MAMEWorld Forums - News - Re: Wild Gunman ’74: The Forgotten First FMV Game

>I didn't see those slides of yours until now, those are great! I tried doing some quick
> color correction on them just to see what I could do. The Shooting Trainer ones came out
> decent, but the Wild Gunman one is missing a lot of blue.

The slides were done with a Nikon Cool Scan slide scanner that I was allowed to use for a day in January 2016. I was at Silvio's camera store in Torrance, CA asking a staff member about being able to preserve the slides or have copies restored as best possible to original color.

The employee had mentioned the Nikon Cool Scanner has some color restore option feature when scanning a slide image. I'll have to see if that is possible. I am guessing a business outfit could do a better job, but I don't have any specific businesses names for reference.

I'll have to look it up, but Nintendo Sky Hawk probably has an attract mode slide screen as well and maybe Nintendo Battle Shark as well.

Nintendo New Shooting Trainer doesn't use a projection film screen, but a backdrop piece that the bottle images are projected on to, but the game play is likely the same.

Shooting Trainer uses a Bottle Projection Unit that displays the bottle images on to the screen and backdrop piece.

>you mentioned you have manuals for these EM games? I'd love to look through those if you
>could scan them.

Mr. Do scanned one of the WG manuals in 2004. I know I have pdf file here somewhere.
It was on a disc also. I don't know if Mr. Do has a file himself since he created the pdf file. Johns Jukes (Vancouver BC) also has Wild Gunman and Shooting Trainer iirc. I don't recall what the asking price is, but these might be pdf printed files from scans of actual manuals done in the past.

The thing of why folks are leary of scanning is the bindings might come apart which is what happened when Mr. Do was scanning one of the WG manuals. If there is some method of scanning without the book binding coming apart, I am for it. Someone was using some method, but I forget who it was that did scanning without damaging the book/manual.

btw: There are also past hard-to-find items that have surfaced besides WG

Kee Games Cross Fire was emulated in DICE by Adam Bousley and Rich R.

evidence of Atari Crossfire *edit*
02/22/13

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

Keith Smith who has done interviews for Game Room Magazine in the past had his
info regarding Cross Fire.

astrp3
Re: Atari Crossfire
02/28/13
https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

Keith Smith
http://allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/

Marty G
https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

Project Support Engineering Knights in Armor was another of those that was thought not possible became partly possible. The schematics accounted for, but the two proms used with Knights in Armor are still needed since they contain data images of MAN and HORSE as described in the manual.

PSE's Knights in Armor - a few jpeg scans
05/21/12

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

pong
Knights In Armor (PSE, 1976)
05/11/17
https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

The other item is Kee Games Quiz Show data tapes that contain data characters that display the questions when Quiz Show is being played. Andy W. currently has some tapes and supposedly was able to make backup data from the tapes. I am not sure how this will be handled in MAME, but it is probably sometime down the road if and when this gets looked at again in order to get Quiz Show emulated. Finding the tapes was lengthy time itself.

Smitdogg
DU January News Roundup
01/24/14
https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

Edited by gregf (02/24/21 01:10 PM)