{"id":2682,"date":"2017-12-19T01:01:59","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T01:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2017-12-19T09:23:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T09:23:36","slug":"strider-original-japanese-version-graphicssound-fix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Strider original Japanese version graphics\/sound fix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago a user on the KLOV forums called <strong>willkaotix<\/strong> created a set of replacement graphics ROMs for Strider which remove the censorship added for the final game (the leaf on the Amazons) as well as a couple of annoying pixel errors in frames.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.arcade-museum.com\/showthread.php?t=326312\">https:\/\/forums.arcade-museum.com\/showthread.php?t=326312<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The link for these is long dead but they got rolled into a ROM set you can still find called &#8220;stridergh&#8221;, however the changes are laid out for US boards which use 8 large mask ROMs for graphics data while the old Japanese version uses lots of 27C1000 chips.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to run this set on my JP PCB, and at the same time also wanted to fix the audio &#8211; all early releases of Strider have several tunes missing but you can update older ones by changing the sound ROM.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve gone through and split \/ deinterleaved all the images and narrowed it down to 10+1 chips you&#8217;ll need to change &#8211; or you could copy them into the MAME set if you want to play JP + fixes under emulation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/striderfixjp.zip\">striderfixjp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s actually very subtle and hard to notice, I&#8217;m not sure why they saw the need to add the censorship to be honest.\u00a0 Music fix makes a world of difference though.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago a user on the KLOV forums called willkaotix created a set of replacement graphics ROMs for Strider which remove the censorship added for the final game (the leaf on the Amazons) as well as a couple of annoying pixel errors in frames. https:\/\/forums.arcade-museum.com\/showthread.php?t=326312 The link for these is long dead but they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-games","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2684,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions\/2684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.system11.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}