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Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8731 Location: Paris, France	Winter holidays 2024: 3 rare taiwanese dumps + 1 korean, 2 game gear Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 11:22 am Last edited by Bock on Thu Dec 26, 2024 11:39 am; edited 1 time in total
	Merry holidays seasons to those who celebrate or enjoy cozy geeky activities :) Following our extensive coverage of Taiwanese releases in 2010-2011, partly due to help from Wenli who I visited in Taiwan, I've never stopped researching those games (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7). By now and from searching practically every day and contacting locals I have assembled a 160+ piece collection and still stumbling on new pieces. Those are recently acquired games that were not part of Wenli's collection: Adventure Island / Màoxiǎn dǎo (冒險島) for the Sega/Aaronix SG-1000 which is MSX1 based and requires the DahJee 2 KB RAM Extension Adapter (or the Jumbo branded equivalent). Zanac / Yínhé zhēng bà (銀河争覇) for the Sega/Aaronix SG-1000, also MSX1 based and requireing the DahJee 2 KB RAM Extension Adapter. The Goonies / Qī bǎo qí móu (七寶奇謀) for the Sega/Aaronix SG-1000, also MSX1 based and requiring the 2 KB RAM Extension Adapter. Unlike the two above, this yellow series cartridges has an Aaronix bootup logo. A very charming game by Konami (I enjoy those exploratory screen by screen platformers from the mid 80's). We have more! Korean dump of Star Force (스타포스) for the SG-1000. I've dumped two distinct variations of the cartridge and both yield the same dump. And finally some abnormally "late" release for Game Gear variants: The US dump for Pete Sampras Tennis for the Game Gear. And the Japanese V1 dump for (Ayrton Senna's) Super Monaco GP II (アイルトン・セナスーパーモナコＧＰＩＩ) . Somehow only V0 had been released, though an old Japanese blog has a CRC32 for V1. Ben Sittler dumped this first, and made me realize that my own Meisaku copy might have been a swap so I purchased another and realized the Meisaku version matched this new dump. Though it is also certainly possible that some Meisaku releases used the V0 cartridge. This game notoriously had a main menu that looks flickering and odd on most emulators: it keeps alternating between two images at 60 FPS, relying on Game Gear screen persistence to create a nicer image. Enjoy! IMG_9375.jpg (285.77 KB) IMG_9376.jpg (239.67 KB) IMG_9377.jpg (286.05 KB) IMG_9378.jpg (173.48 KB) IMG_9379.jpg (133.08 KB) IMG_9380.jpg (117.29 KB) IMG_9375-small.jpg (35.63 KB)
Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8731 Location: Paris, France	Attachments Posted: Thu Dec 26, 2024 11:25 am
	Cough. adventure_island-dahjee-sg-tw.zip (21.15 KB) zanac-dahjee-sg-tw.zip (27.86 KB) the_goonies-sg-tw.zip (27 KB) pete_sampras_tennis-gg-us.zip (90.73 KB) super_monaco_gp_II-v1-gg-jp.zip (144.59 KB) star_force-sg-kr.zip (17.82 KB)
Niloct Joined: 25 Dec 2005 Posts: 623 Location: São Paulo - Brazil	Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 1:16 am
	Almost thirty years of dumping efforts! Thanks for this Omar!
Bock Site Admin Joined: 08 Jul 2001 Posts: 8731 Location: Paris, France	Posted: Sun Dec 29, 2024 5:09 pm
	Thanks Niloct for your support and continued help! I pushed a minor update to MEKA, as a database update is required to play some of the newer dumps: https://github.com/ocornut/meka/releases/tag/meka-20241229
bsittler Joined: 22 Apr 2018 Posts: 536	Posted: Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:06 am
	Excellent progress! The number of distinct Taiwanese releases continues to amaze me

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