers, and ROM utilities. Twas one of the first sites I found with all this stuff. http://www.classicgaming.com/epr/ Emulation defunct 2000-00-00 Excellent for information on several systems. http://archaic-ruins.parodius.com/ Emulation defunct 1999-00-00 Another great emulation news site that has been around even longer than Zophar's Domain - the first great one I came across. Here you can get the latest news on emulation or the 'history' of emulation with several older articles. http://www.vgmuseum.com/ Emulation games emulation 2000-00-00 Archive of MANY old favorite games, with pictures and endings. http://www.zsnes.com/ emulator ZsKnight, _Demo_, Pharos bgmapper 2000-00-00 The fastest SNES emulator I know (the one which most of my utilities work with the savestates of, with SpriteView loading colors from them, TileView jumping to WRAM, and BgMapper loading the scene). http://www.snes9x.com/ emulator Jeremy Koot, Gary Henderson, TeleKawaru 2000-00-00 One of the two greatest SNES emulators, around for longer than ZSNES. Best of all, you can more than play it, you can get the source to it and find out how the SNES works. http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Bay/6633/ emulator Qwertie 2000-00-00 This emulator lacks sound and transparency, but it has the one thing I really needed, full debugging ability. The source is also available. http://mrclick.zophar.net/TilEd/ editor graphics pixelai Mr. Click 2000-00-00 Multi-Console tile editor supporting quite a few different tile modes. http://home.arcor.de/minako.aino/TilEd2002/ editor graphics pixelai 2000-00-00 Newer TilEd with freshened GUI (not sure if same author?) http://biphome.spray.se/magnusr/ pixelai Magnus Runesson 1998-00-00 Tis a bit dated now, but it was the first console graphics viewer I used. http://www.zophar.net/utilities/graphutil/tile-layer-pro.html pixelai Kent Hansen 2005-12-20 Fast, capable tile graphics hacker. http://www.fortunecity.com/skyscraper/patch/952/index.html C-Tzar 2008-11-25 A general purpose data editor that unlike game specific editors, uses map files to specify where important locations are and what type of data they are. Although it can be very useful for console game savestates, it technically is capable of being used on anything with fixed locations, as long as there is a map file for it. http://www.thegshi.org/ emulation cheats 2000-00-00 Home to a huge selection of cheats and game enhancement codes, from retro to recent. http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de/~bexxx/snes/snes.html programming defunct 2000-00-00 SNES Demos, source code, and old docs. http://www.programmersheaven.com/ programming 2000-00-00 Great resource for docs, various systems, and several languages. http://www.irfanview.com/ image-viewer 2000-00-00 Irfan Skiljan Great picture viewer. Intuitive, fast, supports all common and many unheard of file types. Can easily navigate folders with arrow keys, and shows better thumbnails than Explorer. http://www.geocities.com/myasftools/ 2000-00-00 Bardia Processes ASF,WMA,WMV, including join, split, repair, extraction of audio, and my reason for downloading: can convert stupid ASFs into useable AVIs (rids the seek lag and even produces slightly smaller file). http://jpegclub.org/ 2002-00-00 Guido Vollbeding Crop/rotate/flip JPGs with no detail loss. http://mdb.classicgaming.gamespy.com/ 2000-00-00 If you liked any of the Metroid series, then you don't want to miss this. http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/ Samuel Stoddard 2000-00-00 Fun converter to translate plain ol English inta Redneck, n Jive, n Pig Latin... Fun; just try it. http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/ games 2008-09-01 Fun little puzzle/memory games (the Rotate^2 is addictive). http://www.tinami.com/ artwork 2000-00-00 This central directory of manga artists is a great resource to find good cg artwork. http://www.deviantart.com/ artwork 2009-02-22 Great repository of artist's works, covering a wide range of styles and mediums. http://community.animearchive.org/ 2000-00-00 Site with pictures and music from all the Anime series I have seen, plus plenty of ones I have never even heard of. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/ video-player 2005-00-00 MPlayer is a an open source media player that plays almost anything you have (available for all major operating systems). It's not as GUI friendly as others, but the configurability and capabilities are what really count. http://www.gamedev.net/ programming games 1999-00-00 Game developer resources galore, full of articles and resources. http://www.codeproject.com/ programming 2005-00-00 Great development resource where programmers document their projects in articles/tutorials, offering both the final program and source code. http://www.wikipedia.org/ encyclopedia 2001-01-16 The huge encyclopedia that any domain expert (whether it be a useful domain or not ;) can contribute to. http://www.wikihow.com/ encyclopedia 2007-00-00 The how-to manual you can edit, with guides for several various projects (many useful, some just amusing). http://christopheremoore.net/ graphics graphics friend Chris Moore 2008-12-07 College friend's website (Chris Moore) with little graphics demos and small games that arise as by-products of his experimentation. old/snes.html emulation home 1999-02-05 Older version of the website.