NEW SPACE PIRATES ROMS HAVE MORE HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY -
Andrea Turci and Fabrizio Beneforti have modified the original single-player 1.xx ROM version of
Space Pirates to work with the more commonly found R6/R5 PAL chips on American Laser Games
hardware. The later 2.xx ROM version for R6/R5 PAL is a two-player variant that ALG produced
by making compromises/reductions in the gameplay that are considered inferior. The
new ROM 1.4b gives the original uncut game program much
wider compatibility.
(posted 04 Mar 2021)
DRAGON'S LAIR JOINS THE ARCADE 1UP LINEUP -
Arcade 1up has announced a Dragon's Lair home arcade cabinet that will play Dragon's Lair,
Dragon's Lair II: Time Warp, and Space Ace. The
product will use Digital Leisure's codebase. Their photos of the cabinet are currently marked
as "pending licensor approval" and also "smartphone not included". The
photos show a smartphone clipped into the scoreboard location to display that information. A
possible Space Ace graphical variant of the cabinet is also shown to gauge interest in the demand.
(posted 16 Jan 2021)
CLIFF HANGER NOW AVAILABLE WITH THE MERLIN-DX MULTIGAME -
Shaun Wood at LaserCon has added
Cliff Hanger to the Dx firmware of the Merlin and Arthur boards. With a Cliff
Hanger video file added to the Dexter board in a Dx system, the game can now be selected from
the Merlin/Arthur main menu.
(posted 04 Oct 2020)
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