2017.04.02 The Last StarPak (A Tale Of Rare Cartridges) Let me get back to the recent post about the Galaxy Games cartridges, because we have a nice update! About a week ago programmer Keith M. Kolmos (@KeithMKolmos) managed to locate, among his archived data, the development files for the only remaining undumped cartridge, StarPak 4. Thus, while no production StarPak 4 cartridge has been spotted to date, we do now have all the data needed to emulate these elusive games. That includes the PIC program used for protection, which might have been impossible to extract from the real hardware anyway. Kudos to Keith for sharing. The development cartridge had eight 8Mbit EEPROMs, so we got 8 binary image files, plus an hex file for the PIC. For production, the game data was copied into two 32Mbit FLASH parts. The PIC code appears functionally identical to that from cartridge #3, but the bytes returned during the initial handshaking were changed. Here's the selection of games in StarPak 4: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0000.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0001.png Prominent among the lot is the remake of Stern's Berzerk, which greets the player with (samples of) the well known synthesized speech: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0002.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0003.png Neon Nightmare is a cute test for your coordination skills as you try, as a humble moth, to avoid getting zapped in a maze of neon lights: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0004.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0005.png Orbit is a color-matching game set in space. Moons have to be skillfully inserted into the orbits of the circling planet with the right tint: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0006.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0007.png Some nice rendered graphics in Deep Sea. Your submarine and its torpedoes against a fleet of enemy ships: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0008.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0009.png Another classic board game, Reversi (aka Othello), is presented with an Egyptian flavour in Scarab: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0010.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0012.png Orbit Freefall is a variation of the previous planets game with some additional twists: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0013.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0014.png We got to the last two games. As you can see there are major issues. Most of the moving graphics are garbled. It's probably the emulation at fault rather than the data, but I couldn't spot an obvious cause yet (e.g. in the blitter logs). Anyway the titles are: Star Tiger, a spaceships battle with Asteroids-like controls (thrust and fire): http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0015.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0016.png Finally Battle Checkers, features tanks in place of the usual round pieces, and a short-tempered sergeant to keep you on your toes: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0017.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/galgame4/0019.png 2017.04.01 Tekken Card World ShouTime is on a dumping spree and so we got a Tekken-themed coin pusher today! It's a Namco medal game similar to Pac-Slot and Tobikose! Jumpman. It uses super deformed Tekken characters in the same vein as Super Puzzle Fighter or Pocket Fighter. The title is Tekken Card World (鉄拳カードワールド) and like the other games it runs on cave.cpp hardware (Namco EMG4 or N-44EM PCB): http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0000.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0018.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0006.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0008.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0019.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0021.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0023.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0030.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0032.png http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/0035.png As you'd expect from a medal game, not much skill is required (read: none at all) to play this game. Anyway, below are some images of the cabinet, borrowed from here: http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/tekkencw_cab.jpg http://i.imgur.com/IZDtnE2.jpg http://www.lucaelia.com/images/mame_snaps/tekkencw/tekkencw_cab_controls.jpg There are videos of the real game in action on the net, like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=903Hk5oAQ3U http://www.lucaelia.com/index.php -- ポーラステーション http://perry0517a.blogspot.tw/ --

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