Space Harrier remake "Planet Harrier"

[Trebeck]

Well this is news to me!  Anyone played this before?
Gee I wonder what emulator would fit this game if there was such a thing.....

[RayB]

Cool. Did the copyright really say 2000? 

[BadMouth]

It was on the arcade system Sega had between Naomi 1 and Naomi 2.
I don't know of any emulators or ports.

http://www.system16.com/hardware.php?id=724

[VanillaGorilla]

That looks fun! It seems to have elements of the PC game MDK also. MAMEDEV's please?

[BadMouth]

MAMEDEV's please?

http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/drivers/hikaru.c.html

Given the horsepower of the orginal hardware, I wouldn't look for anything playable in MAME this decade.

Always the possibility of someone else making an emulator for it,
but given it's limited success, partial dumps, and each game having different controls, I wouldn't hold my breath.

[VanillaGorilla]

so next year then?

[Smeghead]

Very Sonic like         

[Bender]

Damn I missed this too
Wish someone would emulate this, I'd love to play it
seems like just missed being released for the DC doh!

[Haze]

It's quite a common game to see around.. I've seen it in many different places.

The problem is the hardware is very unreliable, it overheats, and breaks all the time, so 99% of the time I've seen them they've had severe glitches or been just plain broken.

It's the most powerful piece of hardware that Sega had out at the time, and their last true original piece of dedicated arcade hardware (I don't really count Naomi / Naomi 2 because they're more directly Dreamcast related)

I believe the DEMUL guys who have emulated Naomi / Naomi 2 were looking at it, and managed to get it showing something, but it doesn't really have much in common with those systems aside from the CPU.  I can't see it running well in MAME anytime in the next 15 years.

[Trebeck]

Well missing one in 10,000 or more aint so bad.  The emulation community has a good record so far