Announcing the Sky Skipper Project!

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Today I am happy to announce that Nintendo's Sky Skipper arcade game will see the light of day in 2017!

Full details here - http://www.skyskipperproject.com and please subscribe to the site for updates as we're loading in a lot of content about our efforts to date.

Alex Crowley, Olly Cotton and myself - along with a host of other folks behind the scenes - are working hard to bring this game back to life for the community to enjoy.

More details to come!

UKVAC announcement - http://www.ukvac.com/forum/topic353882_post968958.html#968958

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I'm excited! Is there going to be an art set made?

I've never tried it till today, not sure if mame is close but it's fun!!
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Awesome,looking forward to reading the backstory on the team and hunting to put this together.
 
This thread is almost as good as the tech noir pizza thread.

Friggin cool as hell, didn't know any of this info. Can't wait to see it! Good luck guys
 
Isn't this project just building a cabinet based upon old pictures and putting an existing PCB in it ? Obviously there is at least one surviving PCB out there or the ROMs wouldn't have been dumped.
 
Isn't this project just building a cabinet based upon old pictures and putting an existing PCB in it ? Obviously there is at least one surviving PCB out there or the ROMs wouldn't have been dumped.



Right now you would think that but there is so much more to tell you guys but your have to wait just a few more weeks while we get the web site up and running and then the whole story will be revealed.
We are working hard right now to achieve this.
Stay tuned.
 
What would be cool is if there is kit made that will turn your Popeye PCB into a Sky Skipper PCB.
 
What kills me is that there was one for sale in a cabinet in central NY when I first got into the hobby but I had no idea it was stupid rare at the time and didn't get it.
 
I don't think so. There was a daughter board to add more eproms for popeye on a sky skipper board, so im pretty sure it would work on a popeye pcb. The Mame sky skipper driver is based on popeye driver also.

Looking at the MAME driver it appears that Popeye and Sky Skipper are similar hardware with the major difference being in the bitmapped video layer (Popeye has twice the bitmapped video RAM as Sky Skipper). There may be other hardware differences between the boards (like ROM sizes, number of ROMs, address decoders, etc.) but from a software perspective it might be theoretically possible to modify the Sky Skipper code to run on a Popeye board though it certainly wouldn't be a trivial task as one would have to disassemble and study the Sky Skipper code to figure out how to modify it for a Popeye PCB.
 
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