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How about a reverse bug? A lot of Sonic hacks work perfectly fine on Fusion but crash in real hardware because Fusion doesn't emulate address error so the hackers don't notice it. Gimme some time (i.e. some hours) and I'll make a list of hacks that crash, but in case you want an immediate example now, S Factor had this issue until the newest versions.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowHawk
I'm not on the real hardware camp :p, I'm in the accurate emu camp.
I don't care about Regular Joe.
Regular Joe will gladly play star ocean on ZSNES and claim the game is riddled with bugs (when it's ZSNES that's crap).
Regular Joe will gladly play roms on GENS and claim that the genesis sounds like trash cans getting violently raped.
Regular Joe will gladly play Soldier Blade in Magic Engine with glitches in the backgrounds, and wonder why Spriggan Mark 2 deadlocks when you're entering the planet.
Regular Joe can go fuck himself.
Since real hardware is the most accurate gaming experience possible, I'm in that camp too by proxy :p
This sadly does not fix the poor image quality of the real deal (I'm struggling hard to find a good solution to get a decent image quality out of my television without spending time modding my console, see other topic), as opposed to an emulator. Also, I never power down my computer, so no problem there.Quote:
Originally Posted by agostinhobaroners
This is not of concern to people in the emulator camp, since they will never attempt to play these hacks on the real deal.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sik
Well, you are completely right here, but I'm not that extreme of a Regular Joe. :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Kamahl
There is always a good middle way between accuracy and quality. A lot of people here seem to be fixated purely on accuracy, without regards to visual quality. They'll simply brush it off by saying, "yeah I'll go with the blocky, pixelated look" (or smeared out, blurry look for you composite lovers), because emulators are the devil.
Emulation also allows you to fast forward cutscenes and boring parts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console...r#Legal_issuesQuote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
Under United States law, obtaining a dumped copy of the original [software] is legal under the ruling Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc., 964 F.2d 965 (9th Cir. 1992) as fair use as long as the user obtained a legally purchased copy of the [physical media].
This particular section dealt with the BIOS of a video game console, but you can apply it to all things that store digital data.
SPANK U^
It isn't a bug. C&E developed the game's save system the way they did on purpose. We had to reprogram it in its entirety in order to support game saves when players have a Sega CD and / or 32X attached to their Genesis / Mega Drive, or are using a "combo" system like the X'Eye / Laseractive / etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olls
The Sega CD and 32X were never released in Taiwan. Besides that, Taiwanese developers relied on poorly translated technical documents from Japan. They didn't have any fancy development kits nor support from Sega. They were pioneers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olls
So, of course, they designed games that worked perfectly for their market. Xinqi Gaiwangzi and several other games from Taiwan won't allow progress to be saved on certain machines, because their developers were either unaware that the memory region they were using was reserved, or they just didn't care. I didn't bother to ask C&E which it was for them, because it just wasn't relevant to the development process of Beggar Prince.
And that's that, cat.
I understand so they made sure each and every copy worked perfecty before shipping?
Wouldnt that classify the game as used?
Im just messin, I appreciate the effort they put into the project, Im just trying to see it from all angles.
anyways, seems I was wrong about fan translations and Sega
http://www.sega-16.com/forum/showthr...nslation-lives!!!!
Thanks for that tidbit of insight. ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CMA Death Adder
Man, from the negative vibe sent out from every post, this seemed like OldSchool. And when he was saying that a Genesis Model 1 with RCA jacks would be worth $100 to "non-modders" in another thred that was pure BS. He had made it clear in the past that he felt that modders' time was worth no more than a couple of bucks per hour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Joe Redifer
But then when I saw a post about effing v-sync, I knew who we were dealing with ;-)
Sorry, back on track :-)
It was quite obvious from the get go; confronted him several times.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoder
Hi! I'm the person doing the technical work for the Madou Monogatari I translation.
I want to annotate the list Christuserloeser posted a few pages back, hopefully to give a lclear idea of what could be done: (there are a number of incorrect names but meh)
I wonder if the reason why not many MD translations have been made is because there aren't as many people who have looked at how MD games work than with NES and SNES... but I could be wrong =P Plus, Chinese pirates ran wild with translating various games to Chinese!Quote:
Originally Posted by Christuserloeser
I think I was going to say more but I forgot what right now... :/
Wow, if this is true, that is a great hack. I also only have the dump, so I can't help you there, but thanks for the annotations man.Quote:
Vixen 357 — this appears to be just Langrisser 1.5 In Space (even compariing the code real quick it appears to be an elaborate art hack =P ) but eh — also I doubt the integrity of the dump we have; can someone send me pictures of the official game from a TV that show the Masaya logo and the title screen? thanks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vixen_357 - seems it was at least officialy sold in japan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Olls
Sorry if I confused you =P But Vixen 357 is an officially licensed game and is by NCS — I'm saying that NCS likely just threw the game together on top of the Langrisser engine =P There supposedly are new features in it though; I'm not entirely sure.
Hey. I wish you the best of luck with this project. I know a translator if you should need one later on :).Quote:
Originally Posted by andlabs
Madou Monogatari I is the one I would like most to see translated.Quote:
Originally Posted by andlabs
Good luck! Keep us posted about your work, please...