Flux

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For the American video game magazine, see FLUX (magazine).

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Flux
System(s): Sega Mega-CD
Publisher: Virgin Interactive Entertainment
Developer:
Genre: Miscellaneous

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega-CD
EU
T-70416-50
ELSPA: 3+ OK

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Flux is a music visualizer software developed by EXP for the Sega Mega-CD and released by Virgin Interactive Entertainment exclusively in Europe.

When the Mega Drive is connected to a Sega Mega-CD, an audio CD is in the CD tray, and this cartridge in the Mega Drive, Flux will have the Mega CD play the music on the CD and show various user-configurable effects (the default being a two-channel oscilloscope). B pauses playback, Left and Right skip tracks, and  START  brings up the configuration panel.

The cartridge works for two reasons — the Mega CD supports using a cartridge as a boot image (this was also done with Wonder Library) and supports having the boot image access the CD drive for audio playback. Kega Fusion can emulate all this specifically for Flux; instructions are in its readme file. It requires a small modification to its configuration file and a European Mega CD BIOS to work.

Shortly before becoming a commercial product readily available to home consumers, Flux was used at the 1995 Glastonbury Festival for effects work on the pyramid stage[2].

Magazine articles

Main article: Flux/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

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Flux

Mega-CD, EU
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Cover
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Cart
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Manual

Technical information

Main article: Flux/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
CRC32 2a1da08c
MD5 81d25e0595200ffee560e5f0966a4088
SHA-1 6357f38db012278bc889c77c5780a82d535760fd
256kB 1995-08 Cartridge (EU)
Sega Mega Drive
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CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
1995-04-25 Page

References

  1. Computer Trade Weekly, "" (UK; 1996-03-04), page 21
  2. Computer & Video Games, "August 1995" (UK; 1995-07-12), page 13


Flux

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Sega Mega Drive
Prototypes: 1995-04-25