> Stern "The End" is a FANTASTIC Arcade game but it got a poor emulation.
> The ROM "theends" has many bugs in it and missing elements.
> The last attack stage keeps repeating itself and you never get to the bricks
> subtracting stage which is crucial if you want to get a high score. The stage of the
> single alien attack is also missing. Oh and there is this Bug which gives you
> infinite lives every time you get to a score of about 20000 points (although that
> won't help you much since the bricks keep forming the words "the end" -remember the
> missing bricks subtraction stage).
> A couple of years ago,I submitted a game at TG which got rejected because of the
> problems in the emulation.
> Since then I always hoped that someday this game will get emulated properly as it it
> is a gem of a game!
> Here's my rejected effort:
> https://www.twingalaxies.com/showthread.php/182230-M-A-M-E-The-End-Stern-Points-46-400-Doron-Gronski
> Cheers!
Somebody did attempt to improve it a few years back, but possibly even made it worse, or at best just made it fail in different ways.
The problem is the protection maintains some kind of state machine for the game, and even the correct original behaviour isn't fully understood (the hacks / bootlegs seem to be questionable in their logic)
It's probably done with a 'simple' PAL, but those can have quite complex behaviour.
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