Yars’ Return Tom not working correctly

[JDubTheGaymer]

I got a Yars’ Return rom for my Harmony cart but it’s not displaying properly. It’s doubling the sprites. Does anyone know if there’s a fixed rom anywhere? I’ve looked around Google but I can’t find anything. 

[4ever2600]

Back when it was originally released on one of the Atari flashback units, it was a PAL rom. Was a complete misstep.  They later released an ntsc rom.  Track that one down. 

 

Might be a bit off on this but here is the original thread I remember...

 

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/72762-flashback-2-reviews/page/3/#comment-908821

Edited May 18 by 4ever2600

[+x=usr(1536)]

Funnily enough, a few days ago I was trying to figure out which two versions of Yars' Return are sitting in the library here.  One is marked as NTSC, the other as PAL, but the supposedly-NTSC version crashes as soon as the game goes past the copyright notice; this happens on both a 2600 Jr. and 7800 as well as Stella on an Intel Mac.

 

1536@lolbox Desktop % shasum -a 256 Yars*
87839e50a791d6ea2c84c2a7ff22538dd7d66b4bba2144c1d3eabdaae365237e  Yars' Return (Flashback 2 Version, NTSC).bin
7af874187b1243c1295d687e9a8133f9c46ca87e3ca79fc013c744c576330480  Yars' Return (Flashback 2 Version, PAL).bin

 

FWIW, the PAL version runs on my NTSC machine, but with the known issues clearly displayed (as expected).  Could someone who has a copy of this please check if it may be different to the ones shown above?

[JDubTheGaymer]

Still no luck with this?

[+x=usr(1536)]

4 minutes ago, JDubTheGaymer said:

Still no luck with this?

 

*shrug* these things have a tendency to work themselves out over time.

[Nightbringer]

The version I have labelled as "Flashback 2 Version" matches x=usr(1536)'s "Flashback 2 Version, PAL" - supposedly there's a fixed version in the Flashback 2+, but I've never been able to find a dump of it. I pulled the version from Atari Vault and it's different.

 

$ find . -name Yar*Return* -exec shasum -a 256 {} \;
7af874187b1243c1295d687e9a8133f9c46ca87e3ca79fc013c744c576330480  ./flashback/Yars' Return (Flashback 2 Version).a26
882cd73fbb554ebb6f4783387785dbe7d715d11a8ff9c3b0d2bc4ad7b8937d28  ./vault/Yars' Return (Atari Vault Version).bin

 

The Atari Vault one doesn't flicker, doesn't double the Qotile and lets you wrap vertically. It generally plays better than the Flashback 2 version on real hardware with a CRT.

 

Edited June 1 by Nightbringer

[Bomberman94]

Please can someone point me to a shop/source where i can buy a digital copy (PAL version) of Yars Return? I would even buy the Flashback thing only to get it😢