DarrenF
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Announcing: OutRun Enhanced Edition, with High Score Saving & Improved Freeplay Mode
A friend (Chris White) and I have created a modification (aka ROM hack) for OutRun (Sega, 1986) to provide:
- high score saving (using existing hardware, no add'l NVRAM req'd)
- improved freeplay mode (with attract)
- enhanced music selection screen (plays music)
- selectable "km/h" / "MPH" speed display
- various bugfixes
It is released and available to all for free. Download and read all the details at my webpage:
http://www.finck.net/outrun/
and on my friend's blog:
http://reassembler.blogspot.com/2011/08/outrun-enhanced-edition.html
It requires patching the ROMS and programming (4) 27C512 EPROMs (all of the game code for the primary CPU).
No add'l hardware modification is required. High-score retention with power off may only be ~1 week (same as original bookkeeping data). You may optionally upgrade your memory back-up capacitor to improve this storage time. (The original has a 0.1F cap; 0.5F and 1.0F are commonly available.)
Enjoy!
Darren
A friend (Chris White) and I have created a modification (aka ROM hack) for OutRun (Sega, 1986) to provide:
- high score saving (using existing hardware, no add'l NVRAM req'd)
- improved freeplay mode (with attract)
- enhanced music selection screen (plays music)
- selectable "km/h" / "MPH" speed display
- various bugfixes
It is released and available to all for free. Download and read all the details at my webpage:
http://www.finck.net/outrun/
and on my friend's blog:
http://reassembler.blogspot.com/2011/08/outrun-enhanced-edition.html
It requires patching the ROMS and programming (4) 27C512 EPROMs (all of the game code for the primary CPU).
No add'l hardware modification is required. High-score retention with power off may only be ~1 week (same as original bookkeeping data). You may optionally upgrade your memory back-up capacitor to improve this storage time. (The original has a 0.1F cap; 0.5F and 1.0F are commonly available.)
Enjoy!
Darren




