David 'MameHaze' Haywood
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David 'MameHaze' Haywood
@mamehaze.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/mamehaze
Emulation developer and digital archaeologist / preservationist for 25+ years. Worked on emulating many of the classics (and not so classics) you know and love in MAME, plus for a variety of licensed commercial projects.
Some of the tunes found here would later be used for Super Sprint instead. There was a small amount of missing/corrupt data in Atari's backup used by one of the background columns, which has been restored.
We're lucky to have anything. Atari had no official back-up policy, they were done on request.
December 10, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Had this been released in 1985 it would have been one of the first, if not the first music based video arcade game. It plays a lot closer to 'Simon' than say Konami's DDR, but I think represents a missed opportunity for Atari, even if it would have needed expanding upon to be a real success.
December 10, 2025 at 4:48 PM
This has been further improved
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfGD...
Atari Games - Jammin' prototype (better visuals)
YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I actually sent one of these to TeamEurope recently, who attempted to dump what looked like the ROM glob, but it does't seem to contain anything that looks valid.

Might be the code is internal to the CPU, and can't be dumped.
November 17, 2025 at 2:05 PM
and here is Radica's Opus with the new code
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8xG...
Further MAME Xavix Sound Emulation Improvements from Ramacat (testing Radica Opus)
YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood
www.youtube.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:49 PM
MAME avoided it for a while due to the MPEG stuff, but beyond that, lack of interest from anybody capable of implementing it.
September 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDuE... some further progress in a video this time
Sega / Coreland '119' - Rare Arcade Game, Further MAME Footage
YouTube video by David 'mamehaze' Haywood
www.youtube.com
August 19, 2025 at 12:32 PM
(it might sound illogical, but MAME tends to be best tested after a release as more eyes are on it, so without a monthly release little regressions, like the SEEPROM issue which broke a bunch of stuff, can creep in unnoticed, so longer cycles tend to result in buggier builds)
August 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM