| rabidabid Member Level: 27 ![]() Posts: 105/135 EXP: 102371 For next: 13788 Since: 08-25-10 Since last post: 24 days Last activity: 6 days |
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| I'm making a thread for this because it's full of fun stuff to talk about. An old Sega Channel development disc from 1996 has recently been released (Hidden Palace link). It's full of source files, several menu test ROMs, ...and a couple Daggerfall demos for some reason. But there's a bunch of other interesting stuff too... ![]() First of all, two "new" Mega Drive games!? Presumably these were exclusive to the Japanese Sega Channel and I'm pretty sure they never seen the light of day since. I can barely find any mention of these online. "NYUSHI.BIN" (入試直前チェック難問奇門危機解決) is some sort of educational quiz game. "PLANET.BIN" (プラネットメッセージクイズ) is... some sort of astronomy/astrology-related thing. I've already made a page for one of them. (Also, a copy of that mysterious "Game Can Special" is in there too.) ![]() Second, three SC-exclusive versions of Primal Rage! ("PRIMALCN.SGA", "PRIMALRG.SGA", "PRIMALTD.SGA") These have been documented a little on the game page. Third... a potentially early version of Yuu Yuu Hakusho: Makyou Toitsusen? There are references to a "YU_YU" file on the disc... the problem is the actual BIN file isn't there. But the "GI" folder holds files that are... based on the ROMs? I don't know if they're compressed, truncated, corrupted or what but they don't boot in an emulator. But the files do have (messy unformatted) ROM headers and the one in "YU_YU.GI" is dated a month earlier than the final version and the "GM" code is copied from Gunstar Heroes. I don't know what could be done with this. Fourth, after comparing the rest of the ROMs of retail-released games with existing ROM dumps, the only other one that's different seems to be Kyuukai Douchuuki (KYUUKAI.BIN). No idea what's different but it's mostly some changes in the first half of the ROM. ![]() So yeah, a whole lot of goodies in here. |



























