[battletoad]

As you may or may not know/care, Waku Waku Sonic Police Patrol is one of a handful of games that were never emulated. It featured Sonic with a voice which is pretty rad too. If you would like to be able to play this game, I set up an indiegogo fundraiser to help make that dream come true! I'm also selling some rare sonic/sega merch from my collection to raise funds on eBay as well! I'll be posting new things every week, with each week things will get rarer and rarer.
If anyone wants to see Sonic Cosmo fighter Galaxy Patrol emulated, this fundraiser must make a good amount of money, otherwise it's just too expensive and time consuming for just one person to do. So I'd imagine there are thousands of people that would love to play Waku Waku Sonic Police Patrol, so if people donated a $1, picked up a perk, or bid on some Sonic Merch on ebay, this fundraiser will do great! Let me know how you guys feel about this, I'm super excited. I just launched it and already had a few people help out and it's really really appreciated.

Here's the fundraiser:
https://www.indiegog.../x/9773094#home

Here's my eBay seller link:
http://www.ebay.com/...=1&_ipg=&_from=

[battletoad]

I have a fundraiser,
https://www.indiegog.../x/9773094#home
to emulate Waku Waku Sonic Police Patrol. If we make the goal I think it would be really neat to solidate the audio files, look at the games sprites, and see if there are any unused files! I'm sure people on this forum have the know how to do it. If you have questions leave a comment.

On a side note, if the fundraiser makes the goal, I'll be looking to pick up a Sonic Galaxy Patrol machine and get that one emulated as well, how awesome would that be!

[MotorRoach]

You're making me wish I had money now. Good luck on raising enough money to buy the game, though!

[MarkeyJester]

battletoad, on 19 April 2015 - 09:41 PM, said:

If you have questions leave a comment.

Do you know the specifications of the hardware, to not only extract and obtain a software copy of the game, but to also understand how the data on the game is structured in relation to the hardware, so we can at least decipher which data is what when sifting through it? (Not that I'm implying obtaining the device regardless of knowledge isn't important, but best be prepared aye?)

I'm also rather surprised at the cost for shipping, $4,500? Not that I've ever tried sending anything of this calibre from Toyko to the US, but that's still quite pricey in my book...

[Xeal]

battletoad, on 19 April 2015 - 09:24 PM, said:

Stuff

I'm gonna reiterate what MarkeyJester said in the main Waku Waku thread:
"Do you know the specifications of the hardware, to not only extract and obtain a software copy of the game, but to also understand how the data on the game is structured in relation to the hardware, so we can at least decipher which data is what when sifting through it? (Not that I'm implying obtaining the device regardless of knowledge isn't important, but best be prepared aye?)"

This is the most important part and hasn't been addressed. This should b known before people start dumping $$$ into this.

Saying "if anyone wants to see this emulated please give money" is not an indication that it is actually possible to do so at the current moment.

This post has been edited by Xeal: 20 April 2015 - 01:02 AM

[Lanzer]

Dude, bad move making 2 topics about this. hopefully you won't get punished for it.

Still Xeal it wouldn't hurt having this machine on-hand in the states by a member of the community and not rotting in some mall or arcade in japan where its inaccessible. the only reason we don't know jack shit about this machine or its internal specs is because someone hasn't ever gone through the effort of obtaining 1 of these machines and hell knows what happened with Ash's efforts to get one.

But battletoad maybe it would be a better move to help Ash get the one she was trying to get instead of trying to import one....if that one is still available to us that is. could've been destroyed for all we know.

This post has been edited by Lanzer: 20 April 2015 - 01:31 AM

[Xeal]

@Lanzer I would love for a member of the community to obtain this machine, but I would like said member to make it apparent they know what they're actually doing. Ash asked questions as to how she would be able to dump the game once she got it. All I see here is a link. No future plans as to what happens, just a link.

This post has been edited by Xeal: 20 April 2015 - 07:37 AM

[360]

Lanzer, on 20 April 2015 - 01:27 AM, said:

Dude, bad move making 2 topics about this. hopefully you won't get punished for it.

Yeah I was half asleep last night when I saw the dual threads. I was going to post something to the effect of "Dude. The mods are going to come down hard on you for the dual threads" but I saw that this guy seemed nice and well intentioned so didn't want to be too negative when his heart's clearly in the right place. All I have to add is that Battletoad might want to work on a protocol for actually getting this dumped should his funding campaign succeed because he just made headlines on NeoGAF for this precise reason.

Your campaign Battletoad is far more likely to succeed if you can assure everyone you'll get this dumped and therefore archived.

This post has been edited by 360: 20 April 2015 - 12:00 PM

[JaxTH]

That NeoGAF thread is diamonds.

[Overlord]

I have merged the two threads together. One thread only, please.

[battletoad]

Hey everyone! Seems like there are a lot of questions... I'll do my best to answer them!

1. I have the game, the rom has already been dumped, it should be playable on a computer in a few days!

2. I don't work on games, I don't mod games, so having someone else, a business(!) do it for me makes a lot of sense. For me, it is just way too risky to have someone I've never met do it. They have no obligation to have it done in a timely manner and aren't insured if something goes wrong. I have spent way too much time and money on this to let something happen with someone that isn't a professional. That said, the fear of this project being funded and the game not being emulated shouldn't be a problem!

3. Fundraising goal. Yes, it was that much! And no, it's not cheaper to send someone to japan, go to the mall, take out the board, and fly back. Unless you happened to personally know the store owner, they would never let you do that. So, how would everyone feel if I made it an "All or Nothing" at $1000. If I get a positive response from this I'll stop my current page and start a new in 30 days or so.

Do you guys have other suggestions? I really want this fundraiser to be a success. Let me know what I could say, do, explain, or anything else, to make a stranger want to donate money to make this happen!

Thanks guys!

[GerbilSoft]

battletoad, on 20 April 2015 - 08:07 PM, said:

Hey everyone! Seems like there are a lot of questions... I'll do my best to answer them!

1. I have the game, the rom has already been dumped, it should be playable on a computer in a few days!

What's the system architecture of this game?

[battletoad]

Great question!

The hardware is essentially the Sega Genesis offshoot arcade hardware. To make it playable, it only requires a few new lines of code. and can be added to one of the drivers in MAME.

Check out my pictures of the board on my photobucket.

http://i993.photobuc...zpsycn5spvc.jpg

Xeal, on 20 April 2015 - 08:25 PM, said:

battletoad, on 20 April 2015 - 08:07 PM, said:

2. I don't work on games, I don't mod games, so having someone else, a business(!) do it for me makes a lot of sense. For me, it is just way too risky to have someone I've never met do it. They have no obligation to have it done in a timely manner and aren't insured if something goes wrong. I have spent way too much time and money on this to let something happen with someone that isn't a professional. That said, the fear of this project being funded and the game not being emulated shouldn't be a problem!

What the devil is this supposed to mean?

On another site, there seems to be a lot of worry of me collecting the money and not being able to actually emulate the game. If you are referring to the previous sentences, I'm basically saying that it's a good idea to let a professional emulate the game.

[GerbilSoft]

battletoad, on 20 April 2015 - 08:34 PM, said:

Great question!

The hardware is essentially the Sega Genesis offshoot arcade hardware. To make it playable, it only requires a few new lines of code. and can be added to one of the drivers in MAME.

Check out my pictures of the board on my photobucket.

http://i993.photobuc...zpsycn5spvc.jpg

Looks like a Sega System C or C-2. There's a similar game called Waku Waku Marine that's also based on System C-2.

[Blue Blood]

All I can really say is that although it would be cool to see this game dumped and brought over in a physical form too, it's not worth more than the pennies I'd use to play it the way it was intended.