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What's with retro homebrews using monster ROM sizes no commercial game back in the day ever would ha...]]> 2025-04-22T06:51:29-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432088 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 image https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432094 >432088
Physical ROM chips cost an arm and a leg back in the day, so publishers urged (or strai...]]> 2025-04-22T08:06:01-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432094 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432118 >432094
Why? Several of those games are 32k which was a perfectly legitimate ROM size many game...]]> 2025-04-22T09:18:33-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432118 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432122 >432118
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it does take less time to finish a smaller game though. you can fill a 16k...]]> 2025-04-22T09:22:47-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432122 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432123
Bomb Jack for the SG-1000. They needed 32k for this? The ga...]]> 2025-04-22T09:25:48-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432123 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432141 >432123
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>>432088
There was one SG-1000 game that used 128k ROM (Loretta no Sho...]]> 2025-04-22T09:42:08-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432141 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432165 >432141
that's true although they marketed it as a Mark III game iirc]]> 2025-04-22T10:15:48-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432165 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432207 >432088
is that like all the Genesis homebrews that use 32 mbit ROMs?]]> 2025-04-22T12:12:29-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432207 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432211 >432207
Yes. I'd like to see them try making a 4 mbit game like the early Genesis titles where ...]]> 2025-04-22T12:25:12-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432211 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432216 >432123
it's probably 16k of code and the rest of the ROM is uncompressed tiles]]> 2025-04-22T12:54:57-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432216 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432217
Congo Bongo. It pauses between screens so there's definitely some dec...]]> 2025-04-22T12:59:09-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432217 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432220 >432217
Every home system port of this game was horrible.]]> 2025-04-22T13:15:19-07:00 https://boards.plus4chan.org/cog/t432088.html#p432220 /cog/ >>>/cog/432088 none