Upcoming MD+ & MSU-MD Releases

Just my opinion, but I think you should leave it at one patch that includes the superb MD+ animated splash screen and its respective track allocation, along with the Sega track. I'd rather have them than not have them.

Saving works fine in MWIV now, too. Many thanks.

Relikk wrote:Saving works fine in MWIV now, too. Many thanks.

Thanks for re-checking!

Relikk wrote:Just my opinion, but I think you should leave it at one patch that includes the superb MD+ animated splash screen and its respective track allocation, along with the Sega track. I'd rather have them than not have them.

I would. I just tried to please everyone, especially you because you're an important actor in this play. I do have to put more work into this for multiple options that are compiled all at once upon buildung a patch, but I thought it was the cleanest solution.
In my opinion generally substituting the jingles with silent wave files is something that I'd rather see individually, in this case for your own preferences.

is there a tool to identify a sound driver on a genesis game?

diablonet wrote:is there a tool to identify a sound driver on a genesis game?

Due to the non-existing standard of these things there is no tool that would be versatile enough.

This list is accurate and as good as it gets ^^
https://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Mega_Drive/Genesis_Sound_Engine_List

Playthrough of Double Dragon with both soundtracks.

Playthrough of Joe & Mac with both soundtracks.



Looks like Insector X, Double Dragon and this are worthy of release, at this stage.

ArcadeTV wrote:

diablonet wrote:is there a tool to identify a sound driver on a genesis game?

Due to the non-existing standard of these things there is no tool that would be versatile enough.

This list is accurate and as good as it gets ^^
https://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Mega_Drive/Genesis_Sound_Engine_List

Thank you Sir, the game I am looking is not on the list, greetings!

diablonet wrote:Thank you Sir, the game I am looking is not on the list, greetings!

So what game is it then?

diablonet wrote:Prince of Persia 2 Remastered would be a perfect candidate

Prince of Persia 2, it seems.

Then it's GEMS:
https://segaretro.org/Prince_of_Persia_2:_The_Shadow_and_the_Flame

Try this excellent tool from Jeroen:
https://github.com/jvisser/md-driver-signatures

If it find's the routines, we're ready to roll.

Relikk wrote:

diablonet wrote:Prince of Persia 2 Remastered would be a perfect candidate

Prince of Persia 2, it seems.

yes that is correct! It seems that GEMS is the sound driver, is GEMS hard to make an MSU patch??

I can't find the "playSong" routine in POP2, otherwise it would be doable. The GEMS version used in the ROM is very different from other games it seems.

Hello and thank you Arcade TV, I did the r2 -a m68k on 3 different roms, prince of persia 1, comix and prince of persia 2, all with gems, when I loaded the library via zo ./GEMS.sdb, I got the following errors, do you have any idea about that?

ERROR: Unsupported (s)
ERROR: Unsupported (m)
ERROR: Unsupported (s)
ERROR: Unsupported (m)
ERROR: Unsupported (s)
ERROR: Unsupported (m)
ERROR: Unsupported (s)
ERROR: Unsupported (m)

unfortunately not. If I remember correctly I had the same issue first, but fixed it with an older version.
Pop2 is not showing anything though, while other games do.

thank you sir, can you please tell me your radare2 version? linux?? mine is 5.8.6

I'm on 5.4.1

GOT IT, the issue was related to the version, ran fine with 5.4.2, I tried:

Comix Zone zi result: 0x001cb60c 20 sign.bytes.gemsstartsong_0w_0
Prince of Persia 1 zi result: 0x000280c6 20 sign.bytes.gemsstartsong_0w_0
Prince of Persia 2 remastered and beta zi result: NO RESULT, just as you said.

what means the ZI result?

Maybe I can reach jvisser to ask about that GEMS versions, maybe he has a clue, thank you

diablonet wrote:
what means the ZI result?

It's the offset of the routine to play a song. If you have that, you can bypass it with romhacking to mute the chipsound and play CD audio instead.

diablonet wrote:
Maybe I can reach jvisser to ask about that GEMS versions, maybe he has a clue, thank you

Jeroen would have to analyze to rom when the signatures cannot be found automatically. I know he's taking a break from retro stuff, so I would not bother him.

I will have another look, just give me some time.

Got it, thank you for the information, ok, I will not bother him, sure, I hope it can be done sometime in the future, thank you sir!!

I'm planning to release a "Sonic Patch Spree Bundle", including at least 4 Sonic games at once.

For Sonic 3 I want your opinion and prefered options:

1. Just Sonic 3, nothing fancy, MD+ is enough to add.
   
2. Sonic 3 Complete MD+ with *my* options which *I* have set in the customiser (https://www.s3complete.org/customiser/)
   
3. Total Control over version and features of Sonic 3/S&K, so ArcadeTV needs to come up with a smart patching tool.
   

I never liked Sonic 3, so I'll excuse myself from any suggestions.

Sonic 3 SC-88 Pro arranged version (as suggested by this post) edited and uploaded to the Mega folder. I didn't do the S&K tracks, only Sonic 3, but I can do the S&K tracks if necessary, also.

Thank you Relikk! Awesome tracks!

Did a playthrough of Vectorman, seems fine. No issues detected.

Hello everyone. I am new here, but I hope I don't get in trouble for asking this question. I noticed that Ghostbusters: Special Edition was recently developed by BillyTime! Games. Does anyone know if MD+ and MSU-MD versions of this game will be released? Thanks. :-)