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    Anyone have a light gun work on their CRT HDTV?

    Traditional light guns only work with standard def CRT TVs. They won't work with standard def LCDs, high-def CRTs, or CRT computer monitors hooked up to standard def TV tuners.
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    Super Bubble Bobble & HazeMD

    Super Bubble Bobble & HazeMD Yep. The Sega CD BIOS should be mapped to $400000 during cart bootup if the Sega CD is present. Not really sure what would happen with both of them together.
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    Super Bubble Bobble & HazeMD

    Super Bubble Bobble & HazeMD It would seem to be actually hardware based, but pretty lame. According to a post in this thread ( http://gens.consolemul.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=13;t=16;st=0 ) by TascoDLX on the Gens forums, it checks for some values at $400000 and $400002...
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    Homebrew interest?

    I would purchase a $6 CD image over a $10 + shipping real disc. At $6 dollars its an impulse purchase and downloads provide the instant gratification factor.
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    C4 - 2005 & 2006 discussion

    C4 - 2005 & 2006 discussion Ooh! So very tempting. Perhaps I'll actually manage to produce an entry this year. Is the deadline likely to be around the same time this year?
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    C4 - 2007 discussion

    Ooh! So very tempting. Perhaps I'll actually manage to produce an entry this year. Is the deadline likely to be around the same time this year?
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    static binary translation

    Certainly with manual analysis on troublesome blocks you can achieve good results with static binary translation. Running the game thoroughly in a more traditional emulator that outputs hints as to whats code and whats data can cut down on the amount of manual work that needs to be done. Of...
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    static binary translation

    Static binary translation tends not to be very reliable. It's very hard to figure out which parts of a binary are data and which are code. It's more practical for emulating applications under an OS (for instance running x86 Windows programs under Windows NT for Alpha) than for game console stuff.
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    Cache Coherency Sanity Check

    Not if the processor uses a write-back cache, which AFAIK is pretty much the norm for processors that are likely to be used in an SMP setup these days. The "distance" between the processor and memory has gotten too great for write-through to be reasonably performant anymore. Indeed. It gets...
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    Cache Coherency Sanity Check

    I probably should have said modern desktop systems (which are almost all x86 systems these days). I can't think of how you'd manage SMP on a modern CPU without reasonable cache coherency support. Even on x86 you need to use one of the fence instructions to make sure that all pending writes...
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    Cache Coherency Sanity Check

    If I was writing a piece of software from scratch for the Saturn I would certainly take this approach, but in this case I'm thinking about porting a piece of software I wrote with modern multi-processor/multi-core setups (which have hardware cache coherency) in mind to the Saturn. It's mostly...
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    Cache Coherency Sanity Check

    So has no one here done any multi-processor work on the Saturn?
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    Genesis/Megadrive graphics glitches

    Are you sure that wasn't there before you did the mod? I'm pretty sure that's just a side effect of the way those games change the pallette around in the middle of the screen for the underwater effect.
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    Cache Coherency Sanity Check

    So I'm thinking about porting a multi-threaded program I'm working on (an interpretter for a dataflow language if you're curious) to the 32X and/or Saturn and I was trying to think of a sane way to use both processors in a reasonably efficient fashion. I think I have a reasonable solution, but...
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    EQX pro 8 SegaCD

    So what did the problem turn out to be?
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    Are any DVDs actually widescreen (instead of letterbox)?

    AFAIK, a widescreen DVD is indeed widescreen on the disc; however, a fair number of films are shot in a format that's a good bit wider than a 16:9 TV and requires a bit of letterboxing in the video encoded on the disc. I've never had any problems with a new DVD skipping and I don't think my DVD...
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    George Lucas and Steven Spielberg can kiss my shiny metal @$$

    Temple of Doom is definately my least favorite of the three. You have an annoying kid sidekick, an even more annoying whiny female companion, and no Nazis. It does have some great action scenes (the cart ride is one of my favorites), but I absolutely can't stand Willie and Short Round. Connery...
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    [Unreleased] SEGA CD : Desert Bus

    I don't think the whole game is like that, but there is a section where you have to drive the bus through the desert for literally hours.
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    Inn contests 2007

    It's worth noting that none of this is finalized, but if any of you have suggestions (including Saturn devs!) I'm sure Eidolon would love to hear them.
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    Teenage Queen Demo released

    Technically Beggar Prince is just a translation of an old Genesis game, not a new game. I suppose technically this game isn't entirely new either, but it is actually a new development effort.
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