Someone asked me my opinion of stuff like this (link updated for their site move). Contrary to the strawman version of myself being deployed on that thread, I don’t actually have a major problem with it as long as you deface the game in such a way that it’s obviously a recent-vintage hack and not a genuine Wilford Brimley Zero Wing (“CAPTAIN: LAUNCH QUAKER OATS! FOR REGULAR BOWELS!”). Ways to do this include references to your website, email address, this year, and of course a well-placed http://romhacking.net/ would work too. It needs to be some obvious place visible in attract mode so it’ll show up in eBay auction shots. I recommend the title screen, but depending on the game there may be other possibilities.

The Dumping Project picked up a Sega Ski Super G (Model 2C-CRX) and it made it’s way to me for dumping. The downside? My dumper uses a parallel port connection and neither of my current active-use PCs (or my Macs, for that matter) have such a relic. Fortunately I still have an older laptop that’s compliant 🙂 Because it’s 2C I imagine ElSemi will have it doing loop-de-loops seconds after I finish dumping it, but I’ll probably post a (2D-only) MAME shot or 2 as a warmup.

(Later) Here’s the first results of dumping the game, from M1 of course. A nice ambient piano tune and a decent guitar-driven track.

(Later still)Almost done – just missing the COPRO and TGP ROMs now, and MAME doesn’t care about those yet 😉 I’ll finish the dump and make sure my pal ElSemi gets his hands on it now.

(Even later)ElSemi says it dropped right into whatever his Model 2 emulator is called nowadays, and looks a little something like this:

You end up with stupid crap like this.

On the plus side, Guru dumped my Rapid River. As expected, it does not slot into the existing System 23 work – the memory map is different, and the 2D hardware may be as well. Anyone attempting to “troha” it into the current driver will be dealt with harshly.