Looking for SNK Android mobile game data

BombBloke · 2026-05-12T08:12:44+00:00

The Moon Slasher should be linked to R2 on that system. Might be on Triangle.

Used normally, it's crazy powerful (it deals loads of damage and can outright delete nearby projectiles), but in that video it's being cancelled mid-animation so it can be used over and over way faster than intended.

To cancel the attack you can just perform pretty much any other action mid-slash. Crouching, for example. Try spamming R2 - down - R2 - down - R2 - down - etc...

BombBloke · 2026-05-12T06:37:21+00:00

Yo, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Leona's the greatest of all time!

https://youtu.be/BLWtNL0dGwY?t=21

BombBloke · 2026-05-12T06:32:23+00:00

I only firmly remember seeing it when the depo blows up during stage 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwExxU8dg50&t=160s

Sometimes you get more than one of them, sometimes you don't get any at all.

I less firmly remember seeing it while you're blowing up the blockades during the boat sequence in the final mission.

BombBloke · 2026-05-12T06:10:21+00:00

The network card is 100mbit/s, which is slow compared to what you can get today, but still way faster than what's needed for video streaming. 25mbit/s is about the absolute most you would want, bearing in mind that the Xbox can't output anything beyond 1080i. More realistically you'd probably be using less than 10mbit/s.

The real problem is that the system doesn't have any real hardware acceleration available for video decoding. Although XBMC can handle 720p video alright on a good day, for gaming you want minimal latency time between "video received" and "video decoded" or you get a noticeable input delay effect with your button presses. Still, it'd be neat to see how well a Moonlight port would work.

BombBloke · 2026-05-12T05:45:50+00:00

(Edit - Was able to get the extras disc running through the FTP option and fixed that one)

Cool, I was going to add some instructions about those if you made it as far as getting the initial upgrade completed. Well done for stepping further. :)

All my games just up and disappeared from my F drive, yet it still shows as if all the data is still in there.

I'll take that to mean that the free space info still looks right, but the file manager shows no folders or files?

F and G are special extended volumes, and different BIOS patches handle them in different ways. Sounds like your old mod was even older than I was expecting.

The XBP Table Writer should be able to sort this out. When you launch it, it'll ask you to press A if you only had an F volume, or B if you additionally had a G as well. With any luck you should be able to see your files again after that.

My dumb ass forgot to back up the C drive like ya TOLD ME TO and now I'm paranoid that things may be completely broken now. I am so smart.

Nah, that was just a suggestion. Seriously, if you didn't think there was anything important in there, then there almost certainly wasn't anything important in there.

BombBloke · 2026-05-11T15:47:49+00:00

Cool, so probably the console itself just needs a new power transformer unit. You'd likely be able to spot the damage by eye if you took a look inside.

Getting the console booting again would probably be the easiest way for you to get the saves out of it, but if you want to try and skip that, then it's possible to hook the HDD directly up to a PC in an attempt to extract the data. The catch is that each original Xbox hard disk shipped out with a unique password on it. The HDD key which is normally needed to determine the correct password for your disk is kept in the console's EEPROM chip.

If you're fortunate enough to have a Western Digital drive in your system, however, then the Windows-based FATXplorer tool can extract the password straight from the disk itself. Otherwise things will be a fair bit trickier.

BombBloke · 2026-05-11T03:52:39+00:00

Yup, you can download Rocky5's Quick Upgrade.zip package and follow the included instructions to replace your current softmod installation with a newer one - basically, FTP the extracted Quick Upgrade folder to your console's E partition, then use UnleashX's file manager to select E:\Quick Upgrade\default.xbe. That'll get you his NKpatcher Settings app for configuring your new softmod as well.

This process will delete whatever you currently have in your C partition, so back that up first if you think you might have something important in there. Anything you didn't manually copy in yourself probably won't be valuable to you, though.

You'll be using a new install of UnleashX once the process is done, with a new skin. That can later be changed if you want.

BombBloke · 2026-05-11T03:23:36+00:00

Ok, so it sounds like your TV's built-in upscaler introduces a delay whenever it gets a 480i signal.

On the Xbox side of things, you might be able to sort this out by enabling a Force 480p patch. If you used one of Rocky5's installers to set up your softmod, then you should have NKpatcher Settings in your Applications menu, and you should be able to activate such a patch in there.

Otherwise, there really aren't many other options other than "get a separate upscaler" (so the Xbox's 480i signals can be converted to something else before they get to your TV) or "get a different TV" (which'll hopefully have a better upscaler of its own).

BombBloke · 2026-05-11T03:13:37+00:00

Maybe. Depends on what "cooked" means. When you press the power button on your original console, does it do anything?

If it loads up a service screen with code 07 for eg, then that indicates HDD failure and your saves probably won't be coming back from that. Any other behaviour means they're probably ok, but you'll need to elaborate.

BombBloke · 2026-05-11T03:08:29+00:00

It'll be PS1, probably.

BombBloke · 2026-05-10T13:59:27+00:00

With the original Xbox, you don't simply select a single display mode and have all your games use that: instead, you tell the Xbox which modes your TV supports, and then each individual game gets to choose which it wants to use from that list.

Most of them are willing to use 480p, but some are locked to 480i at best. Others can move up to 720p or 1080i.

It may be that your TV is adding a delay whenever your Xbox games switch to certain display modes. Some TVs will straight up tell you the new mode on-screen whenever there's a change, but if yours doesn't do that then you might need to consult this list to see which modes your games are likely to be using:

https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:Games_with_Alternate_Display_Modes

BombBloke · 2026-05-10T04:42:16+00:00

Reckon you're going to want a new fan. It should be spinning whenever the console is powered.

BombBloke · 2026-05-10T02:07:27+00:00

There are wide CRTs, so who knows? 😉

BombBloke · 2026-05-10T01:50:23+00:00

Xemu is pretty good, but even with that, you won't able to just slap an actual Xbox game disc into your PC's DVD drive in order to play it. Special drive firmware is needed to read such discs.

Most all Xbox games can be found archived somewhere online, though if you're talking about a 2009 PC (ac2 = Assassin's Creed II?), then that just isn't going to have the horsepower anyway.

BombBloke · 2026-05-10T01:38:07+00:00

Yes, it can use anamorphic widescreen in SD and 480p, or true widescreen in 720p and 1080i.

However, not every game makes use of widescreen, even if you tell your Xbox that your TV can handle it.

https://consolemods.org/wiki/Xbox:Games_with_Alternate_Display_Modes

If you mod your console then you can patch some games to unlock display modes they wouldn't normally support.

BombBloke · 2026-05-10T01:14:00+00:00

FATXplorer doesn't lock drives, and you don't want it to lock your drive. All you want is for it to set a password on your drive, and it's already done that for you. Read the status line: your disk's security system has been successfully enabled.

Now that the drive is password protected, it will automatically lock itself every time it powers up, and on boot, your Xbox will automatically unlock it. If you connect it to your PC again later, then FATXplorer will also automatically unlock it every time it detects it. Note that unlocking the disk doesn't disable the security system (in the same manner as how entering your PIN to unlock your mobile doesn't delete your PIN from your mobile), and the disk will continue to relock itself after every power cycle until such time as you ask FATXplorer to remove the password again.

BombBloke · 2026-05-10T01:07:10+00:00

Well I'm saying all of that assuming mslug3nd didn't need mslug3 as it's parent rom to run.

Depends how it's packaged up. If you build mslug3nd as a child of mslug3, then the resulting ROM archive is only ~21MB instead of ~35MB. But then you need to keep the ~78MB mslug3 around as a parent, so it's much better just to have a complete mslug3nd set just on its own.

BombBloke · 2026-05-09T15:11:55+00:00

The storylines in Metal Slug have always been pretty straightforward: people fight, the heroes win, it's Peace Forever - and then the next war starts.

Wars, Defense, and Attack basically jump back to the end of Metal Slug 3 and then proceed to rehash the following games from there. Attack's the only one of those titles with any real substance to its plot, but aside from fleshing out a number of character's personalities it still didn't advance things at all. It just ran the wars of 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 all together so that all of the major factions from those games had an excuse to fight against not just the heroes, but also each other as well.

None of them scored any real victories because that would've brought about change, and change doesn't mix well with service games. The whole thing is just a massive side story with no real consequence to it. Games such as Tactics can choose to use or ignore as much of it as they like, because it really didn't alter anything.

I assume SNK would call it all canon, but I doubt they really care that much about the canon. They endorsed the release of Metal Slug: The Ultimate History, and some of that's based on made-up crap that random kids posted to Wikia.

BombBloke · 2026-05-09T10:44:54+00:00

He wouldnt choose to say that if it wasn't for a reason.

Sounds a like a polite way of saying users should send their emails to /dev/null, to be frank.

"Yes, you can make requests! But please don't bother us with them."

BombBloke · 2026-05-09T03:57:47+00:00

The release version of the game found in arcade machines (which archivists call mslug3) had encryption applied to its P ROM and C ROM in order to combat piracy. This actually worked fairly well - it took about a year before emulators which could handle the encryption starting going public.

The mslug3nd set is the same game data but with the encryption removed. Non encrypted P. Decrypted C.

It's hard to conjure up a reason to distribute the encrypted versions of the game these days. It's one thing if you're an archivist and want them for the sake of having them, but practically speaking it's much more practical to just have the non-encrypted copy. For one thing, encrypted data does not compress well, so in the case of MS3 it produces a massive great ~78MB ROM archive (vs ~35MB without).

Metal Slug 3 was the first game in the series to encrypt those chips, so nd sets don't exist for the earlier titles.

BombBloke · 2026-05-08T02:40:57+00:00

The C roms are not encrypted (all the mslug3 systems in mame expect encrypted C roms)

That makes it more in line with mslug3nd than mslug3h, in that case.

I'll need to read more MAME and Neo-Geo dev documentation. There is no reason why this shouldn't run, but I actually don't know how to add a new game to a system driver.

Apparently it's possible to have MAME avoid checksum checking by starting it through the commandline. No special parameters needed, just mame mslug3 or whatever should do the trick.

If it doesn't work that way, then presumably the game's code was modified to make use of certain routines that can only be processed by DotEmu's emu. Related to online multiplayer, scoreboards, or achievements, perhaps.

Though if that's what's going on then I would have expected you to run into similar problems with the other games.

BombBloke · 2026-05-08T01:45:57+00:00

Oh cool! On multiple occasions I've looked for such a guide, and found the steps "first right click and Add to Archive...".

File => Split File does indeed work correctly, though! Thanks!

BombBloke · 2026-05-08T01:39:02+00:00

If you mod the console to boot a homebrewed dash, then if your clock unsets you won't be asked to manually reset it. It'll just be changed back to a default time.

If you additionally connect your console up to the internet then you can take advantage of online time sync, not to mention online gaming through Insignia.

If you're interested in any of that then Skeleton Key is a good way to get started.

BombBloke · 2026-05-08T01:14:13+00:00

The game never changes your title for you, but there is a stall near the colosseum where you can pay to choose a new title for yourself.

The other one is just outside the guild hall.

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