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I've recently discovered on my hard disk the scans of September 1999 issue of the Russian Game Land magazine where they do a preview of Defender of The Future. Overall the scans really don't look too bad, albeit the resolution is fairly low, so they probably aren't good enough for our Media ...

The section now has its own article on the main website: https://eccoonline.net/under-the-hood/e ... ifficulty/

Friend or Foe Redux by Spencer Nielsen has now been added to the collection.

Second page:
What is "Ecco the Dolphin"?
"Ecco the Dolphin" is an action-adventure game released exclusively for the Mega Drive in 1993. Beautiful graphics, challenging action, and sci-fi.

The ocean is home to a variety of marine life, including Echo's fellow dolphins.

This popular title has ...

"We want to capture the essence of what 'Ecco' is, and give everyone a chance to play it," says Ed Annunziata, Chief Creative Officer, A&R Atelier.

--Once again, please tell us what the appeal of "Ecco the Dolphin" (hereafter "Ecco") is.
Ed: It goes without saying that dolphins capture the hearts ...

https://x.com/XeronTokyo_Alt/status/2026675618197418466

Apparently, Ed has been busy and gave an interview to readers of the Famitsu Magazine in Japan. I am archiving the pages from that in this post as well as Google Translate results for this. Obviously to be taken with a grain of salt so I will ...

Waikiki Moon, now that does bring back memories! More of the old guard coming back!

Very happy to see you join our forum, please enjoy your stay!

Probably the most anticipated Ecco track out here has landed.
Attila is certainly exploring interesting aspects of the well familiar Tube of Medusa, taking it to new directions...

You are welcome! Happy to know this section is being useful!

Attention, community members!

Discord have announced they will be locking down all user accounts as Minors and demand you provide them either your government issued ID or a face scan to unlock them starting next month.

For a company with such a stellar record of keeping your personal data safe ...

Glad you've enjoyed it!

And yes, I am just as concerned about preserving this info which is why I'm going to try and fill that section in at Segaretro wiki as they are in the process of documenting whatever is available about Ecco due to the recent resurgence in popularity

We're being treated to good things lately.
Attila's reimagining of Welcome to The Machine has now been published!

Ambient noises V2 has been added. This time we know for certain it's another work by Attila.

Nice work there, I can only imagine how satisfying it must have been when it finally worked! Most likely the way Ed originally intended this to go indeed with his cryptic puzzles :e_grin:
The user manual does say "Experiment with Songs: they can do surprising things", but that's about the only hint ...

First random bit of Ecco II code analysis.

The Asterite .
Curiously enough, he is actually stored as two halves inside two 32-bit variables at RAM addresses 0xD434⁩⁩ and 0xD438⁩⁩ . Every globe is represented by a single bit in those: e.g., 0x0F is 4, 0xFF is 8, etc., up to 32 in each helix ...

Johnny did a marvelous job reverse engineering some of the Ecco aspects. The problem was that there was never much of it documented and with Dark Sea long gone there isn't really a good reliable source of information for the others to pick up.

Since I am following up on some of the sections of ...

I have been profiling both functions responsible for bonus and penalty points and I have got an interesting update on this.

The function responsible for penalizing you when you lose, has got a slightly unpredictable behaviour due to the way it is written works. To me it almost looks like Molnar ...

The Entity wrote: 27 Jan 2026, 11:20 I'll be looking forward to it.

I think you will be happy to learn that I have now described Ecco II dynamic difficulty in more detail!
Please see this topic: viewtopic.php?p=129

Tides of Time was quite a unique game in many different ways, one of which was its ability to automatically adjust the difficulty based on how well you were progressing through it which was quite a novel concept at a time. But how exactly does this system work and what does it actually take for the ...

I remember this one well! The reflections and glow effect on that Glyph are absolutely gorgeous, thank you for sharing this with us and breaking the ice in this section! Would be absolutely lovely to see more of your works here