For my Treasure folks: I've finally finished and uploaded the rest of my collection of Hans books to the Internet Archive 😁https://t.co/kIJ7bosVuN
— GeeDee (@GD_Cade) May 31, 2021
Roughly 600 pages of previously unarchived work from Tetsuhiko Kikuchi; many years of early Treasure artwork and history. Thread: pic.twitter.com/1wtz55IDg5
https://archive.org/details/@gdcade
"The Mega Terminal (MEGA ターミナル) is a Japan-only accessory for the Sega Mega Drive. It is exceptionally rare and has not been widely documented. Like the Sega Mega Modem, the device connects to the back of a Mega Drive through the third DE-9 expansion port; consequently, it will only connect to a Model 1 Mega Drive. The device can link up to an ISDN telephone line and transmit (or receive) data at a rate of 1200-2400bps. As ISDN lines only charged by the number of packets transmitted rather than the length of time connected it could often work out cheaper to use ISDN than a standard line. This was especially true in a game such as Go, which took a long time between moves, whilst transmitting little data. ISDN lines also allowed a telephone to still work whilst using the line for data, whereas a standard line would be tied up by the use of the Sega Mega Modem. List of Compatible Software Go Net (1992) Sansan (1994)" (Segaretro.org)セガの珍品「MEGA ターミナル」入荷してます。ごく一部のメガドライブソフト対応のモデムです。 大変珍しいので、この機会にぜひ！（ケン）#akiba#メガドライブ pic.twitter.com/0iHGT57w8e
— アキハバラ＠BEEP (@BEEP_akihabara) May 29, 2021
"Some rare footage of the Laseractive Myst prototype, from the buggy 110 version (There is a 111 version that is nearly bug free)."
"It is said that a LaserActive hardware bug which led to inconsistent behavior of screen transitions caused the game to be canceled" (Segaretro.org)
As for the prototype that was initially developed for the Neo.Geo, it was never published"
The aim of The Eye of Typhoon [ Tsunami Edition / Saiki ] project is to bring this good old arcade production from the first half of the 90s back to the Neo.Geo!! the plateform for which it was originally intended! ;-)
However, it is not a direct port of the 3DO and PC versions, but rather a complete overhaul based on the graphics and sound material designed by Viccom."
Note: These will not work on a stock Pc-Fx without some hacking.
https://cdromrom.wordpress.com/2019/09/11/pc-fxga-homebrew-made-in-japan/
"A user in the Nectarine Discord brought an interesting question recently: they had some Youtube videos of cracktros from Playstation games, and wanted to know if anyone could identify their soundtracks. For those unaware, a “cracktro” is a combination of a “crack” (piracy) and an “intro” (demoscene) – it’s a little movie or menu that plays at the start of a hacked / pirated game, usually with credits and simple visual effects. It’s a calling card from the group who helped pirate the game, often with “greetz” to the supplier of the disc image, the coder who cracked it, the BBS or site who re-hosted the result, etc."
This is a game that is really interesting since there are not many like it coming out of China, specially with that sweet sweet 90's survival horror feel to it.
Well after laying under the radar for a decade and a half it seems people are finally giving it some love, first there is a fan translation project announced over at:
http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=32267.0
and over at reddit somebody is supposedly doing a remake of it using the unreal engine: https://www.reddit.com/r/7DaysSalvation/
"7 Days Salvation was a symbian/dingoo survival horror game with Silent Hill vibes to it developed & published by Dingoo Games.They stopped the development of the English PC version somewhere in 2007. In early 2008 they abandoned Chinese PC version and stopped updating English version for mobiles."
"The full game was published in Chinese on the symbian market in 2009 which contains the whole game (7 days). The Dingoo a320 device was sold with an incomplete version of the game that has full 5 days in english. There's also a English demo version for symbian and PC that usually contains the first days."
And thanks to the new N-gage/Symbian EKA2L1 emulator we can now also play the Symbian version.
If the source code is ever released it would have been a perfect game to port to Saturn/Psx/Ps2/Dc.
"The Neo Geo AES port of Hypernoid now has a Game Options menu with settings for Continues, Difficulty, How-To-Play display and Controller type. Also, optional 'Memory Card Load / Save' settings can be adjusted. Because the Neo Geo AES Home System does not have internal memory (unlike the MVS system) the 'Top 10 Ranking' list and the 'Game Options' can now be saved to and loaded from Memory Card. Additionally, the Score, Stage Number and Credits of the last completed stage can be saved after Game Over to Memory Card."
Check out Pierre L's article over at: https://psp-archive.github.io/emulators/yabause-2599.html
"This is a complete English translation of Super Robot Wars GC for the Nintendo GameCube, which has been in production on and off since 2013. The team hopes that you’ll enjoy this title in English, as well as the somewhat unique mechanics it brings to the SRW table!
"Super Robot Taisen GC is a turn-based strategy game released in Japan for the Nintendo GameCube, and later re-released for the Xbox 360 as Super Robot Taisen XO with some changes to content and presentation."
http://www.romhacking.net/translations/6105/
"Detective Renne Bras travels to the small town of São Bento do Oeste to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a couple at the city’s lighthouse. Submitted in this 2020's Jogabilidade game jam (#Geleiabilidade) The theme of the jam was "Mystery" and "Break-ups"."
"This is the new GG Aleste 3 game extracted from the Game Gear Micro. However, in its current state it is unplayable due to protections in place after M2 got burned working with another individual who sold repro Darius carts online after helping them port it to the Mega Drive mini.
Hopefully someone is able to reverse engineer the protections and/or possible new mapper in this game and make it playable for everyone else."
https://www.smspower.org/forums/18250-GGAleste3
"Battle Blues (배틀 블루스) is a Strategy Role-Playing Game developed by Shin's Entertainment (A.K.A. SHIN'S DECO) in collaboration with LG Electronics in 1996 who also helped publish the game.
Similar to Panasonic in the West, LG sold its own 3DO consoles in the Korean market. They went on to produce 3 consoles: the Goldstar 3DO Alive which was also sold in Europe without the "Alive" branding, the Goldstar 3DO Alive II which was exclusive to Korea as well as the extremely rare LG 3DO Alive II (essentially just a variant on the Alive II with the LG logo after the company was renamed from "Lucky-Goldstar" to "LG").
Battle Blues was never localized for a western audience as the 3DO did not sell well in the West, let alone in Korea."
Download link: https://github.com/jeremydecola/Battle-Blues-Translation
I had some difficulties successfully patching this game so here is a prepatched image, creds to Archive3DO:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RFRx15dlZt7SNWqaI3IBb86bjCrF5AMj/view?usp=sharing
And Retroarch cheats, cause even on Easymode it's balls hard, creds to BB2019kris:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OewLnSUFtxDqhoQiLpD_9FKZlsFqyzVo/view?usp=drivesdk
