Dirt Racer game

[Markfrizb]

I visited snes central and looked up the PAL game Dirt Racer.
Snes central shows that it's same cartridge as Vortex.... 256k sram, no save,

So at start up and during game, I get this picture...

What does it mean???

[koitsu]

Purely speculation, but these are the thoughts that went through my head:

- Looks like an icon depicting a cartridge getting dumped onto a chip, so probably an EPROM/EEPROM
- Maybe it's an icon depicting some form of copy protection, i.e. "don't make copies (of the ROMs) from the cart"? (Some commercial games (ex. Super Mario All-Stars) had warnings that would display a warning)
- Looking up the game title, it looks like this is a SuperFX game, so maybe there's some kind of issue there?

[Markfrizb]

My first thought was maybe it's showing a save process ... Or maybe it can't do a save. The game plays fine. Just that pic shows up every so often but not during a race itself.
The pic looks like a console cartridge slot..... And a chip below it.

[koitsu]

I think it's an icon of a cartridge, not a cartridge slot -- look closely at the bottom of the top icon, there are green and yellow lines designating an edge connector. The other icon is definitely that of a chip.

So yeah, maybe it's just an icon indicating the game is in the process of writing to SRAM, but has issues doing so? Hmm. If that's what it depicts -- yeah, not very clear... :-)

[Sik]

I took a quick look at the game and I think it's just a loading screen (it seems to come up whenever the game has to load a track).

[KungFuFurby]

This is a loading screen. I also know that this game dynamically makes some of its code and sends it to WRAM to execute, so that's part of the magic that might be happening in the background.

[bazz]

it's a cute picture lol

[ccovell]

Kinda similar to this (MD devcart "logo"):