Hidden Palace aperiodical release thread

This week I'm releasing some odd Saturn protos and some Megadrive pirates. The Saturn protos are:

Crypt Killer (Prototype - Jan 8, 1997)
Duke Nukem (Prototype - Sep 18, 1997)
Fighters Megamix (Prototype - Apr 08, 1997)
Fighting Vipers (Prototype - Sep 06, 1996)
Loaded (Prototype - Sep 3, 1996)
Primal Rage (Prototype - Feb 12, 1996)
Sega Rally Championship (Prototype - Oct 31, 1995)
Slam N' Jam 96 (Prototype - Feb 1, 1996)
Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 (Prototype - Feb 07, 1996)
Virtua Racing (Prototype - Oct 30, 1995)
Winning Post (Prototype - Dec 27, 1995)

Link: http://www.hidden-palace.org/?updates/c/33

 

Just a little heads up, RAR compresses Saturn games much better than 7z. (7z is weaker at handling pcm data, so games with a lot of cd audio tend to work better with RAR)

After just checking the dates...
Loaded (Prototype - Sep 3, 1996) <--- Haha, what. Retail is 1996 June (pal) or July (usa).
Virtua Racing (Prototype - Oct 30, 1995) <--- retail is September 13 (header) or 20 (files on the disc). Again, this seems to be later than retail?

Sega Rally and Winning Post have identical dates to the usa retail versions, I wonder if they are just press discs with the retail game.

 

Both dates are actually wrong, thanks for noticing. Loaded is from June and Virtua Racing is Aug 30, not Oct. Thanks for noticing.

Winning Post is a press disc sorta, Sega Rally is a CD-R with '100%' written on it.

As of 7z, I've been using RAR for a while now and always wanted to switch something. 7z seems to be the best alternative. I don't want to use RAR any more as it's not really a free format. I'd rather not support a shareware format that they can pull support for whenever they want and that you need official software to compress files with.

 

Thanks A LOT DRX! You always come through!

 

Is Slam'n'Jam one track only?

 

Yes. On decent mounting programs you can just mount the track. If not, you can create a simple one-track cue.

 

Thanks for your generous contributions drx.

 

I know, I just wanted to confirm that it doesn't have missing tracks.

 

Very nice, shame I haven't got much time to check them out at the moment.

 

OK, I checked the games: Sega Rally and Winning Post are the same as the USA retail versions, and Loaded is the same as the PAL retail version. The rest doesn't match any known retail release.

 

Can anyone get MK3 to work? I've been trying it with the SSF emulator (both ver 0.09 and 0.1) and I get a garbled screen on one and a black screen on the other.

Primal rage works fine on both however.

 

Use Yabause.

Controls don't work, but thats not the emulators fault.

 

Thank you very much for sharing

 

Virtua Racing retail version dates to September 13, and the disc has the exact same game data on all 3 releases.

 

thanks! I love protos and pirates !

 

Was it actually released in June 1 though? I don't think that date is accurate, especially since the iso date in the disc is later.