Hi. I have just bought 1 unit in Argentina. This is a great console! I'm very happy with it.
I have noticed the following:
1) It will accept games in .BIN format. In order to have the game names displayed correctly in
the screen of the Gopher, I have converted them all to UPPERCASE. I have used the program
Rename v1.2.0.2 in order to achieve this. This handheld uses standard SD cards. Mine is 2Gb.
2) Outrunners: You can do the trick for the VirtuaFormula, you hear the noise when you press
the keys to get the car, but the car is not there. Maybe the Outrunners cartidge has a special
chip inside it to make the VirtuaFormula appears?. For example the Virtua Racing cartridge has
the Sega Virtual Processor chip (SVP) inside it.
3) Ms. PacMan: This is a known issue. The game always steers Ms. PacMan character always to
the left even playing it in the original Sega Nomad handheld. To fix that, that handheld has
the Mode button, when powering on the unit, if you hold down that button to deactivate the
3 extra buttons, so the game will function just fine. That is the function of the Mode button,
plus change the handheld between 50hz/60hz mode to make compatible with more cartridges. There
are other games that function incorrectly with a 6 button pad, and they need a 3 button pad in
order to function properly, that's why the Mode button do that. Since the Ghopher has no Mode
button, it is not possible to deactivate the extra buttons (X, Y, Z) so MS. PacMan will steer
to the left due to the incompatibility of the game to function with 6 button controllers.
4) It is not possible to save games and about the Screenshots I have not found any info on how
to make them work. I have copied some screenshots in several formats matching tha names of the
game files but they won't appear at all. Still need more testing. Atgames website sucks. Want
to visit an useless web site? Then visit atgames.net
5) Games that I can not make them to work, maybe due to the 6 button issue:
Aladdin II won't work (maybe because it is a game hack?).
Another World loads but it won't Start the game (maybe not managing the polygons properly?)
Bomberman
Clay Fighter gets to the menu, then, no action is possible to start playing
Frogger leads to a red screen
Galaga, alien spaceships movement is not so soft but acceptable, game lacks music as when
played in emulators
Lion King II (hack?)
Lion King III (hack?)
Super Bubble Bobble (hack?)
Still need to test many others. But until now more than 95% of the games works fine!
* UPDATE 05/30/2010: Centurion Defender of Rome won't load
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