Ultracore

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Ultracore
System(s): Sega Mega Drive
Publisher:
Sega Mega Drive
Strictly Limited Games (World)
Sega Mega Drive
Columbus Circle (Japan)
Developer:
Genre: Action

















Number of players: 1
Release Date RRP Code
Sega Mega Drive
JP
Sega Mega Drive
EU
€89.9989.99[1]

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Ultracore is a Sega Mega Drive action game similar to Contra or Turrican, developed by Digital Illusions. It is an aftermarket release based on Hardcore, which was licensed for release by Sega back in the day but went unreleased by the original publisher, Psygnosis.

History

The Mega Drive version of Hardcore is known to have been "99% completed", but was cancelled when publisher Psygnosis cancelled all of its Mega Drive projects to shift its focus to the PlayStation. Digital Illusions (now known as DICE[3]) have been keen for many years to see this game released in some form, even entering discussions with Sony (who now owns Psygnosis) in 2010, which at first appeared to have gone nowhere.

The game was finally announced in August 2018 to be finished and released by German publisher Strictly Limited Games, with originals release plans stated for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita.[4] In a later announcement, the game was rebranded as Ultracore for "licensing reasons"[5]. The game was finally released first in March 2019 as a built-in game for the Mega Sg console.[6] Strictly Limited Games is currently aiming to release the game on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch and also announced a Sega Mega Drive cartridge release limited to 999 copies on 22 June 2019,[7] with preorders taking place in their website and being available in two separate batches during 22 June and 23 June which got sold out almost instantly. The game is scheduled to be shipped in August 2019. Columbus Circle also secured rights for a Japanese release planned for release in September 2019.[8]

Mega Drive physical versions of the game finally started shipping on 17 October 2019 for the Columbus Circle Japanese version[2], and at the end of November 2019[9] for the European Strictly Limited Games release.

Magazine articles

Main article: Ultracore/Magazine articles.

Physical scans

Mega Drive, World
Ultracore MD World Box.jpg
Cover
Ultracore MD World Manual.pdf
Manual
Ultracore MD World Postcard.pdf
Postcard
Mega Drive, World (Red)
Ultracore MD red cover.jpg
Cover
Mega Drive, Japan
Ultracore.jpg
Cover

Technical information

Main article: Ultracore/Technical information.

ROM dump status

System Hash Size Build Date Source Comments
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
Cartridge (World) vMD-1.0
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32 ae7fda5a
MD5 42781a2d30441e259cec4b4a4ee10097
SHA-1 a7ecac360c0588cb8d4866d2593ca0c94bd6cd00
2MB 2019-06 Cartridge (JP) vMJ-1.0
Sega Mega Drive
 ?
CRC32
MD5
SHA-1
Mega Sg vSG-1.2

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