a PCB for the Sega / Coreland game '119' turned up. Probably has colour PROMs that still need dumping. Hardware seems to have roots in Galaxian type designs (sprite RAM looks very Galaxian-like but isn't hooked up yet)

While not identical, the Soccer game in the PDC200 and the Backyard Soccer in the Atari/Hasbro Backyard Baseball+Soccer Plug and Play feel very similar.

I've noticed in some of these cheap crappy handhelds the Mega Man 3 pause / selection menu is broken.

New MAME is out 0.279 www.mamedev.org?p=553 www.mamedev.org/releases/wha... Not a huge amount of new working stuff from me in here this time. A few important bugs with the new sound system were fixed, so worth upgrading from 0.278 as due to the 2 month cycle that wasn't the most stable of builds.

No idea if these Punirunes will have the same ROM as each other (or the same ROM as the one you can buy in the UK) as they're all the same generation, but the stripes on the SPI ROMs do seem to have slight tints of the unit colours, so....

Takara distributed one of the earlier PDC models (2006 version) in Japan I expected it to probably just be the same software in a different box but...

This 'H6' VT based Famiclone really wants to be a Switch. You hade to slide the controllers off to use them. They also require their own power source as a result, which is not great. Obviously it doesn't really contain 1000 games either.

I got an 'F1 game' handheld and an 'F5 game' handheld. Both seem to be running the same software, although I have a feeling this software was originally designed for the F1 unit, which is actually shaped like a car. Bit disappointing as I thought the F5 would be different.

Since there's now a workaround for the creepy personal data demand on here I've reactivated the account for now. If the workaround stops working the account will be disabled again, as I don't wish people to think they can chat to me only for those messages to drop into a black hole.

Gotta love it when your parcel tracking gives you jump scares. Tuesday I got a notification of "Destroyed according to sender's instruction" for one of my parcels from Japan. Yesterday the parcel arrived just fine. Magically undestroyed, in perfect condition.

I wonder if these K10 handhelds run on different SoCs, Rush'n Attack has raster timings glitches on the blue unit, but not the green one. (also these handhelds don't have a select button, which is problematic, likewise X and A map to A and B, not A and B. Y and B are turbo buttons I think)

You might think it's pointless documenting some of these crappy handhelds, but talking to people who work in retail, where some of them get sold as 'impulse' purchases near checkouts etc. they must be flying off the shelves, likely outselling some modern commercial games. They're relevant.

H12 Pro Game Box Power Bank - claims 1000 games, probably has repeats but the menus are in quite a scrambled order so it's less easy to spot. and thus (I think) concludes my 'random crappy handhelds' pickups for now.

This one is actually a 'Retro FC' one, came in plain packaging but with a manual and USB cable. Claims 620 games, but has repeats.

Sorry, last post was a mispost, I'd put a unit in the wrong box. This is the Wolsen. Seems to be an older unit, plays Jingle Bells on the main menu and other tunes on the sub-menus.

G3 Game box 800-in-1. Unlike the higher numbered G models, this seems to have more games listed in the menu at least (I haven't tried playing them all) they're mostly in alphabetical order.

G6 666-in-1 (doesn't really have 666 games) seems to be the same as the G7, which is very similar to the G9, but the G9 has more language options.

The T3 '630-in-1' which seems to loop the menu at 289. It's another one of the many units where SMB runs far too quickly (like it's running the PAL version in NTSC mode, although I'm not 100% sure it is)

both these "Games Power" handhelds are sold as the 'K10' although as you can see, one has more languages, and at the very least the games are in a different order.

Interesting A6 Plus NES/VT (I assume) based handheld. All games load from the SD card, although it does remember the last one you played, so I assume it's flashing them into an area of ROM when you load them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKdT... The Beyond Kung Fu (Kung Fu Master 2) improvements in video form. I know most people just want to see the backgrounds, but that part has stumped even the best we have. Little steps in getting the other protected elements working is still progress though.

I've been improving the protection simulation in Beyond Kung Fu (the unreleased Kung Fu Master sequel) The HUD elements now show and animate. Background data is still not decrypted however, and might still be a hopeless case without an MCU dump that's never going to happen.

Going to play a few emulated games on stream in a few minutes www.youtube.com/watch?v=mf-F...

@mamehazeThis H-12 Pro '1000-in-1' (there aren't really 1000 games) has a game called "Making Love" It is however a hack of Battle City rather than anything more saucy. I've been buying up a bunch of these crappy handhelds so we can document them in MAME a bit better.

The new MAME release is out, and you can read the changelog here www.mamedev.org/releases/wha... as you can see, a lot of Plug and Play stuff that I've been posting about. (download page www.mamedev.org/release.php )

Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger: DX Soul Bird turned out to be SH6578 hardware, as expected. Dumped and seems fully playable (controls are just 3 buttons, back/forward/select)

I'm assuming both these 198-in-1 bonus carts have the same ROM despite the different form factor. One came with a Wiii 3 (yes, they really just called it that) and the other came with an "In Motion" system (where it had been glued in for some reason)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyC4... I've recorded a video of the earlier and significantly different version of Gaelco's Xor World that was being developed for the Modular System. Footage is from MAME as always.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQK2... a video from the newly supported prototype version of World Rally. Video priorities are still wrong (the way they work is different from final, and I haven't managed to figure it out) but the game is playable from start to end, as shown here.

A larger number of items from Gaelco's archives were given to us recently. Amongst them was a World Rally prototype (on Modular System) from before Carlos Sainz image was covered with a giant helmet. The development story is well known, so this is an important piece of history.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXII... Whac-A-Mole plug and play running in MAME, this is one of the better ones!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCvN... some garbage Lexibook stuff with bootleg NES games running in MAME to show current progress.

Since a large number of JAKKS Pacific Plug and Play units have been dumped over the past couple of weeks I've added some more screenshots to mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2025-ti...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS4N... Arcade Gold featuring Pac-Man running in MAME (new dump)

I've also been working on improving MAME's VT3xx (VT369) 'Enhanced NES platform' hardware emulation, and several Lexibook units now get to their splash screens, although enhanced sprite support needed for the menus isn't done yet.

Some videos from recent Plug & Play dumps www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZiN... Shrek / Over The Hedge (+bonus Spongebob Dilly Dabbler footage) www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Bv... Amazing Spider-Man in Villain Round-Up www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6Qt... Disney Princess Magical Adventures

The box of 75 Plug and Play PCBs we had shipped from the US to TeamEurope finally arrived. This has been an ordeal that has lasted several months, so big weight off my mind now it's in safe hands. Some interesting stuff in here if it can be processed.

It's my birthday so going to play a few games in MAME www.youtube.com/watch?v=enxl...

A Third MAME stream for April www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_JU...

Some more MAME streaming going live now www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTtr...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnxV... going to try streaming on YouTube for the first time in ages. MAME emulation stream as usual.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVxD... SailorSat emulated the communication chip on some Namco Systems which gets Driver's Eyes running with all 3 screens. This builds on work I did some years back to get all 3 screens displaying, but I wasn't able to figure out the comms chip back then.

One thing I *really* don't like about this platform is how long / verbose the profile links are bsky.app/profile/mame... is messy while on Twitter or Twitch twitter.com/mamehaze www.twitch.tv/mamehaze are all you need why doesn't this place allow a simple /mamehaze ?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa5p... Mawasunda!! is another Playstation arcade based addition that will be playable in MAME 0.275, this runs on Taito's G-Net hardware and is a mini-game collection.

Here's a video showing Primal Rage 2 running in MAME as well as some of the other Playstation arcade hardware fixes that will be in MAME 0.275 (due in the next week or so) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyfz...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qud5... The Max Heart (SuperXaviX based plug and play) running in MAME. It does weirdly freeze after 15 minutes as if no buttons were pressed, even if the controls are hooked up and the game is playable, that needs looking into.

So a while back I picked up what I thought were all the Konami / Hudson Poems hardware titles and made a start on the emulation. Turns out I was mistaken, and I hadn't found them all yet. Despite this one not appearing in any lists I saw of Poems hardware units, it has a Poems logo in the corner.

github.com/mamedev/mame... this MAME commit from smf finally brings Primal Rage 2 to working state in official MAME releases, so it will be working in the build at the end of this month. No more badly hacked up old ancient MAME versions needed.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pc_X... Here's a video for the recently dumped JAKKS Pacific Disney Pixar Classics plug and play in MAME, with bonus footage of Power Rangers to the Rescue and Spiderman Masked Menace (the latter 2 are later hardware which needs more emulation work)

I've been very busy adding Plug and Play stuff to MAME, not all of it working, but here's a video of the recently added "Minna no Tetris" from Epoch in 2007 www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJma... This must be one of the best Plug and Play devices we've emulated in MAME.