But is it anime?

I shouted "it" when I read your comment

@@RocketboyX asking the right question mate.

Kenny 📼

But does it have Pony Metal Ugaim for MSX ?

Y'all are a few unsung heroes.

Ayy

I love this community

thank god it was not another safe

Thank you, you guys are doing god’s work.

Yeah, l'm pretty sure you're right tbh

How'd you guess that :)

It could also be "lower left" though

@@CruseCtrl middle left

@@CruseCtrl that doesn't make much sense

? if someone says that then they don't know how collectors think.

Thank you Captain obvious

But nobody's more litigious than decades-old abandoned companies looking after their abandonware!

Marble Madness 2 and Vertexer comes to mind.

@Default Man If it's truly one-of-a-kind or even so rare that a dump doesn't already exist, then it won't matter if you make a dump or not because the people who will pay top dollar for the physical item will not be satisfied by a rom dump.

Awesome! 😊

Hard4Games and LuigiBlood are cool as well

@Apple Stack Exchange bites. Unless you like to be rabbit holed with SEARCH. Yup, very helpful. It's wall after wall.

@Apple just what I said. It's nearly useless in regards to problem solving/help. It's over moderated. In the last decade I've only had 1 or 2 questions/comments help me with an issue I was having. Too strict and too many elitists.

@Apple Yea it's unfortunate. I've had a tiff with other forums that behaved the same way. They're not around anymore. The elitists don't want to be "bothered" by basic questions so they don't answer them, but it's a common question so people are asking all the time. That RTFM or google it mentality is causing most of their problems. If people would just let those questions be asked then answer them it would stop people from asking because they could see them via a search result. It's a like a paradox or something that works to their and everyone else's detriment. I believe it comes from pre internet days where when someone had to solve a problem there was no easy way to figure it out other than reading documentation and learning how to resolve the issue yourself. But that time is gone and there is no need to artificially hold someone back from progress with that mindset. Just my two cents. And not nagging at you or anything, just sharing my thoughts/experiences. Happy Holidays!

I'd probably contact Ben Heck first, at least as far as hardware is concerned.

I think he was more like, "Oh I forgot about that..."

If anybody is interested in his video game collection, checkout his video titled "2019 HUGE Game Room Tour". He definitely a bit of an archivist for the games he's interested in.

I particularly like how he dives deep into the technical details... not many KZfaqrs doing this.

We already lost Ace Combat Infinity when BAMCO shut the servers off. Nobody can run a PS3 game again already 😢😭😢😢😢

Love how he's wrong a lot of the time and people just eat it up like it's the word handed down by god himself.

I always hope other Sega Channel carts get found so we could see some of the other menus and games that are presumed lost to time, like Garfield The Lost Levels, and a Chess game that I have not seen since then (Chessmaster, I think).

When did you work at SOA Test I worked across the street at CS.

Wondering how much this could go at a collectors auction since it's basically one of a kind.

What's interesting is that it looks like one of the later dev boards (cartridge shell sized, possibly with NVRAM for saves) and not one of the early 90's dev boards (which were MUCH larger with dip switches to set the addressing for different sized EPROMs and CR2032 battery backed SRAM). If Randall's anecdote about visiting SOA HQ in the early 90s is correct then it's quite possible there may be more physical copies of 'Ship' kicking around than this single one. The fact that 'Ship' was a used as a tech demo and two different binaries (one compiled from source) have been found also supports this theory. It's amazing how all the elements of this mystery cartridge saga came together to give a coherent (and historically significant) answer.

yea can't wait for the reproduction cartridge to hit AliExpress

Damn some those collectors and archivists. Selfish Motherf--kers.

@@blakryptonite1 lmao, they probably would spell "visitor" wrong

@@blakryptonite1 I think there are cartridges that allow you to store multiple roms and play on the original hardware. Just get a rom and you are set.

@@ezio934 Its called a FlashCart, in the Genesis's case, you need a "Mega Everdrive" for that.

Not a real flex. Doesn't seem to hard to find his email address and a lot of game dev's will respond if they are interested in your question. Famously Gabe Newel the head of Valve says he reads every email he gets sent. Your more likely to get a response if you ask a short question of something that the person like to talk about.

Yeah, actually. Get some geocities vibes in ya

Or a SCP story

It allows you to visit the genesis dimension

I bet ya one exists

Right, because powering up a decades-old prototype board without inspecting it for damage and aging first is a brilliant idea.

@@konayasai its a Megadrive game ffs not an unexploded bomb. Do you wear ppe the first time fire up a new toaster?

@@ZoltarSoulFunk A _new_ toaster? No.

@@konayasai only took you 3 weeks to come back with that retort. Razor sharp 👏👏👏

@@ZoltarSoulFunk it's better to inspect it first just so the data on it doesn't get lost or to see if it isn't damaged

This made me lol

How the Coronavirus was hacked. (Mistakes were made)

*MVG music starts playing*

Fun fact about the vaccine. As soon as you get it, you know everything about retro gaming.

"Bye for now."

Eh.many professionals have an email and that's always the best way to get a hold of someone for business

@@Matanumi I don't think you understand. He didn't cover the guys email address who sent him the cartridge.

I'm assuming John wanted his e-mail address made public, or at the very least on record, too obvious for a mistake (twice on the same page).

@@Matanumi How come you don't see an e-mail address?

Almost without a doubt.

hmmm... Ship 1 Upper Right... Ship 0 (left clearly visible)... uh... code?

Its fine johns seen the video and he's good with it

John is now subscribed to cat facts.

Hermandshot Those fucking people do not leave you alone. I did it as a joke and I’ve had “Brittany from Scientology” on my ass giving me the L. Ron quote of the day for literally YEARS at this point.

Fun times 👍

System 16 was in arcades in 1986. IIRC, the Megadrive began development in 1987, but it wasn't out in Japan until October of 1988. Rumors spread slowly in those days, but I found out about it a few months after buying my Sega Master System (IIRC, in 1987, when it had dropped to $79.95). Sad how SEGA didn't overclock the hardware on this machine and use the full 128KB of VRAM as originally designed. Instead, we got the almost unused Z80, which turned out to be almost impossible for developers to access anyway because of its complex bus and memory lock.

2021 is off to a great start! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mMlglLJ60ZOro3k.html

It might not be Zero Tolerance Beyond, but its still a hell of a story.

@@glori0usoce Sure it is! Cheers!

I legit just heard the family feud "womp womp wuh wommpp"

I was so confused about who the F is Dimitris!?

Imagine being in a family where your last name is "Gamer"

he is Dimitris not from Hardware Canucks

Or maybe "ship 0 lower left"

Yeah, that's what I was thinking before he said it. I read about it in Hackers.

I'm actively working on that now. More to come

demo code works as intended: you would adjust the gravity, then the ships color, ... and suddenly you have spend a whole day messing with the source, getting familiar with the process of compiling the code, burning it the EPROM...

@@sarowie I wish i was that smart brother to do it. Tried to teach myself Java and learned that it isn't my thing. You did bring up a great point tho.

@@uarelikeme As someone who has been writing software for 15 years: Java is a terrible beginners language, it pushes you right into full OOP with a C-like syntax and it's garbled with lots of weird details to take care of. Not that it's harder than working with Motorola 68000 assembly on the Genesis, but I would say that if you want to learn programming, something like Python or Javascript might be friendlier.

@@xerzy Even Ruby would be friendlier, and yes I would know.

@@xerzy Thank you for the advice.. I may pursue coding again one day!

I remember calling it Zero Carrots for some reason

I loved that game , Got nostalgic when saw it

Probably chip 0

Definitely, how was this not known in the video :facepalm:

@@pigpenpete He corrected it later.

@lass kinn Space War is much older than PCs and DOS - it was written for the PDP-1

Spacewar? I have like 15 copies of that on Steam! Doesn't everyone?

that is the finished product. it's a game example, a base for other developers to work on

@@DecibelAlex Indeed, that's pretty much Space War/Computer Space 16-bit complete version, there's not much to it. Although maybe they were planing to make the AI for the 1P game, it's pretty pointless to have such an option in a strictly-2-player game. Then again, it could be just a placeholder for games that would need it in the future.

Basically asteroids with gravity. They probably thought it was a bit dated for a Genesis game.

YES !

You're one of a kind : )

He honestly is. I think he's my favorite content creator on KZfaq. Everyone of his videos is original and he does a ton of research on his topics.

I think you want to say that games should not have stupid DRM that prevents it from preserving/playing offline without cracking it. Whether it is digital or physical. The whole point of dumping is that physical medium will fail someday and then the data will be lost permanently. Dumping allows you to backup and preserve the data digitally.

I never knew it was made by my people. I'm an ethnic Hungarian born in Canada.

it's god awful... it wouldn't even be on a list with "good" Mega Drive games let alone a list of the best games

@@kevboard I bet you never ever play it once. Both episodes have beautiful graphic and nice gameplay with awesome music.

@@kevboard I mean it was a staple of the Sega genesis/megadrive. It's good, maybe not great.

@@wiltisdabest have you played it recently... and played it as intended not using emulation features like quick saving and stuff? the game is utter garbage. a lot of people look at old games like this through rose tinted glasses because of course if you played them as a child and you only had a handful of games, these games often get remembered very fondly. and I don't buy that "it was great for it's time" crap either. a game is either good or it isn't, and if it "was good at the time" that only means that back then we didn't know any better. SMB1 is still a good game, good controls, borderline genius gamedesign from the very first 10 seconds of the game and good art. SMB2 (Lost Levels) on the other hand is dogshit and it always was dogshit (which is the actual reason it wasn't released in the west btw. that "it was too hard for the west" is bullshit. Nintendo America said it didn't meet their quality standards) Ecco is a game with terrible Leveldesign that is purposefully confusing and annoying because the lead developer didn't want people to rent it and play through it in a couple of days, so he made it as annoying as possible to find your way through. obstacles were placed in a way that was bas annoying as possible it is bad, it was always bad and no sane person would play it nowadays, especially not as it was intended. the only people still playing it are speedrunners (but even there it is very niche) but they play anything lol

You mean a long documentary where at the end it turns out he wasn't the first to dump it? 😉

@@johnnycage3673i guess you're both referring to that McDonald's game?

@@johnnycage3673 Well someone didn't pay attention, or they'd know that the rom on the cart is different from the rom that was reverse-engineered from source code, thereby making it unique and therefore Dimitri is in fact the first person to dump this game in its original form.

@@Sun-ut9gr I did pay attention and I've noticed. You on the other hand didn't pay attention in humor and sarcasm class.

Write him an email, tough guy.

@@SteveVedder122 Bellend.

I sent him a video of me having a nice long (30 minutes) go at my daughter. Don't worry I used lube so she's fine, I also give her an IV drip and use silicone injections to keep them tits in shape :)

@@omarkiller2222 bruh.

@@TheRealCaptainFreedom I signed him up for spam

Too late.