How can I play Sega games on my Amiga?

[A4000_Mad]

Hi,

The first computer I ever took notice of was a ZX Spectrum and a guy was playing Jetpac on it. I had a go and was hooked. So I bought the ZX Spectrum and all his games off of him.

I now how a Speccy emulator for my Amiga and can play my old favourites perfectly   :-D





Now I would like to emulate a Sega Megadrive so that I can play my favourite game Whip Rush and my kids can play Sonic The Hedgehog etc. BTW... Has anyone else played or completed Whip Rush?



So how can I make the Amiga emulate a Sega Megadrive please?

Thanks,

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

@ hektic

I've probably got those games in my Speccy emulator drawer and will have to give them a go to jog my memory of them.


@ all

Many thanks. I'm using an A4000 running WarpOS with Phase 5 Cyberstorm PPC 604e 233Mhz with 060/50 and Cybervision64/3D. The Cyberstorm PPC is actually in what I call my test rig A4000 with Workbench 3.1, 3.0 ROMS and Buster 9 :oops:

I've got Amigenerator from here:


http://www.amidog.com/amiga/amigenerator/


And some ROM files for Sonic1, Sonic2 and WhipRush.


The file names are very long with spaces as you can see below. You have to start it with a command line so I made copies and renamed them as Sonic1.zip, Sonic2.zip and WhipRush.zip to get rid of  the spaces. Hopefully this won't be a problem?





Typing 'Amigenerator.exe Sonic1.zip' triggers NEWMODE. After choosing 640x480 16bit the screen changes and it looks as though the program has started ok. But after about 1.5 seconds it goes back to shell with the report "Something has gone seriously wrong @ 006600E7"

Typing 'Amigenerator.exe Sonic2.zip' gives a black screen momentarily followed by the report "Invalid instruction @ 0000010C".

Typing 'Amigenerator.exe WhipRush.zip' gives a black screen momentarily followed by the report "Invalid instruction @ 00000168".


Here are some Scout screengrabs of my system......





Hmmmm... It appears that I am using Picasso96 drivers instead of the required Cybergraphx. Prehaps this is part of the problem?

I'm pretty new to the PPC but I can tell you that the WarpOS version of FroggerNG is working perfectly for video and movie playback. ShowPPC for picture display and AmigaAMP PPC version are also working fine.


A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

Try unzipping the files first ;-)

Thanks. I tried that last night but Dopus reported that they were encrypted. But I've just chosen to open the file for Sonic 1 using a PC. This shows two files called 'romguy.html' and 'Sonic The Hedgehog (W) (Rev01) [!].bin'

However, if I try to copy either of them to a Jaz disk to take to the A4000, a box appears for me to enter a password.

BTW I'm using Mame060 to play old arcade classics like Mr Do, Berzerk, Bombjack and Mooncresta. This is really cool but the files *do* remain zipped. Yeah I've tried putting the Sega roms into Mame060, as you do, but they aren't recognized.

@ AMIGAZ

I've tried AmiGeneratorT.exe as well with no joy. Can you confirm whether the Sega game roms remain zipped or not please mate?

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

@ Piru and KThunder

Sorry for the delay but after messing with this till 3AM, I've just fell asleep for a few hours.

Let me know if I have edited out the wrong link?

A4000 Mad

[A4000_Mad]

Amazing what some sleep, a fresh start and some luck can do :-) My 5 year old daughter can now play Sonic The Hedgehog and I can play WhipRush on the *Amiga*    8-)  :-D  :-D  :-D



@ KThunder

Thanks for telling me about AmiGenerator  :pint:


@ Matt H

You were correct about the files needing to be unzipped :pint: (Odd that they remained zipped for Mame060)


@ AMIGAZ

You were correct about needing to use AmiGeneratorT.exe  :pint: We have a great picture and very good sound too. The screenmode is 320x240 8bit.


As she cannot read or write properly yet I have created and left out some icons to start AmiGenerator and run the games.

(no laughing at them :laughing:)


:cheers:


A4000 Mad