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Ah didn't notice that, pretty cool thanks!

Personally I'd like to see more R-Zone games being preserved, they are getting a lot more expensive these days, but Sean already has a bunch of them stacked on his neverending dumping queue.

Tronica games would be nice too and I believe most of them should use similar cpus to game & watch not sure about the 3 screen games though.

I've only got equipment and knowledge to dump SM5x chips packaged in a standard way with accessible pins so I'm limited to dumping these types of games. Some Tronica games has already been preserved in MAME and I'm happy to work on adding more. Also, I've got a number of handheld displays sent from Sean for various games which I plan to start working on.

Stupid question here, but do we have a list of the LCD games companies?

From where I see it, it must be quite extensive.

I've heard that the GCE Game Time watches (Game Time, Arcade Time and Sports Time) use the same chip as the Nintendo G&W's (I assume the simpler, small ones). If that's true, how hard would it be to get those dumped? (Aside from finding them) I assume it's a blob, being a watch, is it simple enough to get to those?

https://www.handheldmuseum.com/GCE/GameTime.htm

well find one.

if it's a chip (of the expected type), easy

if it's a glob (of that chip), hope all relevant pins are bonded out

otherwise it becomes an issue.

Being that it's a watch, I can almost guarantee it's a blob, and only the necessary pins to make it operational are likely to be bonded out.

It would have to be decapped/deglobbed and the ROM dumped manually... I'm just not sure how easy that is for Sean (or someone else) to do and be fairly certain it'll work...

Pretty sure I have an extra Game Time laying around somewhere, if I can find it I'll open up and see what we are working with...

I think Helmet is what JD was thinking of. And correct... we have the fixed version today... the only way to tell 100% is by checking inside the case; the pcb for the one we need will be marked CN-07, instead of CN-17 (bugfix).

And just to expand a bit on what hap mentioned:

Judge... just need to find a purple one.

Egg... the SVG on this one is really poor, plus the ROM dump needs to be verified, and to make sure the background overlay is indeed the same as Mickey Mouse.

Table-Top Cement Factory... need the one with the "not Queen" startup music.

The Bassmate Computer by Kelko has now been preserved in MAME

The unit was OEM produced by Nintendo and is very similar to the G&W Dual Screen units.

The Bassmate Computer is based on the Sharp SM511.

This is a screenshot from the game:


The unit needs to display overlays to make any sense though

Thanks to Mr. Do for providing the game!

Artwork is up. Telko was the company who worked with Nintendo to create this unit. They also had licensing deals with Probe 2000 and KMV so there are alternate views with that branding in there as well.



Game & Watch Artwork (including Bassmate)