Super Skidmarks 6 Player Mode

I read on Digitpress that you can play 6 players in Super Skidmarks by having a Team Player adapter hooked up and using the J-Cart ports at the same time. Unfortunately I went off and bought the game without reading that it locks itself in 50 Hz mode, unlike some other PAL games which are capable of running in both.

Would a 50 Hz/60 Hz switch mod help this situation? Are there any other solutions? Is there a modified version of the Super Skidmarks ROM that would work with two Team Player adapters instead? Any help is welcome, thanks!

Hello i have a 50/60 htz modded megadrive and super skidmarks wont run at 60 htz like many pal games.Infact i have been pretty underwhelmed with getting the conversion asides alien soldier now running alot faster and playing so much better.Maybe if there isnt one i could start a thread about which pal games will run at 6ohtz.

^ A 50/60Hz mod only gets you so far. Don't forget that there's also a language mod required to play region locked games.


Edit: Plus I think you can trick most games by booting it in 50Hz and then switching to 60Hz.

Ah, thank you for the info guys. So with a 50 Hz/60 Hz switch the game might still work? I've read a few other accounts where people acted like it wasn't feasible, I might have to get the mod done and mess around with it a bit just to be sure.

I have run at least one version of Super Skidmarks on my console without picture rolling, so it must have been displaying in NTSC. I couldn't get the multiplayer to work right with the Team Player, though, but I gave up when I found out about the J-Cart + Team Player option and bought it. Would there be a way to use a hacked version of the game and reconfigure the inputs? I.E., map the 6 player controls to two Team Players instead of a Team Player + J-Cart? Would that be feasible/realistic? While it sounds simple I don't know if it actually would be in practice, especially without the source code. Just wondering what my options are as far as the 6 player mode is concerned.

necro bump as I have the game but not buying a 4 way play just to test this.

Has anyone confirmed the 6 pad 6 player mode ? Wouldn't that be the Mega Drive record? Micro Machines' iterations do 8 player but with 4 pad sharing (the second player of each pad drives using the buttons for left and right).

I'm trying to do so in Fusion with no luck. I'd like to see that in action even on video: I guess it doesn't go in 4 player split screen mode, if there are 6 players, my guess is that it stays fullscreen (well, pal fullscreen that is). FYI the NTSC patched rom doesn't work on Fusion, you must use the original unpatched one.

I even tried using two 4 way play but I got a bizarre "jcart "1 jcart 2 error" screen

EDIT: apparently Hyperdunk and Fever Pitch / Head On Soccer both do 8 pad 8 player simulateneous gameplay according to some list retrospiel posted long ago. Still, Super Skidmarks retail cover only talks about 4 player mode... so what about that?

Fusion needs to be explicitly configured to use J-Cart I think (look into the controller settings).

Codemasters' games don't use multitaps, just to make it clear (J-Cart is basically two extra controller ports in the cartridge itself).

Yes I know but I read somewhere you can use BOTH the 2 Jcart ports + a multitap (or even 2?) for 6 player simultaneous gameplay (meaning with 6 pads not sharing 4 pads as in some Micro Machines games), that's what I wanted to confirm. Fusion doesn't seem to implement this option (combining Jcart and multitap emulation, which seems possible on real hardware).

Oh and apparently ISS Deluxe and Olympic Summer Games do also 8 simultaneous players???