Halloween Cotton
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A witch flying through a haunted forest, opening cauldrons and fighting zombies... the perfect plan for Halloween.
The new S16 beta now supports Cotton, which was plagued with bugs before (give it a go with the old RBF file for comparisons). There is still a small graphical glitch in a couple of places, but the game is fully playable now.
Coming forward, I want to close System 16 in November. Believe it or not, there are still about 50 MRA files pending! Yet, most of them are variations of games already supported. System16 was more like 16 different systems indeed!
No need to update jtbeta.zip, just use update_all or grab the attached files and unzip them to the root of your SD card.
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Una bruja volando a través de un bosque embrujado, abriendo calderos y luchando contra zombis... el plan perfecto para Halloween. La nueva versión beta de S16 ahora es compatible con Cotton. Este título antes estaba plagado de errores (pruébalo con el antiguo archivo RBF para compararlo).
Todavía hay un pequeño fallo gráfico en un par de lugares, pero el juego es totalmente jugable ahora. Quiero cerrar ya el Sistema 16 en noviembre. Lo creas o no, ¡todavía hay alrededor de 50 archivos MRA pendientes! Sin embargo, la mayoría de ellos son variaciones de juegos ya compatibles. ¡System16 era más bien 16 sistemas diferentes!
No es necesario actualizar jtbeta.zip tan solo usad update_all o copiad los ficheros a la raíz de la tarjeta SD.
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For the life of me I cannot figure out why any of the Arcade cores are not working. They all default to a black screen. Cotton, AVP, Commando...anything. After several days of fiddling with it I copied "jbeta.zip", "beta.zip", and "s16mcu.zip" to the MAME directory under GAMES and deleted all of the zipped mame files in the GAMES folder, deleted all of the .MRA files in "_ARCADE" folder, deleted all of the .RBF files in the _Arcade/cores folder, and then tried to force UPDATE-ALL after removing "last run" for Jotego cores. I made sure that beta cores are downloaded automatically via the UPDATE-ALL script. As it stands I have the newest .RBF files as well as the manually installed "jtbeta.zip" but I still cannot figure out why none of the cores are working. My last ditch effort was to completely wipe the SD card and start from scratch and re-download everything. Still no luck. Edit: So I believe I found the problem. I found that when I remove the USB drive with my non Arcade Cores on it everything seems to work. It turned out the issue was that on that drive there was an _Arcade and mame folder so the problem was it was trying to read data from two locations :)
I had the same issue today. Think I’ll create a script to automatically copy/move the content of the mame folder from the SD card to my external USB SSD.
Nice work Jose. Thank you very much. Had a blast playing this one earlier!
This worked, thanks for the help! it was using jts16b_20211015.rbf and also the all other jts16 files ended in 15. Hope this helps anyone else.
Nice 1 @jose and @jimmy - did the trick
If you get a blank screen after the introduction, it means you are using an old RBF. Cotton used to hang up like that until I fixed it for this beta. Just make sure you have the last RBF called jts16b_20211029.rbf
Thanks, Jose :)
Yes same here. I think there is a world version that someone had a video on Twitter, but the US version in alternatives/beta does not get further than the story screen after inserting a credit. Hope that helps! 🙂
Yep same as above - Cotten loads and boots but adding a cred and starting the game goes to a black screen after the mini intro
Check if you still have the old s16 cores present and delete them.
Edit: I got it working. I had to delete all my arcade cores and rbf files and run update all again. Seems to be working for now. Cotton plays excellent. Perfect Halloween treat. I used update_all and now I am having problems. Willow arcade froze at the second to last shop in the game and super street fighter 2 turbo won't load one of the Japanese roms from the alternative folder. Also, I don't see Cotton in my arcade folder. I have update_all configured to download jotego beta cores.
Nice and lots of fun :-)
Como shooter le viene fenomenal el tratamiento MiSTer a Cotton (por el lag). Gran trabajo como siempre don José.
すばらしい
great!, time for some Willow candy.
Fantastic! Thank you and happy Halloween
Thanks mate!!
Incredible arcade game, thanks José and happy Halloween to everybody
Thanks for this!
Tks for your hard work! Are you working with Sega System 18 too?
It's on the kitchen table now. Not ready for the oven yet.
Yes manually got beta files from post , then update all and voila
I don't think update_all is downloading the Cotton rom...yet....
Yes it does. I think the issue is that the script don't download the mra and updates the cores. When I updated manually, the script managed to download the rom file.
Same update_all is not working on my end. It did not update the cores as well.
Didn't get Cotton with update_all. Unzipped the file. Cotton is there, but the game doesn't run for me (black screen after loading).
I think update_all is not updating the cores. Validate the dates. For now I did a manual extract.
Thanks Jose! Happy Halloween!!
Great release!
Thanks dude !! 👍🏼👻
Gonna give this a shot in just a little while :D Happy Halloween!
Happy halloween Jose 🎃
¡Tremenda entrega! ¡Gracias!
May I upload it to the arcade/games folder?
Happy JTFriday!!! Thanks this is a great one :)
The one s16 game I's waiting for, finally arrived! This is truly magic! Thank you José❣
BRILLIANT game! Thanks Jose!!! ❤️
Thanks ^ ^ Happy Halloween!!!
Update_all doesn’t help. I think we are DDOS the bandwidth 😀
BASED AF 😎
YESSSSSSS!
Really hope we see Robocop soon.
What after system 16?
More Data East games will come soon. I have one 8-bit Konami title in the oven too.
Holy shit 🤯
Woohoo!!