The Obscure & Elusive Homebrew ROMs Hunt Thread (ENDED)

[everett99]

Whoa Japjac!
Developer put a lot of time and effort into developing the games. They are entitled to distribute and charge whatever they please for their efforts. While I personally like .BIN files, other collectors like Physical carts with boxes , serial numbers, pamphlets etc. You will never have a complete collection of Homebrew is you intend on using .BIN files only. Time Pilot will never be available as a .BIN (example) as it uses a ram chip for storing high score.

Also be aware that the VecMulti does not work on all Vectrexes, it didn't work on mine but a VecFlash did.

Consider your purchase of a flash cart as only part of your collection. You will have to also have ROM multicarts and physical cart games to get everything.

If it wasn't for these Homebrew developers we would not have new games to play, support them by buying games, not asking them for free .BIN files.And for the developers that make the .BINs available for free, thank them and consider purchasing other items from them.

[Mayhem]

Yeah, it's being used in the context of there not being a ROM dump out there publicly (or found) for the game in question.

[50tbrd]

FYI, there is no way to dump the LE version of Protector. There is a part of the program which checks the PCB for another chip. Without the chip, the game will not load.

[japjac]

everett99-Yes it is I. I understood, knew and was of the same opinion as all of your typings before reading them. Thank you anyway. There is nothing to see here apart from just a list. A list that I could not find as accurate/complete/clear prior on-line, anywhere. Thanks to members here, there finally is one.

Mayhem-You understand perfectly at least, cheers. And thank you for the information regarding those Der Luchs titles.

50tbrd-Thank you for the information regarding Ave Maria, NBZ, Scheiffe Versenken, VecFahren 2000 and Protector LE.

Thanks to some kind YouTubers, I surely nearly have all the .bins I set out to get.

Thanks for all your help information-wise.

This thread is done.

Now I need a machine.

Cheers.

[japjac]

This thread has evolved in to:

`The Incoming/Undumped Homebrew Vectrex Titles Thread:`

vectorgaming.proboards.com/thread/1496/incoming-undumped-homebrew-vectrex-titles

Cheers.

[TrekMD]

Nov 18, 2015 6:47:26 GMT -5 binarystar said:

Here's the two Xmas games I did last year. 'Xmas cart 2015' coming soon.

www.binarystarsoftware.com/?p=97

Excellent!

[Rapetou33]

Nov 18, 2015 10:32:43 GMT -5 50tbrd said:

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Thank you Tony !

[garryg]

I think the latest version BINs for all my stuff is available at my blog (maybe not the latest circus vectrex), and I don't mind people puting any of this on a multicart.

I was working on a much more ambitious (bigger map and more stuff) version of Trapped that I may release on cartridge as some time in the future (but don't hold your breath!) and I probably wouldn't release the same version as the cartridge on BIN, although I probably would release a downloadable BIN  version.

I don't see making a vectrex game as any different from making a ZX Spectrum or VIC 20, or ATARI 8Bit game. I've never thought of this type of development as 'unlicensed' as has been said, licencing wasn't a thing at the time these systems were commercial viable. I centanly don't see how anyone can see new independent games as counterfeiting, counterfeiting what?

[everett99]

Garryg,

I am not familiar with your blog and games, could you post its URL?

Thanks,

[VectorX]

He's here: garrysgamingblog.blogspot.com/p/programming-projects.html

Mostly unfinished stuff (for now?), although he's mostly known for Vectrex Circus and Trapped.

[nes4life]

I give permission for anyone to include my pong clone 'vecpong' in any multicart: github.com/Phillrb/vecpong
All source code is available. Give dance-dance-vec a miss for the moment because it's in early development (and requires dance mats!).