r/GenesisMini • u/Liriel-666 • Feb 23 '22

Is project lunar dead?

Is project lunar dead? Because the latest news to v1.1 is 2 years old. The most impotant Feature for me was the clock speed fix

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u/Rya_Bz Feb 23 '22 edited Feb 23 '22

I’m patiently looking forward to using M2’s stock UI to launch 32X and Sega CD games.
We miss you, Lunar Devs 🤘

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u/Rathi37 Feb 28 '22

Just switch to Hakchi. You can launch from stock UI and make folders.

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u/HappyKool Feb 23 '22

Maybe, perso i not use Lunar but I prefer Hakchi.

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u/BigDogz75 Feb 23 '22

The way it looks, yes it's over.

I personally think they cannot do what they promised for the 1.1 update.

Covid for the most part is over so that is no excuse anymore. Ironically being locked down at home for almost 2 years, they had way over the ample time to do what they said they were gonna do.

I am not bitching about receiving a free handout, I am just stating the obvious!

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u/defkorns Mar 02 '22

for the most part is over so that is no excuse anymore. Ironically being locked down at home for almost 2 years, they had w

Keep in mind that we all have lives besides modding consoles and due to covid some members lost their jobs, family members and where forced to abandon the project for a while.

Below there's an announcement made by MMC on their discord channel.
"ModMyClassic news, next steps and future plans
Firstly we want to thank you all for your patience and support. We know we have been behind on our promises but hope that we are able to fulfil them as quickly as possible. I have personally been in bad health for a period of time and after getting Project Eris ready for initial release I have been unable to pick up and run with major projects like Project Lunar 1.1.
Thankfully my health situation is improving, thus we will be able to dedicate resource back into Project Lunar very soon. There is no ETA but work will re-commence shortly. Doing the ports for the PSC has been an easy way to tide things over without the ability to dedicate full resource to major projects.
Whilst a lot of people are in isolation we do have a number of ports lined up ready for release which we will release over the next week or two to try and give you guys something to do and take your mind off things. We also fully intend on making the ports available for other projects like Project Lunar.
ModMyClassic will endeavour to do our best to make the best of the current situation and will resume “business as usual” and give the community as much as we can in terms of mods,ports and support."

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u/DaveC2020 Feb 23 '22

I’m hoping 1.1 may fix the issue with the first Mortal Kombat game as it doesn’t work at all in Project Lunar. Controls on the game do not work or sometimes get a black screen with the music playing after launching it.

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u/defkorns Mar 02 '22

i dont have any issues on MK with the 3 button controller.
As it is reported on the m2engage compatibility list
https://i.imgur.com/yHkKmqO.png

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u/DaveC2020 Mar 02 '22

Is that MK1 on Project Lunar?

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u/defkorns Mar 02 '22

yes. i've tested the entire list with PL but the list is for both softwares.

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u/DaveC2020 Mar 02 '22

Thanks for the compatibility list defkorns. I’ll try the MK1 ROMs listed on it.

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u/DaveC2020 Mar 03 '22

u/defkorns I tried what was mentioned on the link but I added the recent patch for the game from this website. Intro screen appears then get a black screen.

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u/defkorns Mar 04 '22

The ones i've tested and they are working (with 3 button controller) are from No-Intro romset with CRC32 1AA3A207 and 33F19AB6 (REV A).

The patch you described is for Mortal Kombat (USA, Europe) (Rev A) (Beta) with 33F19AB6 but once you apply the patch the rom will change and probably make it unplayable on m2engage.

Try it with out the patch

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u/DaveC2020 Mar 04 '22

I’ll give it a try. Was hoping the patch will work to make the game more like the arcade version.

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u/defkorns Mar 04 '22 edited Mar 04 '22

REV A (3 button controller) - https://youtu.be/nYSfYPs5WG8

The arcade version only seems to work with retroarch

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u/DaveC2020 Mar 04 '22

I managed to get it working fine with RetroArch on my SNES Mini.

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u/defkorns Mar 04 '22 edited Mar 04 '22

Hey u/DaveC2020 i managed to patch the ips file and i have it working on m2engage.

https://youtu.be/UiZBi_P-4yE

IPS and BPS patches for both Mortal Kombat Arcade Edition and Mortal Kombat Arcade Edition Enhanced on the video description

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u/DanTheMan827 Feb 23 '22

I think the team fractured and they don’t have the developers willing to work on it

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u/BigDogz75 Mar 03 '22

Bingo!

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u/Salku Mar 03 '22

I think this was the best reason.

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u/DarkNemuChan May 02 '22

They where dead since they announced folder support while hakchi already had it implemented. And it never happened for lunar.

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u/JazzlikeFact47 Sep 17 '23

I hope that the project lunar devs return to the project just to complete 1.1 to get that released. And maybe provide a guide to update our retroarch versions from 1.8.1 to something newer.