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    Homebrew RELEASE Sonic CD

    There were partially breaking changes, I just looked into it. At the point where the 3.06 data file freezes, they added a native screen to prompt the user to enter their age. The new screen wasn't implemented in Retro Engine directly, so the game freezes while it waits for the okay to continue...
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    Homebrew RELEASE Sonic CD

    You're asking someone to tell you why Christian Whitehead (2.0) and Sega (3.0) made changes to their own game. Any answer you get is going to be speculation. The changes in 2.0 were probably done because the naming is better. A handful of script filenames in 1.0 are just things like GS0001...
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    Homebrew RELEASE Sonic CD

    Because it was never tested against that version and it was not expected that they would make breaking changes again. 1.0 and 2.0 are not compatible with each other because some file names and data formats slightly changed and work had to be done so 1.0 files would even load, so if what you're...
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    Homebrew RELEASE Sonic CD

    Both of the "unfinished features" (FMV and correct music loop points) are due to lack of a multi-platform solution for them and won't prevent them from being addressed later. SDL does not have built-in support for video playback, and audio loop points are only supported when they are specified...
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    The Nintendo PlayStation's CD drive is now functional

    MGC was April 8th, this already happened. The episode was filmed in March. They had the console in a glass case right outside the gaming history room with old computers & consoles at the event, and a panel about it that Sunday. Didn't see the panel because I went Saturday, so this is the first...
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    'Shenmue 3' Screenshots Unveiled at Monaco Anime Game International Conferences

    Based on total # of backers vs. the number of people in each tier, inside the top 1%. (Although on the low end of that.) I loved the 2nd one too, although I had the Dreamcast version imported from the UK. I never played anything in the Yakuza series until Yakuza 4, which was a good game. I...
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    'Shenmue 3' Screenshots Unveiled at Monaco Anime Game International Conferences

    Shenmue Dojo posted some videos from the conference: When I first saw the last 2 screenshots, I didn't even realize that they were of Shenhua's house from Disc 4 of Shenmue 2 and I've played through the game at least 10 times since I got it in 2001. When you see it in motion, it's instantly...
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    Gaming Triforce Heroes Codes

    Here are my two extra codes, US eShop only. It’s dangerous to go alone! Bring two friends along by giving them these free demo codes. B0HXLVHG216MMY7W B0HH1TBL0N1VRJY1 If you feel like it, you could PM me when you use one and I'll update this post to remove it so others don't need to waste...
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    English Mother 3 Reproduction goes on sale

    I can promise you that isn't true. I can't say anything more than that, as I'm not sure why the attempt to stop this from happening fell through.
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    Hardware GBA GameShark V1.0

    There are two different GBA Gameshark devices. One was made while the Gameshark Brand was owned by Interact, and was a re-branded version of Datel's Action Replay. This is what you have. The other, after the Gameshark brand was sold to Mad Catz, was a re-branded version of Xploder. The...
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    Hacking Developing emulators in Playstation Suite?

    It is not an optimization issue. There is no platform specific optimization to be done, since everything that isn't platform specific needs to be coded from scratch anyway. The PSSuite development is done all in C# (with support for VB coming at some point) and that is compiled down to bytecode...
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    Hacking Developing emulators in Playstation Suite?

    There are some problems with this idea. Here are some: After the end of the Open Beta, there won't be any way to distribute the software except to other people who pay the $99/year developer fee. Unlike the iPhone, Sony has confirmed that there will NOT be an AdHoc distribution method for...
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    ROM Hack DS Rom Patcher for Mac OS X

    I would suggest trying this program instead. It's easier to use.
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    DS #5140: Last Window: The Secret of Cape West (Europe)

    For those complaining: The Wood firmware is open source. It fixes this game with a patch, not a bugfix to the firmware. So theoretically, you should be able to borrow that patch if you know what you're doing. It's located in patches_pr.cpp, and it calls the method PatchOverlay10 to apply the...
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    Hacking Key.bin (Link to wiibrew)

    No, it's not copyrightable. However, if anyone remembers the old 09 F9 11 02 9D.... key controversy a few years back this might be a good read: http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/05/09-f9-legal-primer Whether or not the same reasoning applies here is open to interpretation.
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