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vbt - Feb 2, 2019

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		vbt	Feb 2, 2019
		it's here : Index of /FreeSaturn/don/Heart of Darkness (Unplay...

		cafe-alpha	Feb 2, 2019
		It was already released in September 2017, right ?

		vbt	Feb 2, 2019
		maybe, i was almost sure, it was new at least i can say it boots on mednafen

		chakan	Feb 2, 2019
		I threw together a Heart of Darkness Saturn... page covering the development of the game and everything that happened. There's some media, including some 1995 press assets sent out to promote the game during that year. I honestly somehow missed this getting released when it did also!

		cafe-alpha	Feb 3, 2019
		I remember well of the time the dump was publicly released, because AMOC (who dumped and publicly released it) asked me if I could provide a cartridge to play this game on stock hardware ... but unfortunately I don't have such cartridge. From what I could see on link in first post, that's the same archive.

		chakan	Feb 3, 2019
		Corrected my article!

		Benjamin Siskoo	Feb 3, 2019
		Thanks VBT I'm going to test it with Kronos It seems it need a specific memory to launch it (going in game)

		cafe-alpha	Feb 4, 2019
		chakan said: If possible, can you also please fix accented letters... as quoted below ?   ric Cahi said: Jai peu de chose dire concernant la version Saturn dHOD. Il y a eu si je me souviens bien, un mini proto de demo, avec quelques crans et le personnage du jeu que lon pouvait dplacer dessus, mais ctait trs loin du jeu final. Bref pas de quoi crire un paragraphe In advance, thank you for correcting the article   Benjamin Siskoo said: IIRC, it needs cartridge type set to "32Mbit Backup RAM" to work; I just verified that this made going through loading screen and didn't tested in depth.

		chakan	Feb 4, 2019
		Fixed. Thanks for the correction.

		Fandu	Feb 7, 2019
		Hi all (my first post here), i´ve waiting for this day years!. This proto wasn´t available until now, in 2017 only a few people acceded to it as far as i know due to tries to do it run. Even i don´t know if the new owner finally got it (he was paying a lot of money for the disc and wanted to release it). Does anybody knows if it will be possible to make it run on a stock Saturn?, in Yabause it runs but i must select '32mb ram', it´s crazy. Teorically i mean, any chance? @vbt... , once i read you say you are a Saturn wizard, could you break this huge spell? lol Finally i want to thanks @chakan... for his article, great reading. Any idea if the remaining and sold prototypes will finally surface?, for example Bedlam is out there since years and has been showed in several expos, the same for Prize Fighter. It will be nice to know what happened arround this HoD release and why now.

		chakan	Feb 7, 2019
		Welcome aboard!

		vbt	Feb 11, 2019
		just wondering, what was the use of the 16Mb cartridge ? the psx version didn't need it to run the game. also on some magazines the game was running in high resolution, on this proto there is no reworked gfx usin 704x___

		Fandu	Feb 11, 2019
		I think is due to poor optimization, it´s rare that a console like Saturn couldn´t handle this 2D game, maybe the developers dind´t know how to work fine with the Saturn desing. The person who upload it to HP included this note: Notes The game seems to require a 4mb ram expansion to work properly; also, it doesn't work without a second controller connected, which is used for debugging. I tryed with my Action Replay Plus and two controlers conected but nothing, must i push any secuence or something in order to access to the debug mode? any got lucky?

		A Murder of Crows	Feb 11, 2019
		I released the image at christmas in memory of my friend Don.

		vbt	Feb 12, 2019
		A Murder of Crows said: Thanks A Murder of Crows, my condolences for Don, I saw he passed aways some monthes ago.

		vbt	Apr 14, 2019
		i'm trying to hack the game to boot with a 32mb cartridge, at boot the bios check the card at 0x24ffffff, the value is 0x5c (as defined in the doc) i guess it should be 5b for 16mb but when the game is started it never reads the card id at the previous address, so where it gets the cartridge size ?

		cafe-alpha	Apr 15, 2019
		This is a development cartridge, so I suppose it doesn't features any ID to detect its size and instead the game does some kind of memory configuration and test to verify that cartridge can be used ? BTW, from what I could see a long ago, the game uses cartridge memory until 6MB offset, so it may not be possible to make this game fully working on Action Replay (4MB) : that doesn't means it can't be hacked for making it playable, but that will be at the price of limitations such as corrupted graphics and/or crashing at some moment in the game, etc.

		Benjamin Siskoo	Jan 25, 2020
		It's now playable on Kronos

		Fandu	Jan 25, 2020
		The ideal thing would be play it on Saturn, the real sensation. Sadly this won´t happen, so nice to see it working on emulators.

		vbt	Jan 26, 2020
		Fandu said: maybe with a homemade card/devcard

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