Hacker News with Generative AI: Sega

Ripping Sega System 16 Sprites and Palettes: Brief Guide (2021) (blogspot.com)
I recently updated and released the source code to Sega Sprite Viewer. This tool allows you to view the contents of sprite roms from many popular Sega games of the era.

Gaming, Retro Gaming, Programming, Sega, Sprite Editing

41 points by Bluestein 6 days ago | 0 comments

Sega prepares to go back to the future (theguardian.com)
Sega started as a rock’n’roll breath of fresh air in a Nintendo-dominated world – and America and Europe CEO Shuji Utsumi wants to shake things up once again

Video Games, Sega, Retro Gaming, Gaming Industry, Business

9 points by billybuckwheat 17 days ago | 1 comments

Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format (infochunk.com)
In November 2024, the user RisingFromRuins on the Sonic Retro forum announced that he had found a Sega Channel game image CD for September 1996 while he was going through a lot of PC equipment he had bought years earlier.

Reverse engineering, Game Development, Sega, Gaming History, File Formats

245 points by ndiddy 41 days ago | 47 comments

Sega's killing one of the only sources of legal ROMs, delists 60 classic games (gamesradar.com)

Gaming, Retro Gaming, Video Games, Legal Issues, Sega

44 points by mikhael 68 days ago | 11 comments