Demons of Asteborg was released today!!!

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Demons of Asteborg was released today!!!

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Hi ya,

Demons of Asteborg was a Kickstarter Genesis game that got released to backers today. Apparently it’s using some advanced techniques and certain emulators won’t run it.

I tried it on the MiSTer Genesis core and I’m getting a black screen.

Has anyone else had any luck? I’m happy to help anybody debug if that’s of any use :-)

Thanks for the great community and this project.
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Interesting, if it runs on real hardware (which I suspect it does) it may simply be something about the real hardware that isn't faithfully reproduced in the FPGA implementation.
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at least this one we can play it on steam and switch

contrary to paprium that is stuck to mega drive so far
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They supplied a ROM file so it doesn't seem to have any custom chips/FPGAs like certain other titles. Surprised they expect it to run in common emulators if Mister can't start it. There's videos of Kega running it...
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I read it uses a uncommon mapper, not sure what mapper it is or how many other uncommon mappers exist.
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the demo version loaded fine here..
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same here
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Hi
in the last mail of Neofid they explain how to modify the header of the rom to use it with Blastem Emu :
"you have to modify the header of the ROM with a hexadecimal editor (HxD for example),
in order to replace SEGA DOA by SEGA SSF"

With this change it works on miSTer too ;)
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Hi! the first realeased (14,5m) works fine for mi
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Hi ! Is this new title worth it ? It it possible to purchase the digital version only ?

As for Paprium, the officlal site has been down for month ?
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mahen wrote: Thu Aug 05, 2021 8:30 am Hi ! Is this new title worth it ? It it possible to purchase the digital version only ?

As for Paprium, the officlal site has been down for month ?
Steam/Win64 version has the ROM packed in. So you can purchase the game on Steam, install it o a 64-bit Windows machine and grab the rom file from this folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Demons of Asteborg

The included ROM is 100% compatible with MiSTer's Genesis core without any modification required.
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Thanks for the help folks - with the 2nd email release - the linked rom worked without issue. Changing the header details as recommended for Blast Em also works on MiSTer.
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ghamson wrote: Fri Aug 06, 2021 1:29 am Thanks for the help folks - with the 2nd email release - the linked rom worked without issue. Changing the header details as recommended for Blast Em also works on MiSTer.
Did you buy the game directly on their kickstarter page? I'd only need the rom, not the full package.
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I purchased the digital download.. So at first ithought it was fine playing it on the mister.. But after trying it on my OG megadrive I noticed that on the OG MD the music had more parts etc, which seem missing when playing on my mister.
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Appley81 wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:55 am I purchased the digital download.. So at first ithought it was fine playing it on the mister.. But after trying it on my OG megadrive I noticed that on the OG MD the music had more parts etc, which seem missing when playing on my mister.
I would contact the game devs themselves, as they would be interested in hearing this.
One of their goals is to make the game fully useable in Flash Carts and FPGA (like the MiSTer), and they are fans of the MiSTer Project
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darksakul wrote: Thu Nov 11, 2021 2:56 pm
Appley81 wrote: Sat Oct 30, 2021 4:55 am I purchased the digital download.. So at first ithought it was fine playing it on the mister.. But after trying it on my OG megadrive I noticed that on the OG MD the music had more parts etc, which seem missing when playing on my mister.
I would contact the game devs themselves, as they would be interested in hearing this.
One of their goals is to make the game fully useable in Flash Carts and FPGA (like the MiSTer), and they are fans of the MiSTer Project

FYI a ticket about this issue was opened here (not by me) and is seeing some action:

https://gitmemory.cn/index.php/repo/MiS ... issues/189
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No action yet, I just have talked to the dev behind SGDK a bit and posted that last update since I'm trying to correlate any change to the XGM source code since when the demo last worked and now.
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