thealteredemu

Also, sadly, the author passed away a few years ago. J

The source code was released for v2.0, but that is a very old release from early 2000’s. There is no source code available for later versions as it was a closed source project. J

That’s the thing bud, work and life get in the way of these hefty projects. In a perfect world this would be a paid gig. I wonder how long this project would take if this was your sole day job? Real shame it’s such a niche market, I imagine people with coding skills are looking for the money J

Yes, I was a bit of a tracker head. I’ve used Octamed. My go to was Noiserekker. Miss those days in the 90’s!! I just love the tracker way of making tunes J

A quick read on google, looks like they are able to be dumped. I imagine the data is scrambled with the receiving end deciphering it? I don't really know a lot about this kind of stuff. I'm sure it won't just be as simple as dumping the data as it would seem a bit pointless if it is security. J

Safety against game piracy is imperative. Pluto 6 uses two-stage customer-specific security giving superior protection to your gaming application. A security chip and security software ensures that once your application is developed it is well and truly safeguarded. Hopefully not of course (this may even be a recent development, and not be present on the older fruit machine hardware already deployed), and if the dev has a running game, then they may have already bypassed it... but might be a roadblock depending on how it's implemented etc. It sounds like some manufacturers never utilised it (reflex) so it might be possible to bypass it, well time will tell of course. J

That is the security chip next to the CF card. I had a Pluto6 machine for a while that’s definitely it bud. J

Wow, would love to see Pluto6 just a certain few Astra lo-techs. Great stuff J

You certainly must have downloaded stuff. If you want unlimited access you can donate to the site, that will unlock downloads for a full year I believe. J

Maybe the dongle isn’t emulated or bypassed yet, I believe sc6 used these? J

I hope they do. I can’t see the point in putting a vid up if it’s just for personal use. Would be a shame if it wasn’t for future release. Who knows what else they have emulated. J

Wow, this is great, possibly a new emulator coder breaking through. Or maybe an old one? I'd love to see Pluto 6 emulated. Shame they don't post on here. J

Oh I see a Cobra 3 emu video too, interesting stuff J

Isn’t that actually Scorp5, looks like Vecs release? J

Yes, lol I did I guess the Falcon made sense for cost purposes, again it's a shame it wasn't a commerical success, I think they could have been a major player. I mean, same with SEGA, they kind of lost their way. The Dreamcast was pretty groundbreaking console, sadly not a huge success, I got one when they first came out and Soul Caliber blew me away it was pretty insane. So many great games on that system, not sure what went wrong. Marketing? J

If mame fruit side of things was a paid gig it would be amazing a lot further on. J

They should have really updated the Atari FF, it was a true 32bit machine I believe, it was faster than he Falcon, but the falcon had superior sound and graphics. I think the FF was aimed more as a business/music machine. I used a basic Atari ST FM with Cubase back in the day. I then upgraded to the Amiga purely for the tracker based music software. J

I never had a Falcom as I was an Amiga user back in the day. It’s such a shame the system wasn’t a commercial success as it seems somewhat superior to the A1200. Did any software houses cater for it at all? J

They really should make the game quicker though, so much filler till you get to the exciting last 8 or so boxes. J

4K is a fair amount of money. I imagine there is some kind of script that is drilled into the contestants, they are told to say this kind of mundane stuff J

I used to enjoy it, but the pacing is very slow, I was not interested in the people drama, to the point where I would just forward to the game play same as Boulderdash above. I only ever saw it when Noel Edmonds presented it, I thought he was decent to be fair. They could maybe introduce some special boxes that contain some benefits like remove some blue boxes or an extra life, or keep the £250,000 prize safe etc. Would make it much more watchable, remove more of the people stuff to focus on a more fun game that should be paced a lot faster. J

They sound just like the r4 devices. Simply plug and play. Bit pricey but it states it works on all models/firmware so should be grand. I might get one, I also don’t do any online play so not bothered about the device being banned. I couldn’t find anything regarding any potential banning. J

RD is no more, stream wise at least, I use an alternative service J

Fire sticks are not really powerful enough. Once you get a vpn running and maybe kodi etc. I don’t have any buffering issues whatsoever on my nvidia tv pro, had it a few years, one of my better purchases. I run kodi through vpn with a premium paid for file hosting service for high quality streams. J

I still use my trusty Nvidia tv box, I pay for a premium service for high quality streams. I watch what I want but I do g use it that often to be honest. I have Netflix, Appletv and prime I also pay for. J