ROM Cartridge: 1st prototype finished
August 17th, 2009
Ever since we - Arnold and Rockin-B - began developing the new SEGA Saturn graphic adventure called Police Officer Smith, it has been a dream of us to make the game a professional commercial release. What once was a dream, turned into a long-term goal which still seemed unreachable because of a lot of barriers to overcome.
But now we have reached an important milestone and found a solution to get Police Officer Smith running on any stock SEGA Saturn console, without the need for a modchip or swap-trick. You might recall that there is no way to create a bootable CD-R for SEGA Saturn. So It has been clear for a while that the only way could be to make POS the first cartridge+CD based game for Saturn.
We finally managed to manufacture (all by ourselves) a ROM cartridge prototype, which plugs into the cartridge slot of SEGA Saturn, just like an action replay cart. After powering up the Saturn, the BIOS will start executing the Police Officer Smith game from cartridge! All memory consuming graphics and sound data will still be loaded from specially created CDs. A not noticable copy protection will prevent leaked copies floating around. Here are some pictures:
SEGA Saturn ROM cartridge in action:
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giCAxtRmeoY]YouTube - SEGA Saturn boot cartridge ( for Police Officer Smith)
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