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Discussion in 'General Sega Discussion' started by Andlabs, Aug 25, 2011.

  1. JaxTH

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    Was trying to look up information on Sega Swirl 2 (It's literally impossible) when I stumbled upon this Interview with Scott Hawkins.

    A fun little tidbit is that if it weren't for Crisi Albertson that he wouldn't have gotten to where he did back in the day.
     
  2. JaxTH

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    So here's a thought.

    Disney bought Fox's film and TV divisions. That means that Disney now owns the Alien franchise. I'm assuming Sega still holds the video game rights since no game has been made since Alien: Isolation, but with this Disney buyout, what happens?

    Will the rights be forcefully removed? Will other developers have a chance at the IP? I don't see Disney pulling an EA with Sega and apparently letting them keep the rights indefinitely after EA's Battlefront II fuckup.
     
  3. Covarr

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    When you buy a company, you also buy all its existing contracts, which are still binding. Licensed rights don't automatically revert after a buyout. If they did, Disney would've gotten Spider-Man and X-Men film rights when they bought Marvel. They have exactly as much legal power to revoke that license as Fox did. I don't know how much power that is.

    That said, I don't think it's as big a deal to Disney as it might've been a few years ago. Disney Interactive Studios (formerly Buena Vista Games) is defunct, so even if they got it back they would just end up licensing it out again. Further, Sega has no history of pulling stunts like EA, and Alien: Isolation was well received; it may not have sold amazingly, but I could easily see Disney deeming that to be a marketing problem and throwing money at it to make more money for future Alien games published by Sega.
     
  4. Black Squirrel

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S33HENoj4GE

    Anyone fancy doing a Sega Retro writeup?
     
  5. JaxTH

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    Infodump:
    http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iouRVcPaH5E
    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iouRVcPaH5E

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Je2nUhuZJw
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Je2nUhuZJw

    Bootlegs on eBay that I don't know have coverage or not. One has enough pictures to make a page on however:
    https://m.ebay.com/itm/sega-genesis-mega-drive-multicart-112-in-1-Fast-Free-Shipping-USA-seller/253303798785?hash=item3afa153c01:g:yl8AAOSwXLpZwX~Q

    https://m.ebay.com/itm/top-126-in-1-games-for-mega-drive-Genesis/162804122004?hash=item25e7e1c194:g:8d0AAOSwq4VaMst5
     
  6. ICEknight

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    Anybody with access to a EPROM programmer and a printer can make an unlimited amount of new bootlegs every day, isn't it time to put some kind of limit to the bootlegs that can be covered in the wiki?
     
  7. Black Squirrel

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    I don't like putting limits on things - as long as they're mass produced it's valid as far as I'm concerned.

    That being said, I am far more interested in bootlegs from the 1990s, as these have more of a relevance to history rather than niche novelties.
     
  8. ICEknight

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    Well, there's your limit right there. =P

    I'm not sure that the latest cartridges posted comply with it. They may be an on-demand thing.
     
  9. Black Squirrel

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    oh right - I missed the links. I've got into the habit of treating multi-carts as a separate thing.

    https://segaretro.org/Sega_Retro:Todo/Multicarts#Modern_tat


    There are always going to be edge cases on Sega Retro where it's difficult to care, but I think multi-carts are okay given that they generally take more effort to produce than the average reproduction cart. Often they ship with cloned hardware anyway so there's not much chance of escape.

    The labels might be bespoke but I'm not sure people are going to slap together a menu and stitch a whole heap of ROMs together just for a one-off sale. You'd be better off repackaging an Everdrive.
     
  10. Black Squirrel

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    That proto-European Mega Drive with the Japanese colours but European "16-bit" text

    https://segaretro.org/index.php?title=File:PowerPlay_DE_033.pdf&page=155

    The very first German Mega Drive advertisements used it. Didn't feel like it was worth bumping the old topic just for this.


    p.s. this has been right in front of my face for months.


    Oh and bonus points for identifying these two happy chappies:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NziAzdDWEhk

    I'm guessing it's the German equivalent to Zig and Zag. Except with humans.
     
  11. Asagoth

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    I don't want to be demoralizing... but it looks that, is just a "cheesy" commercial... similar to the "infamous" "Zelda Rap" commercial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI3rO3PbYOo... no offense... i just wanted to help...
     
  12. Black Squirrel

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    They appear in a few German adverts, and on a badge for a train.


    Also more bonus points if someone can find me this power supply:

    https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3APlayerOne_FR_027.pdf&page=28

    It's the 99F one in the top right - the one shaped like a Game Gear. "You're going to spend a lot of time with power supplies for this portable console - make sure yours looks nice".

    It was advertised quite a bit in 1992/1993 which suggests it was probably manufactured, but I've never seen one online.
     
  13. Asagoth

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    You might be right... i can't find any information... the only thing i discovered is that this commercials were not well accepted by german public... in almost every comment made in the youtube videos and some german forums, people see these two guys like a rip-off of Wayne and Garth (from Waynes World movie)... In this ad, the girl calls one of the guys by his name (it's imperceptable) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLb4XY1AYcE .
     
  14. Black Squirrel

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    Because this worked so well the last two times I asked:

    Thailand

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    What is the name of its rating system?
     
  15. Asagoth

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    I couldn't find more than this http://www.khaosodenglish.com/life/2015/08/26/1440574217/ ... is from 2015 ... and according to it, is a kind of ''rate those games that you're going to sell if you prefer" system... but dosen't reveals its name...
     
  16. Overlord

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    I know someone from Thailand - I've sent a query but I may not get an answer for a few days.
     
  17. Black Squirrel

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    Documentation just got slightly more difficult:

    http://segabits.com/blog/2018/01/10/retro-bit-sega-usb-and-bluetooth-genesis-saturn-and-dreamcast-accessories-revealed/

    Officially licensed bluetooth controllers are one thing, but AC adaptors and video cables? That could get confusing.
     
  18. JaxTH

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  19. Black Squirrel

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    I can't match Andlabs' old scan tracker, but I can create guidelines

    https://segaretro.org/Sega_Retro:Todo/Missing_scans

    (fiddle with the query for more)

    this is a list of missing PC box scans. We'd quite like these lists to get shorter.


    Obviously super high quality scans are the most desirable, but low quality placeholders are totally acceptable as a first step. Essentially it's a case of trawling eBays (cough) and cropping photos of boxes that aren't represented. Like I've done almost daily for nearly 8 years.

    As an example of when this has been put into practise - Alien: Isolation is full of placeholders. The benefit of doing this is when someone does come along with a good scan, they don't have to worry about files names or categories or even editing pages - it creates a much lower barrier for entry (which is good, because Mediawiki is infamously daunting to new users).


    Speaking of which, the wiki is telling me we're missing 3,988 box scans. There will be many more versions that have yet to be discovered (I'm looking at you, Benelux).



    it is a good task for people who claim not to have scanners and claim to know nothing about a topic :eng101:
     
  20. Black Squirrel

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    One of the recurring questions we get asked is "does this need scanning?" The response tends to be "yes" because of course the answer is yes have you seen how many things there are out there jesus christ




    anyway, for your delectation, "Scandinavia":

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    On the left, the UK edition of Sonic & Sega All Stars Racing for the Wii. RVL-R3RP-UKV.

    On the right, the Scandinavian version (Nintendo includes Finland in this group). RVL-R3RP-SCN.

    Nintendo are surprisingly nice because they colour-code everything but these types of minor differences exist on Xbox and PlayStation platforms too. Where the only thing separating the variants are a few letters and numbers.


    If you buy things from online retailers such as Amazon, UK residents sometimes receive Scandanavian stock, because only nutjobs such as myself can spot the difference*. The disc contents are the same and nobody prints manuals anymore, so it's not much of a problem. Likewise, if you live in the US, chances are you'll occasionally see Canadian versions (although the trick there is by law, there needs to be a French translation too).

    We've barely documented any Scandanavian covers on our wikis because minor details like these make them hard to detect (this is the first "scan" I've found that's good enough to compare). The front covers are usually identical too - it's tons of fun.



    *other options include pan-European versions, and the joyous "English but not UK" versions which I can only assume end up in Ireland.