MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: After Burner/Thunder Blade z80 ROMS with extended/melody music.

> >
> > That is indeed the correct/original recovered sega sample rom! Wow! I wasn't sure
> I'd
> > ever see that...
> >
> > Is the rom patch set for the modified version of outrun with the extra two music
> > tracks and different pal for z80 banking available anywhere, btw?
> >
> > LN
>
> Apologies to the original poster as this thread is veering completely off its
> original topic....
>
> I never made the patches publicly available but you're more than welcome to them. I
> spoke with Chris White about including them in OR Enhanced but we both decided that
> wasn't a good idea as adding the new tunes to the game involves hardware
> modifications to the board (replacement of Z80 rom with a larger one on a new carrier
> board and alteration of Z80 rom strapping) whereas OR Enhanced is intended to be
> purely a software enhancement, requiring nothing other than burning 4 new main cpu
> roms.
>
> In order to get both the new OR 3DS tracks into the game you'll need the 128Kb rom
> carrier board from Porchy (he's probably got a few left from the initial batch he had
> made). If you just want to add one of the two new tracks then you can simply use a
> standard 28-pin 64Kb rom and alter the rom strapping from 32Kb to 64Kb, this is
> because there's enough space for 1 extra tune in a 64Kb rom but you'll need to step
> up to a 128Kb rom and utilise rom banking to add both new tunes. The updated JED for
> the Z80 address decoding GAL, as modified by Porchy, is included in the archive.
>
> The new audio patches are built on top of the current OR Enhanced patch set which
> will allow you to enable/disable whichever patches you want/don't want.
>
> I have to say a huge thanks to Porchy for helping me realise this crazy project,
> without his expertise in hardware I couldn't have done it. Thanks Jon!

as long as what is needed for it to work gets documented then I see no harm in things being out there.

but obviously for general purpose use the Enhanced kit is easier to make use of and the one operators are most likely to install to work around the issues in the original game (especially Free Play etc.)