Nemesis 3 patch for smooth scrolling and other enhancements

There's a new trend in MSX land to enhance classic games from the past. And it's a good trend. The MSX system has a solid game base, many classics were born in the Z80 crib. In the early days of home computing, many software houses jumped the train and gave us enjoyable games. The limitation of the system is something programmers had to deal with to get things done. One of the (in)famous so-so deals was screen-scrolling. Instead of smooth movement we mostly got blocky transitions. And with these new trends, by homebrew programmers, with todays knowledge, the time has come to correct these deals.

MRC user Víctor Martínez has done some incredible trend work in the recent past, remember Salamander smooth scrolling and other enhancements? And just when you thought you've seen it all, here's the next episode in hopefully a long serie of goods: a super-upgrade for Konami's Nemesis III subtitled "The Eve of Destruction" (RC-764). Yes, that's right geeks, Víctor delivers us an IPS patch to enhance your copy of this brill game.

Víctor, aka the patch professor, has taken his earlier gained knowledge and injected Nemesis 3 with all the goods from his magic hat. Check out what this patch brings:

Smooth screen scrolling
TurboFIX routine (original routine by FRS)
New player ships GFX by Toni Galvez who also did amazing new Intro, ship menu, and in-game graphics.
Voice Set (SCC in other slot/subslot) by WYZ/ARTRAG.
New Voice SET with better sound quality and a lot of new voices.
You can have the ROM of the game and the other SCC for Voice SET in the same slot expander.
You can insert the other SCC "in hot" in the INI screen and it'll be detected.
Compatible with the double SCC mode in Flashjacks
DrumFIX by WYZ
Enables the TURBOCPU in PANASONIC TR & 2+
In pause mode -> extra options:
- F2 key: In pause-> change player ship GFX
- F3 key: In pause-> change gameplay speed
- F4 key: In pause-> change Invincible mode
Joymega support:
- START button: Pause
- A button: Continue, extend game
- X button: In pause-> change player ship GFX
- Y button: In pause-> change gameplay speed
- Z button: In pause-> change Invincible mode
Selectable at boot: Language, VDP freq., invincible...

Isn't that just...Wow!? Amazing work, to say the least. Beside the upgrades, a lot of routines have been optimized to offer smoother gameplay. This patched game is, however, NOT compatible with Game Master. Further note that this is a patch only for MSX2 or higher machines, where MSX turbo R is fully supported and highly recommended.

So, get this patch and play Nemesis III on steroids like you always wanted to. There's no excuse, MSX can do smooth scrolling. Period. End of discussion. Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be on my way ending this space-war once and for all.

Relevant link: Video demonstration
Relevant link: Download the patch

text: ro
images: hamlet

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Commentaires (62)

Par ToriHino

Paladin (925)

15-04-2018, 13:41

Wow that is some great work! You gave this game a second (and much better) life.

Par hit9918

Prophet (2932)

15-04-2018, 14:15

it scrolls and it has more samples than an amiga game

Par Pippo

Hero (521)

15-04-2018, 14:18

Dear Victor,
you are a Magician and a Professor, really and really!!
You Big efforts, for Our Great Computer, are very much appreciated by the Whole Msx World.
My most real Congratulations for these Very, Very Great Enhancement Jewels!!

Par MISXTOR

Champion (390)

15-04-2018, 14:24

Congratulations Víctor......

What a good magic do you get in your little things to MSX and I love to enjoy it.

Spectacular work . Awesome.

Par Pablibiris

Paragon (1834)

15-04-2018, 14:48

It's awesome!!
Thanks Victor!

Par gdx

Enlighted (6429)

15-04-2018, 15:10

Yes, awesome!!
Thanks.

Par santiontanon

Paragon (1831)

15-04-2018, 15:40

Wow, very nice!!!

Par ARTRAG

Enlighted (6976)

15-04-2018, 16:09

Par Fabf

Champion (266)

15-04-2018, 17:53

Excellent work !

Par djh1697

Paragon (1735)

15-04-2018, 18:22

Brilliant! Nemesis 2 next please? (only asking politely!!)
Can you do anything with F1Spirit and the vertical scrolling games?

Par Pac

Scribe (7103)

15-04-2018, 18:31

Unbelievable good work!

Par ToriHino

Paladin (925)

15-04-2018, 18:51

djh1697 wrote:

Brilliant! Nemesis 2 next please? (only asking politely!!)

https://www.msx.org/news/software/en/gradius-2-enhancement-p...

Par mambrino

Rookie (30)

15-04-2018, 18:58

Excellent! thanks

Par meits

Scribe (6571)

15-04-2018, 19:24

Somewhere in the end of the 80s someone said: "MSX is dead".
Well, he was wrong.

Par smx

Expert (74)

15-04-2018, 20:02

Please,
Can anyone give the CRC code of the original rom?

Thanks

Par ToriHino

Paladin (925)

15-04-2018, 20:51

I used this one: Gofer no Yabou Episode II. Nemesis 3 - The Eve of Destruction (1988)(Konami)[a][RC-764] and works excellent

Par Philip

Champion (380)

15-04-2018, 21:11

Very nice, thanks !

Par Manuel

Ascended (19678)

15-04-2018, 21:53

Wooow, great; to be clear: only V9938 is required, right?

Par PingPong

Enlighted (4155)

15-04-2018, 22:25

good! does smooth scroll works even on a plain msx2 machine with 3.58 mhz & v9938?

Par Pablibiris

Paragon (1834)

15-04-2018, 22:34

It works with a simple MSX2

Par djh1697

Paragon (1735)

15-04-2018, 22:38

i keep getting an error using the online ips patcher, the one on the Japanese website

Par wolf_

Ambassador_ (10135)

15-04-2018, 22:55

Very nicely done!

Question: in the original version, does Konami scroll each 8/16/24/32/40/etc interrupts? Because a really smooth scroll would require a factor of 8, I'd think. If not: then these levels are bound to be a little bit too slow or too fast compared to the original version, or you'd have some irregular jump in the scroll, which I haven't noticed.

Par JohnHassink

Ambassador (5684)

15-04-2018, 23:28

Awesome. Was really waiting for this.
My favorite Nemesis game made even better.
Thanks so much Victor, and everyone involved. Congratulations with this great effort!

@djh1697: Have you tried Lunar IPS?

Par iamweasel2

Paladin (722)

15-04-2018, 23:37

What can I say? I'm speechless. Amazing work (again) Victor. It gives a new life to this great game.

Thank you for improving those great MSX classics.

I second djh's question: Is it possible to do the same treatment with F1 Spirit (vertical smooth scroll)?

Par Manuel

Ascended (19678)

15-04-2018, 23:51

Pablibiris wrote:

It works with a simple MSX2

Would it be possible to make it work on a V9938 with 16kB VRAM? Or is the extra VRAM needed for scrolling? I know it's not very important, but it would be cool to have the smooth scrolling on MSX1 with V9938

Par Pablibiris

Paragon (1834)

15-04-2018, 23:53

I don't know this
But Victor can answer this

Par sd_snatcher

Prophet (3675)

15-04-2018, 23:56

Great work, Victor! We were having an MSX meeting here in my city this weekend, and I brought the patched game with me to show there. It was an instant success!

Par karloch

Prophet (2159)

16-04-2018, 00:01

Awesome! Thank you so much for the work!

Par Moniz

Champion (401)

16-04-2018, 02:02

played thru the game twice now (yep.. i'm a coward.. ) great improvement! thanks!!

Par hbarcellos

Hero (649)

16-04-2018, 03:45

Parabéns Victor and all the others: Toni Galvez, Artrag, FRS,...
What a team!
I think that deserves a special, epic, cart!

Par Victor

Champion (509)

16-04-2018, 04:49

Manuel wrote:

No.. Sorry.. I use 64 Kbytes of VRAM.. for that reason I say that it should work in any MSX2 or higher... I have double buffer for "Pattern Name Table", "Sprite Attribute Table", other part for the Pause letters,.....

Par Victor

Champion (509)

16-04-2018, 04:56

wolf_ wrote:

The original game should scroll each 8*2=16 interrupts.. but this game was designed for more than 3.58 Mhz.. as FRS told here... and the original game has a constant frame dropping... For that reason is recommended a TurboCPU... After that I made some small modification in the TurboFIX routine becuase, for example, is too fast and sometimes the scroll could take effect faster...

Par Colemu

Hero (544)

16-04-2018, 13:39

What a lovely surprise Victor!!
Loving these smooth scrolling conversions

The best advantage of owning a TR in my opinion!

The only thing that put me off the Gradious/Nemesis series was loosing all your weapons when you die. At least you've added an invincibility feature so we can now complete the game

Again well done, and here's hoping for more...

Par Ivan

Ascended (9372)

16-04-2018, 19:38

Impressive! I do really like the new colorful graphics of the spaceships. And the digitized voices are a nice addition.

Par valkyre

Paladin (699)

16-04-2018, 20:40

Fantastic work Victor and team, really appreciate your dedication.

Par djh1697

Paragon (1735)

17-04-2018, 00:36

Great with the MFRSCC, great with Sofarun on the C2, cannot get it to work with the C2 flash memory though

Par hbarcellos

Hero (649)

17-04-2018, 00:53

BTW, just out of curiosity: Why there's a special version for WebMSX?

Par mariocavalcanti

Expert (114)

17-04-2018, 01:49

I played the enhanced version today. Works fine on real MSX and BlueMSX. Really good! Great job by Victor!

Par Victor

Champion (509)

17-04-2018, 04:56

hbarcellos wrote:

BTW, just out of curiosity: Why there's a special version for WebMSX?

Becuase the line interrupt, in webMSX, is not correctly emulated and it must be at line 175... not in line 174... and the Joymega routine take conficlt with the emulation and the Mouse has to be disabled by default...

Par Victor

Champion (509)

17-04-2018, 06:07

This week I 'll launch a new version with some small fixes and I'll try to include a graphic change that our friend FRS has sent my today...

Par Imanok

Paragon (1200)

17-04-2018, 09:23

Amazing work, guys! Thank you very much and congratulations!

Par JasonLee

Resident (40)

17-04-2018, 14:22

Just Amazing.

Par Wolverine_nl

Paragon (1160)

17-04-2018, 14:28

it has already got Flashjacks support, now we just learned that that cartridge is going to be a local venture, hopefully it will not be only local.

Par Louthrax

Prophet (2496)

17-04-2018, 19:49

Yeeeeaaaaah, thanks again Victor

Par Maggoo

Paragon (1218)

18-04-2018, 01:36

Great job, it looks fantastic!!!!

Par OeiOeiVogeltje

Paragon (1438)

19-04-2018, 19:43

very nice!!

Par Victor

Champion (509)

20-04-2018, 18:50

New version v 1.03

Download here.

Change log:

V1.03:
- New David Burton image created by FRS

- MSX1 Message: "Only for MSX2 or higher"
- Fixed Joymega routine completely

Par MSX4ever

Champion (259)

21-04-2018, 00:10

Made great !
Thanks Victor !

Par gdx

Enlighted (6429)

21-04-2018, 10:38

I played the game today. Impressive, Victor you are the best MSX game improver in the world! Congratulations.

Par sinus

Expert (85)

21-04-2018, 12:13

Hi, magic makers! So you did it again
I try to figure out the skills behind these improvements. So your team is composed of a kind of Minister of Scrolling Affaires, a Secretary of Graphic Arts, another twos in charge of Voice sets and Music... But that's a lot of work! Do you think any other contribution would be relevant to you, such as graphics? Or do you rather think it's much too technical for simple pixel art enthusiasts and would be hard to coordinate? I think of that because it seems to be a lot of work, and despite the fact so many of us out there cherishes the achievements, many more games can potentially be tackled that way, and I'm affraid at some stage it may be too much for a bunch of brave ones like you... The same applies for all those who are involved into this recent enhancement trend in MSX developpements (USAS, VK, joypad routines...).
Anyway, so far so good, what's been done will be for ever, and of course I can't help hoping for even more!

- No reply needed, just sharing, just read it as "thank you" -

By the way, I can't get SCC detection to work with v1.03 as it did with v1.02 for voice set (using BlueMSX), is only me?

Par zett

Hero (608)

21-04-2018, 12:16

i dont think tha tlast image is a improvemend. you left out some detail to play with the colors. i think it looks now like a mixed styles. you beter redraw it and use more black as shadow.

Par Victor

Champion (509)

21-04-2018, 13:01

sinus wrote:

By the way, I can't get SCC detection to work with v1.03 as it did with v1.02 for voice set (using BlueMSX), is only me?

I've put a more restrictive "SCC detection routine", the idea is that in 09880h you write a value, but always read 0FFh... It seems that BlueMSX is not so well done with that... Sorry...

If you want, take a HEX file editor and in file position of ROM 404B6h, write: 00 00

Par sinus

Expert (85)

21-04-2018, 20:56

Victor wrote:

If you want, take a HEX file editor and in file position of ROM 404B6h, write: 00 00

I confirm it works fine, SCC for voice set is properly found in BlueMSX! Cheers.

Par ToriHino

Paladin (925)

21-04-2018, 22:44

Great work, the improvement is even better now. Hope you guys can do something with Parodius as well

Par Giangiacomo Zaffini 2

Champion (300)

22-04-2018, 13:31

I patched today and played a bit on a Panasonic MSX2+ with MFR and a Konami sound cartridge! What a showcase of a 8-bit game! Impressive! Thank You!

Par wolf_

Ambassador_ (10135)

22-04-2018, 14:07

Haven't played it yet, haven't seen much yet other than the video in the newspost. But how does that large screen-filling spider-like robot move in one of the last levels (the green level)? See, the screen having one kind of movement speed would be relatively easy to scroll, but that spider-thing moves with its own speed, so you got two different speeds!

Par konamiman

Paragon (1211)

30-04-2018, 14:32

Finally got some time to give it a try. Absolutely loving the smooth scroll, the Vic Viper sprite... and the increased difficulty. I always thought that the weak point of this game is that it's too easy, but that's fixed now!

Par djh1697

Paragon (1735)

18-05-2018, 19:56

I just, finally, completed Nemesis 3, okay I cheated! I used the invincibility mode!! Could not get the SCC to work though? MFRSCC in slot 1, and Carnivore 2 in slot 3, used Sofarun to execute the game. All good fun!!

Par djh1697

Paragon (1735)

19-05-2018, 02:12

Swapped the cartridges around, SCC seems to be working ok now

Par Feiraco

Master (140)

06-09-2018, 11:55

This is an amazing job!! Thanks Victor and all the other who worked on the improvement of Nemesis 3! It really looks great on the BlueMSX. It gives such a great game a renewed life for next generations.

Gracias otra vez! :-)

Par Manuel

Ascended (19678)

02-01-2021, 12:40

I've tried to run it with Carnivore 2 on my turboR, but after starting from the start-up menu of the enhanced game, the game hangs on a white screen (before I would have expected the Konami logo to appear). What am I doing wrong?

Par gdx

Enlighted (6429)

03-05-2021, 14:08

The full game in video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcwowTUvxyA

Nemesis 3 patch for smooth scrolling and other enhancements

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