It'd be nice if they made their PCB available for people to put other games onto. Apparently making a reasonably priced AES PCB is literally the hardest thing in the retro world.
I was going to call BS on this myth, but I actually own Virtua Racing for both Genesis and Japanese Megadrive. So I opened them both up. The Genesis version has an RF shield that's been slapped inside and the Japanese copy doesn't.
Everdrive is not original hardware, and it will ignore many mistakes that regular PCBs cannot. SEGA used their PCB 171-6278A and it's variants for most of their 2MB games with SRAM, and I've never gotten any of your patches to save correctly on them. Anyway, I recognize that I'm in a very narrow niche here, but it would be cool if your hacks worked on original or reproduction single game cartridges. I think you've done 99% of the work already.
Your checksum is incorrect when the patch is applied, for what it's worth. You can test that in Fusion and fix in RomSuite.
Keep up the good work, though, it's always great to see you releasing new things.
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Re: "He Was Going To Crash His Car Into Sunsoft’s Gates" - Gimmick! Designer Tomomi Sakai On Making A Nintendo Masterpiece
Always felt like a half baked Kirby ripoff to me.
Re: Review: MiSTer Pi - A $99 Gateway To FPGA Retro Gaming
3/4s of the fun of Mister is lording it over everyone that you spend $600 on a baby toy.
Re: New Streets Of Rage 2 Hack Adds Levelling System To The Classic Sega Beltscroller
It would be nice if someone actually changed up the levels in this game. There are a billion hacks for it already.
Re: EverDrive Maker Krikzz Releases $40 Genesis / Mega Drive ROM Cart, Open-ED
Not understanding the point of this at all.
You can already buy reprogrammable PCBs for ~$5. The USB flasher is $30.
You can have reproduction PCBs printed for $1-2 each and use an EPROM or newer EEPROM.
There's already designs out there supporting 4MB games and saving functionality via FeRAM. The BOM on those is ~$10.
Re: Here's Our First Footage Of 'Final Vendetta' On Neo Geo Hardware
It'd be nice if they made their PCB available for people to put other games onto. Apparently making a reasonably priced AES PCB is literally the hardest thing in the retro world.
Re: Flashback: Remember When Virtua Racing Caused Prank Phone Calls?
I was going to call BS on this myth, but I actually own Virtua Racing for both Genesis and Japanese Megadrive. So I opened them both up. The Genesis version has an RF shield that's been slapped inside and the Japanese copy doesn't.
Re: Mega Drive / Genesis Shmup 'ZPF' Smashes Kickstarter Goal In Just 19 Minutes
Genesis doesn't need any more shooters.
Rocket Panda release is 2 months behind schedule, despite being "alright ready." I'm a little leery about this publisher.
No ROM option? Yeah, pass. $55 for a $5 cartridge is ridiculous.
Re: Sega's Cancelled Neptune Console Is Getting Revived In FPGA Form
SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY
Re: Remember That $400,000 Haul Of Stolen Playdate Consoles? They've Been Found
@Bunkerneath Was really kind of the thieves to stack them up so neatly, too.
Re: FPGA Vs Software Emulation - Which Is Best? We Asked Four Experts To Find Out
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Re: The Cost Of Owning A MiSTer FPGA Is About To Come Down Dramatically
Will owners of this cheaper version be similarly obligated to never STFU about it?
Re: This New Sunset Riders Genesis' Hack Lets You Record Your High Scores
@BillyTime
Everdrive is not original hardware, and it will ignore many mistakes that regular PCBs cannot. SEGA used their PCB 171-6278A and it's variants for most of their 2MB games with SRAM, and I've never gotten any of your patches to save correctly on them. Anyway, I recognize that I'm in a very narrow niche here, but it would be cool if your hacks worked on original or reproduction single game cartridges. I think you've done 99% of the work already.
Your checksum is incorrect when the patch is applied, for what it's worth. You can test that in Fusion and fix in RomSuite.
Keep up the good work, though, it's always great to see you releasing new things.
Re: This New Sunset Riders Genesis' Hack Lets You Record Your High Scores
His SRAM hacks never work on original hardware, unfortunately.