jsgroth / jgenesis

Sega Genesis / Sega CD / SNES / Master System / Game Gear emulator
MIT License
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14-in-1 (Taiwan) (En) (Aftermarket) (Pirate).md whatever game you choose just reset back to the menu #124

Open benderscruffy opened 2 months ago

jsgroth commented 2 months ago

Most if not all of these Taiwanese pirate Mega Drive cartridges have custom mapper hardware that needs to be emulated for the game/collection to work properly. I can't find any public documentation on these aside from this page (and the linked references), which has useful information but is not complete: https://segaretro.org/Mega_Drive_Unlicensed_Game_Emulation_Notes

For some of them it's as simple as copy protection that expects specific memory addresses to return specific values on reads (probably a checksum), but some of them seem to have more complicated ROM banking hardware.