If you follow me on YouTube, you’ll know that I already called the Game of the Year as Earthion by Ancient Corporation and Bitwave Games. What made this game so special is that one of the developers is non other than the living legend Yuzo Koshiro himself. This is the guy behind the awesome Streets of Rage 2 soundtrack as well as countless other SEGA classics. The game is currently available on Steam for the very reasonable price of £14.99 in the UK and €17,99 in the rest of Europe. Earthion will also release on all major consoles in due time, but hey, we can play it on the PC right now. The game itself is a horizontal Shmup that is reminiscent of the 16-Bit Mega Drive/Genesis era. I type this article humbly from work, while my partner in crime Anime0t4ku is at home playing away at this, and he says he loves it. I’ll be playing this as soon as I’m free later today, but for now wanted to bring you this news.
As well as playing the game Anime0t4ku had a look at the local files to see if there was a Mega Drive ROM included, and sure enough the ROM is there (see pics below).
We tried the ROM both on the MiSTer FPGA’s Mega Drive core and via some popular software emulators on the PC, and gave the sad news that Earthion did not load up. The bin file included is a encrypted archive that contains the roms, unless the archive is being decrypted the rom can’t be loaded on any FPGA device or Emulator.
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WOW the MD is definitely getting some love recently.
Yeah growing up i was more of a Nintendo kid but ever since ive got the MiSTer I really started to appreciate the MD, i welcome all new MD projects and games
Definitely, everything is picking up with new games and hacks just recently.
I have added sram high saving to Earthion v2.01 … this is NOT the rom but an IPS patch to apply if you have the rom
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;Earthion V2.01 Highscore SRAM Saver patch
;By TheEnemy of TREX 26-08-25
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Use a IPS patcher, I use https://www.marcrobledo.com/RomPatcher.js/
Please use the Earthion v2.01 (World)(En) rom
here is the rom info:
CRC32:47d6ac2c
MD5 :516d0290aa649709d807a2878111ed71
SHA-1:1541946f231f5c47a59c7a06bfd69f9e4ea3bd1d
Tested on Blastem emulator, Mister Fpga and Everdrive Pro
on real Hardware, yet to test on Everdrive x7 so feedback
welcome.
Please support the developer and purchase on Steam or the Megadrive cart when released
https://archive.org/details/earthionv-201-hi-trex
I also have now added sram high savers to shinobi iii and thunderforce iv … if interest i will also release the ips patches