NewTendo, the Nintendo Emulator for the Newton!

Seeing the development of a emulator that runs on the Newton was a feat that was charming to see at the very least.

I was reminded about the emulator while listening to a issue of "Green Light Go" that talked about it:
www.unna.org/incoming/GreenLightGo-20041224.mp3
Can find at the 2 minute mark, which gives link to a developer page here:
dev.newtontalk.net/eagan/index.html

This used to have a cool online tool for converting games into Newton packages, sadly that is no longer there.  But you can download the emulator there.

I have it, and games I wrapped for it.  Sadly no way to use the Newton keyboard that I could tell, so you just frantically tap the screen, at least I did on my play of Galaga for Nintendo.  As I've found by playing with emulators that are less than perfect, while an action game like Mario Brothers 2 might not have been perfect, a turned based Role Playing Game (RPG) would open a few possibilities.

Amiga Love posted a fun article about the RPG possibilities on Facebook in 2021 and I'll quote that here in the next reply.

I thought more was out there for downloading, but maybe we can pool what we know on this.
 

From the Apple Newton Users Group
By Amiga Love - March 31, 2021

Howdy Fellow Newtonians,
I recently installed the Newtendo NES emulator on my MP2000 for the first time. It was a long and arduous journey, but I got it installed and even got the first two games I tried to fire right up. Granted, they are slow as molasses, but it was then that I realized the best games to play in this stylus-driven environment wouldn't be arcade/action/platform titles, which the NES is really known for. But rather adventure games like Maniac Mansion, which is a point and click mystery/adventure/puzzle game. It seemed so much more destined for a Newton stylus than a mouse, you know what I mean?
I proceeded to browse the NES catalog and picked half a dozen games that sounded like very worthy contenders.
I converted them (being forced to download and package them on an internet-connected G3 Pismo running macos 9.2 to avoid corrupting the PKG files, which my modern machines and browsers all do).
So I got my downloading machine and environment all set up and working great (a process!). However, other than the 1st two games I tried, none of the other games worked.
After going down a very deep rabbit hole, I came to learn about NES game mapper chips with IDs 0, 1, 2, and 4 being the only ROMs that could ever work with the converter tool.
All the games I downloaded should have been fine - except for one, I later learned. However none of the games worked regardless of what these ancient text-only sites I found claimed.
Does anyone here have a definitive list of games they themselves have successfully packaged and moved over? And beyond that, which ones would you recommend?
I can guarantee Pacman and Tetris work. Beyond that I've totally struck out.
These are the games I was hoping to play but simply don't convert correctly for some reason.
Baseball Stars (should work, but doesn’t)
Shadowgate (should work, but doesn’t)
Uninvited (NOPE, wrong mapper)
Goonies II (should work, but doesn’t)
Lemmings (should work, but doesn’t)
Maniac Mansion (should work, but doesn’t)
Lastly, I used the latest packager by Victor Rehorst at chuma.org, last updated in 2017. I even contacted and he kindly wrote me back, but I didn't glean any new information there.
Any assistance from the fine fans here would be much appreciated!
Peace


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