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May 30th, 2015, 23:45 Posted By: wraggster
<iframe width="560" height="315" align="center" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-HCh3SI_6jg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe>WaterMelon has posted a video that shows the unboxing of the first production samples of Pier Solar and the Great Architect’s physical versions for Dreamcast and PC.As you’ll see in the video above, the samples include the European, American, and Japanese discs for the Dreamcast version, and another disc for the PC version. Each of the discs have finished art on them that WaterMelon is more than happy to shine in front of the camera.Also shown off are the game cases, which come with a poster, as well as the instruction manual. Then at 8:50 in the video, WaterMelon actually gets around to testing the disc, which means showing off footage of Pier Solar and the Great Architect running on a Dreamcast for the first time.
image: http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/pier_thumb.jpg
 These physical versions of the game are available to pre-order on WaterMelon’s website if you haven’t already got around to doing that. And if you want to know more about Pier Solar then check out Siliconera’s interview with WaterMelon.Pier Solar and the Great Architects was originally released for Sega Genesis back in 2010. After a Kickstarter campaign, an HD version was then made for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, and Wii U. It’s still yet to come out on Dreamcast, Android, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Vita.
Read more at http://www.siliconera.com/2015/05/29...VbHmhkkL4SE.99
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May 12th, 2015, 23:38 Posted By: wraggster
It was 20 years ago today that Sega released the Sega Saturn, the US video game industry's first and only surprise console release. Tom Kalinske, Sega of America's CEO at the time, walked out onstage at E3 and announced to a theater full of game publishers, journalists and store owners that its new console was available right now for a whopping $400. If that seems like an insane business plan, it was; Saturn was so rushed to market that its scant few games didn't even have titles printed on their case's spines. Expensive and difficult to developer for, it was quickly buried by the popularity of Sony's PlayStation. The sad truth is that while the Saturn wasn't a hit here in the US, it actually enjoyed a healthy following in Japan thanks to an abundance of excellent games that only made it out in that region. Here are seven curios for Sega's maligned machine that make it a must for fans of the obscure.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/11/sega-saturn-gallery/
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May 11th, 2015, 01:33 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.emucr.com/
MEKA WIP v0.80 (2015/05/06) is released. MEKA is a multi-machine emulator for MS-DOS, MS-Windows and maybe GNU/Linux. The following machines are supported by MEKA:
* Sega Game 1000 (SG-1000)
* Sega Computer 3000 (SC-3000)
* Sega Super Control Station (SF-7000)
* Sega Mark III (+ FM Unit)
* Sega Master System (SMS)
* Sega Game Gear (GG)
* ColecoVision (COLECO)
* Othello Multivision (OMV)
MEKA WIP v0.80 (2015/05/06) Changelog:
– MemoryViewer: Fix crash when active editing a memory region that goes off (e.g. hard reset while editing SRAM).
– Added support for SC-3000 Survivors Multicart cartridge emulation (in development).
https://mega.co.nz/#!n8IWhSCR!grfgAc...CC4wWmQn-ID0JE
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May 11th, 2015, 00:20 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.aep-emu.de/
The Arcade emulator Final Burn Alpha has been updated.
The emulator also supports SNES, MegaDrive, Neo-Geo CD, PC-Engine and some other systems.
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0.2.97.36
A new FB Alpha to celebrate the new site. Get it on the downloads page
Here is the list of new stuff;
- Fix Time Pilot ´84 palette banking. [iq_132]
- Added clone of Pang (bootleg, set 5) [f205v, Vincenzo Femia, JacKc]
- Added clone of Daioh (prototype) [CoolMod, trap15, iq_132]
- Added clone of Jigoku Meguri (Japan, hack?) [Tormod, JacKc]
- Added driver for Vastar and Planet Probe [iq_132]
- Fixed a handfull of broken games on Sega Master System [dink]
- Added FM sound capability to the Sega Master System, better integration and remove external dependancies [dink, Barry]
- Added ability to use CD-Quality soundtrack from the Sega Saturn version of DonPachi [iq_132, dink]
- Added feature to trim silence at the end of looped samples in the sample playback core [dink]
- Small improvement to the ESP Ra.De virtual mixer [dink]
- Added Trap15´s nice sheild warning mod DIP setting for GunNail [Trap15, dink]
- Added clone of Same! Same! Same! NEW VER! (v1.00 by Trap15) [Trap15, JacKc]
- Added clone of Ketsui Kizuna Jigoku Tachi (Arrange Mode version 1.7 by Trap15) [Trap15, JacKc]
- Added Alex Kidd in Radaxian Rumble, Bruce Lee, DARC, Hong kil Dong and Lambo to the SMS driver [dink]
- Added several fixes for the SDL version of FBAlpha [Dmitry Smagin]
- Added ZetSetSP() and fix ZetSetHL() in the z80 interface [dink]
- Fixed Toki palette recalculation [iq_132, ArcadeTV]
- Added more simulation to Chelnov´s MCU [iq_132]
- Fixed null file crash with T7Zipped romsets [Barry]
- Added Metal Slug 2 - Super Vehicle-001/II Turbo(NGM-9410) (slowdown fix) [Trap15]
- Fixed map raster effect rowscroll offset in Ninja Baseball Batman [dink]
- Added clone of Hexion bootleg [System11, iq_132]
- Added clone of Scramble (Centromatic S.A.) Spanish Bootleg [Manuel Giron, JacKc]
- Added clone of Mutant Fighter (World EM-2) [Simon Dennison, JacKc]
- Added clone of Dragon World 3 (ver. 103, Japan) [arcademodbios, JacKc]
- Added clone of Red Hawk (Korea) [system11, JacKc]
- Added clone of Robocop 2 (US v0.10) [Bill D, The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo (Euro 960529) [fluxcore, idc/Team Avalaunch, JacKc]
- Added clone of Hot Bubble (Korea) [system11, The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Added clone of Thunder Deity Biography (Chinese hack of Battle Garegga) [caius, JacKc]
- Added clone of Willow (World) [Jets (from Emu-france) and Layer (from Neo-arcadia), JacKc]
- Added clone of Adventure Quiz Capcom World 2 (Japan 920611, B-Board 91634B-2) [Bonky, JacKc]
- Added clone of Battle K-Road (Korean PCB) [Manuel Assoni, JacKc]
- Added clone of X-Men (2 Players ver UAB) [Andrew Welburn, The Dumping Union, JacKc]
- Fixed the eerie/droning background noise in Galaxian and King & Balloon [dink]
- Fixed freeze after character selection in Oriental Legend Super [iq_132]
- Windows 10 support [barry]
- Updated the libpng library to v1.6.17 [barry]
- Synced sets with MAME 0.161 [barry, JacKc]
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May 10th, 2015, 21:46 Posted By: wraggster
Due to a ton of work that needs to be taken care of in the real world, our release schedule has slowed down drastically. And sadly, it looks like this remain that way for the next couple of months. But the good news is that Mean Machines Sega is finally fully restored and ready to be downloaded!
This is a big issue ones again, so we have a couple extra preview articles to read as the full issue is being saved to your hard drive.
First up we have the following reviews for Mega Drive: Biohazard Battle, Road Rash 2, Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Twinkle Tale. Then, we also have Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for the Sega Master System as well as Streets of Rage for the Game Gear.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/cat...sega/MMS2.html
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May 10th, 2015, 21:18 Posted By: wraggster
Sega is planning to remove several of its mobile games from its back catalogue, the publisher announced today.
As it turns out, many of its own games don't meet Sega's own standards. "It is important for us to ensure that all of our fans, regardless of platform or operating system, have a great playing experience and after evaluating our complete list of titles, we have determined that a number of them no longer meet our standards," the publisher stated. "As a result, we will be removing these titles from the App Store for Apple devices, the Google Play Store, the Samsung App Store and the Amazon App Store over the next few weeks."When asked which games would be removed, a Sega representative told Eurogamer "I can confirm that we are still evaluating our catalog, therefore we aren't able to provide a list of titles."Sega noted that a game's removal doesn't necessarily mean it will be gone for good. "While we have nothing to announce at this time, given the right situation, these titles may return in an updated form," the publisher added.It also clarified that if you own a game it will remain in your purchased apps list where you'll be able to re-download it.Sega games currently on the App Store include: - After Burner Climax
- Altered Beast
- Brick People
- ChuChu Rocket!
- Columns Deluxe
- Crazy Taxi
- Crazy Taxi City Rush
- Dragon Coins
- Ecco the Dolphin
- Fiete Match
- Football Manager 2014
- Football Manager 2015
- Go Dance
- Golden Axe III
- Golden Axe II
- Gunstar Heroes
- Hell Yeah! Pocket Inferno
- Jet Set Radio
- Kingdom Conquest II
- Phantasy Star II
- Rhythm Thief and the Paris Caper
- Samurai Bloodshow
- Shining Force
- Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master
- Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed
- Sonic & SEGA All-Stars Racing
- Sonic CD
- Sonic Dash
- Sonic Jump Fever
- Sonic Jump
- Sonic Spinball
- Sonic The Hedgehog
- Sonic The Hedgehog 2
- Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode I
- Sonic The Hedgehog 4 Episode II
- Space Harrier II
- Spellwood
- Spellwood Lite
- Streets of Rage
- Streets of Rage 2
- Streets of Rage 3
- Super Monkey Ball
- Super Monkey Ball 2
- Super Monkey Ball 2: Sakura Edition
- Super Monkey Ball Bounce
- Total War Battles: Shogun
- Virtua Fighter 2 - Sega Genesis Classics
- Virtua Tennis Challenge
- Virtua Tennis Challenge Free
- Zaxxon Escape
- http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...l-mobile-games
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April 28th, 2015, 23:51 Posted By: wraggster
Surely they remembered the story that can be read below, the game bear eating burgers!Well, the creator of this game is called Sebastian Mihai, and entering your website is going to realize that software program for almost any console that crosses along the way, this is how after programming Dreamcast and up for Saturn, Mr. Mihai ships with a game for our beloved VMU. Brief description of the author of the game: " Raining Squares is a home tech demo for the memory card Dreamcast VMU The VMU, sometimes also called. VMS. The bottom line is animated, the player controls a pixel, moving from left to right, and there are squares that appear randomly fall while in X screen positions, they have different sizes. There is a slight delay each time the pixel Player collides with a square falling. " They can download the game directly from the author's website, he says he should be able to run the ROM in any emulator and advises using emu "DirectVMS" The web is available the source code and various tools for developing "HB" for the VMU. Web of Sebastian Mihai
http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=721
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April 28th, 2015, 23:50 Posted By: wraggster
From the mini-lecture, Alexsandro brings us a video where peopleSWAT shows progress and first steps in supporting the WinCE games that offer DreamShel l, in its next version (4.0 RC DreamShell 4) shortly. In the video we can see the Starlancer running in a preliminary way but more than acceptable results.
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In the description of the video we can read: "This is still not a pitch, the code is a WIP (work in progress) Slow load and delays in the videos are a temporary effect The game starts from the hard disk.. for the moment can only be launched from the same " Great news, we hope that when released the next version and everything works the way you want people SWAT and has support for SD.We look forward to that version to try the great work of the Russians.
http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=725
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April 28th, 2015, 23:49 Posted By: wraggster
Hello cracks !!How was your weekend?If you have another boring Sunday ... do not worry!InDreamcast.es we continue to soldier preparing new homebrews ports for all of you! We started with ... GNUFo ! To be honest, more than a game, you can be considered a game idea: a classic shooter of a screen, andwith counted four evil enemies. But hey, the world is not just homebrew games pretty !!I also like to wear simple and equally valid examples so you can learn more 
http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=726
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April 28th, 2015, 23:49 Posted By: wraggster
The famous Sokoban is a classic puzzle invented in Japan, and have been represented in the world of video games in many formats.Over the years there have been many versions of the game for all platforms, and continuously new collections of standards are created.This is a small engine that allows you to play any level can create because we have modified to support the format more rendering traditional levels Sokoban:LinkNot only that, also can select any level of those in the game with the PAD (buttons X and Y).And with the B button is used to restart a level (nice touch: you can not go back in the middle of a level ... hehehe).So that also is a challenge for you, we've added 52 levels (with evil xD) extracted this web:Link.If you manage to complete all, you have my infinite Kudos !!!: D: D
http://www.dreamcast.es/news.php?readmore=727
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April 28th, 2015, 23:22 Posted By: wraggster
The green/gold GDEMUs turned out really nice, I like them even more than the black ones. Here’s a photo but it really doesn’t do them any justice:
It’s been a year since I’ve started making GDEMUs so I dub these 3 units Anniversary Edition ones. They will now undergo extended testing and should ship early next week.
And before you ask – I’m not planning on making any more green/gold units for now, but might try again sometime in future.
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2015/04/...ll-be-perfect/
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April 28th, 2015, 23:21 Posted By: wraggster
News:
- The good: SD card sockets arrived and I’ve restarted my assembly line.
- The bad: All preorders are now closed, lists are full for weeks in advance.
I keep getting tons of emails asking for another GDEMU production run – yes, there will be one, but I don’t yet know when exactly. My best guess is “in few weeks”, with a very broad definition of “few”. Pestering me about it is not going to speed up things.
I HAVE NOT, AND WILL NOT START ANOTHER WAITING LIST UNTIL THE DATE OF NEXT PRODUCTION RUN IS KNOWN. NO, I WILL NOT MAIL YOU, OR THE FEW DOZENS OF OTHER INTERESTED PEOPLE, PERSONALLY WHEN I DO OPEN THE PREORDERS. WATCH THIS BLOG, IT’S HERE FOR A REASON.
That should hopefully make things clear.
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2015/04/12/lemon-phase/
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April 28th, 2015, 23:18 Posted By: wraggster
After skipping a week due to a rather large magazine ending up a little too big to finish on time, we return with the re-release of Sega Pro issue 8.
As usual this remastered version has been inspected one more time to remove any spots that might have been missed the first time around, before going through the new batch settings to get the overall look of the magazine as close to the original as possible.
In the earlier version of this magazine, certain colours ended up looking fluorescent, even though in the physical magazine they didn't. This has been fixed with this re-release and now looks spot on once again.
http://www.outofprintarchive.com/news.html
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April 19th, 2015, 00:09 Posted By: wraggster
If you’re a fan of video game systems of yesteryear then you are probably familiar with RetroPie. For those who aren’t, RetorPie is a collection of software and video game emulators that can run on a Raspberry Pi. The package makes it easy to get your fix of old games without having to own a bunch of consoles or loose your breath blowing on cartridges.
[brooksyx] already had a broken Game Gear, Raspberry Pi and a 4.3 inch LCD screen kicking around so he thought it would be a good idea to put them together into a handheld RetroPie. Clearly, the new screen was not going to fit in the old screen’s place. The Game Gear’s case was cut and the bezel from the new LCD screen was epoxied in place, gaps filled and finally sanded.
The screen is not the only modifications done to the case. Down on the bottom right of the case front [brooksyx] added 4 buttons for the N64 C-buttons. Out back the battery compartments and cartridge slot were filled in.
This project isn’t done yet and we are excited to see how it comes out. If you’re digging this RetroPie portable, you may like this Game Gear with an unmodified case or this large-screened Game Boy.
http://hackaday.com/2015/04/18/retro...me-gear-again/
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March 30th, 2015, 23:55 Posted By: wraggster
via http://www.emucr.com/
Gens-ReRecording SVN r352 is released. Gens Rerecording, formerly known as Gens Movie Test, is a modification of the highly popular Gens emulator. This modification includes slowdown, recording and playback of controller input logs, dumping of AVI files, and Lua scripting. This emulator is primarily used by the Nesvideos community.
Gens-ReRecording SVN changelog:
r352
Fixed issue 115.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/05003o
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March 30th, 2015, 22:32 Posted By: wraggster
via http://emu-russia.net/en/
NES/GBA/GB/Lynx/PC Engine/PC-FX/Wonderswan/Genesis/SNES/VirtualBoy/PS1 emulator has been updated recently. Changes:
- NES: Fixed mapper 69 IRQ acknowledge behavior, per tip from tepples.
- MD: Fixed an out-of-bounds array access in the 68K emulation code.
- Avoid passing NULL to memcpy() in netplay.cpp.
- MD: Fixed some code doing misaligned memory writes in vdp.cpp.
- Avoid blitting to the screen when visibility is lost(i.e. window is minimized), to reduce CPU usage and to prevent memory usage from skyrocketing on Windows under certain conditions.
- PSX: Tweaked non-logical CD seek emulation to fix lockups in some versions of "Tomb Raider".
- PSX: Fixed Justifier and GunCon x position being off when setting "psx.h_overscan" is set to "0".
File: Download
News source: http://sourceforge.net
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March 30th, 2015, 22:16 Posted By: wraggster
I was postponing this entry in hope the situation will resolve itself but alas… Long story short, you’re looking at another delay. I’m just about to run out of SD card sockets, obviously I’ve ordered more weeks ago but it seems like the distributor messed up somewhere – so my supplier has moved the delivery date to first week of April and frankly I don’t feel confident it’ll be kept.
This is actually a pretty strategic part and I usually keep an ample stock but there are limits – I’m not a warehouse and these are not dirt cheap either, so by the time I decided to purchase more it was already gone from the inventory and put on order. This is worse than usual because it will affect both GDEMU and Rhea.
Now, if the early April delivery date is not pushed back further it’ll only be a week or so before I can resume work, but if not you’ll just have to wait some more.
In other bad news, some time ago I created this:
It’s a 20 to 21-pin cable, made to test a theory. It did it’s job and by that I mean it verified that you can’t just put a 20-pin Rhea into 21-pin Saturn. Won’t work, unless all you’re interested in is CD audio playback. The 21-pin models have a sligthly different protocol and need a few more signals to work properly – so basically at this point a universal ODE for Saturn is rather unlikely. Too many things would have to be put on the PCB, thus raising the cost and complexity. Plus I would not be able to create one without making some changes to the existing 20-pin model, and that would mean two separate FW files anyway. And if I have to do separate FW then I might as well just do a separate PCB just for the 21-pin Saturns and leave existing (and proven) design as-is.
In fact I might even pick a different name for new ODE as people are already confused by the whole 20/21 pin issue, plus VA designations. But that is something still TBD I guess.
On the bright side, I did promise you this:
Gold-plated PCBs for GDEMUs are exactly the same version as the latest HAL ones, except more expensive to me. But somewhat easier to solder so I’ll be sticking with those from now on.
Plus I hope the break, if there is any, will finally give me some time to do serious PCE work. I need to get that prototype running because Saturn was supposed to be a quick side project but between GDEMU delays and very, very busy work schedule I have now it basically took over everything else. It’s not a time wasted though, Saturn gave some serious problems at first and I learned a lot from that.
One last thing, quite important one: PayPal has changed it’s UI and while it seems to work faster, I consider it less useful. I can no longer issue group payment requests and have to do each one separately. I also don’t see transaction status in the browsing list so I can’t easily tell which ones I’ve updated with tracking number and which ones are fresh and not processed yet. So I use email notifications but those sometimes don’t come. So, if you pay and then nothing happens for more than 3 days, mail me. But not sooner please, I don’t need even more junk mail in my inbox.
Also, pretty please, DO NOT give me your full shipping address when ordering, unless that address is different from your PayPal address – this only makes me check everything twice for nothing. All I need is your country/region to make sure I can ship there. On the other hand if you wish to provide a different shipping address make sure you point that out clearly, and that you give it to me before you pay. Otherwise I might see the PayPal email first and ship to the wrong address.
https://gdemu.wordpress.com/2015/03/22/marooned/
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March 30th, 2015, 20:18 Posted By: wraggster
On July 15, 1983, the Famicom was released in Japan. The console, later rebranded in the west as the Nintendo Entertainment System, would go on to change video games forever. Did you know, though, that the Famicom wasn’t the only gaming system released on that day? It was joined on shelves by the SG-1000, the very first home console manufactured by Sega.
You couldn’t write something that poetic. Two gaming giants, who would spend the next two decades locked in a bitter struggle for video game dominance (until one of them heroically fell in battle), releasing their first proper home consoles (Nintendo’s previous machines hadn’t allowed for the swapping of game cartridges) on the same day? It’s perfect.
Well, it was perfect for Nintendo. For Sega, the SG-1000 wasn’t quite the success story.
Poor sales in its native Japan meant that the console would only survive for around three years. But in those three years, the SG-1000 led quite the charmed life. It was redesigned only a year after release (the SG-1000 II), with a new casing and everything. It strangely saw an almost immediate release in Australasia, the beginnings of a relationship which would see Australia and New Zealand become perhaps Sega’s most loyal western market throughout the '80s and early '90s.
The SG-1000 was even re-released in Japan as a personal computer, the SC-3000, its more practical slant and built-in keyboard making it ultimately more popular than the console it was originally based on.
If you’re American and until now have no idea what I’ve been talking about, that’s understandable; the SG-1000 was never officially released in the United States (though a local console called the Telegames Personal Arcade could play its games thanks to some shady design). It never made it to the United Kingdom, either, or Germany, which are only three of the four biggest console markets in the world.
It was, for what it’s worth, a big hit in Taiwan.
While all this makes it sound like the SG-1000 was a bit of a misfire, it was still important in the development of Sega’s home console business. The system’s card slots were later used by the first edition of the more popular Sega Master System, and indeed, a planned third iteration of the SG-1000 (the Sega Mark III, below, probably my favourite console design of all time) was transformed mid-development to become the Master System itself.
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2015/03/30/s...-master-system
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