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All four Absolute Entertainment games included in the compilation were altered to have the copyright text say "Copyright 2002 Skyworks Technology Inc" instead of "Copyright 198x Absolute Entertainment Inc. These include "Pete Rose Baseball" (which is just called "Baseball" here for licensing reasons) (CRC32: ef851fa2), Title Match Pro Wrestling (CRC32: b6f28c18 ), F-14 Tomcat (CRC32: cb5d1c42), and Skate Boardin' (CRC32: 49739144). Skyworks Technology seems to be a company founded by former members of Absolute Entertainment, and evidently were the copyright holders of those games when the collection was released. I've already added those four to No-Intro. TOSEC only seems to contain "Pete Rose Baseball", while none of them appear on Atarimania. Also, F-14 Tomcat appears to be a PAL release (at least, based on the fact that Stella autodetects it as PAL and the screen is shaky when I force it into NTSC mode) Several prototype games appear on this compilation, but only two didn't match existing entries in No-Intro's database. These are "Bloody Human Freeway" (CRC32: 7afb2277) and what the collection calls "Activision Prototype 2" but what we now know as "Hard Head" (CRC32: 3f805ade). This version of Bloody Human Freeway matches the NTSC release in this post: https://atariage.com/features/activision_protos/ , but the Hard Head dump is different from the NTSC release in that same post by two bytes, and Stella tells me that it actually runs in PAL mode. I've since added "Bloody Human Freeway", but I'd like some insight into the origin of this alternate dump of Hard Head. Seven homebrew games were also released on the AA:RE. (Video) Euchre (CRC32: b600ae88) and Oystron (CRC32: 8155dccf )matches what is available for download here on AtariAge. The rest do not match, which includes Climber 5 (CRC32: 9a44da87), Okie Dokie (CRC32: e3900b50), Skeleton Plus (CRC32: 914ce6b7), Space Treat Deluxe (CRC32: 724e6b61), and Vault Assault (CRC32: 0fbee2ab). The rest are just regular commercial releases that don't seem to be in No-Intro: Atlantis (CRC32: c22e6a25) Demon Attack (CRC32: 40dbe6d9) Frostbite (CRC32: 9d88d250) Keystone Kapers (CRC32: 5d27f7fb) Moonsweeper (CRC32: bb513282) River Raid 2 (CRC32: e0166b13) Wing War (CRC32: 8a38509e) I plan on checking whether these are present in Atarimania ASAP. I know that Atlantis, Demon Attack, and Frostbite are in TOSEC. The last one is "Activision Decathlon", which technically not in the database due to a moderator mistakenly interpreted a "fixed rom" as meaning "this rom dump is a correct dump, use it instead of the previous one, which was dumped incorrectly" instead of the intended "This is a revised release of the same game that no longer has a bug".

Recently, I decided to acquire a copy of "Activision Anthology: Remix Edition" for PC, mainly because I'm on a quest to see how many ROMs for older machines I can acquire legally. It took some work, I eventually figured out how to extract them. Unfortunately, it's not a simple process. It involves making memory dumps of the game and finding the location of the ROM in memory, and then copying it to an .a26 file. Here's the complete process: Of the 76 included games, 55 matched No-Intro's database when I started this process. And because I want my collection of legally acquired ROMs to be nice and organized, I've been in the process of adding the remaining 21 to their dats. Alas, the Atari 2600 is a rather neglected system in No-Intro's database, and I'm not an Atari 2600 expert anyway, so I'm reaching out to you guys to make sure I don't screw anything up. In addition, I thought I'd share some info about some potentially never-before-seen ROMs. With that in mind, I'm going to make a second post detailing the 21 other games. Stay tuned!

Disregard my previous post. The download link is on this page: http://www.vgdb.com.br/i/pre-order-pre-venda-de-surgical-strike-re-launch-para-32x.html

The Re-Launch FAQ says that the iso will be made available for download on launch day, which is August 15. I don't mean to sound entitled, but where is the link? Maybe I'm a bit early, but I can't seem to find it.