Megadrive reproductions

I've been able to make megadrive carts of unreleased games for quite a while now, first I just did some for myself, then some friends asked me to make them games they wanted, and a couple of people on forums have asked me to make other games. And now there are currently nine different games that I have/can make, all with their own inserts, cart stickers and manuals.

I have previously made unreleased games for Master System, and produced them for fans of the system that I know. So I thought it was about time I offered megadrive unreleased games to megadrive fans. Below is a link to a little website I've put together to show what games i can do:

http://www.playgeneration.com

Any questions feel free to ask, and if you would like any of the games, please PM me on the forum, thanks.

I saw this link a while back but didn't really investigate too closely. You've got something interesting here, and I'll probably drop you a PM soon. How much more would it cost me if I wanted a game that you don't normally produce?

Providing theres no extra materials cost involved with the game you want, then its the same price. Some of the games I've done I only made on the request of one person, such as Beneath The Clouds.

I like to think I've picked the best unreleased games to do so far, there are others such as Fido Dido, Ninja Gaiden, Waterworld etc that I haven't bothered with as yet because I wasn't overlly impressed with their gameplay. But if anyone wants such games then I'll look into it.

Theres a LOT of games that didn't get a release, I've done quite a lot of research on it and found many more than I first thought there was. I've compiled a list for a rival megadrive site I visit:
http://www.sega16bit.com/
Direct Link:
http://forum.sega16bit.com/index.php?topic=131.0
Its a shame more of them haven't been found yet.

And if you check out the forum, you'll discover a newly discovered unreleased MegaCD game you can download - Timecop

So you don't do commercial games?

You mean make copies of rare games that were released like Alien Soldier?, no I don't do those as I think it would be unfair to those people who own the real ones.

What if I provided you with the .bin image of a program I wrote?

You'd have to pad it though, my bin files are of odd sizes.

Yep that can be done. I can put peoples homebrew software on carts, providing you've programmed it so it actually works on a real system and not just an emulator - emulators can be a lot less fussy about code. And it won't be reproduced for anyone but yourself if thats what you want.

Hmm, actually, I was thinking.

On my site, I have freeware software I wrote (in signature), if you want to publish those, you have my permission to use "GenTimer". I would release a modified version of it with a newer copyright, and a small change to the title-screen.

Only thing i'd ask is a small % of the profit.. If you want, we can work something out in a private PM.

*steals EvilDragon's "GenTimer" and makes lots of money on it*

Mwahahahahahahaaaa!

Are the carts "homemade", you make the board, solder things in place, flash a ROM on it ? Or there's something more fancy going on ?

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Originally Posted by Zebbe

*steals EvilDragon's "GenTimer" and makes lots of money on it*

Mwahahahahahahaaaa!

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Too bad the version I would allow won't be the same. ;)

Er...who would buy a GenTimer?

Anyone who doesn't want an Egg Timer? ;)

I use it all the time actually. Of course I release the .bin free, so anyone with a flash cart could use it already.

Hey playgen, I know an unreleased game that is missing from your list:
Lobo, based on the DC Comics-bastich! It was said to be a beat´em up with pre-rendered graphics; I never found a ROM though.

Thanks, I think I heard the title before but must have forgotten to look into it. Its now on the list. If anyone else knows of any unreleased games I've not yet added let me know.

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Originally Posted by TmEE

Are the carts "homemade", you make the board, solder things in place, flash a ROM on it ? Or there's something more fancy going on ?

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Im curious about this myself. He must install an EPROM into a sacked game.

Is that Timecop more than one level? I heard that there was a one level demo given away with some Sega magazine in europe.

And the ISO has been online for ages. Hopeing that this one is different. :)

Its the full game!
The one level demo bin file is only a couple of megabytes, the CD image that was donated to our megadrive site by its programmer is 192 meg.

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Originally Posted by Robivy64

Im curious about this myself. He must install an EPROM into a sacked game.

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Yep:)

Awesome... cool to see it was finally released.

While its not the best game in the world, its cool to be able to play it, its sad that so many games get lost and unplayed. You can use the .cue file to burn it to CD and play on a real system. The .bin file you can download is US region, its a trivial task to change it to Euro or Japanese region too.

Ya know Nick, now that i'm looking at these Jelly Boy screen shots.....

You think that could have been Jesters fate?

I am very interested in this. I am going to do some homework on it and see what I might want. :)

And what is the Sonic Megamix? Care to shed some light on that?

And lastly; what payment methods do you take? :)

Since the guy is British I think it is pretty safe to assume he makes PAL compatible games.

I set the games to boot on all regions, and I test them all out on NTSC as well as PAL.

Sonic Megamix is the best hack of Sonic 1, it has all new levels layouts, new graphics, new music, you can play as Mighty and Shadow, it has all the moves from the later games such as spindash. You can even play the original levels with the new moves and characters too. Someone on another forum asked me to make it for them, I'm glad they suggested it as its a cool game, and while I had tried some other sonic hacks before I hadn't come across this one.

VERY interesting. Now, all I need to know is what payment methods you use. It's my birthday coming up soon; what better thing for people to get me then something like this, eh? :)

My birthday is coming soon, the 18th this month. I got no money left however. XD

I prefer cheques from people within the UK, but if you want to pay by Paypal thats ok.
I see your a sms fan, do you visit http://www.sega8bit.com/? theres a very nice forum on there.

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Originally Posted by evildragon

My birthday is coming soon, the 18th this month. I got no money left however. XD

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SNAP!

Me too! :D

Back on topic, I tend to use Paypal really. It's excellent that you do. It's almost garunteed that I will get something from you. I just need to figure out what... :) Got any reccomendations? Barring 'all of them', of course. :p

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Originally Posted by VinnyT

Ya know Nick, now that i'm looking at these Jelly Boy screen shots.....

You think that could have been Jesters fate?

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I'd need to see your screengrab again before I would go for that. It would be sort of interesting, though, if that was a beta shot of a canned game. :)

I recommend you buy them all - twice!
Jelly Boy and Megamix are my favorites. Depends on your tastes in games as to what you'd like :-)

If you like the first Prince of Persia then you'll like the sequel, I think its better as it has some more interesting locations and such.

Beneath the clouds is good fun, a bit easy really, but its enjoyable to play, quite a few different special moves and magic spells to use etc.

I don't think theres any other game quite like ResQ on megadrive, its a mix of shooting, platforming and puzzles. Its quite slow paced, but definitly worth checking out if you want something different.

Itchy and Scratchy is pretty easy, the main levels especially so, the end of level bosses are what make the game interesting though.

Sonic Eraser is quite a simple puzzle game, similar sort of thing to columns. When you score combos your sonic runs over and attacks the other players sonic character. It was made in 1991, so is actually the first sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog, not Sonic 2!

Putter Golf is the forerunner to Putt and Putter on Master System and Gamegear, kind of marble madness meets mini golf.

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Originally Posted by Genesis Knight

I'd need to see your screengrab again before I would go for that. It would be sort of interesting, though, if that was a beta shot of a canned game. :)

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http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v5.../Jesterpic.png

Hey, you might be onto something.

You're right - the character design and concepts are VERY similar, so that's a step in the right direction. The art, however, is completely different.

I haven't seen anything similar to Beneath the Clouds before; is it a totally original effort? :)

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Originally Posted by Kikoskia

SNAP!

Me too! :D

Back on topic, I tend to use Paypal really. It's excellent that you do. It's almost garunteed that I will get something from you. I just need to figure out what... :) Got any reccomendations? Barring 'all of them', of course. :p

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Yours on the 18th too?!

I thought I was unique! XD

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Originally Posted by Kikoskia

I haven't seen anything similar to Beneath the Clouds before; is it a totally original effort? :)

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At first I thought it was a totally original Tawainese game, but after playing it extensively I believe its a hack (albeit a very good one) of Golden Axe. It also borrows a little bit of graphics and sound from a couple of other games too. Overall its a very polished game though, excellent graphics and its plays really nicely too.

I thought Sonic Megamix was a work in progress? Last I heard they still hadn't added a few things.

Anyway, very nice work. The manuals and inserts are a great touch; puts you above the guy who does NES reproductions in my mind.

Playgen, would you ever consider making a cart of King Colossus? I'd pay good money for that. And sending you a PM for Sonic Megamix and Jelly Boy right now ;)

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I thought Sonic Megamix was a work in progress? Last I heard they still hadn't added a few things.

Anyway, very nice work. The manuals and inserts are a great touch; puts you above the guy who does NES reproductions in my mind.

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I've used the latest release of it, which is considered to be the final complete release.

Thanks for the nice feedback, I've noticed the two sites that do nes games, they definitly have it easier.

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Originally Posted by playgen

I've used the latest release of it, which is considered to be the final complete release.

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"Final" as in, they're not working on it anymore? Hmm.

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If you're interested, your list of unreleased games is missing a few (although none of these have ROMs available as far as I know). I don't feel like registering at that other board just to post this.

Virtua Fighter Animation was to be a greatly enhanced version of the GG game, developed by Sega of America, due for release in late '97. Supposedly it was canned due to lack of market. A box shot was shown amongst a bunch of Saturn games in their "A world of games" pamphlet that a few Saturn games came with.

There's also X-Women, which was to be a side-scrolling X-Men game, similar to Clone Wars in gameplay, but featuring an all-female cast of playable characters. Release was to be 1997. It was mentioned in magazines here, and I don't know why it was canned.

Finally, there's Time Trax, a port of an SNES game. I don't know how far into development it got, but the soundtrack (specifically of the Genesis version) was released on the internet.