Pac-Man Pocket Player
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| Pac-Man Pocket Player | ||||||||||
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| System(s): Sega Mega Drive handheld | ||||||||||
| Publisher: dreamGEAR | ||||||||||
| Developer: Shiru | ||||||||||
| Licensor: Bandai Namco Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Developer(s) of original games: Sculptured Software, Namco | ||||||||||
| Game total: 3 | ||||||||||
| Genre: Compilation | ||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | ||||||||||
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Pac-Man Pocket Player is a handheld gaming device themed around Pac-Man, manufactured and sold by dreamGEAR, as part of the My Arcade label. It includes 3 Pac-Man games from the 16-bit era with an official license from Bandai Namco.
The handheld is an unlicensed Sega Mega Drive clone that requires 4xAAA batteries or a Micro USB cable to be powered. Notably, it includes one new port of the original Pac-Man for a Sega system, who had a 1990 release for the Sega Game Gear, alongside another versions inside Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures plus Namco Museum and an unlicensed conversion from the MSX version that appeared in Korean multicarts for the Sega Master System. This version seems to be developed by Shiru[2], a known programmer in the Mega Drive homebrew scene.
Unlike the conventional Mega Drive clones, there's no button 
in the device, although a soft RESET button is implemented. In order to choose another game on the menu, the user needs to shutdown the device and power on it again.
Contents
Games included
- Pac-Man (new port based on the Arcade version)
- Pac-Mania
- Pac-Panic (European version of Pac-Attack)
For Pac-Mania and Pac-Panic, mentions of Sega were eliminated in them. Both games also had its respective 2 player modes stripped. Mentions of Tengen and Sculptured Software were also skipped in Pac-Mania as well. Pac-Panic also was patched to run on 60Hz mode, as the original European version was region locked to PAL systems.
Digital manuals
User guide
Declaration of Conformity
History
Legacy
Playable compatibility support for this handheld was available on MAME since version 0.227.[3]
Physical scans
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External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 https://myarcade.com/collections/pocket-player/products/pac-man-pocket-player (Wayback Machine: 2024-04-23 10:22)
- ↑ https://shiru.untergrund.net/aboutme.shtml (Wayback Machine: 2019-02-09 02:19)
- ↑ https://www.mamedev.org/releases/whatsnew_0227.txt (Wayback Machine: 2020-12-31 13:23)
| Pac-Man games for Sega systems | |
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Pac-Man (1991) | Ms. Pac-Man (1993) | Pac-Attack (1994) | Pac-In-Time (unreleased) |
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Ms. Pac-Man (1991) | Pac-Mania (1991) | |
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Ms. Pac-Man (1991) | Pac-Mania (1991) | Pac-Attack (1993) | Pac-Man 2: The New Adventures (1994) | Pac-In-Time (unreleased) |
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Ms. Pac-Man Maze Madness (2000) |
| Unlicensed Pac-Man games on Sega systems | |
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Pac-Man (19??) | Puckman Pockimon Genie 2000 (2000) | Pac-Man (2018) | Pac-Man Pocket Player (2018) |