QLD and VIC Mk6 System ROMS...

[Mk7_4fun]

Hi there,


does anyone have QLD and VIC Mk6 System ROMS? Looking to start off an emulation project. I only have NSW and need to compare.


thanks

[Heihachi_73]

MAME has a bunch of system sets preserved and some early-stage emulation (the games pass the self-tests but hang before it can get to the familiar "Found 1 video chip/Loading resources" message, as nothing else has been hooked up or emulated e.g. buttons/doors/hopper etc.), however the PowerVR video chip (PMX1 aka Neon 250) isn't emulated - it is superficially similar to the GPU used in the Sega Dreamcast/NAOMI (PowerVR CLX2), but still different enough that the Dreamcast emulation can't be used. On top of that, protocols such as QCOM (and SAS, ASP, VLC, X-series etc.) are completely unemulated as well, so any games which need to be set up remotely (and continuously phone home too) will end up failing miserably.

[Mk7_4fun]

thanks for the reply. Reverse engineering the NSW system rom has shown me some stuff that I'd like to compare against QLD and VIC to see whether its viable.

[Heihachi_73]

Unfortunately there's no preserved VIC MK6 software, but there is a South Australian base and game (Scatter Magic) which might be similar, if not identical, it uses the VLC protocol instead of QCOM.

[Heihachi_73]

Any luck with the emulation? Probably the easiest thing to get booting up would be a USA set chip as it wouldn't require as much hardware use.

[Shaneomac]

I got some qld system Roms I’ve backed up but you messaged me today and I can’t reply inbox full lol (mk7_4fun)