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Re: lmao
09/04/09 06:39 PM
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Yet another from the comments
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Working on a basketball game for Genesis. Its used a flash chip to store game data. Game was tested for months and everything was ready so publisher ordered 250'000 copies of the genesis cart. BUT no one for months had reset the flash chips on the test carts to make sure the flash init routines worked correctly or ordered a few hundred carts just for testing..
Turned out the flash init code was dead and the carts could not save games properly!!! Studio went into meltdown trying to figure out how to ship 250'000 broken carts. Suggestions of production lines adding extra resistors and other hacks to every cart were tried and failed , then some figured out if you played some games in a weird order the flash memory would sort of work. So i extra leaflet was added to every box explaining how to use this "feature".
Job done
Chris Kirby
Well, the game was NBA Jam TE, and I bought it at the time. Problem was, a number of the earlier UK batches were missing the leaflet, mine included. When I took mine back, the manager knew nothing, and we tried about 5 copies to try to find one that worked. He gave me a refund, and I eventually got the Saturn version years later on clearance.
Finally I know the truth, although searching for the game name seems to bring it up on most of the cheat sites now.
http://agemame.mameworld.info
AGEMAME HQ - was once a thing, now isn't really.
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