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Other Pirates / Re: Atari Gamestation Pro analysis
« on: March 01, 2024, 12:41:01 AM »
Very interesting information, thanks for taking the time to write this up and post it!
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Mega Drive/Genesis dumps / Re: Help with dumping this mega drive 2 multicart from 90s
« on: May 31, 2023, 12:18:16 AM »
Hi friend, where are you located?
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2000-present / I need help running a "Recent" Somari Cartridge
« on: June 22, 2018, 04:27:34 AM »
If it's one of those carts that won't work in a real NES you'd assume it would work in the NOAC inside that Retrobit adapter, although I've never read confirmation of that particular model.
Almost these newer bootlegs use the same cheap flashrom chips. As crazy as it sounds, I have had multiple instances of shipping carts to Germany from the USA and them arriving dead. I'm almost 100% positive they were fried when passing through Deutschland customs, maybe by whatever equipment they have to x-ray packages. It was only to Germany, and only on MD carts that used that particular ROM chip.
Almost these newer bootlegs use the same cheap flashrom chips. As crazy as it sounds, I have had multiple instances of shipping carts to Germany from the USA and them arriving dead. I'm almost 100% positive they were fried when passing through Deutschland customs, maybe by whatever equipment they have to x-ray packages. It was only to Germany, and only on MD carts that used that particular ROM chip.
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Super Famicom/SNES / KOF 98 SNES
« on: March 04, 2018, 04:33:51 PM »
Wow, no idea this thing even existed!
Looks like the MD port of KoF '99 use this as a template, which was then tweaked then released as SNES KoF 2000.
Same old DVS stuff: bad controls, Capcom music ripoff (Final Fight 2). Still interesting! Gives me hope there are still a few more unknown games out there to discover.
Looks like the MD port of KoF '99 use this as a template, which was then tweaked then released as SNES KoF 2000.
Same old DVS stuff: bad controls, Capcom music ripoff (Final Fight 2). Still interesting! Gives me hope there are still a few more unknown games out there to discover.
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Mega Drive/Genesis / Unlicensed Russian MegaDrive ROMs website?
« on: January 22, 2018, 11:08:32 PM »
That's the site, pick the SMD section on the upper left box. First one is hacks, the other is translations. I posted a link to the LotR fighting game here in this forum when I dumped it, check under the Mega Drive dumps subsection.
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Mega Drive/Genesis / Unlicensed Russian MegaDrive ROMs website?
« on: January 22, 2018, 05:43:18 AM »
Member here, his URL changed
http://magicrip.narod.ru/
Hugo: Ecology in Danger is Chuck Rock II, Madagascar is Magical Hat/Decapattack.
http://magicrip.narod.ru/
Hugo: Ecology in Danger is Chuck Rock II, Madagascar is Magical Hat/Decapattack.
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Game Boy / "Star Wars 3"?
« on: November 04, 2017, 03:44:18 AM »
Homebrew demo, there's a thread here about it somewhere
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Famicom/NES dumps / Spartan X 2 (Kung Fu 2) multicart mapper hack rip?
« on: October 03, 2017, 08:26:44 PM »
Started playing Spartan X 2 here recently and I really enjoy it. I've got it on a Coolboy Famicom multi-game cart and also on a XXX-in-1 GBA cart (which either purposely edits out some text or the text is broken by PocketNES).
I'd like to slap the English translation on this to play with a Powerpak, unfortunately the Powerpak doesn't support the mapper used by the original ROM. I've been trying to locate a mapper hack version (like used on the multi-game cart) but haven't had any luck.
Does anyone have a link?
I'd like to slap the English translation on this to play with a Powerpak, unfortunately the Powerpak doesn't support the mapper used by the original ROM. I've been trying to locate a mapper hack version (like used on the multi-game cart) but haven't had any luck.
Does anyone have a link?
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Game Boy / The GBC Takara Engine Multiplayer
« on: July 25, 2017, 02:18:58 AM »
Interesting!
Does it crash after the character select menu, or does it actually allow you to fight? If so, how does it go about displaying the different backgrounds and characters?
Does it crash after the character select menu, or does it actually allow you to fight? If so, how does it go about displaying the different backgrounds and characters?
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Super Famicom/SNES / Squirrel
« on: December 07, 2016, 05:33:05 AM »
My goodness this games is a real treat. The instant you hear about the first 3 notes of that sultry music ripped straight from Bonkers and see those herky-jerky sprites running at about 20fps you know you're in for a real treat.
The MD version was at the very least playable, a far cry from this messy turd. If you've even passively played any of the other games you know exactly what to expect before you even see it in action. It manages to tick every box on the DVS SNES checklist.
100% straight rips of stolen Capcom music (Bonkers obviously since it's a platformer, otherwise it would have been Street Fighter II)
Jerky character movement running at a sub-par FPS
Sloppy controls with poor collision detection and broken AI routines
Missing about 50% of the original Mega Drive content
If you just really, really gotta have some box-throwing platformer action pick up the newer Russian 16-bit MD ports of the NES 8-bit originals. Always glad to see an obscure SNES game rediscovered but I hope we go out on a better note than this one.
The MD version was at the very least playable, a far cry from this messy turd. If you've even passively played any of the other games you know exactly what to expect before you even see it in action. It manages to tick every box on the DVS SNES checklist.
100% straight rips of stolen Capcom music (Bonkers obviously since it's a platformer, otherwise it would have been Street Fighter II)
Jerky character movement running at a sub-par FPS
Sloppy controls with poor collision detection and broken AI routines
Missing about 50% of the original Mega Drive content
If you just really, really gotta have some box-throwing platformer action pick up the newer Russian 16-bit MD ports of the NES 8-bit originals. Always glad to see an obscure SNES game rediscovered but I hope we go out on a better note than this one.
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Other Pirates / What is Retro-Bit Generations console based on?
« on: November 26, 2016, 11:52:54 AM »
Last week I unfortunately picked up one of these for $59.99 USD, ended up being total rubbish with absolutely no redeeming values. I honestly can't think of any retro game based console released (official or pirate) that is worse than this; which includes every system on a chip, plug & play, or ARM based clone. Not exaggerating when I say any of the Sega MD AT Games clones run perfect compared to this.
I haven't opened mine so I don't know what is under the hood. Being that it runs FC games with glitches and Mega Drive is unplayable (not just bad but quite literally unplayable) I didn't know if that was just shitty software emulation or some mega-cheap underpowered chip set. Since Retro-Bit tends to just rebrand Chinese products does anyone know if that's the case with this?
I haven't opened mine so I don't know what is under the hood. Being that it runs FC games with glitches and Mega Drive is unplayable (not just bad but quite literally unplayable) I didn't know if that was just shitty software emulation or some mega-cheap underpowered chip set. Since Retro-Bit tends to just rebrand Chinese products does anyone know if that's the case with this?
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Pirate Talk / Feels like everything's been found
« on: October 07, 2016, 11:53:10 PM »
We can always hold out for Sonic Shuffle for MD....
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Super Famicom/SNES / Mortal Kombat Mythologies Gold 2000
« on: July 21, 2016, 01:29:13 PM »
- googoo11672
- Jul 13 2016, 05:47:59 AM
It's already dumped[/quote]Are you sure about that? ROM link?
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Super Famicom/SNES / Mortal Kombat Mythologies Gold 2000
« on: April 06, 2016, 03:40:32 PM »
If you wanted to dump it yourself the cheapest alternative would be something like the Super UFO 8 that uses SD cards. A dump wouldn't work straight out in an emulator, you'd have to get someone to patch it.
I didn't recognize any of the background music except for that one tune, which is the one they play during the opening for Top Fighter 2000. I can't remember off the top of my head if it was used in either KoF '98 or '99 (might have) also but it's interesting to see that they attempted to produce new music instead of recycling the standard Capcom songs that are usually ripped verbatim.
Is there any way to get an estimated date these carts by comparing the artwork? Unlike the hand full of new SNES pirates that have been made recently and just use patched ROMs dumped by fans this is one of those few that only exist as "original" carts in the wild. What games are these Sub-Zero pics taken from (Deception? Deadly Alliance?) While there's a slim chance they took old carts and made new labels for them, it would be interesting to know that someone bothered to make a new run of these carts several years after they were originally released.
One reason I ask that is the Soul Blade VS Samurai Shodown MD cart I had used artwork from Samurai Shodown Anthology for PS2/PSP/Wii, which dates it probably 10 years after the original release.
I didn't recognize any of the background music except for that one tune, which is the one they play during the opening for Top Fighter 2000. I can't remember off the top of my head if it was used in either KoF '98 or '99 (might have) also but it's interesting to see that they attempted to produce new music instead of recycling the standard Capcom songs that are usually ripped verbatim.
Is there any way to get an estimated date these carts by comparing the artwork? Unlike the hand full of new SNES pirates that have been made recently and just use patched ROMs dumped by fans this is one of those few that only exist as "original" carts in the wild. What games are these Sub-Zero pics taken from (Deception? Deadly Alliance?) While there's a slim chance they took old carts and made new labels for them, it would be interesting to know that someone bothered to make a new run of these carts several years after they were originally released.
One reason I ask that is the Soul Blade VS Samurai Shodown MD cart I had used artwork from Samurai Shodown Anthology for PS2/PSP/Wii, which dates it probably 10 years after the original release.
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Mega Drive/Genesis / [Alternative] AtGames Sega Genesis Portable Game Player 2015 Edition
« on: December 28, 2015, 11:20:21 PM »
Hardware-wise the 2015 is the same as the previous version just with the addition of the 3 Mortal Kombat games.
Unfortunately no mod exists to patch the SRAM issue. There's a few Russian sites that host some info on creating custom game snapshots and getting problem ROMs to boot, but that's about the extent of fan input you'll find.
Unfortunately no mod exists to patch the SRAM issue. There's a few Russian sites that host some info on creating custom game snapshots and getting problem ROMs to boot, but that's about the extent of fan input you'll find.