[MAME] SpongeBob Squarepants - Fry Cook Games (improved audio emulation))

not perfect, but a big improvement on the previous video ( • [MAME] SpongeBob Squar... ) thanks to Mooglyguy for looking into it.

[@m0nkeymnfls]

Oh my god this brought back so many memories.. I still remember picking this up at a Walmart way back in the day like 10+ years ago

[@umberscore2051]

These games were actually quality tho

[@mamehaze]

yeah, I think this Fry Cook collection is a highlight in terms of the Plug and Play units, all the minigames are well made.

[@jaddyd424]

I think that compared to other Plug and Plays, this is a very good one. There is a bunch of mini games, and the mini games are well produced. There’s just so much content for a Plug and Play. First Plug and Play I’ve ever played, and I still love it.

[@mamehaze]

I agree entirely, it sets a bar that few others reached

[@hurricanefury439]

Poor kid nostalgia

[@Dariomadethis]

Cries*

[@ghost.of.aleksz.salad.]

bro.. poor kids had to steal to survive and go to school for meals

[@hurricanefury439]

@@ghost.of.aleksz.salad. well yeah if you had meth addict parents but the rest of us actually tried to be decent people and not violent parasites

[@bronxmami1404]

😭😭😭

[@bandicootbrawl9674]

This was my favorite plug n play So many mini games, a full on tournament mode thats actually pretty difficult even when i was a teen revisiting tgis game, so many difficulty levels. I always loved topping my best scores and the skating was such a tense rush and the high dive drop always used to scare me because of how worried/angry SpongeBob and Patrick get if you mess up and how tense and timed it is when i was a little kid. Now its probably my favorite one. I would love to play this again so badly but i lost it long ago and its in rough shape

[@mossakis]

I used to play this game !!! I liked it !!! That was all my childhood... Memories

[@bronxmami1404]

The memoriessss 🥹🥹🥹🥹

[@dksquad2045]

I remember playing this game 😭, I got this game in my birthday and still the best game

[@St.Extreme]

I'm gonna cry. This was a gift from a co-worker of my dad and his ex-wife about 15 years ago...

[@spongeenergy]

This is my first "plug and play" game a bunch of memories

[@DTHTVProductions]

Remembering the stress I had at 7 trying to play this game omg

[@avatarthanosthelegendarysu5883]

I remember the time i had this when I was a kid

[@ekulipse1133]

so much nostalgia

[@wAYmOBY]

This kind of obscure emulation is so fascinating to me. I want to ask if these dumps are publicly available at the moment or if they are being kept amongst a small group right now. I wanted to ask that instead of "where are the roms" because if they aren't available I respect whatever groups decision it may be to keep them private right now. I have just been searching and have turned up nothing and would like to know if this is the case for that. Thanks for these videos!

[@mamehaze]

nothing I've covered on my channel is private, if you can find an up to date romset for a recent MAME version this one will be in there.

[@wAYmOBY]

@@mamehaze Turns out the fullset i had was not complete! That solves that haha

[@mw38010]

@@mamehaze So where did you get the rom, please? If you cannot provide that info, I understand.

[@ladyxjay7531]

Omg the memories

[@AlextheMLAATRfan]

When there was no Quarantine.

[@janemartinez8287]

I Like This Video

[@BoatheadMan]

OH FUCK THE NOSTALGIA

[@retropixel1272]

surprised that no one made a rom of Super Villian Showdown

[@thegamemodder2000]

i would like seeing these graphics dumped

[@strggarchive]

Are there any more ways to play plug n play games?

[@jadacrossgrove7045]

I had this one too

[@gl0kittyy]

i had this

[@YaBoiJoosh]

You probably won't see this but if I got one of the joysticks that has the games on them would it be possible to plug the joystick thing into my pc maybe with an adapter or something so I can play the games in mame from the SpongeBob joystick (or other SpongeBob or Nick joysticks) instead of having to dump stuff onto my pc? I've been trying to research this all day and tbh all I wanna do is connect the games to my pc without having to go through downloads and to be able to use my pc for these old games I love so much

[@mamehaze]

You should be able to find a way to plug them into some kind of capture card / usb capture device, as long as it had the correct inputs, although I don't know if that would add noticeable lag of any kind. Not sure I really see the point however when you could just plug them into a TV.

[@YaBoiJoosh]

@@mamehaze I've only just seen this now apologies. But I don't wanna use my TV screen because I don't like looking up at it, it's on my wall you see. I'd prefer looking directly in front of me like I would normally do with pc stuff

[@rachelfajardo9640]

I bought one after seeing this video, I had this a looong time ago before I was even in elementary school. Although I’m only 17 now so

[@soarixchannel5265]

Didn't this plug n play need a key or something to play the full game? I don't remember

[@mamehaze]

no, the GameKey slot is just a cartridge slot like you'd find on other consoles. They sold a couple of extra games cartridges called 'gamekeys' that you could play on this one if you wanted. The built in games are full versions without a key however.

[@thegamemodder2000]

can i get the rom for this game

[@TheBeeshSpweesh]

What parts of the sound chip emulator got fixed here? I still hear some audible pulses in the samples, which I believe the real hardware doesn't make.

[@mamehaze]

I think it's quite obvious if you compare it to the previous video, where most of the sound is just a drone because channels were being hogged and never freed. I did say it isn't perfect, but it at least sounds something like music now. The fix made also stops the eventual complete audio dropout in the Disney Friends unit and Namco unit

[@TheBeeshSpweesh]

@@mamehaze Moogly just made some new changes to the audio, can you reupload some SunPlus games?

[@bigjawed]

Where do i get the rom?

[@avasam06]

I still have mine! Any pointers/guide on how I could dump it and get it running on PC emulator?

[@mamehaze]

I believe this one was dumped by exploiting the gamekey slot (which has full bus access) It's a destructive process however, as you have to sever the lines between the CPU and the ROM glob so that the CPU doesn't interfere with the process. It's not an easy task.

[@saladplainzone]

Wow, this is much better, great job guys! Also update on the old unit, managed to unscrew the battery compartment and the batteries are completely corroded. Don't know why we decided it would be a good idea to leave that thing in a closet for 10 years or so. Is there any place the files you're running on MAME here would be uploaded to be archived eventually? Thanks.

[@mamehaze]

yeah, we've found a fair few where that has happened, luckily in most cases the batteries are far enough away from the actual PCBs that it isn't an issues, although in the cases of the e-kara mix we had some repairs were needed. The post in www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/b0t2f1/cant_get_roms_to_load_on_mameui64_i_have_tried_to/ by glassarrow might answer your other question if you read between the lines.

[@unis3589]

Fail de Nickelodeon?

[@thegamemodder2000]

Can you tell me how did you dump the sunplus TV games after looking in the circuit boards.

[@mamehaze]

different procedure for all of them. This one was dumped by hooking up wires to the gamekey port and cutting some traces on the PCB, then using a custom programmed device to dump it.

[@thegamemodder2000]

@@mamehaze how was this done to the the other tv games without it?

[@mamehaze]

soldering wires (30+) to the tiny traces between each of the globs on the PCB after tracing everything out, while again cutting any that might interfere etc.

[@thegamemodder2000]

@@mamehaze because why hasn't the 8bit 2003 jakks TV games like the spongebob one hasn't been dumped yet. I'm only requesting this to view the sprite graphics from the spongebob 2003 tv game clearly for inspiration and usually kept memories since that game has close to better graphics to that of the Sega master system but uses only 8bit sounds for one of the reasons I came back to that game alot.

[@mamehaze]

everything (code + gfx + cpu) seems to be in one glob, there's no way of dumping it, nowhere to connect.

[@michaelsiu6451]

what emulator and rom did you use?

[@mamehaze]

It's MAME, and the ROM is 'jak_sbfc'

[@aspieweeb4526]

Where the fuck do you find roms for these things

[@aspieweeb4526]

I tried finding links on reddit, but they won't distribute the roms for some reason