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Is Shadow Dancer for the SMS not compatible on a US Gen with PowerBaseConvertor? I've bought 2 copies now, and neither work on it. I've searched the net, and cant seem to find any incompatibility claims, but I find it odd that BOTH of my copies dont work. :daze::confused:
Is SegaCD/MegaCD connected? It may not be the point but I know there are some rare korean and bootleg games that don't work if your setup includes SCD/MCD.
Tried it without SegaCD, and even tried it without a Gen controller. So basically, a Gen1/PBC with SMS controller, power cord and AV cable. I can't get it anymore striped down than that. :(Quote:
Originally Posted by Golpezas
which is the region of the cart?
Related question: Is this game any good? It looks like it co go either way from the screen shots.
Works fine for me on my Model 1 Genesis and PBC combo. Works on my SMS as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaijuboy
It's OK, but the Genesis version trounces it in every aspect.Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry coeurl
I didn't see this question earlier.Quote:
Originally Posted by jerry coeurl
The problem is, they cut out A LOT of levels from the arcade game. So it's not even really a port. It feels a bit more like a demo or something.
It's a fair port, but as stated by ApolloBoy, the Genesis version's better... and it's actually a full game.
Both are EUR, it was never released in USA.Quote:
Originally Posted by villahed94
Well crap, I guess it's off to find #3. I'm beginning to think I wasn't meant to have this... :'(Quote:
Originally Posted by The Coop
I also just tested this on a completely different Gen, and it did the same thing (pink screen of nothingness).
This may be a dumb question, but have you taken a Q-Tip and cleaned the holy hell out of the carts? Tried only sliding it partially into the PBC/SMS instead of all the way in?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaijuboy
Is it an official PBC ?
Shadow Dancer SMS (as well as Aces of Aces) is special as it requires the Z80 SP register to be initialized by SMS BIOS, otherwise it doesn't run properly.
On Genesis, there is no SMS BIOS and the state of this register is undefined (it might be random on each power on).
I think (this would need to be confirmed) that the official PBC is not only a pass-through device and has a chip that is supposed to handle sega card support but might also do Z80 register initializations with a very simple bootcode. It's possible there are cut-down versions of the PBC where this was dropped.
Plug in another SMS cart, boot the game, pull out the cart, push in the Shadow Dancer, hit reset...
For some reason, games like R-Type need this to be done, otherwise they do nothing on MD... weird...
My R-Type cart works fine. I don't have Shadow Dancer to test out... just the ROM and an Everdrive.
tried to change region on the genesis? because of probable 50hz optimizations
That wouldn't matter at all since almost all PAL SMS games run perfectly fine on an NTSC Genesis or SMS.Quote:
Originally Posted by villahed94