Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels is finally getting released
>>12246009I was obsessed with this game as a kid. Best Garfield game ever maybe.
>>12246009>PAY US.>WONT RELEASE TOUGH, NO PIRACY!Fuck off
>>12246027>WONT RELEASE TOUGH, NO PIRACY!I don't see why they would not. The exact same thing happened with the NES prototype of SimCity. Eventually released after a year or two of wait.
i'd rather have the japanese sega channel and meganet exclusives
Garfield Lasagna World Tour (technically not retro but its on the ps2) > Caught in the Act > Big Fat Hairy Deal > Tail of Two Kitties (ps2) > Garfield Labyrinth > Garfield no Isshukan > Garfield Saving Arlene
>>12246027VGHF does release all stuff to public, they just tend to sit on it for a long time until they have enough information to publish a fancy history article and video to accompany released roms. They exist to raise awareness about video game history preservation (I know, meme buzzword) among normies (i.e. government and business lobbying groups), so they want people to talk about their activity in public. This contrasts highly with approach employed by groups like Hidden Palace which release tons of stuff all the time, but not a single person online talks about 99% of content they release.
>>12246009>leftist twitter
>>12246171Yeah... posting this shit on bluesky is certainly reaching the mass market!I hate these kind of "people" with all of my being.
>>12246009Shit game sadly.
>>12246280Is it actually leftist or liberal dogshit twitter?>>12246124>awareness about video game history preservation (I know, meme buzzword) among normies (i.e. government and business lobbying groups)The word is NORMALFAG newfriend. I don't know if videogame preservation is something in the interests of big nose lobbying groups unless they can launder money through it somehow.
>>12246423normalfag != normie. A normalfag is a weirdo who is obsessed with the idea of normalcy and being normal, usually because he's very much abnormal and trying hard to suppress it
>>12246280>pedophile somethingawful
>>12246439>lying newfagWhy do you lie so much?
>>12246009
>>12246467sa has been a pedo site for decades
>>12246171Nobody talks about this shit either aside from people already interested in this kind of stuff and those people are aware of hidden palace too. Nobody cares, calling yourself a history foundation doesn't make you any more legitimate.
>>12246467>>12246609So no actual problem and you get to pretend your hearts out.Everyone wins.
>>12246423>leftist or liberalThey're the same thing, they just try to deny it.
>>12246009Wait, that was actually real?
sega channel was the tits back in the day. pretty much lived at my friends house the summer they got it.
>>12246960October 2, 2024.https://x.com/frankcifaldi/status/1841515238228951418>Putting this in the corner at our exhibit at Portland Retro Gaming Expo without any fanfare or signage was fun for me, I like sprinkling in some magic and spontaneity into our weird little world. Yeah this has been found and yeah we'll have more to share when the project is done.
>>12247017>Subway cars are a one-hit kill when nothing else in the game isI can see why that part of Catsablanca didn't make it to the final release.
genny version is ass. pc version is better.
>>12247251Said no one.
>>12247280>filtered by lack of technical ability to run the superior version
>>12246124>technically not retro but its on the ps2What the fuck are you talking about? The PS4 is retro now you're way off. The only reason the rules haven't been updated here is because admins forgot this board exists.
>>12246298Maybe because it's not pay 4 engagement like twitter and the default front page isn't crawling with rage bait nor is almost everyone using it a bot?
>>12247509NTA.>nor is almost everyone using it a bot?This is plain cope.
>>12246009>releasedI'm glad the levels aren't lost, but I wouldn't exactly say them being stuck in a foundation's archives where the public can't access them is "released". It's especially weird since if they asked Jim Davis he'd probably give them express permission to release it like with the 2600 Garfield proto.
>>12247509>not pay 4 engagementInstead it is basically zero engagement unless you're one of the blessed leftwing political accounts. It's funny watching artists and the like huff copium about how great bsky is, when their art gets basically zero traction on there and they STILL have to rely on Twitter, warts and all. All social media sucks, unless you happen to get lucky, or pay/astroturf for engagement.
>>12247629>>12246039
>>12247654they don't release things. things get leaked from them.
New old Garfield?Let's fucking go!!!!!!
>>12247673I can't tell if you're retarded, or just trolling.
>>12247374I was referring to the sticky, illiterate newfag. The game I said was not retro was from 2008. 6th gen games are only allowed up to 2007. P$3 and P$4 will never be retro you can fuck off back to >>>/v/ >>>/trash/
>>12248037Anon, he's simply seething about post-2000 games being allowed here.
>>12246073Weren't the vast majority of those released on those two sega CD compilation discs japan got, minus a handful like Sonic Eraser?
>>12247629If it was about preservation they'd be anonymous autists on the internet so they could dump whatever they find without getting in trouble.
>>12248081They provide protos all the time to The Hidden Palace, anon.https://hiddenpalace.org/Video_Game_History_Foundation
>>12248081They want to get in trouble, they want to challenge the existing American law to allow digital libraries (like Internet Archive) to provide copies of orphaned software above board, without corporations suing them for enabling piracy, like book publishers constantly do. They want to make "abandonware" a real thing that exists in legal texts, not just a nebulous idea that people believe in because they want it to be real.
>>12248109no they don't.
>>12248416>receive list of prototypes they've released, including download links>insist they don't exist anywayYour mom always said you were special, huh?
>>12248109VGHF have been hoarding Aladdin source code for 8 fucking yearshttps://gamehistory.org/aladdin-source-code/
>>12248582Aladdin is still being sold by Disney themselves. It is not abandonware, unlike Garfield.
>>12248613Just replayed Aladdin/Jungle Book for MD and finally went through the SNES version.
>>12248613Who cares? It's not like devs are getting money from it, it's just corporate machine running. They don't have to make a press conference or anything, just upload it on gofile.io or archive.org and post a link.Glover dev leaked his sources specifically because some twats were reviving it to milk money from a project they had nothing to do with. More devs should do this.
>>12248662Pissing off The Walt Disney Company is a bit riskier affair than pissing off Piko Interactive.
>>12248582I didn't say they release everything they own. I said they release some stuff once in a while, which is more than you can say about many other preservation groups (Andrew Borman, Game Preservation Society.)
>>12246009This game is awesome, when I found it in the 2000's I thought it was crazy that Sega didn't promote stuff like this to compete with DKC. This has almost as good graphics as Gex.>>12246027They have to pretend it got leaked through a tragic boating accident.
>>12247509Isn't the site basically just a leftist circlejerk, and that's when they aren't bitching about Twitter?
>>12246027https://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/12/sega-channel-prototype-sega-genesis-roms/
>mediocre game that people only care about because it's "LE LOST MEDIA"A tale as old as time.
>>12249346I care about it because I played a little back when it came out, dropped it because I thought it sucked, and now I want to satisfy my curiosity>>12249331Based. Oh look, Pulseman is still in Japanese, just as I remembered. I guess this btfo's the ppl who insisted there was an official English ROM.
All I'm gonna say is, I'm glad it's out.
>>12246013Same here. It just looks really good. I took screenshots and MSPaint cropped the sprites just to have Garfield sprites.That said, I don't remember the game being very good
>>12247374Ps3 is still modern and lacks the innovation and design of older games. Nothing retro about ps3s older games that are just like modern games but higher in resolution. Everything got figured out design wise for modern games and its all the same today.
>>12249363>Oh look, Pulseman is still in Japanese, just as I remembered. I guess this btfo's the ppl who insisted there was an official English ROMProbably misremembering how much of the game was already in English and even had English voices. The most actual Japanese was in the intro cutscene.
>>12249180>leftistPeople still force this term?Going by the default front page. It's mainly, animal and nature photos, like pic related, works of art, sports and a few /pol/shit articles.If there's circle jerking and rage bait, you need to dig to find it unlike every where else that shoves it in your face.>>12247374>PS3 is retro>ConfusedTouhouGirlWithGreenHair.jpg
So The Flintstones actually plays worse than the prototype we already had. What a shit game. Just play the SNES version at least it has reverb and fake Dolby Surround.
>>12248037>I was referring to the sticky,Hey RETARD I literally talked about why the sticky hasn't been updated. Maybe READ NEXT TIME
>>12248582It doesn’t matter. There’s nothing interesting about Aladdin source code.
>>12247509Hey remember when Twitter was gonna collapse in a few months because of Elon back in 2023? Funny how this hasn't happened, its almost like you are objectively wrong and agenda driven. Such people have no right to be involved in this "video game preservation". Perhaps they should be expelled instead.
Most of the material comes from a former employee at Sega who kept archives of pretty much everything at home.>marketing material>business docs, presentations>usage metricsAnd best of all, the fan mail sent to Sega - some art was then featured in future menu updates. This includes what could possibly be the first Sonic OC, pic related.
>>12249891>Projection intensifies
>>12249363Speaking of Pulseman, I'm testing out the SEGA Channel ROM and I noticed that they fixed the invincibility bug you could get in the cartridge version by spamming uncharged volteccers.
>>12246171Oh, so they are co-opters! goody.........
>>12249930Is the Sega Channel ROM the same as that put on the Wii Shop from back in the day?
>>12249952No, the Wii virtual console and Nintendo Switch Online ROMs are from the physical cart. "Version 1.0" if you will.The SEGA Channel uses a "Version 1.1" it seems based on my testing.
>>12249180yep
>>12249757>Going by the default front page. It's mainly, animal and nature photos, like pic related, works of art, sports and a few /pol/shit articles.>If there's circle jerking and rage bait, you need to dig to find it unlike every where else that shoves it in your face.They ignored this anon because he spoke the truth
>>12249972What about the backflip high kick? That move is so busted that once I found out about it, I easily trashed any boss by using it.
>>12249180Every website shows you more of what you engage with. If you go on bluesky and click on and reply to a bunch of political shit (which most people can't stop themselves from doing) guess what it's going to think you want to see?
So... Has anyone played Garfield: The Lost Levels?Bonehead the Barbarian is a pretty annoying level. There's too many fucking parachute penguins throwing ice blocks at you, the level's gimmick (the slippery slopes) controls arkwardly, and there's this part where you're supposed to grab to the ledge to proceed, but it's pretty hard to do most of the time.
>>12250056Also nerfed I'm afraid. It no longer gives full invincibility when used.The final boss is actually quite hard now that you can't spam flash kicks or uncharged volteccers to become invincible.
Fuck Garfield. Sega Channel Genesis Web Blaster is the real kino here
>>12250258Must be Sega of Muttmerica adding “rental difficulty” to games again.
>>12250261I only knew Foley Hi-Tech from the Urban Strike intro logos, but they seem to have worked on a lot of stuff.Imagine having web pages on a fucking Genesis... neat.
>>12250058Yeah, I've never been on there and the front page I was served was exactly what the other anon described, just nature pics and sports and a couple news things that I guess are "political" because news, no ragebait in sight
>>12250265To be fair, these 'bugs' make combat trivial. Wouldn't surprise me that they catched those during QA for the western release.
>>12249930>>12249972>>12250258>>12250265>>12250292Actually, the SEGA Channel ROM is from a month BEFORE the cartridge release, meaning adding full invincibility to those moves was an intentional design choice done at the last minute.
>>12250294Huh. The plot thickens...Wait, so Pulseman was ready for Sega Channel before its original JP release, even? Huh. I swear I thought it was just a JP exclusive game that got a belated SC release later on...
No Alien Soldier? I know that was on Sega Channel I vividly remember playing it and failing horribly
>>12248068There’s a few lost ones like Kinetic Connection.Someone managed to dump it with a TeraDrive back then, but they didn’t upload the ROM because Japan.https://xcancel.com/shilka357/status/1431998133869834242
>>12246298>>12247550>>12247646>>12249180>>12249891But they're literally posting it on twitter too. What's the issue?https://x.com/GameHistoryOrg/status/2000650890051523046
>>12250308The teaser was Bluesky-only.>>12250298For some reason, they never mentioned the title at all.
>>12248613Ah yes, that Aladdin “Final Cut” with incredibly minor changes and no actual restoration of cut content
>>12250298I thought the US version of Alien Soldier (and Mega Man: The Wily Wars) were already dumped thanks to their inclusions on the Genesis mini a few years back.
How are you even meant to get on the train'
>>12249908>deflection intensifies
>>12250371>Seething that they made their own twitter, with blackjack and hookers
>>12250374>and hookershttps://bsky.app/profile/theverge.com/post/3m6kqfhwgbs2n
>>12250380>He looks for dicks on social mediaYou're truly twitter material
>>12250384That's not the gotcha you think it is.
>>12250386It actually is, keep seething.
>>12250389>being so secure about his sexuality that he can't look at a painting parodied to death because he's afraid of being turned on by ithttps://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SistineSteal
>>12250392>Non sequitur Bet you like balls too.
>>12249859Yes, yes (you) are.
>>12246027Eh? they do this because of legal shit, they are an official nonprofit organization (and releasing ROM shit would be piracy). they loophole around it tho and "donate" it to other groups
>>12249891Isn't it just bots and indians now?
>>12250631On Bluesky? Yeah, that and troons
>>12250638canned response
>>12249868Aladdin is not a particularly innovative game but it's very solid platformer. From 900 Genesis games the source code is available for only about 10. It would be interesting even if it were Tetris or PacMan, because there's so little of it but Aladdin is actually a good game. And it's the whole backup they're hoarding with assets and tools, which is even rarer find and would be useful for other games and projects.
>>12249868>There’s nothing interesting about Aladdin source code.Why not releasing it there?
>>12250853*then
This makes me very happy that the Sega Channel is essentially completely archived. There's some competition builds left to get but it's otherwise perfect.:D
I have a copy of the Aladdin source code. In the source code there are files that give Aladdin a pussy. This is why they cannot release the source code.
Now do the same with Satellaview. Find some former St.Giga employees who took home company property when they went out of business and try to find roms there.
>>122513301. There's plenty of preserved Satellaview stuff, mostly because in that service, ROMs were saved in memory packs.2. There's no way any Japanese national would cooperate into leaking shit.
>>12251336The first point is true, but to this day Satellaview preservation remains a lottery. We have roms online today because people keep buying every single memory pak which goes on sale, praying that it has undumped content on it. The situation was significantly better than with Sega Channel, but we are still years away from a complete Satellaview romset, if that is even possible with current methods.
>>12251343What sucks about the Satellaview situation is that there's a number of cartridges from the tail end of the Super Famicom's run that use the memory paks for storing save data, so whenever you buy a memory pak there is a high chance any important Satellaview data was overwritten some by some random kid's shitty RPG make game that's 90% default layouts.
>>12251320Nothing wrong with that. Everyone loves a pussy, even Elton John.
>>12251364I always wondered what those carts were about. I knew something went in them, but had no idea it was literally the same memory packs as the satella.
>>12247509I can smell your axe wound btw
I really didn't expect a Wrath of the Demon conversion, its barely been mentioned. Its a fairly well known shadow of the beast clone for Amiga and Atari ST. It might be bigger news than Flintstones and Garfield which were known for a long time.
>>12250297Supposedly, Pulseman didn't get broadcasted via SEGA Channel until 1995, an entire year after the JP release.Maybe Game Freak accidentally gave SEGA of America a late beta instead of the final game?
>>12251754Maybe people simply don't care about Amiga shit?
>>12252096True of everything that's not Nintendo, or sometimes Sega, unfortunately. Modern audiences love their name brands.
>>12251630Stop projecting and being bitter.
https://www.reddit.com/r/earthwormjim/comments/1pnt2ui/so_i_beat_the_great_race_rom/RedditGOD breaks down the Earthworm Jim contest version
anyone has a mega or gofile link to the downloads? I'm not about to give twitter cunts more attention.
>>12253080All Sega Channel ROMs are inhttps://www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/12/sega-channel-prototype-sega-genesis-roms/
>>12250067Just played. Wow that sucked! But I'm not sure what I expected, really. I guess with a name like "Lost Levels" I was hyped that it'd be more like SMB2J, but that's already what the Game Gear version offers.None of the three short levels feel finished, but clearly they put their best foot forward and presented it from most playable to least. The viking stage seems to basically be an ice-themed version of the prehistoric stage. Game Gear sort of saved this stage but like much of the game gave it a completely different layout. The space stage becomes a maze if you aren't careful, I think a few remnants of this actually ended up in the final game so I can understand why the PC version repurposed it as a final level (also the PC version may be a bit more finished, the entire background is wavy there where on Genesis it cuts off strangely). There's a point ehere if you feel trapped then remember your melee weapon will make you reach the warp. El Train is where I had to use savestates, wtf was this level? It sure sounded cool, but I'm most glad this was cut since the implementation is the worst of the three.Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it got preserved. I love that there's some creator commentary on why the stages had to go. I hope future gamedevs can look back on that and learn that not all ideas are good ones! But man, I can see why these lost levels stayed lost for so long.
Police Academy: The Video Game source codehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJwR8jXuZzcThis was lost mediahttps://lostmediawiki.com/Police_Academy:_The_Video_Game_(lost_build_of_cancelled_NES_game_based_on_the_animated_TV_series;_1990)
>>12253248It’s a licensed video game. There was never any reason to be excited for it. Game preservationists have just run out of good games and are scraping the bottom of the barrel.
>>12253248>But man, I can see why these lost levels stayed lost for so long.Because there was nothing the end user could do to preserve Sega Channel software?
>>12254471>>12254473>Sega System How did that happen?
>>12254479I suppose the DOS-ROM schizo defeated me.
>>12253775Hats off for that. However, The things he says in that video just makes me wanna strangle the shit out of him.He talks about Police Academy at 1:10:40 and previously at 39:10 he mentions Awesome Possum source.So they have Atari HDDs and maybe floppies with the source code and stuff and instead of posting images on archive.org like a normal person, so anyone can have a go at it, he elected himself an top expert in data recovery and he will do everything himself and curate shit. For Awesome Possum source and who knows what else he decided it's unrecoverable and he will hoard it. Jesus fucking Christ what a faggot.
>>12254603It’s Awesome Possum. That game needs to stay buried.
hahaha, omfg, get a load of this:They are releasing Xcavator 2025, which they compiled from the source code they've found on floppies as showcased in trailer, for $100 (which got to be some sort of record for a NES cart)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWachCDkM6ohttps://www.iam8bit.com/products/xcavator-2025And they think they can do this, because original dev croaked a fucking decade ago:>@Request_2_PANic 4 days ago: Are the original developers known? If so, I think they should at least get a cut.>@mattmyers9351 3 days ago: Sadly he passed away a couple decades ago. Chris Orberth was his name i think.bruh, this is just fucking evil, wtf
Never got passed first boss
>>12254682>And they think they can do this, because original dev croaked a fucking decade ago:>Incredible Technologies then graciously agreed to donate the rights to the game to the VGHF to use as a fundraiser for its charitable work.
>>12246009I've never played Garfield: Caught in the Act... is it worth giving a shot if I like the IP and the Genesis.
>>12250856>>12248582If you want to anger The Mouse be my guest.
>>12250380BlueSky is the only website where you will get threatened and harassed for blocking whores.
>>12255842Yeah, it's a good (if basic) platformer and looks great, pretty bastard hard though.
>>12254603What do you expect from yet another subsection of breadtubers, they are all faggots, they are mentally ill people who will pay absurd price fixed numbers for ROM bundles with censored content to support bad companies.
>>12254682>The company with the initials L, R and G would be so proud.
>>12256057Does Disney actually give a shit if you leak source code?The Toontown Online source code is still out there just fine.
>>12256063The only hard part I really had with it was figuring out how to defeat Vampire Odie in the first stage.
The only source code I want are the many versions of Space Cadet.
>>12256120I can tell you that LPs of Aladdin can get copyright struck because of the instrumental music of A Whole New World in the ending.
>>12256125are you aware of the decompilationhttps://github.com/k4zmu2a/SpaceCadetPinball
>>12256060So another reason to hate that site, as if anyone needed another one.
>>12256130I don't want it for utilitarian reasons, but historical ones. Original source code has comments, and the original variables the many developers used. It's cool window into how it was to develop games during that time. Especially because they converted it from x86 ASM to C.
>>12256139fair enough. I'm a big decomp enjoyer but nothing beats the original source code for curiosity value
>>12256135Fuck off. We’re talking about Aladdin’s stinky pussy.
