TeknoNecro

It’s doubtful there will be a standalone version coming. The original game required a dongle with some type of encryption for the exe & DLL. Seeing as no new decrypted files were released to play the game, it’s highly likely Teknoparrot has emulated the dongle itself. Otherwise if it was just a patch to remove the dongle checks, After Dark would have been playable as a standalone game a long time ago. So yeah, what JC said 😉

Did you do the coin fix mentioned 11 posts up by hippopippo?

Reaver announced it on his live stream Saturday that we’d have to wait for coffeeman to get back and add it.

All public dumps are encrypted and will not work with TP once supported. The difference between v1.1 and v2.3 is that UNIS got in trouble for After Dark looking like an unauthorized Van Helsing (the Hugh Jackman version) arcade game. So, for v2.3 a few characters had name changes and the hero had a partial face mask to hide Van Helsings's face. But other than text, audio and graphics data changes to account for that, the versions are identical in all other aspects.

the Shell directory is where the Service / Test menu stuff is stored and run from. So those actual functions as per a real machine will not be available. And it includes the unofficial pre-release DemulShooter BepInEx plugin and setup. So yeah it "runs" in a hacky way. Guess you could wait for a day or two for "official" support by DemulShooter or TeknoParrot. But you may need to redownload a "full" version for those.

If you have the tools to read the USB dongle and or decrypt the v1.53 exe these are the supposed key info: Jurassic Park 3415 2762 Vendor ID: 17F3F [98111] Vendor Password:3415 2762 [873801570] Vendor AES: 20951A452F147B1734E310067062FD3B

jcstahl1, seems like you are always the ONLY one 😁

All in good time. Work has been completed behind the scenes to build the proper archive from a real machine. Now it's a matter of propagating. I'm quite sure the "one" will appear with a link soon enough.

Just a note: Use ALT-F4 to quit, hitting the ESC will crash the program. Even though I support TP and have a sub, I tried it, it worked without issues in full screen mode in 4K and it looked great.

Plugin already bumped up to v1.4 with additional fixes.

Yeah... silly, VPN gets me there no problem. hahahahahahaha

For the record, I support the archival backup and sharing of ROMs (and yes, the sharing part is technically illegal). However, I’m 100% against those that sell ROMs. And it’s a bullshit statement/argument that "I’m not ‘selling’ ROMs, just selling HDs and you’re paying me for my time to copy/replicate the HDs." Just be honest, you’re selling ROMs and that disclaimer isn’t legal protection. I also believe that a 20 year old Arcade PCB no longer in production or distribution being emulated isn’t a financial loss for a company that might not actually be in business anymore. Many of the games emulated by TP aren’t actual revenue streams for the developer either. The sale of the original hardware was the revenue stream. In fact, the rise of the emulation scene created a realization for some companies that the "retro" packs / releases was an economic viability. Those retro packs would never have come to market without emulation and companies seeing the potential to monetize the emulation movement. How many of these retro releases do you think use code straight out of MAME without compensation? Do you actually think all the Arcade1up releases use NO MAME code? The MAME emulation code is one of the most stressed tested code bases there is anywhere and it can be commercially used without royalties. In a system like Golden Tee with year after year upgrades that overwrites the previous year, there is a danger that the oldest years can eventually be lost forever. So each of these years should be archived. Time to get down off my soapbox…

If I try and go there I get the 403 "forbidden" error 😎 but that would be the last place I need to source ROMs. 😉 I’m guessing the owner lurks on these forums for his source of ROMs 🧐 because this is the first place they show up. Talk about hypocrisy 🤣😂🤣

Either Romcollector is down or they have banned me 🤪 ouch…😭

There was a time when original posters simply stated up front "grab and mirror" and then killed the link in like a day or two. It'd be on Mega and if you didn't grab it, it was gone quickly and most of the time few if anyone ever bothered to mirror it.