Bootleg Games Central Forum

Pirate Discussion => Mega Drive/Genesis => Topic started by: djshok on May 08, 2012, 12:32:25 PM

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: djshok on May 08, 2012, 12:32:25 PM

None of the roms for Link Dragon that I've tried seem to have sound.  Although there is a sound test option in the menu, however the entire game seems to be silent... Does anyone have a version of this rom that plays actual sounds, does the original cart?  Or is this game just broken/unfinished?

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: taizou on May 08, 2012, 02:26:56 PM

I've been wondering about this for ages. Hanmin Liao is credited for music in the ending, so I'd assume it is supposed to have sound. But IIRC the ending isn't normally accessible (in emulators anyway) because in one of the later levels, a fireball appears within a block so you can't eat it. So either the game really is unfinished/broken, or there's some kind of copy protection/bad emulation/bad dump at work here... but someone might need to find an original cart and play it on an original MD (or a decent clone, nothing AtGames) before we have the answer.

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: Pepper-98 on May 08, 2012, 02:43:29 PM

Actually, the game DOES have music in the cart version, and it shares tracks with the GB port by Gowin.  If you want, I can upload a video of the game to show it off seeing as I own a copy of the game.

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: taizou on May 08, 2012, 04:10:38 PM

Ooh, yeah, could you? Thanks!

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: Pepper-98 on May 08, 2012, 05:23:32 PM

Here ya go. (http://youtu.be/K7oyCIBBil4)  ;)   It's just the tracks in the sound test; I'll do a video of the gameplay later if anyone cares.

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: djshok on May 08, 2012, 08:25:30 PM

Awesome! Thanks for the vid.  

Now the next question is, can anyone dump this game in such a way that sound isn't lost?

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: codeman38 on May 08, 2012, 08:29:36 PM

Oh, cool. I'd always wondered about this myself-- especially which of Gamtec's three sound drivers they used. (Looks like it's the Shi-Kin-Joh one, for the record.)

Track 5 is just epic. Reminds me a lot of Barver Battle Saga's castle theme. (Which makes me wonder... is Hanmin Liao another alias for Yishen a.k.a. Dasen Liao?)

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: Azathoth on May 08, 2012, 10:29:15 PM

Is your cart a single game or multi? All I've ever saw it available on were multi-game pirates.

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: Pepper-98 on May 09, 2012, 08:10:41 AM

It's a single cart, and it appears to be an official release by Songtly, too.

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: Parodius Duh on May 26, 2012, 11:36:58 AM

Qiezei

May 9 2012, 08:10:41 AM

It's a single cart, and it appears to be an official release by Songtly, too.[/quote]I have the same release, Im working on getting this dumped, with the sound :)

Title: Link Dragon
Post by: RVVD4029 on February 19, 2015, 12:03:27 AM

There is a working rom in this thread:http://s4.zetaboards.com/PGC_Forums?topic=9988643/1/