Problems with The New Zealand story for the genesis

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On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:52:09 +1000, "John" <junk@junk.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I received a copy of this the other night, and it seems to be suprisingly
>hard to run on a non-japanese machine.
>To run on a US genesis, I had to use a mega key 2, *as well as put a 3
>button pad in the right joystick port*.
>
>not a 6 button, that doesn't work, but a 3 button does.
>
>Has anyone else seen this problem?
>
>thanks,
>
>John.

Yeah, there's a few other older games that don't behave properly when
a 6-button pad is used.

Seems like Forgotten Worlds is one of them...can't think of any others
right offhand.

-lugnut

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"lugnut" <lugnut@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 15:52:09 +1000, "John" <junk@junk.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I received a copy of this the other night, and it seems to be suprisingly
>>hard to run on a non-japanese machine.
>>To run on a US genesis, I had to use a mega key 2, *as well as put a 3
>>button pad in the right joystick port*.
>>
>>not a 6 button, that doesn't work, but a 3 button does.
>>
>>Has anyone else seen this problem?
>>
>>thanks,
>>
>>John.
>
> Yeah, there's a few other older games that don't behave properly when
> a 6-button pad is used.
>
> Seems like Forgotten Worlds is one of them...can't think of any others
> right offhand.
>
> -lugnut

But it's not just to do with 6 button joypads. The game only works if I put
a 3 button joypad in the right controller socket.
If I don't put in any controllers, it fails to start up.