Interesting Gameboy clone.

Nitro2k01 has written a very detailed teardown article of this unique Gameboy clone that is designed like a Game Gear!.

Check it out->http://blog.gg8.se/wordpress/2012/11/11/gameboy-clone-game-fighter-teardown/

Doom 2: France In Hell!

 

Does anyone have any idea why the japanese Doom 2 strategy guide is called FRANCE IN HELL?.

Update: Found an explaination, it appears they fucked up at the printing/translation factory in Japan, the japanese characters for "The Dead" also happens to mean "France". It could also possibly mean Buddha in Hell hmmm.

 -> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic.cgi?1MKJ4A29

Some crazy dude makes a 6h30min complete playthrough of Chips Challenge.

Just randomly found this when searching around for old games to try on my 486. Never realized how goddamn long this game was back when we used to play it in school.

Much respect to TTDLX who did the playthrough, he must have the patience of a tibetan monk!.

Want to make a flashcart for your Sega Pico?

Well now you can!, Team Europe has posted a DIY of how to make a flashcart by replacing the eprom inside the Sesame Street – Alphabet Avenue cart.

Pdf manual available here: http://team-europe.blogspot.se/2012/10/sega-pico-flashcart.html

Unspectacular THPS beta dumped.

Another Tony Hawk's Pro Skater beta dumped, this one is supposedly pretty near the final product so not much to write home about, just posting it here so it get's into common circulation.

Grab it here: http://www.thps-mods.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=833&p=6375#p6376

Virus - Dr. Mario prototype dumped.

"Virus is a prototype that eventually mutated into Dr. Mario.

It was found installed in an otherwise unremarkable PlayChoice-10 arcade cabinet in 2012, which was likely used to playtest new NES games at a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant at one point."

Source: http://dreamandfriends.com/2012/10/26/virus-dr-mario-prototype/
Teardown: http://tcrf.net/Proto:Dr._Mario

New Pac-Man port for Atari 2600 blows the original version out of the water.

Original Version ---^

The new port ---^

As you can see it's totally different from the original, and how the original version should have been!.

"Dennis Debro sought to create an adaptation of Pac-Man more faithful than Atari's 1982 version for the VCS. Utilizing the same 4K memory limit as the original, Dennis' game is a feat of programming that finally brings Pac-Man to the Atari 2600 as it was intended."

Available for purchase here: http://www.atariage.com/store/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1010

Some interesting recent ventures in emulation on the Xbox 1.

It's pretty fun to see that coders are still trying to push as much out of the Xbox as possible. The two latest projects from the last half year for the Xbox has been a port of the 3DO emulator 4DO and the Atari Jaguar emulator Virtual Jaguar.

Many of the old emulators for the Xbox are also being perfected, N64 emulation on the Xbox is still superior to N64 emulation on the Wii for example.

STREEMERZ - new extremely awesome homebrew game for Nes released.

Super rad dude!

Official homepage: http://www.fauxgame.com/
Download: http://www.fauxgame.com/streemerz-v01.zip

It's 2012 and the Playstation 2 is still alive.

 

It's 2012 and the Playstation 2 is still being kept alive on life support by the release of two football games, it will be interesting to see if it will survive into 2013 thus beating the Neogeo. 

It would be fun if Brazil started producing PS2 games so we could get some real games at the very end like other long lasting consoles got (come on Tectoy!).

Nyan Cat ported to the PSX

haunted has ported Nyan Cat to the Psx!, grab it here: http://psdev.psio.com.au/forum/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=142

Ys IV English Dub Patch Released.

 

Some dudes have spent 8 years making a english dub for Ys IV!.

Grab the patch here:

http://www.pcenginefx.com/forums/index.php?topic=13136.0

Two SD adapters in the works, one for Psx and one for Dc!.

Sometimes thing's come out almost at the same time, maybe it's cause fpgas and hardware has become much cheaper in recent years.

Dknute is working on a Dreamcast SD adapter that will be far superior to the halfassed chinese SD adapter from past year that played games choppily, so finally there will be a real replacement for the gd-drive. You can follow his progress here: http://dknute.livejournal.com/

And then the PSIO team is working on a SD adapter for the good ol' Psx that you can follow here: http://psio.com.au

Let's not forget that the russians made a adapter for the 3DO half a year ago:
http://3do-renovation.ru/3DO_IDE_adapter.htm

So now it's almost just the Sega Saturn left! (and PCFX,CD32,Fmtowns,PcEngine,JagCD,NGCD,Pippin,Megacd,Cdi)

The first tiny steps towards Nintendo 64DD emulation!.

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Jrra has begun fiddling around with trying to add 64DD support to Mupen64Plus. 

Currently F-Zero X boots but crashes at the disk insert screen, don't expect to see games running until the year 2074, not even all 64dd titles have been dumped for testing!.

You can follow the snail speed progress here:  https://bitbucket.org/jkbenaim/mupen64plus-ui-console-disk

Pier Solar hacked and dumped.

Pier Solar has now been hacked and dumped to work in a special version of Mess. I will not post it here since i'm sure you guys can find it on your own, i'm more interested in who did it and how.

Through some google detective work we find a site created just some days ago called http://hackpiersolar.com/ it's already gone and www.archive.org doesn't have the page saved, but google cache has it!:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahackpiersolar.com%2F%3Fpage_id%3D6&sugexp=chrome,mod&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

That's alot of text only to have it deleted some days later, but now we have a back story which is always fun for scene history.

Finally you can "enjoy" cd-i Mario & Zelda with keyboard support.

dem0 has released a program called MAH BOI that adds keyboard support to the cd-i emu (yes the emu only has mouse support!).

Currently it only supports Hotel Mario and the Zelda games so now you don't have to suffer through those masterpieces with a mouse ;).

Download: http://cdii.blogspot.se/2012/08/mah-boi-keyboard-interface-to-use-with.html

Wonderswan Color demo by Titan at Wild Evoke 2012

Titan has released the first real demo for the Wonderswan Color, appropriately called *Finally*.

Download: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59699

Itadaki Street 2 proto released by Snescentral

(Not the proto in the video).

Damn people sure are busy these days, another prototype by Snescentral.

Looks like a extremely uninteresting game though, but i'm sure there's a dark corner of the internet that are into Itadaki Street ;).

Grab the game at the bottom of the page: http://www.snescentral.com/review.php?id=1045&num=0&fancy=yes&article=proto

Classic Kong - New homebrew game for Snes.

"A faithful remake of the classic arcade and console game for another classic console. Published by Bubble Zap Games."

Download: https://code.google.com/p/classickong/downloads/list

Codes:
Press B,A,R,R,A,L to get infinite lives
And to get the Sound Test menu: Hold A and B while pressing Start

Smspower releases CJ Elephant Fugitive for GG.

Not a prototype, but a hard to dump game cart.

"CJ Elephant Fugitive for Game Gear, an elusive platformer published by Codemasters.

This game took a long time to reach the internet and is also latest licensed Game Gear that wasn't dumped and released so far! Modder extraordinaire Ichigobankai helped to get this dump done. Thank you :)"

 Grab it here: http://www.smspower.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13857&sid=4a9ef7f2a4dab9f413d4f6f0baa375c4

Linux gets resurrected for the Playstation 2

Turn your Playstation 2 into a computer with PS2 Linux Live DVD Version 3.

Supports the following things and more!:

- Bochs (PC emulator)
- Windowmaker (Graphic User Interface)
- Firefox
- vncviewer
- p7zip (command line tool)
- lame
- ps2fdisk_0.9-3
- mpg123
- Updated YouTube script which should work with all videos.
- EyeToy Webcam
- Support for slim PSTwo v12/v13 (v14 and higher was already working)
- Web browser: dillo (the colors are changed to be more readable on TVs)
- Internet radio: xmms (for audio support you need additonal modules)
- Video player: mplayer (which can play youtube videos)
- NTSC, DTV and VGA support.
- File system is writeable because of unionfs
- Changes can be stored on partition (see writedev parameter).
- C64 emulator
- Pigin chat client
- Transmission bittorrent client
- Power button will shutdown the system

Download: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelloader/files/BlackRhino%20Linux%20Distribution/Live%20Linux%20DVD/PS2%20Live%20Linux%20DVD%20v3/

NBA Jam proto with swearing released by Nintendoplayer.

"Truly, this has to be the most ridiculous “prototype” Nintendo Player has gone through yet. Nothing’s quite as surreal as hearing Kitzrow yell out, “Grabs his Johnson!” on the Super Nintendo as secret character, Bill Clinton, makes a frantic grab for the ball while letting out a series of digitized grunts."

Get that shit outta here!

Right click on the image at the bottom of the page to grab the rom. http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/nba-jam-xxx-super-nintendo-prototype/

Apocalypse Bruce Willis Inside Tony Hawk's Pro Skater

                 "Bruce Willis Apocalypse Pro Skater"

Well this was news to me!, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 uses the Apocalypse engine and Bruce Willis is even in a prototype of the damn game haha.

You can even use some of the Apocalypse cheat codes in one of the Tony Hawk protos.

Thanks to LedIris for informing me of this weirdness.

Source:
http://www.thps-mods.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=833&p=6065#p6063
http://forums.hidden-palace.org/viewtopic.php?p=9392#9392

Extremely awesome unreleased tank game gets added to Mame.

Why this never got released is beyond me, looks like the epitome of awesome arcade gaming.

For more info: http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2012/07/26/the-slow-road/

Chip ‘n Dale prototype released by Nintendoplayer.

Nintendoplayer has written a very detailed article on this proto:
http://www.nintendoplayer.com/prototype/disneys-chip-n-dale-rescue-rangers-prototype/

Right click on the picture at the bottom of the page to download the rom (hmm a bit confusing there guys, are you scared of nintendo? ^_^)

BLACKOUT! - New commercially released Jaguar game.

 

"BLACKOUT! Is officially released and ready for purchase! For the moment we only have 23 copies available (out of the planned 25 due to bad chips). If these copies do well, we will do a second release of 25 carts, and then a third larger release for CD. Followed by the free binary release!.    

We personally dont believe in releasing a certain number of hard copies and then not making it available to download for those that have missed out and causing people to resell releases for insane prices. Hence the free release later on."

Official site here www.stormworksinteractive.com but it's down so go here http://www.jaguarsector.com/index.php?showtopic=33397&st=0

"Manos" The Revenge of Torgo!

Totally awesome Splatterhouse mesh hack for windows based on the infamous shit movie Manos: The Hands of Fate from 1966.

Download it here: https://acidocinza.wordpress.com/manos-the-revenge-of-torgo/

Human Grand Prix II proto released by Snes Central.

Snes Central has released a unplayable proto of Human Grand Prix II AKA F1 Pole Position 2, grab it at the very bottom of this page: http://www.snescentral.com/review.php?id=0158&num=0&fancy=yes&article=proto

If you ever wondered what Final Fantasy 7 would look like on the Atari Jaguar.

A 3D model of Yuffie running on the Jaguar, from a homebrew disc released by Orion back in 2011 http://onorisoft.free.fr/jag/jag.htm

Cowering's new blog & Sonic Pico.

With the introduction of Cowering's new blog he has released a Pico rom: Sonic The Hedgehog's Gameworld!.

"Scans and the ROM for Sonic in Gameworld for the Pico. It is missing from the other Team-Europe dumps when they reverified what was already in GoodPico"

Download: http://www.allgoodthings.us/2012/07/heres-nice-little-file-for-those-of-you.html

Bokujou Monogatari 2 prototype on Yahoo.

Hey look, a Harvest Moon 64 prototype on yahoo, hopefully it will end up in the hands of a dumper ^_^.

http://page8.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/h165986554

Ashguine Story 2: Citadel in the Void for Msx2 Translated

Msx Translations has translated this nice "run n' stab" game for Msx2.

Project Page: http://www.msxfiles.com/ashguine_2.php

Download patches: http://www.msxfiles.com/translations/ashguine_2/A2ENG100.RAR

Japanese nude model easter egg found inside Clockwork Knight 2.

(action begins around 0:58, have annotations on for translation)

The Japanese version of Clockwork Knights 2 contains a hidden area where you encounter the Japanese nude model Nakayama Hiroko & Tamamura from the Famitsu magazine!.

Ritz AKA Prinsdam who posted the video on youtube writes: "This could only have happened on the 4th of July, same day the discovery of the Higgs Boson was announced.

Cutscenes are only available in the original Japanese release (Pepperouchau Daiboken Gekan, they're replaced with Ginger's dialogue from the other secret exit in Fukubukuro).

To enter the secret room, do a running jump over the wall and immediately move to the left, otherwise you'll fall straight through and land on a lower platform. The box takes you back to the main course.

Playing on Normal mode gets you the girl (apparently an idol at the time with a full-nude photobook!), Hard mode for the guy.

Thanks to Peter O'Hanlon for scanning the relevant page from the strategy guide, and Michael Stearns (and his nubile sidekick Mark) for translating it and the dialogue"

ROLL BOSS RUSH - homebrew game for Psx.

It's not often you see a new homebrew game for the Psx but heres a funky game made by isufje!.

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?i131kpsb7y6y22r
Project thread: http://forum.rockmanpm.com/index.php?topic=6560.0

Project MD - neat homebrew Megadrive game.

"Project MD is a new homebrew game for Mega Drive. It's a 2D platformer set in a virtual world. Use the power-ups to get new abilities and reach hidden areas! What is hiding inside this world...?"

Really well made, give it a try!: http://projectmd.mdscene.net/download/projmd-20120429.zip
Homepage: http://projectmd.mdscene.net/

Falcon prototype released for Snes.

Google translate: "Famous for the Falcon series, flight simulators aboard F-16, Spectrum Holobyte announced a set of the same series for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis that should be similar to Falcon 3.0 came out on PC. Unfortunately, they never saw the day on any of those two platforms for unknown reasons. However, its development had indeed begun, because here we have a prototype version of the game still very young forgotten over the years, discover the lost treasure together!"

Download: http://www.legrospixel.com/falcon_prototype.html

Angry Birds ported to Megadrive.

zhengyaxin_8bit of the spritesmind forum has ported Angry Birds to the Megadrive!

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/?eai2slzg65j6lk2

Source: http://gendev.spritesmind.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1167&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

Pictures of Golgo 13 for CD-i surfaces.

A user called CRTdrone has posted a few pictures of the extremely rare cd-i Golgo 13 game on flickr, it appears to be some sort of visual novel game so I wouldn't expect much action.

This game and Cyber Soldier Sharaku are the rarest cd-i games since they were only released in Japan by a company called JIM, there are a few other kids titles by JIM which has been dumped though.

For more info check out:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/56035206@N00/
http://cdii.blogspot.se/2009/01/review-of-cyber-soldier-sharaku-japan.html
http://www.mangost.gr.jp/izuhara/syaraku/syaraku.html (The artist of Cyber City Sharaku)
Cd-i in Japan http://cdii.blogspot.se/2007/07/cd-i-in-japan-philips-artspace-denshi.html

Mr Nutz 2 released for Megadrive.

"Ocean released in 1994 another game on the Amiga under the name Mr. Nutz: Hoppin' Mad. 

Developed by Neon Studios, it featured the same titular character but with different, faster and more wide-open gameplay, unrelated levels and enemies, another story, and a large overworld map instead of a linear path to follow in a mini-map. 

This game was also going to be released for the Sega Mega Drive in 1995 as Mr Nutz 2, but it got shelved. A playable build exist, leaked in the form of source code and compiled upon."

Grab it here: 

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?21596-Code-Source-Mr-Nutz-2-MD&p=575021&viewfull=1#post575021

Ronaldinho Soccer 64 released.

Dumped back in April, this is a hack of ISS64 released only in the football crazy nation of Brazil!.

The hack was made by
http://www.tegperu.org/tegperu/default.asp?target=/sceneperu/default_en.asp
who has done alot of interesting games and hacks for the South American market. Based in Peru out of all places!.

Grab it over at http://64scener.com/

Armageddon dumped for 3DO.

I thought i'd make a note of this, it's not a unreleased game but just quite a rare one since it was only released in South Korea, it was dumped a month or so ago.

Now there's only about 4 other exclusive Asian games left to be dumped. Eye of typhoon(PC version floating around, still not dumped for 3DO), Oilman (extremely rare japanese promotional game) and eh...yeah theres some more but I don't quite remember.

Treasure of The Caribbean & Bang Bang Busters released.

Two new Neogeo releases from about two months ago, both fairly mediocre but we never thank no to new dumps!

Just throw:

bbbuster.zip
totcarib.zip

Into google and you'll find 'em.

CHELNOV! - Complete unreleased game for the Saturn.

"A port to the Sega Saturn was planned, but was never released to consumers. A version of this port appeared in the Tokyo Game Show and several game stores in Akihabara around 1997, but was cancelled for unknown reasons. The content was a direct port of the arcade version and therefore completely different to the Mega Drive/Genesis port."

Released by the good folks of sega-saturn.net , they even made some nice covers for it. Grab it at the bottom of this page -> http://www.sega-saturn.net/chelnov/chelnov.htm

Joe Guard - Unreleased game for the Philips CD-i

Released almost a year ago, the HalfBlindGamer brings you Joe Guard which has stuff stolen from other games, like Sonic soundfx.

Grab it here http://www.seb.mathowlett.com/joeguard.zip

Gotta Go Fast - Catching Up On Past Years Releases.

I'm just gonna spam some old prototype/unreleased game stuff from the past year just to play catch and have some sort of consistency with what's come out. Just Incase you were going "hey why is he posting all this old shit, I already knew of that!".

And yeah i won't post anything about Resident Evil for GBC since even my grandma knows of it ^_-

Why does Japan not have a established Pirate Party?.

You know it's a bit odd that there's no registered Pirate Party in Japan. Right now they might be heading into worse times than most European countries when it comes to piracy http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/06/japan-download-copyright-law/

Even watching a damn youtube video in Japan will get you into trouble now!.

The best thing I could find was this weaksauce attempt at facebook https://www.facebook.com/piratepartyjapan they better get their shit together or their freedoms will be slowly (or rapidly) be taken from them.

Meanwhile In Kazakhstan:

Reboot 2012.

Time to reboot this broken blog. Since being away alot of filelockers have been purged in the great fascist anti-sharing wave of early January, thus probably most of the links in old posts are dead.

Most of the stuff should be able to be found on places like undergroundgamer so i wouldn't worry too much about that though.

I'm going to stretch out a bit and post about not only prototype releases but just a little bit of everything that interest me, like world happenings,politics,religion and just nongaming stuff in general, though obscure gaming is still going to be the core of my posts.