Thanks for spreading the info. At last test, battery was flat. I imagine it is likely the thing has no shot without the missing components. And given the guy I got it from got it out of a recycling place, who knows what may not have been thought of as a component that got left behind. For me, I'd also love to learn more on the history of this thing even if no useful code is recovered. I will likely get this sucker into a display and make it a quirky centerpiece of the sega channel collection of stuff (and there is more than I'd imagined).
Hey All! Just wanted to say for anyone wanting to see a lot of cool promotional material along with the prototype of the unreleased Klondike game from the service...there is now a display up for the service at the National Videogame Museum outside of Dallas, TX. NVM Prototype Img Display1 Display2
Afternoon Retro, EGM 71, June 1995 was recently scanned at Retromags: https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File%3AEGM_US_071.pdf&page=29 (that link should work later today - uploading as I type this) "Ozone Kid" - any ideas?
A very quick Google throws up this: https://www.unseen64.net/2010/05/03/environmental-detective-snes-gen-md-cancelled/
https://retrocdn.net/index.php?title=File:MeanMachines_UK_22.pdf&page=19 Looks like this appeared in some form at Summer CES 1992 as "Environmental Detective". Developers Magicom presumably sat on it for a couple of years, gave it a different name and spat it out on Sega Channel. as for the others: - Mega Man is known - I think there was talk about a special Super Street Fighter II somewhere - Body Count wasn't released in the US and its existence on Sega Channel is news to me.
Dr. Wily's Revenge is the name of the first Game Boy Mega Man game. Did EGM make a mistake, or was that a planned title for the Mega Drive release as well? In Japan it's known as Rockman Mega World, whilst the Game Boy game is Rockman World.
EGM weren't very good at the whole "video game journalism" thing so you can probably assume it's a mistake.
Documentation on "Super Street Fighter II L.E." was in the Sega Channel haul from a while back, although not the ROM itself (Though based on the information it has it could theoretically be recreated). You can find it in the Instructions Test ROM. EDIT: also put an image dump of the contents on my Twitter.
Sometimes you have really quiet months. Other times everything seems to turn up at once: https://segaretro.org/File:SegaChannel_Applications_ScientificAtlanta_Document.pdf Now you can practically broadcast this thing yourself.
I have wanted to resurrect the Sega Channel service in some way to show off homebrew and hacks for like, a decade. If this is now "go hunt these parts down", then uh I'm on the case.
The confirmation of Sega sending out a disc to Sega Channel affiliates each month just further fuels my interest in seeing those discs show up some day. Surely someone held onto that stuff.
RE: Ozone Kid/Environmental Detective: https://retrocdn.net/index.php?titl...ent_037_1993VideoGamePreviewGuide.pdf&page=15 Definitely announced at Summer CES 1992. Doesn't look like much of a "game" at this stage.
Recently a set of Sega Channel server boards were found to exist and I wasn't able to grab them. They handle all the multiplexing/setting conditional access of data and sent it out for broadcast. Did anyone here happen to grab them?
I might be wrong... but it's unlikely... which server boards are you speaking? Are they from Scientific Atlanta or General Instrument? ... Can you show us the link to the auction? We might want to preserve the photos...
They would be for Scientific Atlanta. They multiplexed the data, generated the data carousel, and added conditional access. Kicked the data out via RF to unlink to the cable company. On their end, they mostly functioned as a pass through. There wasn't much of anything actually done on the cable side.
Yep ... we have an idea of how it worked... we have some official documentation here on Sega Retro ... it would be cool to recreate the service again ... Edit: I already saved the photos... Thank you very much mate for sharing them ... much appreciated... things like these don't show up too often on the internet... a big hug ...
As an aside, when I opt to not be lazy and get my stuff back from the museum (closed due to covid), I've got A LOT of promo stuff from them along with a little archive of item images of not otherwise seen things of other promo items
Contributions are always welcomed... we don't compete with anyone... we preserve everything we can and all the content in our wikis is accessible to anyone who loves Sega... we are not "Nazis"... ... it's all for the sake of preservation...