Because this looks and feels pretty much identical to the arcade.
Probably because it shares a lot of the hardware of the original arcade, so the porting probably was straightforward.
Because this looks and feels pretty much identical to the arcade.
Probably because it shares a lot of the hardware of the original arcade, so the porting probably was straightforward.
The closest thing to an explanation I could find online just said “legal issues”, but didn’t go into details.
I don’t think that makes sense, or at least it doesn’t properly qualify the problem. BIOS is a set of baked-in software routines that mediate certain operations between software and hardware. In theory it could be reverse-enginereed and thus emulated just like the rest of the hardware is. In fact, many of the more simple systems (like 8 or 16-bit consoles) have their BIOS emulated. But for more advanced or poorer documented systems, there are, in my view, two problems with that:
I think there’s more to the coin ship, that unfortunately isn’t covered in the article. I know for a fact that the hammer bro on the World 1 map turns into a coin ship if you finish 1-1 with 55 coins AND end the level with time remaining being an odd number.