sonic gems collection game gear rom dump

There is currently no way to play game gear with multiplayer in Genesis plus gx.Not to sidetrack this thread completely, and no personal offense intended, but this one sentence right here is the reason why the world has gone to shit in many ways in my opinion.īuying something and therefore owning it should not mean that the owner has no responsibility to make good use of the product, especially if it is a rare material or good that in a way belongs to humanity as a whole. Genesis plus gx for example, which has a native port to both gamecube & wii that is not tied to retroarch, doesn't even allow this feature. Probably why he mentioned Sonic Adventure DX specifically.Ĭurrently, not even homebrew emulators on the same console does this. This is the difference between what Sonic Adventure DX and Sonic Mega/Gems Collection have. As a added cut, Sonic Mega/Gems collection game gear runs multiplayer mode in 30FPS instead of 60FPS like Sonic Adventure DX.

You would have to play Sonic Mega collection plus (Which is not on gamecube) to play multiplayer in those. But because those are just unlockable timed trials and not part of the main collection, it won't allow multiplayer there. You can unlock timed trials of Sonic Drift 1 & Dr.Robotnik Mean Bean Machine in the gallery. Only Sonic Drift 2 can be played with two players, because it's the only game that has multiplayer link function. In Sonic Gems collection, that's not possible. Using the Japan exclusive ones though like Bare Knuckle and Bonanza Brothers seem to work fine on the US version of Gems Collection though you will get the Japanese version, afair even Bare Knuckle 1 which on real hardware switches region automatically depending on the region of the console. Robotnik’s Mean Bean Machine didn’t work on the Japanese version of Gems Collection. Using US exclusive titles like Sonic Spinball and Dr. Sonic 2 GG had some minor issues running on the PC emulator.

My results were mixed however, my memory is fuzzy but if I remember. It’s worth mentioning Sonic Mega Collection on Game Cube uses a different Mega Drive emulator and Rom files format than the one used in Mega Collection Plus, Gems Collection however shares the same emulators as Mega Collection Plus, meaning said emulator has been officially ported to PS2, XBox, PC, and later on Game Cube.

And if we can do this, the Wii U would be able to benefit from it (in addition to Wii and maybe even GameCube).Ĭlick to expand.While I haven’t experimented much with the emulator in Sonic Adventure DX nor am I familiar with the Rom file format, I have messed with the one used in Sonic Gems Collection about a decade ago, which also has multiplayer support, testing Roms I ripped from the PC version of Sonic Mega Collection Plus which uses the same emulators as Gems Collection for both Game Gear and Mega Drive, as well as ripping the Rom files exclusive to the Japanese version of Gems Collection. So to see this official solution for the same feature for Game Gear going as far back as the GameCube is both fascinating to me, and has me wanting to know of we can isolate it and release it as a (v)Wii or even GameCube piece of homebrew, able to load any 2 Game Gear games at once, not even necessarily the same game and not needing to be a Sonic game either.Īlso I recognize that perhaps this isn't so much a Wii U topic necessarily, but there isn't much of an active GameCube section here, and the Wii U section is more active than the Wii section. Thing is, even on a Wii U, the speeds of just 2 Game Boy game (even those without color) being emulated at once in these emulators isn't perfect. I've seen homebrew Game Boy emulators tackle this task on the Wii (GB4GB) and some of the GB cores in retroarch offer the feature too. I do wish it would let you choose which individual audio source to play from, because it instead layers both audio tracks which can get maddening if you're not playing a multiplayer game linking together. I was playing the GameCube Sonic Adventure DX on my Wii U and was playing the 'bonus minigames' (which are literally all 12 Sonic Game Gear games, the same ones joining Sonic Origins Plus), and realized that it flawlessly and instantly allows 2 Game Gears to be emulated at once, simply by having player 2 hit start, a second instance of the game starts on the right half of the screen while player 1 gets the left half, this works with any of the 12 games, many of which don't even offer multiplayer, but those that do, also seamlessly link up.

Sonic gems collection game gear rom dump