Gauntlet MSX2 ready for release

Looks nice indeed! I hope the cartridge will be available also outside the user meeting in Barcelona, because I (at least) will be buying one.

So awesome! How the official port should have been!

Why that?

I live in the UK and am way too far away to ever get to an MSX meeting.

Unless this is available for mail order, I have no chance

Come on, release this for download!!

Sick of missing out!!

It´s a pity the lack of music during gameplay like the old spectrum conversion, but i still like it

Is this a Cartridge release? Would love to buy one if it's published.

Part of the MSX scene could learn a thing or two from the Amiga scene.....
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=71518

I'm sure I'm not the only non Dutch/Spanish MSX lover who feels alienated by this :(

Just one comment, apart from that developers are free to publish their games just the way they want:

It's possible to play cartrige games with an emulator and a game reader, am I wrong?

Still, like Imanok said, developers are free to publish their games just the way they want.

Heck, I might make the most brilliant MSX game ever (well, that's not a realistic scenario) and keep it all to myself. Or just share it with my closest MSX friends. Or release it only on the most obscure media thinkable. Now this may not be a very wise thing to do, but it is my right as a developer to do so.

IMHO we should encourage and persuade developers to share their creations, but starting about "a virus of only cartridge releases", "frustrating emulator's users" or by just brute-forcing a non-cartridge release (Kralizec anyone?) is counterproductive and not the way to go.

We must also be honest to ourselves. Suppose MSX.org offers a digital downloads platform where developers can sell their creations. Will you and others actually buy it? Or is this whole thing not about 'frustrating emulators', but about 'getting the software for free'?

I'm pretty sure that many fans should buy the games, if they were available in digital form (for a lower price than the 'classical' cartridge).

An example : I have bought all digital Slotman's games (Transylvania III, Carmen Sandiego, Breakfree, MineSX, Atomix, Blinky Scary School, Profanation MSX2), but I'll never buy his 'only cartridge releases' (Jungle Hunt, Montezuma's Revenge, Box Boy, Dr Hello, Popeye English Game, Roc'n Rope - btw, some of them are freely available : Muffie or GDX conversions).

Another example : When I had Windows XP, I've bought 4 cartridges from the MSX Cartridge Shop, thinking that it was a good idea to support the coders by buying the cartridges, thinking also that I could easily play them with the Game Reader on blueMSX. But big deception : no any way to make detect the games by the Game Reader. Since that, I've decided to never buy again a new MSX cartridge, since I don't have any guarantee to be able to play the games on a emulator. It's of course worse with Vista, 7 or 8, as the drivers are not updated !

Read correctly, Snout : the Game Reader does not detect the cartridge, so blueMSX and MSXPlayer can't play the game (I had tried with both emulators). Even Sunrise had confirmed several times that some new games can't be played with the Game Reader.

Many SG-1000 and Coleco old games can be found on the net; if someone has the skills to adapt them for MSX, he can do it and make the games available for free download, as Muffie and GDX have made for some conversions.

Situation is different for real new games. Ignoring them when they are only available on cartridge is the best option, at least for emulator's users. Apparently, the coders want to lose money (I speak about money they should get from digital products).

perhaps, perhaps not. But that's not the issue at all: the Game Reader is not 100% MSX compatible. IIRC it doesn't support the 12V pin. You can't circumvent that via software.

On the discussion of cart-only releases. Do what you want, it's their right.
I'm glad that some developers release a free version after a few years, for example Deep Dungeon Adventure.

Snout, you are confusing two different things as most dumps (made by classical method without the game reader) of 'only cartridges releases' will work without any problem in advanced emulators such as blueMSX or openMSX. Of course, in this case, only buyers who have the real cartridge and know how to make the dump will enjoy the game also in an emulator.

Problem comes when a dump does not work on emulators for some (good or bad) reason. From my past experience, I've come to the conclusion that's an endless challenge : every time a new mapper will be implemented to support a new 'only cartridge release', the coders will imagine another mapper for next release. It does not have any sense and that's why I'll wait for the (free or paid) digital release with an already supported mapper; in some cases, I guess I'll never play the game, but that will probably make the pleasure of some sadistic coders.

Concerning Manbow 2, you are wrongly informed, at least for blueMSX : a few months before the first release, Sunrise had contacted the blueMSX team and we had even a rom to implement fully and correctly the new mapper with saving on Flash ram.

The implementation has been made before the Manbow 2 release and the new mapper was already in blueMSX version released before the Manbow 2 release, but we kept it secret for obvious reasons (however, the code was available on Sourceforge).

We were so satisfied with the collaboration with Sunrise that dvik and myself have ordered the cartridge just after its release.

I guess other coders/publishers have another approach when it comes to contacting emulator's teams ...

Very simple : we had at this time contacts by mail with Sunrise.

For your info, the recent betas of blueMSX have support for second PSG and MegaFlashRom SCC+ (based on openMSX source).

Excellent game! But, i waiting for a PAID file version, cartridge, sux a lot!

Muffie told me he can help to improve compatibility of (eventually leaked) ROM files...