Instead of taking its cure from Super Mario, or Sonic, EWJ is suitably original.įor a start, there's none of this monster squishing, or spin attacking in this game. Like The Simpsons, Earthworm Jim (who was a lowly earthworm until he was one day accidentally given superhero powers) deftly walks the line between slapstick humor and social commentary-you could even call it subversive.Ĭhris McMullen's very thorough review for Games Domain describes what makes it a must-have: ' EWJ gives a breath of fresh air to the whole platform genre. What makes Earthworm Jim games a lot of fun is the excellent characterization of the hero.

The game was so successful that it inspired a whole range of toys, as well as its own TV cartoon series. It doesn't seem to like me.After successfully updating classic Atari cartridge game Pitfall! to the '90s with Pitfall: A Mayan Adventure, the first platform game for Windows 95, Activision next turned their excellent game engine to Earthworm Jim, a cult classic on the SNES and Megadrive console systems.Įarthworm Jim was the brainchild of talented folks who created Aladdin for Disney, and later formed Shiny Entertainment (who would later be much more famous for MDK). I think I am doing everything correctly? I was able to get Hyperspin and MD.emu to integrate fine, as well as every other emulator I am using except for Retroarch. It displays 1.2.2 in the bottom left corner of the screen.

I am using the current version of Retroarch that is available to download from the Google Play Store. I have this line in my Sega CD.ini file:ĥ. If I use MD.emu with Hyperspin, the games load fine except for the lower compatibility.Ĥ. The XML database file was built from the actual files in the directory, and I have confirmed all file names are matched up with the actual files. Parameters=cores/genesis_plus_gx_libretro_android.soģ. As stated in the opening post, these are my lines in my Sega CD.ini file which I basically copied into there from the help thread on this forumĮxe=com.retroarch/.RetroActivityFuture It is in the cores folder and it works fine to run the games in Retroarch in BIN/CUE format using the CUE files to load them.Ģ. I do have the Genesis Plus GX core installed.

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