Hey guys and gals.
I was wondering if there were any self-boot files for the 80's arcade games within Shenmue. I'm aware the games are playable within Shenmue and Shenmue II, and that they are all on the Yu Suzuki GameWorks Vol I disc - however I have a particular interest in singular self-booting titles and here's why;
The DreamArena 3 disc is still in development and we've had a huge amount of positive pushes forward in the build (thanks to drez). He initially replaced the Dream Library emulator with the one from Smash Pack - which allowed us to unlock full titles instead of being locked to the demo mode. I tried multiple different hex edits of the ROM to get Dream Library to connect to a custom server but I was unsuccessful.
drez has since replaced the Smash Pack emulator with Gens4ALL which has vastly superior sound reproduction - it also means ROMs can be switched out in-emulator rather than having to boot back to the website to change games. He's also added the ability to boot back into DreamArena from within the emulator - the guy's a genius.
However this changes some of the current site design. Namely the Arcade, which had five game links (and an extra for Dream Library itself) is superfluous if we only need one link for the emulator itself. That's when it struck me that this could be swapped for five arcade games - such as those found in Shenmue/Yu Suzuki Game Works.
That would allow me to turn this "ROMset selection" screen into an "Emulator Selection" screen, with an Arcade TV Screen and a Mega Drive TV Screen (with potentially others as/when/if they become possible - and mostly depending on spare disc space).
If anyone has the bootable ROMs, that'd be great. Or any information on them would be great. I don't know if they're emulated or actually ported to DC, so even that info would be handy. I'm going to do an update for DreamArena 3 soon, though it's still a way off completion.