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January 31st, 2019, 18:22 Posted By: wraggster
Back again this week with something a bit special.
People who have been with us from the very first days, might recognise that this will be the 4th time that I release this very issue. The first time would have been around 2005 when I first started scanning magazines. Then in 2010 I did a brand new scan of this issue for my very own site, the one you are looking at right now. And then in 2016, I attempted to update that version and bring it in line with the newer issues I had worked on.
Well, over the past 14 years, I have learned a lot of lessons. What to do and what to avoid when restoring classic magazines. So with better hardware, as well as with a better understanding and much improved editing techniques, I decided it was time to look at these older issues once more and give them another shot.
These will be the definitive edition of these digital renditions. They will look a bit sharper, have a lot more detail, especially in darker sections, have less intrusive editing techniques used, have better colour values, and overall, look a lot closer to the physical magazines.
As I return to these previously scanned issues and redo them from start to finish, I will make them as (RESCAN) in the news title. You will also be able to notice the difference on the catalogue page, as there will be a Max-Rez and Portable version available. The content section will have the coloured dots background instead of the old swirls as well.
There will be a handful of issues that I will be releasing as (REMASTERED) editions. These are magazines that have been done with the new scanner and techniques already, but that I feel could use a closer look.
All the other issues ( from 2013 and before) will be rescanned as time goes by, while I continue working on new releases.
With all that said, I'm proud to present you once more, with the very first issue of the incredible Official Sega Saturn Magazine.
Enjoy!
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/cat...ine/OSSM1.html
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January 14th, 2019, 20:22 Posted By: wraggster
A full French translation of Phantasy Star IV is now available.
Phantasy Star IV is a role-playing game for the Sega Genesis/MegaDrive platform. It’s the final chapter of the “classic” Phantasy Star series. It’s in the opinion of the translators an excellent RPG, on par with the later Final Fantasy episodes on the SNES.
The setting is a mixture of medieval and futuristic technology, combining fully self-aware androids and computers with sword and magic spells and techniques. The player will need all those things to save their solar system from ultimate evil.
Those interested in this translation should note that this is not a “literal” translation. The translators worked hard to give the French localization its own feel, and make the character’s personalities come forward as much as possible. They believe that it remains true to the spirit of the characters, and they were very careful not to actually change the intent of the English script.
BGE started this project in March 2018. He stumbled upon lory1990’s disassembly, which was the spark that ignited the project, since it made editing the script relatively straightforward and resizing windows straightforward. The initial script translation was completed, full of typos and with some awkward phrasing, by early June, but then, life interfered and the project stalled.
galletteuh expressed interest translating this game in French on the RHDN forums in October, unaware of the existing translation since BGE hadn’t announced it. He started to work on it independently, also starting off from lory1900’s disassembly.
mziab tipped off BGE about galletteuh’s intent, so communication was established. galletteuh selflessly decided to use BGE’s work as base since it was fully translated already, and the translation team was formed.
galletteuh reviewed and corrected the whole script (twice!) amazingly quickly, played through the game (twice, again!) for final QA, fixed tons and tons of typos, and provided more natural phrasing across the board. He also fixed a few font issues. The energy of having an additional team member was immediately tangible: BGE cracked down on an elusive window width problem, and that success brought him the confidence needed to fix a bunch of cosmetic issues that required changing the game engine’s code.
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/4164/
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January 7th, 2019, 22:11 Posted By: wraggster
BlastEm v0.6.1 is released. BlastEm has the goal of being an extremely accurate Genesis emulator while still running on relatively modest hardware by using advanced techniques. Currently it meets neither my accuracy nor performance goals, but those goals are pretty high. Speed and accuracy should be sufficient for most purposes. It runs at full speed on an old first generation Intel Atom and can run Sonic 2 at around 600 fps on a Haswell desktop using a single core. To my knowledge, it is the only emulator besides Genesis Plus GX that can properly display the "TITAN 512C FOREVER" portion of Titan's Overdrive demo, and the only emulator besides Exodus that passes all 122 of the tests in Nemesis' VDP FIFO Testing ROM and can properly display "Direct Color DMA" demos.
BlastEm Features:
* savestates
* integrated debugger
* GDB remote debugging
* joystick/gamepad support
* Mega/Sega Mouse support
* save RAM and EEPROM support
* Sonic & Knuckles lock-on
* turbo and slow modes
* configurable low pass filter
* single pass GLSL shaders (though there are no interesting ones presently)
https://www.retrodev.com/blastem/
http://www.emucr.com/2019/01/blastem-v061.html
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January 7th, 2019, 21:57 Posted By: wraggster
news via http://www.emulation64.com/view/2926/Reicast-News/
Some nice developments in Dreamcast emulation scene today, with a major update to Reicast core.
With a new addition that now allows texture dumping, and injecting.
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Dump textures: will dump all textures used by the current game to <systemdir>/dc/texdump/<game>
Load textures: loads custom textures from <systemdir>/dc/textures/<game> to replace the ones used by the game
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So now you havn't got excuse not to have a go at doing a HD Shemue!
Remember to check out and post your packs, or just to discuss on our  Texture pack forums
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January 4th, 2019, 21:23 Posted By: wraggster
At the tail end of 2018, Psyklax, Filler, and FlashPV released an English language translation patch for Crayon Shin-Chan - Taiketsu! Kantamu Panikku!! as “Crayon Shin-Chan: Showdown! Quantum Panic!!” for the Game Gear. Shin-chan’s Mommy wants to win tickets to a spa, and enrolls Shin-chan in the Quantum Battle held at Action Dept. Store. Play and win a series of mini-games to take the grand prize in the Quantum Battle and make Mommy’s dreams come true!
Filler dumped and translated the script as part of an effort to dump and translate scripts for all remaining Game Gear games that don’t have official or unofficial translations. Psyklax rose to the unexpected challenge of cracking the game’s compression routine in his first real hack of the Master System/Game Gear. FlashPV provided a title screen design via Twitter which Psyklax drew and implemented utilizing the aforementioned compression routine.
See the related project link.
Also, earlier in the month Psyklax updated the English language translation patch for Sherlock Holmes: The Kidnapped Countess on the Famicom to fix an issue where the clue given when inputting the correct password in Edinburgh had been mistranslated, missing a vital ‘0′. Without this correct clue, the final password is almost impossible to figure out without a spoiler. Therefore, the line was replaced by the correct one.
The updated patch is available here: http://www.romhacking.net/translations/3474/
Finally, for those of you interested in enjoying Psyklax and Filler’s English language translation patch of SWAT: Special Weapons and Tactics for the Famicom, you’ll want to check out GAFF Translations’ SWAT Out-Of-Bounds Fix. This hack fixes two bugs related to the inability to complete a level due to missing enemies, one of which appears to be the cause of most of the issue, and the other being specific to an enemy on Floor 6. You may want to utilize the fast forward feature of your favorite emulator to speed up the slow text speed, but between the translation patch and bug-fix hack the game should be playable.
Hack page: http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4105/
http://s346165667.websitehome.co.uk/psyktrans/
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January 4th, 2019, 21:22 Posted By: wraggster
An English translation patch for the Game Gear strategy/fighting game Godzilla: Kaijuu Daishingeki (Godzilla: Monsters Attack) has been released, opening all-new avenues for players to live out their fantasies of flattening Tokyo. Or protecting it, for the weirdos.
Godzilla: Monsters Attack is a half-strategy, half-one-on-one fighting game in which the player can play as either Godzilla and friends (trying to achieve certain city destruction quotas) or the JSDF (desperately struggling to prevent it). Unit movement plays out in a turn-based top-down view, while combat is real-time and action-based. The game features five scenarios loosely modeled on various Godzilla films.
This patch was the work of TheMajinZenki (translation), Supper (hacking), cccmar (editing and testing), Xanathis (testing), and Filler (initial script dump). Enjoy!
http://stargood.org/
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=27633
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January 3rd, 2019, 17:08 Posted By: wraggster
Today aishsha, paul_met and Pennywise present a completed Sega Saturn translation for Linkle Liver Story.
The translation began last year and has now finally seen a release with hacking by paul_met, translation by aishsha and the script editing by Pennywise. It is complete and should be issue free.
At its heart the game is just a simple Action RPG and features nice 2D graphics, a cute and charming story that is now fully translated, a rarity for the Sega Saturn.
The team would like to note that they never figured out the meaning of the title Linkle Liver. The best guess was that it was just some cute marketing ploy, but the game makes no mention of such text in the game or in the manual, which they have graciously translated as well. Maybe one day…
Special thanks to FlashPV and Lestat for the new title logo and Xanathis and cccmar for testing.
Expect more good things to come.
http://aishsha.blogspot.com/2019/01/...-released.html
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=27620
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December 28th, 2018, 10:59 Posted By: wraggster
Nova v0.5.0 is released. Nova is a Sega Saturn Emulator(SS Emulator) for Windows. Nova is capable to run several commercial games, but it's still in its early stage.
Features:
1.automatically select regions.
2.automatically select cartridge types by editing cart.json.
3.automatically save backup memory.
Nova doesn't support:
1.save/load states
2.run games via a CD drive
Nova Changelog:
VDP1: Refactored the entire architecture.
VDP1: Disabled force_interlace.
VDP1: Implemented better timing.
VDP1: Implemented handling of the MODR register.
VDP1: Implemented handling for invalid command table data.
VDP1: Implemented Color Calculation Mode 5.
VDP1: Implemented a new algorithm for quadrilateral rasterization.
VDP1: Implemented anti-aliasing for Distorted Sprite and Polygon.
VDP1: Rewrote user/system clipping and pre-cliping.
VDP1: Rewrote end code process.
VDP1: Rewrote High Speed Shrink.
VDP1: Rewrote handling of the LOPR/COPR registers.
VDP1: Rewrote manual frame change/erase.
VDP1: Added access restrictions to the registers TVMR/FBCR.
VDP1: Fixed a bug of EWLR/EWRR registers(Street Fighter Zero 3).
VDP2: Disabled VDP2_JIT.
VDP2: Refactored the entire architecture.
VDP2: Removed Character Pattern cache.
VDP2: Supported 1M VRAM.
VDP2: Implemented Special High-Resolution Graphics Mode(preliminary).
VDP2: Implemented HCNT/VCNT/EXLTEN handling(incomplete).
VDP2: Implemented RBG1 and EXBG.
VDP2: Implemented rotation calculation with coefficient data.
VDP2: Implemented Rotation Parameter Mode 2 of RBG0.
VDP2: Implemented Invalid Rotation Parameter Mode 2(when coefficient table is disabled) of RBG0.
VDP2: Implemented coefficient data as part of LNCL data.
VDP2: Implemented Screen Over Process Mode 1 of RBG0/RBG1.
VDP2: Implemented Gradation.
VDP2: Implemented Sprite Window.
VDP2: Implemented sprite color calculation condition 3(MSB).
VDP2: Added support of sprite type 0~7 for 8-bit data.
VDP2: Added support of sprite type 8~F for 16-bit data.
VDP2: Added Character Pattern cache again.
VDP2: Rewrote priority handling.
VDP2: Rewrote handling of the SPCLMD and SPWINEN bits of the register SPCTL(Dragon Force 2).
VDP2: Rewrote Cycle Pattern handling(incomplete).
VDP2: Rewrote TVSTAT handling.
VDP2: Rewrote Special Priority function.
VDP2: Rewrote Extended Color Calculation.
VDP2: Rewrote Sprite Screen Over Process.
VDP2: Rewrote Window Process.
VDP2: Rewrote Shadow Process.
VDP2: Rewrote LNCL insertion.
VDP2: Rewrote scrolling/zooming calculation of NBG0/NBG1/NBG2/NBG3.
VDP2: Rewrote Line Scroll/Vertical Cell Scroll process of NBG0/NBG1.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of byte access of the color RAM(wrong mask).
VDP2: Fixed a bug that the WxLWE bit of LWTA0U and LWTA1U are masked.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of special color calculation mode 3(palette data MSB).
VDP2: Fixed a bug of RGB0 color calculation ratio.
VDP2: Fixed a bug when the data is RGB format and color calculation is indicated by MSB.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of palette number.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of color RAM address offset.
VDP2: Fixed bugs of Character Number Supplement Modes.
VDP2: Fixed bugs of Normal Line Window coordinates.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of sprite transparent dot.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of Pattern Name Table Lead Address calculation.
VDP2: Fixed bugs of display/color mode limits by settings of the Reduction Enable Register.
VDP2: Fixed bugs of display limits by settings of NBG0/NBG1 color modes.
VDP2: Fixed bugs caused by changes in mid-frame.
VDP2: Fixed bugs of NBG2/NBG3 scroll values.
VDP2: Fixed bugs of LNCL/BACK screen in single interface mode.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of vertical Reduction.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of Screen Over Process Mode 3 when bitmap vertical size is 256.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of rotation parameter when the graphic mode is hi-res or exclusive hi-res.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of rotation parameter when it is double/single interlace.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of Special Color Calculation Mode 2(by dot) when color format is RGB.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of priority pattern(BIOS splash screen).
VDP2: Fixed a bug that BGON changes in mid-frame(Lunar Silver Star Story).
VDP2: Fixed a bug of sprite transparent dot.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of single interface.
VDP2: Fixed a bug of line scrolling.
VDP2: Fixed a bug when the priority number is 0.
SCU: Rolled back the fix of PPAF handling in v0.4(Thunder Force V).
SCU: Fixed a bug of DMA indirect mode table address detection(Tactics Ogre).
SCU: Fixed a bug of DMA range checking(Burning Rangers).
SCU: Fixed a bug of DMA timing(too slow to end transfer of palette data during VBLANK).
CDB: Fixed bugs of CdReport when the pickup is in the Lead In/Out area.
CDB: Supported MPEG audio decoding.
MISC: Added ON/OFF switch for the VDP2 BACK layer.
MISC: Fixed another wrong track mode bug of the MDS parser.
https://twitter.com/realSteveKwok/
http://www.emucr.com/2018/12/nova-v050.html
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December 27th, 2018, 11:40 Posted By: wraggster
This time we go back to February of 1993 with issue 5 of Mean Machines Sega.
We start of with three Game Gear games: Batman Returns, Defender of Oasis and Alien 3. Then we take a look at to Mega Drive port of a NES classic by Rare: Championship Pro-AM. After this, we take a look at an often forgotten strategy gem by Koei, called Gemfire. And for our final two preview articles we look at Mick & Mack: Global Gladiators, as well as the B-movie IP turned cartoon, turned game: Toxic Crusaders.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/cat...sega/MMS5.html
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December 22nd, 2018, 21:23 Posted By: wraggster
SSF Test Version (2018/12/17) is released. SSF is a Sega Saturn emulator for Windows systems using DirectX 9.0b. The current version claims near-complete implementation of the Sega Saturn hardware (not counting emulation bugs), and can emulate the Saturn based Sega Titan Video arcade hardware too. As with most emulators, CDs or disc images are not included and have to be owned separately. The BIOS is also not included; as of 0.07 Beta R3, games run without the BIOS however. The usage of BIOS files is optional but recommended for better compatibility, and needed for tasks such as management of the contents of the internal memory of the Sega Saturn, or setting the system clock.
http://www.geocities.jp/mj3kj8o5/ssf/
http://www.emucr.com/2018/12/ssf-tes...-20181217.html
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December 22nd, 2018, 21:01 Posted By: wraggster
Happy 31st Anniversary (and beyond) to Mega Man!
ROLL-CHAN for the Game Gear is now released!
Apply each patch to an unmodified ROM.
There are 3 types of patches:
- Mega Man 1 Roll
- Mega Man 8 Roll
- Mega Man 11 Roll
Do not apply the patches over each other.
https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4278/
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December 22nd, 2018, 21:00 Posted By: wraggster
A full English translation of the 1994 Game Gear RPG Moldorian: Hikari to Yami no Sister (The Sisters of Light and Darkness) has been released!
Moldorian tells the story of Navarre, a timid and ineffectual boy whose quest to prove his strength sweeps him and his childhood friend Miria up into a dark plot spanning the entire world of Moldoria. Largely a straightforward RPG, the game’s biggest selling points are its detailed artwork, music by Hitoshi Sakimoto, and unorthodox combat system.
This release was the work of TheMajinZenki (translation), Supper (hacking), cccmar (editing and testing), Xanathis (testing and editing), and Filler (original script dump).
The team also took the time to translate the user manual and include it in both the patch download and the game itself. Players are highly recommended to read it before getting into a battle.
http://stargood.org/
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=27514
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December 12th, 2018, 20:04 Posted By: wraggster
Reicast Git (2018/12/02) is compiled. reicast is a multi-platform Dreamcast emulator. The project is currently in Alpha, usability, performance and stability issues are to be expected. Cortex-A9 dualcore, 1ghz+ is the minimum hardware for decent speeds.
Reicast Git Changelog:
* Merge pull request #1462 from reicast/baka/snap_md_fix
* Snap: Fix URL to snap/README.md
https://github.com/reicast/reicast-emulator
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December 12th, 2018, 17:03 Posted By: wraggster
- <article>
One of the more standout titles from the short-lived Sega Saturn will be getting remade soon. Forever Entertainment has been hired by SEGA to remake Panzer Dragon I and II. Both games will feature brand new graphics "comparable to today's standards", and some of its gameplay elements will be modernized to make it more accessible to new players. No platform was given, but the first game's remake is confirmed to release before the end of 2019, while Panzer Dragon II: Zwei: Remake will follow the next year. More information is due in the "next few months". Forever Entertainment's previous history consists of Fear Effect: Sedna, which was moderately received by critics and fans.
</article>
http://www.forever-entertainment.com...emake_a01.html
via https://gbatemp.net/threads/sega-sat...remake.525792/
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December 12th, 2018, 16:58 Posted By: wraggster
Did you like fantasy games, RPGs or Cyberpunk fiction? If that so, you probably remember Shadowrun from the Sega Genesis. This new update improves a lot of things in the game, from items modification to characters improvements and more. The whole hack is based on the original Shadowrun first edition rules from the PnP game. So if you are a fan from this franchise or are looking for a good RPG, you must need to try this one!
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=27421
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November 26th, 2018, 16:05 Posted By: wraggster
Shenmue fans have wanted to see Ryo Hazuki avenge his father's murder for nearly 20 years, so much so that they crowdfunded the next phase of his quest to the tune of more than $7 million. Yesterday, Ys Net posted an update to its Kickstarter campaign page announcing a final crowdfunding total of $7,179,510 for Shenmue III, a total collected from 81,087 supporters.
Those numbers include the $6.33 million contributed by 69,320 backers of the original Kickstarter campaign in the summer of 2015, with the remaining funds coming from a "Slacker Backer" campaign that ran on the game's official site for three years before closing in September.
Shenmue III is set for release on August 27 of 2019. The first game debuted late in 1999, with the sequel arriving in the fall of 2001.
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...sd7-18-million
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