Retro City Rampage on NES?

[232stinger]

Just out of curiosity, has anybody gotten Retro City Rampage to work on an NES emulator, would it be possible to put it on a cartridge?  I have tried googling it but all I can find is how RCR  is a tribute to NES games, I know that 

[UglyJoe]

It's a WiiWare title, not an NES game.  It's not going to work on an NES.

[232stinger]

Yes but its also available for the 360, PS3, and importantly the PC.  I was wondering if anybody tweaked the code or something.  I know that it started out originally as Grand Theftnendo too, which was going to an NES cartridge, but then the guy changed route. 

[L___E___T]

He changed route because he had to and it's a bigger and better game as a result. 
You won't be able to make it work on a NES, but I don't how far along he was with it before he changed it up.

[UglyJoe]

I know that while he was still working on Grand Theftendo, he was talking about using a custom mapper (a variant of MMC5).  I'm not sure if he actually ended up doing this, but if he did then making a custom cart even for Grand Theftendo (assuming a ROM were ever leaked...) would become very difficult/expensive due to there being no donor carts that would work.

[232stinger]

*Update*  Now ROM City Rampage has been released which is an NES hardware limitation accurate version of RCR.  Some people have already extracted it and are playing it on emulators!  http://gbatemp.net/threads/retro-city-rampage-finally-hits-wiiware-with-rom-city-rampage-bonus.343424/page-2

[famifan]

according to nes file header the mapper is mmc5

[L___E___T]

Gonna test it on Everdrive later!

[famifan]

can you confirm that the rom size is 480 kb?

[L___E___T]

I didn't get to test it yet...

[famifan]

no update?

[L___E___T]

The update is I found an article saying the game isn't possible to run on a NES and it's just a proof of concept ROM floating around, so I left it at that.
This came from someone related to the project and it seemed to stop the discussion pretty hard in it's tracks from what I could tell.

[famifan]

haven't you tried it?

[L___E___T]

Nope - didn't see the point but will get round to it at some point.  Playing unfinished, first playable-type game builds is nothing new to me and has lost all sense of novelty value.  Same with alphas (when people say betas) pretty much, I'd rather play the finished better game.  Sometimes there are interesting details, but the changes made 9 times out f ten make sense and make a better game, just like a movie's director's cuts for the theater release.