Short story long: I bought Dorke and Ymp from Piko Interactive, enthusiastic to see that this "New SWEDISH SNES game!" I saw in a Swedish gaming mag in the 1990s that never appeared would finally be available after a 20 year delay.
The game is notoriously difficult to play though, mostly due to the very limited attack and enemies that are hard to hit, making it quite a frustrating experience at times. Still, as a oldskool gamer I do enjoy a good challenge from time to time... up to a point. And that point was reached when the game unexpectedly crashed just as I was completing the second world after many hours of countless deaths:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i89rfnute90fs ... h.mp4?dl=0
So while I still want to complete the game, I'm not too keen on having to replay all of those frustrating levels due to this software glitch. So as we are in the 2016 with emulators with savestates and SNES powerpaks, I figured it should be easy enough to warp myself to the next place... if a file I could load in an emulator or my SNES powerpak would be included with my purchase.
Piko Interactive turned out to be like any big bad company's customer support filter though: Saying the game is fine because people have evidently been able to play it to the end, and refusing to give me a file due to "company policy". Bit of a shame that they can't show more goodwill towards their paying customers, but guess game publishers are just made of the same stuff no matter the company size and target audience.
So long story short: I have no current easy means to dump SNES cartridges as I've never needed to until now, and was wondering what the cheapest/easiest option is? I know the "Retrode" exists and looks pretty cool for what it is, but has more functionality than I need and seems like a slightly expensive option to get just a single cartridge dumped. A SNES version of something like Chris Covell's TapeDump that I could run on my SNES powerpak would be ideal for this situation, but I don't think something like that exists yet?
The game is notoriously difficult to play though, mostly due to the very limited attack and enemies that are hard to hit, making it quite a frustrating experience at times. Still, as a oldskool gamer I do enjoy a good challenge from time to time... up to a point. And that point was reached when the game unexpectedly crashed just as I was completing the second world after many hours of countless deaths:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i89rfnute90fs ... h.mp4?dl=0
So while I still want to complete the game, I'm not too keen on having to replay all of those frustrating levels due to this software glitch. So as we are in the 2016 with emulators with savestates and SNES powerpaks, I figured it should be easy enough to warp myself to the next place... if a file I could load in an emulator or my SNES powerpak would be included with my purchase.
Piko Interactive turned out to be like any big bad company's customer support filter though: Saying the game is fine because people have evidently been able to play it to the end, and refusing to give me a file due to "company policy". Bit of a shame that they can't show more goodwill towards their paying customers, but guess game publishers are just made of the same stuff no matter the company size and target audience.
So long story short: I have no current easy means to dump SNES cartridges as I've never needed to until now, and was wondering what the cheapest/easiest option is? I know the "Retrode" exists and looks pretty cool for what it is, but has more functionality than I need and seems like a slightly expensive option to get just a single cartridge dumped. A SNES version of something like Chris Covell's TapeDump that I could run on my SNES powerpak would be ideal for this situation, but I don't think something like that exists yet?