ROBOCOP MD

ROBOCOP MD

The 1988 arcade hit ROBOCOP is coming soon to the SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis.

The SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis Port We Never Got...

Back in the late '80s and early '90s, the Sega Genesis was sold on one massive promise: "Bring the Arcade Home."

For every arcade rat who poured quarters into Data East's legendary RoboCop cabinet, hearing that explosive FM synthesized audio and seeing Murphy on the big screen, a proper Genesis port was the ultimate dream. While 8-bit systems got their really disappointing conversions, the SEGA Mega Drive, the premier 16-bit machine built for fast-paced arcade action, was criminally left behind.

RoboCop MD exists to fix this history.

This project is built from the ground up to feel like a real 16-bit cartridge release from 1990. Heavy FM synth, punchy arcade action, crisp pixel art, and authentic Mega Drive performance. It’s designed to be the exact game you wished you could have brought home for Christmas '90 or '91 to plug straight into your Model 1 "High Definition Graphics" console.

Notes from the Developer:

This started as a solo passion project by Boca to fulfill that childhood dream and learn  the secrets of SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis development using SGDK and also with the help of AI to speed up C coding only. 

What began as a solo effort took a huge leap forward when the incredible Italian producer, composer, and musician LukeMcQueen reached out to join the project.
He stepped in to handle the soundtrack, creating mind-blowing 16-bit YM2612 versions of the original arcade music that push the Genesis FM chip to its absolute limits, and gave the port the soul it needed to become something really professional.

This game will be made free to play on release. For now, please enjoy the Demo.

Please note that this is a WORK IN PROGRESS and that what is in this demo is not necessarily the final versions of art, color, sound, or music. There may be bugs as well. They will be fixed. There is tuning to be done and it will be done.

We're focused on capturing the authentic feel of a late-80s/early-90s arcade home port, leveraging the Mega Drive / Genesis hardware abilities to its fullest.

To play the demo:

Download the binary ROM file to use with an emulator of your choice.

We recommend BlastEm.

BlastEm for Windows

BlastEm for 64-bit Linux

BlastEm for 32-bit Linux

It's also been successfully tested with other emulators like Retroarch cores, with EverDrive on real Hardware and  MiSTer FPGA. 

This version of the game is made for 60Hz NTSC systems. While it will work on PAL systems, the screen size and timing will be off, as it has not been tested on PAL Systems. 

CREDITS

• Lead Development, GFX, Touch ups & SFX:  Boca's Retro Stuff
• GFXs : Sprites ripped by cycriccizer, jin315, Yawackhary, DMM069  and rest  ripped by Boca's Retro Stuff from the original Arcade Game. 
• SFXs: Ripped from the Original Arcade Game using M1 from Arbee. 
• All Music by : The 'Almighty' Luke McQueen !
• Art and Gameplay Consulting: Monster Bath Games DMM069 (thank you 4 starting this project and sharing to improve this ), Ray Castello and  Master Linkuei. 
• Engine / Tools: SGDK for the game engine / LibreSprite for sprites work from MAME Screenshots ripped assets / 'tiledpalettequant' for GFX conversions base for my later re-works/ 

"RoboCop" is a trademark and/or copyright of Amazon Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) / Orion Pictures. All rights reserved.
Original arcade game © 1988 Data East Corp. Data East is the property of G-Mode Co., Ltd.
This ROM is a fan creation not affiliated with Amazon MGM or Orion Pictures. It doesn't contain any pre-existing or reverse-engineered code from any official release of the game.
Any existing media appearing in the game is available online on websites not affiliated with the production team.

Download soon...