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I want to download the emulator, but since the website is down I cant find a download link
The site was taken offline by the host because a foreign bot net has been targeting it with a massive attack at a regular time every day, taking down the entire server and consequently other unrelated sites on it.
Working out a solution but this is terrible timing as I’m in the middle of a move, so could be a week or so before it is up again.
You could even use https://pages.github.com/ for free hosting. If someone can provide a download link for the software in the mean time that would be great.
Cloudflare is exactly what I was going to look at next. I need to check today whether the bots have penetrated the registration page. I feel like it has generally stopped most bots but some get through on occasion and I do sometimes see a lot of bot signups that don’t end up posting. It’s the CPU load on the MySQL database that has been knocking the server over.
Cloudflare won't help if the IP of the server is already exposed. Also if there are others sites on there too, they would also all need to agree to the move behind the same, or similar, WAF technology or they will just discover the new IP.
Get a new server with new IP, use Cloudflare, or move it to another place with the same tech already in place.
In that case we would need to shut down the forum and move to static pages on GitHub or something because the server is being offered for free.
Alternatively we can try taking the forum down for a few weeks and seeing if they give up.
Apparently this is causing a monetary impact for my host. Supermodel was being hosted for free. I will have to either find a new free host that supports installing a phpBB forum or the Forum will simply be permanently removed (which is sad because there is a wealth of technical information there).
If anyone has any ideas, let me know.
Also, it will take a few weeks to resolve this. I'm in the process of a move and just started a new job.
While taking donations to keep the site online may be a burdensome alternative, for the Forums instead of totally losing them maybe a static version of them could be kept online and the discussions moved to Reddit? I'd prefer having an independent Forum not dependent on the whims of a corporation though so if your host can consider switching to another IP and put that behind cloudflare (maybe even community-funded?), that might fix it permanently.
In that case we would need to shut down the forum and move to static pages on GitHub or something because the server is being offered for free.
Alternatively we can try taking the forum down for a few weeks and seeing if they give up.
I would recommend replacing the forum with the Discord server. You could archive the forum into a static space on GitHub pages on a separate repository too.
Discord is not a good repository for permanent information. It takes only a whim of an employee or an algorithm to lose everything stored in a channel or server. Forums remain the better choice for this sort of thing.
Discord is not a good repository for permanent information. It takes only a whim of an employee or an algorithm to lose everything stored in a channel or server. Forums remain the better choice for this sort of thing.
Totally agree, Forums are superior to Discord. We just need better community-funded Forum servers similar to Wikipedia pages so they don't disappear with time.
Maybe we could put the website itself on github. By that i mean the source code for the pages. The site was so hilariously out of date. I know time is the big issue for most of us contributors, but patches to update the pages would be welcome lol
That's true. As for forums there's GitHub discussions if it's really needed. Or if it's just for technical info as the others have been suggesting, then a wiki would suffice.
I think GitHub pages could be a great option! Not sure what to do about the forum, though. Is there a better option? I like phpBB but administering it is a pain so if there is another forum option, let me know. I can probably recover the second one, as I partially did with the first and put it up online somewhere.
I will likely need a couple more weeks before I can tackle this as I'm just finally settling down into a new life in New York City again :)
With the posibility of moving to Github for that, would automaticaly built and hosted binaries be something that could also be implemented? (I don't know how that works on Github - I've just seen it done before.)
Github pages would be useful for the core emulator and tracking future work but the Forum content itself has lots of useful historical information that would be tedious to comb through and consolidate into a wiki without help and also break search results so having a way of at least statically hosting it would be great. From what I've quickly read, free PHPBB hosting isn't usually very good so maybe hosting the pages as static content as an archived link on Github pages might work? Maybe the Dolphin developers might have better options as they run a Forum and website.
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I think GitHub pages could be a great option! Not sure what to do about the forum, though. Is there a better option? I like phpBB but administering it is a pain so if there is another forum option, let me know. I can probably recover the second one, as I partially did with the first and put it up online somewhere.
I will likely need a couple more weeks before I can tackle this as I'm just finally settling down into a new life in New York City again :)
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continuing from the last comment, i think archiving all of the old forum stuff and then starting a new one somewhere would be an great idea
@trzy Hi Bart, I know I've suggested this multple times already, but GitHub's Discussion and Wiki features can be actual long-term solutions for the forums and outdated readme - all for free and bot-proof. Requires the least effort too, all you gotta do is enable them in GitHub.
Anything but Discord.
Discord is not a good repository for permanent information. It takes only a whim of an employee or an algorithm to lose everything stored in a channel or server. Forums remain the better choice for this sort of thing.
Totally agree, Forums are superior to Discord. We just need better community-funded Forum servers similar to Wikipedia pages so they don't disappear with time.
I personally hate discord for anything related to forums or knowledge bases. The search functionality is terrible. You must be logged in to view. No real structure to it. Either resurrecting the forum or moving all the technical knowledge to the Github wiki could be good options.
With the posibility of moving to Github for that, would automaticaly built and hosted binaries be something that could also be implemented? (I don't know how that works on Github - I've just seen it done before.)
Yes this could be done. Github actions or other CI tools can compile the code and make a 'release'.
where can i download the win32-amd64 binary for this software in the mean time? Since the website is down, and there are no binaries on the releases page on this repo
where can i download the win32-amd64 binary for this software in the mean time? Since the website is down, and there are no binaries on the releases page on this repo
As far as I'm aware there is no way right now.
I discovered https://github.com/DirtBagXon/model3emu-code-sinden/releases which seems to follow commits from master here closely in the meantime.
Hi everyone,
I've just updated my SuperModel with latest version available here: https://github.com/DirtBagXon/model3emu-code-sinden/releases The games are starting correctly, but ALL of them are set in FREE PLAY mode. Is there any way to return back to the previous INSERT COIN mode?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Is there any way to return back to the previous INSERT COIN mode?
That's usually something you do in the BIOS menu.
I discovered https://github.com/DirtBagXon/model3emu-code-sinden/releases which seems to follow commits from master here closely in the meantime.
it refuses to run Ocean Hunter. I even added the recent romset
Go figure, works out box for me:
Title: The Ocean Hunter (Japan, Revision A)
ROM Set: oceanhun
Developer: Sega
Year: 1998
Stepping: 2.1
3D Engine: New
Extra Hardware: Security Board
These settings are stored in NVRAM (the NVRAM files store EEPROM data and battery-backed backup RAM data), where settings and high score data are kept. If you are downloading a version of Supermodel that already provides these:1. A pox on whoever distributes it that way. I don’t approve of such impurity.2. You’ll just have to go into the service menu for the game and change the game settings manually. Use keys 6 and 5 to access and navigate these menus.Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 17, 2025, at 2:39 PM, legion-droid @.***> wrote:legion-droid left a comment (trzy/Supermodel#259) Go figure, works out box for me: Title: The Ocean Hunter (Japan, Revision A) ROM Set: oceanhun Developer: Sega Year: 1998 Stepping: 2.1 3D Engine: New Extra Hardware: Security Board
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There is no NVRAM in distribution, but I clear down settings following this commit: https://github.com/trzy/Supermodel/commit/69d03d6752b8b63794810174c0dd6a511bb5ba01
As dukeeeey advised. Maybe these guys not.
Go figure, works out box for me:
Title: The Ocean Hunter (Japan, Revision A) ROM Set: oceanhun Developer: Sega Year: 1998 Stepping: 2.1 3D Engine: New Extra Hardware: Security Board
It seems the culprit was Sega Model 3 UI. While for May version of Supermodel you can launch games via command line, for Sinden Supermodel you have to remove Sega Model 3 UI completely. The GUI needs an update as well