Rif: 1812 Vectrex dicussion (Feedback needed) \ tetsuo55 on 21st October 2007, 17:46 wrote:
Hi all,
i have run into several issues while updating the Vectrex dat, i will list these below, please give any and all idea's you have on the issue so we can perfect this dat en preserve this wonderfull system's rom's.
- Currently we use the (World) tag for all games, but in truth, all games where released in 5 different cart-variations in 4 different regions, and we really have no clue where each dump comes from, and if all the regions in fact do share the same rom data
- To prove or disprove the above, we would need to dump at least 1 game from all versions.
- I have seen several cart-scans that showed s revision on them, there where 2 systems used (Revision 0-9) and (Revision A-X), so far the highest revision i have seen was (4)
- Currently the dat only contains roms of games released before 1995, however the very active "homebrew" scene(many of the homebrewers are actually the makers of the original game) has and is slowly been releasing new games, cart and all. Should we include these? from what i understand the licences have been released, so these programmers do not need permission to release the carts.
- There are also plenty of hacks and bugfixes out there, some of these also released on carts
- Although there are many collectors out there, all the artwork i in pretty bad state, the positive though is that the artwork should be easy to vector from scans/pictures
I will probably find more problems later on