I'm Sebastián from NOVENRETRO. First of all, thank you for the time and care you've put into creating and sharing your Mega Drive / Genesis work.
I'm building NR Channel, a free and non-commercial Sega Channel-style menu/loader. It has no advertising, no sales and generates no revenue. I'd really love to include your creations so NR Channel can have a broader homebrew catalog and so more people can discover and enjoy the work you've made for the platform.
The project is already released and fully documented. If you'd like to see NR Channel running on original hardware, watch the full video and see exactly how games are presented and launched, you can visit the official project page here:
This should give you a clear idea of how your game or demo would be represented inside NR Channel.
Would you be comfortable allowing me to include and redistribute the exact, unmodified ROMs for:
- Abyssal Infants
- Satyr In Hell
- Super Power Kick
- Under the Shrine of Death
- Variatum
- Super Power Kick — earlier demo builds
- Plato Protagoras
- Power Kick MD
The ROMs would remain byte-for-byte unchanged. I would clearly credit you, link to your official pages and include any LICENSE, README or attribution files you require.
Could you also confirm that your permission covers the graphics, music, sound effects, fonts and other assets embedded in these ROMs? If any part needs separate permission, please let me know and I will keep that title link-only.
If you're happy with that, a short reply such as “Yes, NR Channel may include the unmodified ROMs above with credit for free, non-commercial distribution” is enough for my records.
Thank you again for your work and for contributing to the Mega Drive homebrew scene. It would be great to have these titles represented in NR Channel.
I'm Sebastián from NOVENRETRO (https://www.youtube.com/@NovenRetro). First of all, thank you for the time and care you've put into creating and sharing your Mega Drive / Genesis work.
I'm building NR Channel, a free and non-commercial Sega Channel-style menu/loader. It has no advertising, no sales and generates no revenue. I'd really love to include your creations so NR Channel can have a broader homebrew catalog and so more people can discover and enjoy the work you've made for the platform.
Would you be comfortable allowing me to include and redistribute the exact, unmodified ROMs for:
- Abyssal Infants
- Satyr In Hell
- Super Power Kick
- Under the Shrine of Death
- Variatum
- Super Power Kick — earlier demo builds
- Plato Protagoras
- Power Kick MD
The ROMs would remain byte-for-byte unchanged. I would clearly credit you, link to your official pages and include any LICENSE, README or attribution files you require.
Could you also confirm that your permission covers the graphics, music, sound effects, fonts and other assets embedded in these ROMs? If any part needs separate permission, please let me know and I will keep that title link-only.
If you're happy with that, a short reply such as “Yes, NR Channel may include the unmodified ROMs above with credit for free, non-commercial distribution” is enough for my records.
Thank you again for your work and for contributing to the Mega Drive homebrew scene. It would be great to have these titles represented in NR Channel.
I know I'm late to the party, but I really liked playing through your game. I played through it on the Neo Geo with my Neo SD Pro AES and it worked well. There were a couple of issues, like sound cutting out and a weird graphical glitch on the left side of the screen, but nothing that stopped me from enjoying it. Here is a video of some of my gameplay just so you can see what I mean.
Sadly about the glitches there is nothing that I can do as my abilities do not go beyond using SDK's that other people wrote.
In this game I used NGDevKit which is great and earlier when I was porting the game on NG I was able to find a sound problem and isolate it and Damien the author of NGDevKit was able to fix it. Afterwards the problem never occurred again, but all my testing were done on MisterFPGA's Core and MAME, so it may be a problem that is visible only on the real hardware.
As for the graphical glitch, I really never seen it before. To be honest I have absolutely no idea why it exists.
I am glad that you enjoyed the game and thank you for the kind words and for the video.
Thanks for the update. Have not had a chance to test on aes/mvs sd pro yet, helping a buddy with a gun4ir/hyperspin build the last few weeks, but definately look forward to checking this out. Thank you for all you do!!!
The Mega Drive is completed there is a problem with the predefined hi-scores as I putted very high numbers but other than that it is completed.
The NeoGeo is completed too and with fixed hi-score. It is beta 2 because there was a bug that was fixed but have too little play time to say that there is no other problems. So it is beta 2 just to have the best possible version up but I will wait and test it for a month before I say that it is "gold".
I wish people were helping out with the betas of my games that I post, but yeah...
nice. there is a non-exhaustive list of mega drive homebrew games with a huge amount of releases this year. when i checked on SEGAbits forums your game is not listed in the 2025 list but it remained listed on the TBA list (the unfinished games) despite it's completed
I would love to play SPK on my neo cab. There is another neo project called Yo-Yo-Shuriken with simple graphics & even simpler gameplay that is very addicting game. Check out a gameplay video when you get the chance. 60% of people just hate to hate with not a lick of talent or anything useful to contribute. I say keep doing what you do. It's appreciated here man!
I can test this on a 4 slot mvs/neo sd pro & on aes/neo sd pro as well. Hopefully i can get to it this weekend & i will report back. Much appreciated for doing this man!
Fun to play, excellent work. I also added it to my new "Gameplay of New Mega Drive/Genesis Games from October 2023 to 2024" video along with all the other newly released Mega Drive/Genesis games.
I love the music and the backgrounds. You have created a nice atmosphere. Feels nicely flushed out, like a mid-eighties arcade game. Tested successfully on flash carts and emu.
The color palette feels warm, like a kung fu action movie from the late seventies. Something filmed on super 8. I can't speak for other's taste, but this is nostalgic for guys my age.
I tried to make it look like a 80' early 90's game.
The fonts is the Limelight font, I use it too much lately. I also partly converted it to 8x8 pixels for easy use with SGDK. One day I will finish it and share it.
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Hello kakoeimon,
I'm Sebastián from NOVENRETRO. First of all, thank you for the time and care you've put into creating and sharing your Mega Drive / Genesis work.
I'm building NR Channel, a free and non-commercial Sega Channel-style menu/loader. It has no advertising, no sales and generates no revenue. I'd really love to include your creations so NR Channel can have a broader homebrew catalog and so more people can discover and enjoy the work you've made for the platform.
The project is already released and fully documented. If you'd like to see NR Channel running on original hardware, watch the full video and see exactly how games are presented and launched, you can visit the official project page here:
https://www.novenretro.com/nrchannel/
This should give you a clear idea of how your game or demo would be represented inside NR Channel.
Would you be comfortable allowing me to include and redistribute the exact, unmodified ROMs for:
- Abyssal Infants
- Satyr In Hell
- Super Power Kick
- Under the Shrine of Death
- Variatum
- Super Power Kick — earlier demo builds
- Plato Protagoras
- Power Kick MD
The ROMs would remain byte-for-byte unchanged. I would clearly credit you, link to your official pages and include any LICENSE, README or attribution files you require.
Could you also confirm that your permission covers the graphics, music, sound effects, fonts and other assets embedded in these ROMs? If any part needs separate permission, please let me know and I will keep that title link-only.
If you're happy with that, a short reply such as “Yes, NR Channel may include the unmodified ROMs above with credit for free, non-commercial distribution” is enough for my records.
Thank you again for your work and for contributing to the Mega Drive homebrew scene. It would be great to have these titles represented in NR Channel.
Best regards,
Sebastián
NOVENRETRO / NR Channel
“Yes, NR Channel may include the unmodified ROMs above with credit for free, non-commercial distribution”
Good luck with your project.
Hi, Kakoeimon!
Thank you so much for your reply! It is truly appreciated.
If you could share a contact email with me—or if you'd like to send me one so we can stay in touch—that would be great.
Sending you a big hug from Córdoba, Argentina.
Seba, from NOVENRETRO
Hello kakoeimon,
I'm Sebastián from NOVENRETRO (https://www.youtube.com/@NovenRetro). First of all, thank you for the time and care you've put into creating and sharing your Mega Drive / Genesis work.
I'm building NR Channel, a free and non-commercial Sega Channel-style menu/loader. It has no advertising, no sales and generates no revenue. I'd really love to include your creations so NR Channel can have a broader homebrew catalog and so more people can discover and enjoy the work you've made for the platform.
Would you be comfortable allowing me to include and redistribute the exact, unmodified ROMs for:
- Abyssal Infants
- Satyr In Hell
- Super Power Kick
- Under the Shrine of Death
- Variatum
- Super Power Kick — earlier demo builds
- Plato Protagoras
- Power Kick MD
The ROMs would remain byte-for-byte unchanged. I would clearly credit you, link to your official pages and include any LICENSE, README or attribution files you require.
Could you also confirm that your permission covers the graphics, music, sound effects, fonts and other assets embedded in these ROMs? If any part needs separate permission, please let me know and I will keep that title link-only.
If you're happy with that, a short reply such as “Yes, NR Channel may include the unmodified ROMs above with credit for free, non-commercial distribution” is enough for my records.
Thank you again for your work and for contributing to the Mega Drive homebrew scene. It would be great to have these titles represented in NR Channel.
Best regards,
Sebastián
NOVENRETRO / NR Channel
I know I'm late to the party, but I really liked playing through your game. I played through it on the Neo Geo with my Neo SD Pro AES and it worked well. There were a couple of issues, like sound cutting out and a weird graphical glitch on the left side of the screen, but nothing that stopped me from enjoying it. Here is a video of some of my gameplay just so you can see what I mean.
Thanks for the game!
Thank you very much.
Sadly about the glitches there is nothing that I can do as my abilities do not go beyond using SDK's that other people wrote.
In this game I used NGDevKit which is great and earlier when I was porting the game on NG I was able to find a sound problem and isolate it and Damien the author of NGDevKit was able to fix it. Afterwards the problem never occurred again, but all my testing were done on MisterFPGA's Core and MAME, so it may be a problem that is visible only on the real hardware.
As for the graphical glitch, I really never seen it before. To be honest I have absolutely no idea why it exists.
I am glad that you enjoyed the game and thank you for the kind words and for the video.
No worries about the glitches. I just wanted to mention from the testing perspective. They were, in my opinion minor, and didn't hinder my enjoyment.
And yeah it could be my hardware. I got one of the 5V AES systems and I know they can be temperamental.
Thanks for the update. Have not had a chance to test on aes/mvs sd pro yet, helping a buddy with a gun4ir/hyperspin build the last few weeks, but definately look forward to checking this out. Thank you for all you do!!!
Thanks, hope to hear back from you.
this looks very nice :) how complete are the mega drive and the neo geo versions of this game?
Hi Thanks.
The Mega Drive is completed there is a problem with the predefined hi-scores as I putted very high numbers but other than that it is completed.
The NeoGeo is completed too and with fixed hi-score. It is beta 2 because there was a bug that was fixed but have too little play time to say that there is no other problems. So it is beta 2 just to have the best possible version up but I will wait and test it for a month before I say that it is "gold".
I wish people were helping out with the betas of my games that I post, but yeah...
nice. there is a non-exhaustive list of mega drive homebrew games with a huge amount of releases this year. when i checked on SEGAbits forums your game is not listed in the 2025 list but it remained listed on the TBA list (the unfinished games) despite it's completed
Awesome game ! Thanks a lot !
Thank you very much and thank you for the video once again.
P.S. Sorry for the late response, I missed that.
Pretty awesome man....thanks alot for making it. Any chance of a neo geo port? Will play this when i get the chance, appreciated
Thank you very much, hope you like it.
NeoGeo is maybe, but I am not sure that it is going to be appreciated as I have complaints about the graphics looking like a nes games.
What do you think?
I would love to play SPK on my neo cab. There is another neo project called Yo-Yo-Shuriken with simple graphics & even simpler gameplay that is very addicting game. Check out a gameplay video when you get the chance. 60% of people just hate to hate with not a lick of talent or anything useful to contribute. I say keep doing what you do. It's appreciated here man!
Thank you, I will keep this in mind.
The Future is Almost Now.
https://kakoeimon.itch.io/super-power-kick/devlog/941385/super-power-kick-for-th...
Please inform me, if you find any problems apart from the sound one.
I can test this on a 4 slot mvs/neo sd pro & on aes/neo sd pro as well. Hopefully i can get to it this weekend & i will report back. Much appreciated for doing this man!
Abyssal Infants is a banger, you did real good. One difficult game!
Fun to play, excellent work. I also added it to my new "Gameplay of New Mega Drive/Genesis Games from October 2023 to 2024" video along with all the other newly released Mega Drive/Genesis games.
Thanks again for all the support.
I never got into Bruce Lee, but I'm really enjoying this. It's like Bubble Bobble with fighting. Beautiful work!
Thank you, I am very glad you are enjoying the game.
I love the music and the backgrounds. You have created a nice atmosphere. Feels nicely flushed out, like a mid-eighties arcade game. Tested successfully on flash carts and emu.
Thank you very much.
I am very glad that the graphics are seen positively. I was ready to hear negative thing about them.
The color palette feels warm, like a kung fu action movie from the late seventies. Something filmed on super 8. I can't speak for other's taste, but this is nostalgic for guys my age.
I really love the late 70s aesthetics, getting it recognized means a lot.
Thanks.
Made me want to watch a Shaw Brothers movie, or maybe an homage film like Kill Bill.
Awesome game ! Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much for this.
this is fun. i like the game mechanics. i don't even mind losing lol. the games font reminds me of the 80s. :D
cheers
Thanks.
I tried to make it look like a 80' early 90's game.
The fonts is the Limelight font, I use it too much lately. I also partly converted it to 8x8 pixels for easy use with SGDK. One day I will finish it and share it.
you nailed that look IMO. 'River City Ransom' and Miami Vice comes to mind. :)
would love to see this come to fruition.
very good
Thanks man.