An Early Christmas Gift From The Andy Geezer!!

[@CameronMcCaffrey-e7p]

Just wanted to thank you for all your videos over the years...especially the repair ones. Hope you have a great Christmas!

[@KennAndJenn]

What an awesome guy Andy is! Definitely gonna subscribe to his channel. Hope you have a great christmas brother!

[@lukemorse1]

Awe man. Honestly brother, between you and Andy, you two have done more for me than I could ever repay. Andy is a great guy with a lot of arcade knowledge and has really done a lot to make sure arcades stay alive in the community. I hope you and Jen have an awesome Christmas as well brother!

[@markh384]

Have a great Christmas Luke! We all love your videos. Greetings from the UK 🇬🇧

[@fv_ys_]

What a TRANSFORMATION.

[@valentine_puppy]

Dude, Luke. Such an awesome Christmas Gift. Andy Geezer you are too cool dude for giving that. I am so happy to see you happy about this Luke. That's awesome. Merry Christmas Luke. 🎄🎄🎄

[@lukemorse1]

Thanks a lot Valentine! For sure, Andy is very giving and this was a very nice gift which I am really happy to have. I'm extremely fortunate to be surrounded by such nice people, yourself included. I hope you have a Merry Christmas yourself and a Happy New Year!!

[@gumdeo]

Happy Christmas Luke! 🎄

[@nfang_tk]

メリークリスマスルーク君! Haha hope you can relax and veg out during these holidays! 来年もよろしくね! 😄

[@RetroWasteLand81]

You got a great friend there

[@possumgrits825]

Awesome

[@AlphaChadBricks]

Word up! A lukemorse package vid! I thoroughly enjoy this :)

[@lukemorse1]

Thank you AlphaChad! I really appreciate that. Sorry about the loading part in the middle, that took some time. Hopefully you are having a good day today.

[@The_Magic_of_Zelda]

Merry Christmas, Luke! I hope you feel better soon. I'm glad your game runs like new again. Andy is awesome!

[@lukemorse1]

Merry Christmas right back at you!! Thanks for the kind wishes and I'm already feeling much better, thank you! Andy IS awesome and you are too!

[@RoyBatty1980]

Merry Christmas, Luke!

[@lukemorse1]

Thanks Roy! Merry Christmas right back at you!!

[@StRoRo]

Awesome. Merry xmas

[@lukemorse1]

Thanks a million StRoRo!! Hope you have a Merry Christmas as well!!

[@dave4shmups]

Merry Christmas Luke! It’s interesting that the Sega RingEdge 2 hardware is Windows XP based. Taito Type X is too.

[@AccFireballs]

A new video from Luke, and it's got 3min 51s of some sweet System Initializing? I absolutely love it, Merry Christmas!🎅

[@lukemorse1]

Haha, sorry about that AF. yeah, the loading screen was a bit long but a least you could hear me ramble for 6 minutes or so lol. I hope you have a Merry Christmas as well!

[@AccFireballs]

@@lukemorse1 Nothing to be sorry about, I quite enjoyed the long wait and rambling😅

[@coffmanlove2020]

Legendary

[@mushroomsamba82]

really funny to see the discrete GPU in there, it's basically just a normal PC by the looks of it

[@lukemorse1]

For sure. The Lindbergh, Ringedge, Ringwide, Nu, etc are all pc based hardware. This is one of the things that makes emulation easier on regular desktop PC's

[@shawnrodgers2180]

We haven't seen a Hardoffs video in a while.

[@lukemorse1]

I know... Some of the hard offs I visited in the past have closed down and I havent had the chance to check out the other's recently. Maybe at some point here.

[@coffmanlove2020]

Man sad too here that​@lukemorse1

[@Polaventris]

Butter smooth! What a cool gift, but still nothing ranch flavored :D

[@lukemorse1]

This one was like concrete at the beginning for sure, rough and hard to get working. Everything worked out in the end but yeah, no ranch flavored goodness this round. Hope you are doing well

[@TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube]

Seen this game at Dave n Busters Hollywood Boulevard when we had vacation in LA back in May 2019. Wow that boot up time, yeah kinda of reminds me of the old install n updates on modern gen for sure 😅. Been a while since I used Windows Xp. Shame about them bootleg glitches, least the new legit game looks great. Christmas came early . Have a great holiday Luke, looking forward to seeing your next video of it👍😎✌️

[@lukemorse1]

Thats really cool to hear about the Dave and Busters you remember. These "newer" PC based and high definition games are taking longer and longer to boot due to the shear size of the data. This one was too long though lol. I hope you have a great Holiday as well and here is to some more awesome gaming in 2025! Take care and Ill catch you on the next one!

[@TheKayliedGamerChannel-YouTube]

​@@lukemorse1Thanks Luke for sharing your time with us regards the repair and gameplay uploads this year. Hoping we all have a great Christmas holiday, wishing all the best from us in rainy old UK 🎄🎅⛄🎄😎🕹️🎉

[@vibgaming]

Top guy is Andy.

[@lukemorse1]

100% agreed! and thanks for the comment!

[@douro20]

Does the video card have a special BIOS?

[@lukemorse1]

Yes indeed. the Sega and Taito video cards have a special Bios flashed to them.

[@DJeimaXe]

*From the way that it render interrupts, it looks like the old schhol of spooling running on a slower bus speed.* Even the PlayStation 1 uses spooling from some software of programmers.

[@lukemorse1]

Wow, really interesting stuff. I'm not familiar with that at all but very intriguing. Thanks for sharing and hope you are having a day!

[@darktetsuya]

been busy so I'm definitely behind on these uploads, but figured I'd at least watch this one! maybe there should've been a jump-cut, haha. :P I know I played one of these transformers games at a movie theater some years ago ... kind of a fun one! hope you can figure out a way to rig it up for some gameplay that would be a fun one to watch! sega always did some great light-gun games, for sure.

[@NinjaNakabim]

i might be mistaken, but it even looks like the graphics on the bootleg are a bit different as well, comparing bumblebee's it seems as if the actual cart has more detail and color. I could just be seeing things. Could the reason it runs so bad (besides being a bootleg) that its running an earlier version of the game?

[@lukemorse1]

That my very well be possible. After talking with Andy, there were 2 versions of this game that were made. Im not sure which one the other one is but there are likely a lot of parts that they changed. This could be another one of the problems as well as being a bootleg. The good news is that it is now working properly the way it should. Thanks for the comment!

[@jcnba28]

Make more hard off videos and Merry Christmas!

[@lukemorse1]

Haha, I know, I need to go and find some hard off stores where I can do that again. Also a very Merry Christmas right back at you jcnba28!

[@martyboy700]

You reminded me of a certain day one patch - 0.1GB of 47.2GB please wait.

[@Cahos_Rahne_Veloza]

@4:22 Good 'ol Windows XP with its excruciatingly long boot times. Moreso since you said this system is a bootleg. Maybe it has Malware that's causing the slowdown? Or insufficient RAM or a lowspec GPU perhaps?

[@lukemorse1]

Definitely some really slow boot times for sure. You could go and get a coffee and something to eat and still have time before the system boots. This one is 100x worse as a bootleg. You could be onto something with the slowdown being Malware or just a corrupt SSD. The system that Im using in the video is the correct one for the game so there shouldnt ever be any spec issues unless the graphics card fails. This time though, it was definitely related to that SSD but glad to have it running again. Hope everything is running smoothly for you as well Cahos!

[@TheHighlander71]

It almost looks like the game updated your system somehow. Perhaps that is part of the problem, the bootleg just didn't have the smarts to do that. Just guessing here.

[@lukemorse1]

Yes indeed. Because this system had a previous game in it and then I changed it out to another game, it had to go through an updating process before it started. The bootleg one probably had a lot of parts cut out of it and therefore it runs worse? a lot of speculation but not running 100% for sure.

[@rcboosted]

@@lukemorse1 If that's the case, would the bootleg now run normally now maybe? Also, can you drop Andy's channel?