Flick 0.1.0 (work in progress)

The first public build of Flick, a Mattel HyperScan emulator. Work in progress.

All five retail games boot and play with sound: X-Men, Marvel Heroes, Ben 10 and IWL have been played with cards (Marvel Heroes and Ben 10 also by two players), and Spider-Man reaches gameplay.

What you need: Windows 64-bit, the HyperScan BIOS (hyperscan.bin, the console's 1 MB flash, as in MAME's hyprscan set) and your own disc images (.cue/.bin or .iso). Neither is included.

Getting started: extract the zip, double-click flick.exe. The first time it asks for the BIOS, then for a disc.

Highlights

• Sound: the SPG290's 24 hardware voices and the DAC FIFO, including the BIOS boot jingle.
• RFID cards: all 445 known cards in a panel (F1). Cards the games write to are saved; X-Men keeps your characters' experience.
• The games' real frame rate (X-Men fights at 30 fps, as on real consoles), with MAME's timing one key away (F3).
• Game controllers and two players, a remappable keyboard and controller (F4), full screen, screenshots.

Known issues

• IWL: some of the sound is missing.
• Loading times follow MAME's instant CD drive, not the real console's.
• No save states yet.

See the README for controls and details.

SHA-256 of flick-0.1.0-win64.zip: 31ea6b78acd02782e3925fc212a1f28335fafaee32bef94bd8073f66a0594999