as i could knew, It’s OLD NEWS,but what i didn’t knew that it required the ram expansion to work,the gamegear has less ram then the C64 but it still could just run the entire game,but i guess that original version uses bankswitching while in this case i suppose the whole game has to be loaded into that ram expansion and run it from there, mmm.
As far as I know the REU is mainly used to achieve that fast scrolling of the level graphics, as the REU contains a DMA chip for fast data transfer which the stock C64 does not have, and which is used here as a kind of accelerator card.
It appears in this game that you can load the entire contents into the REU memory so you don't need to disk swap as well. I have to say, I wish there were more uses for the REU as it is pretty awesome. I never had one back in the day. Now with the C64 Maxi.... everyone that has one of these machines has an REU.
Thanks for pointing out it is an REU game rather than just classing it as a "Commodore 64 game"
This is a port of Master System/Game Gear version of Sonic 1. Amazing! Running extremely smoothly.
Amazing what can go into “retro” consoles. It plays so smoothly! Great video!
Thank you.
as i could knew, It’s OLD NEWS,but what i didn’t knew that it required the ram expansion to work,the gamegear has less ram then the C64 but it still could just run the entire game,but i guess that original version uses bankswitching while in this case i suppose the whole game has to be loaded into that ram expansion and run it from there, mmm.
As far as I know the REU is mainly used to achieve that fast scrolling of the level graphics, as the REU contains a DMA chip for fast data transfer which the stock C64 does not have, and which is used here as a kind of accelerator card.
It appears in this game that you can load the entire contents into the REU memory so you don't need to disk swap as well. I have to say, I wish there were more uses for the REU as it is pretty awesome. I never had one back in the day. Now with the C64 Maxi.... everyone that has one of these machines has an REU.