EDIT: I was trashed last night... don't read forums after drinking. Thanks for the link. While I think the Sonic Heroes and PSO stuff was a bit redundant, the rest was a pretty nice read. I wish someone would officially ask WTF is up w/ the three platforms, and does ST think that if they developed their games for just one platform, would they get rid of some of the bugs. I just can't help that Sonic Heroes would've been much smoother had they not been pissing about with the middleware so much. Can I get an amen?
You got an "Amen" from me, GaijinPunch. I'd go further and ask for a lightning-fast cell-shaded 2D Sonic game, rather than more of the mediocre 3D adventure games, but that's just me... This interested me: I'd love to see this in action.
good artical dude, thanks for the link... ive been wanting a new 2d sonic game for ages now, even tho i like the advance games, id love to see sonic the hedgehog 4... failing that, a NiGHTS remake! )
I'd heard about the FC emu before, I believe. I wonder if he's still got the binary, it'd be interesting to pore through it. Good luck getting it though.
Well im not a huge sonic/sega fan myself, but i just thought someone was bound to be interested in it. The famicom emulator does sound interesting, particularly since its on the mega drive, which isn't awesomely powerful itself. He says it didn't work perfectly, but i wonder, for the games he did get to work (he says dr. mario is one) I wonder if he ever got them to full speed..i guess we'll never know
Or more importantly, how'd he get the games to be read in the first place? I don't remember seeing Famicom roms until the mid-90's. Was he doing Mega Drive development when the Saturn was already out? Then again, maybe I was premature on the rom scene.
Well that's the point. Depending on when he wrote the emulator, I was assuming nobody dumped them back then (Ie -- no dumpable hardware feasible). I guess he had to have the rom somehow though.
Those old cartridges are really easy to dump if you have the knowledge and hardware. And as pointed out, I guess it was done in Hong Kong a long time ago, way before ROM dumps went into the internet.
Indeed. I've seen pirated/clone carts here in Brasil since NES and Master System. And IIRC I've seen some Atari non-official carts too, but I'm not sure. BTW, does anyone know how old is Yuji Naka? Some of his creations are so old that I wonder how old he was when he created them :smt043
For sure, before the Atari being released oficially here in Brazil, we had a lot of unoficial clone carts, 4 in 1, 8 in 1 carts, and that was back in 1983/84. And these carts were made here in Brazil, not in Asia. They are very easy to find nowadays... PD
