Gigadrive 0.023

[spray]

I'm still unable to get the following working with either fgen betas or gigadrive:

Worms
Winter Olypmics
Brian Lara '96.

Am i using bad dumps or regions, anyone had any luck?

 

[pip]

F- DAVID....

Any chance you could get GODs to work. It boots and when hte game is about to start it hangs up..!

Loved the amiga classic ... BUT i could not get passeda certain level.. ithink it was two. You have to go into a room and get something,but you could not jump high enough to get it... and so had to reboot again... Something like that..!
Thanks.

P.s: EARTH WORK JIM works PERFECTLY..!

Play the Atari ST version.

 

[ingeras]

havent the time to test it yet
but 0.20 played ultimate mortal kombat 3 !!!
but i needs 6 buttons support ...

A,B,L,R,select,start
6

 

[fdave]

EDIT: Also, the emulator seems to emulate a 6 button controller, but only 3 buttons are mapped, making Mortal Kombat 1, 3 and Ultimate unplayable.

wait..............dont you just press start to change between punches and kicks? im pretty sure i used to have to do that when i played mk using my 3 button controller

Possibly Ryleh has accidentally left in the GenesisPlus original code for 6-button support, but has only mapped half of the buttons, so the game incorrectly thinks a 6-button controller is plugged in.

(Or maybe GenesisPlus doesn't support 3-button controllers at all, in which case Forgotten Worlds won't work on it.)

 

[fdave]

I'm still unable to get the following working with either fgen betas or gigadrive:

Worms
Winter Olypmics
Brian Lara '96.

Am i using bad dumps or regions, anyone had any luck?

Why not try them in Gens to be sure?

 

[spray]

I'm still unable to get the following working with either fgen betas or gigadrive:

Worms
Winter Olypmics
Brian Lara '96.

Am i using bad dumps or regions, anyone had any luck?

Why not try them in Gens to be sure?

[me] bangs head in stupidity [/me]

they do all work in gens!

so fdave, or rlyeh, any idea if theres a particular issue surronding these three?

 

[Josquius]

gens?

 

[sammster001]

Fdave gigadrive 0.023 is sweet (like everyone else has mentioned). Only a few games work with sound.

Is there a definitive cut off point of games with sound? I noticed games prior to 1992 work with sound e.g. Sonic 1, Streets of Rage.

p.s. Spray i share your pain. Brian Lara is a great game. DAMN if only it worked for gigadrive.

 

[kotd]

Anyone get any EA Sports games to work? I think they all have the same problem. THey don't start up at all.

 

[kotd]

Sword of vermilion has sound as well. Locks up on the text intro though in fgen

 

[spray]

I've been playing Fifa95 on either fgen beta or giga for a while, can't remember which thouh! I remember i had problems with 97 but 95 works great!

 

[fdave]

gens?

The Megadrive emulator for Windows.

 

[fdave]

I'm still unable to get the following working with either fgen betas or gigadrive:

Worms
Winter Olypmics
Brian Lara '96.

Am i using bad dumps or regions, anyone had any luck?

Why not try them in Gens to be sure?

[me] bangs head in stupidity [/me]

they do all work in gens!

so fdave, or rlyeh, any idea if theres a particular issue surronding these three?

Well I imagine Genesis Plus would support them, so it's probably a Cyclone issue - which fails the earliest on? I'll try stepping through it with Cyclone?
Might be Saturday now though...

 

[fdave]

Sword of vermilion has sound as well. Locks up on the text intro though in fgen

That's a Cyclone ABCD SBCD issue again (same as SF2 and the other games you mentioned where they keep going round 00 to 99)

 

[Mark]

All the EA sports games came on massive carts with that odd yellow tab, I'm guessing they were bigger?

I haven't really got a clue what I'm talking about to be honest.

 

[mattmagoo]

Ive always wonderd y they came with those little tabs,

I googled it but to no avail

 

[Josquius]

I remember hearing those yellow tab things were part of the way EA handled save games. Supposidly they have a battery inside them which runs out after a few years and you need to get a new one fitted.

 

[fdave]

All the EA sports games came on massive carts with that odd yellow tab, I'm guessing they were bigger?

I haven't really got a clue what I'm talking about to be honest.

Not as far as I know. EA games and Codemasters games were typically just written with less knowledge of the hardware than the eastern games, as such they use non-standard methods to program it and are harder to emulate.

The EA intro in particular is a bitch to get right (but I've done it before now so I know the pitfalls)

It's similar now to the way that Sony in-house games usually use the hardware better. ... Usually!


Having said all this though, I still suspect a Cyclone bug is causing these games to fail in both emulators.

 

[Twimfy]

I might cut one of those carts open out of interest, I always used to try and pull out that tab when I was young

 

[ste_167]

Can you remember the regional protection system?? I had a Japanese import Megadrive and it had a cartridge lock that came out when you turned the power on, so that American/Euro carts wouldn't work in it. (The Jap carts had a notch in them that the lock would go into.) There was an easy fix though... simply remove the cartridge lock (little bit of plastic!). I can still remember the smell of my new Megadrive ahhhhhhhh