All games in the Robopon series for Game Boy Color immediately crash

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Delta is an all-in-one classic video game emulator for non-jailbroken iOS devices.

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All games in the Robopon series for Game Boy Color immediately crash #415

Open dgriffinjones opened 5 months ago

dgriffinjones commented 5 months ago

Robopon Sun Version for the Game Boy Color crashes immediately on opening. A splash screen doesn’t even show up. This is also true for the original Japanese ROMs: Robot Ponkottsu Sun, Star, Moon, and Bom Bom Special Versions.

I do not believe this is an issue with the ROMs I’m using nor the iOS platform as another emulator, AD Boy, is able to run all versions without crashing.

suggested labels: bug, game specific

sphoenixjones commented 3 months ago

Hi! I’ve run into this issue, too. I also tested the leaked English Robopon Sun Version prototype and the unreleased Star translation, and they don’t work, either.

The physical cartridges are really weird (they have an IR sensor, extra battery, and speaker built into them), so I’m not surprised that these games in particular don’t work. It is weird that other emulators can play them, though…

endrift commented 2 months ago

Robopon games require HuC-3 mapper support, which I guess the emulator core Delta uses does not have. It was poorly understood until I and another developer did a bunch of research on it a few years ago, so it's not really a surprise that Delta doesn't support it.