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ID Category [?] Severity [?] Reproducibility Date Submitted Last Update
07683 DIP/Input Major Always Jun 10, 2020, 22:43 Jun 12, 2020, 00:43
Tester Kale View Status Public Platform MAME (Official Binary)
Assigned To Resolution Bugs That Aren't Bugs OS Windows 10 (64-bit)
Status [?] Resolved Driver
Version 0.221 Fixed in Version Build 64-bit
Fixed in Git Commit Github Pull Request #
Summary MESS-specific 07683: genesis [ustrike]: Automatically skips intelligence info and debriefing if 6 button pad is used
Description If you use a MD 6b device, intelligence info and end of level debriefing are skipped.
This is particularly important for latter since user cannot catch the level password with the limited time it gives.
Steps To Reproduce Easiest way is to pickup the first copilot on southwest part of the island in stage 1, cfr. attached md_ustrike_6b_bug.inp
md_ustrike_3b_nobug.inp shows the same thing with a 3b pad (and without the bug)
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Affected Sets / Systems genesis [ustrike]
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zip file icon md_ustrike_6b_bug.zip (21,862 bytes) Jun 10, 2020, 22:47 Uploaded by Kale
zip file icon md_ustrike_3b_nobug.zip (22,720 bytes) Jun 10, 2020, 22:48 Uploaded by Kale
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No.17735
Tafoid
Administrator
Jun 11, 2020, 01:05
edited on: Jun 11, 2020, 01:17
I'm pretty sure this is a BTANB based on what I'm reading in a forum where actual console games are discussed:
https://www.sega-16.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-6890.html

Mega Drive Bowlsey
03-29-2018, 06:00 AM
Urban Strike is another one that does not work properly with the six-button controller. It's designed to, and even has the option to play the game with the six-button layout, but when you actually start the game it jumps through in-game cut scenes before you have a chance to read them. Like when you pick somebody up in your helicopter and they have important information for you pertaining to your current mission, and the game says INFORMATION UPDATE! CHECK STATUS!, you press the start button once to see what info your passenger has and it immediately skips the screen preventing you from reading the info! This makes completing the second level almost impossible with the six-button controller, because the guy you rescue from the main oil rig when you're on foot gives you the code to activate the air strike in a cut scene which is immediately skipped! You then have no idea which button to press on the code screen and you end up guessing randomly which usually leads to the place getting blown up with you still inside! Game over. I will try holding down the mode button on the controller when I power up my Mega Drive to see if that makes the game playable but, considering that the game's control system was designed with the six-button layout as a playable option, you really shouldn't have to touch the mode button at all. If that doesn't work I'll just do what I have been doing all this time, playing it with the standard 3-button controller which removes all problems.

Also, appears to have already been dismissed as an original game bug for another Megadrive/Genesis only emulator
https://github.com/ekeeke/Genesis-Plus-GX/issues/299
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No.17740
Kale
Developer
Jun 12, 2020, 00:43
Marked as BTANB given these reports, thanks for checking.