New Megadrive Game: Paprium
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$69 for a megadrive game seems a bit steep to me, they say it's on an 80MB megadrive cartridge, I didn't realise it was possible to have that large of a cart on the megadrive. It's cool people are still developing on the megadrive.
What are everyones thoughts on this? What's to keep people from just dumping this cart and emulating it?
If you read the documentation it will answer 99% of your questions: https://retropie.org.uk/docs/
Also if you want a solution to your problems read this first: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first
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@herb_fargus $69 does seem steep, and unfortunately, not owning a Genesis anymore, my only option to play would be through emulation. I would gladly make a $20 donation for a legal ROM download however.
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@herb_fargus there are a lot of new intellivision games made each year that sell at that price. Some of the programmers sell the roms for $10 after the carts are sold out, and some give the roms away afterwards. There is a lot of cost for boxes, manuals overlays new cart shells and boards. One of the intellivision programmers has been involved with the retropie and yesterday he sent me a copy of advmess 3.4 that he fixed the controls on because for keypad buttons, the second player keypad doesnt work and you cant use the second players buttons if you have two identical controllers as the emulater uses some weird controller naming method now instead of stating js0 and js1. Which then assigned player 2's buttons to player 1. The axis however worked correctly.
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@edmaul69 said in New Megadrive Game: Paprium:
the second player keypad doesnt work and you cant use the second players buttons if you have two identical controllers
I had to jump through hoops to solve that problem on my setup. I must have tried a dozen different attempts before I found an approach that worked. Does the programmer you mentioned plan on incorporating his changes into a wider release of some kind?
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@mediamogul i have to do some testing tomorrow as i havent had a chance yet but he will be release it on intellivision.us after i get done testing. As far as getting it on here i am not sure what will have to be done. I will let you know when its available.
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Coupon " 8997921 " offers 10% Discount on PAPRIUM game (LIMITED and CLASSIC editions) when ordering on paprium.com. -
It's got one cool trailer!
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I think they expect it to be dumped at some point. The only way that indie developers make money is from physical sales, and from what i've read lately on limited edition carts, they sell out like crazy. So even though emulation is easy, console purists and collectors will double down on opportunities to get limited run physical releases on real carts.
Look at thriving communities like AtariAge, and you'll see why. New atari games are being made all the time and they sell for 25 to 50 bux a piece - and they usually give away the roms for free on the same website (craziness!). Collectors are a rabid breed and I'm jealous of their dedication to the original format and disposable income!
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I love a good beat 'em up! I think I would really enjoy playing this game!
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@backstander Same here, it's one of my favorite genres. This game looks amazing!
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If after some time, the developer releases a digital download for sale, I'd definitely pay for a game this polished.
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I read this game uses a custom in-cart chipset called the DT128M16VA1LT that may or may not boost rom capacity, add more ram and add more sound channels. This game in rom form may not even be compatible with current emulators without some sort of update. Who knows, it will obviously be dumped after release, as was their other Genesis release, Pier Solar... but who knows if the rom will even work.
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I guess that's a good way to passively resist the emulation scene, haha
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I've bought a physical cart of a small run of flappy bird on gameboy. yes, the rom was available before the physical run, but i wanted something quirky and strangely unique. it wasn't $70 though... but yes as has been said, the writers of games on carts rarely expect their carts not to be dumped and most physical releases have free downloads. they know their physical cartridge will sell out to OG hardware fetishists/completionists so ROM dumps don't really bother them.
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as was their other Genesis release, Pier Solar.
Wow, they did 'Pier Solar'. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Those guys are really at the top of their craft.
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@Capeman said in New Megadrive Game: Paprium:
I read this game uses a custom in-cart chipset called the DT128M16VA1LT that may or may not boost rom capacity, add more ram and add more sound channels. This game in rom form may not even be compatible with current emulators without some sort of update.
wow. really? that's pretty badass then. I really want a real megadrive and this game now.
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@mediamogul said in New Megadrive Game: Paprium:
Wow, they did 'Pier Solar'. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Those guys are really at the top of their craft.
Yes, and it appears that they also ported that game over to wii-eshop and other digital download formats. So im guessing the genesis release of Paprium will be the first of more than a couple, but i wouldnt hold my breath as to how long of a wait that would be.
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I am tempted as I also love beat-em-ups....but I still have to beat Streets of Rage 3 (can't even friggin do that on the Pi when I can save and restore save games at will - let alone on a Genesis console ;)
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