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Cool.

Awesome technical achievement!

Nice game.

It's looking pretty nice, so far.

I think it would be a good idea, and I also agree that 3/4 months would be ideal. Let's see what people will cook up!

I'm not sure who manufactures the GOAC chips, but you'll find quite a lot of cheap chinese Genesis clones using those.

A few examples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4Ey5zKKldY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jNDZJWXO-s

I just found out that some guy in Russia is making an IDE for GINCS: http://emulation.at.ua/publ/developing/sega_megadrive_genesis/gincs_studio/11-1-0-71 Pretty nice project so far; it makes the tool that much easier to use. If you ever wanted to make a visual novel for the Sega Genesis, here's your...

Very nice demo!

Nice project!

Maybe you could use some variant of the plasma fractal, a.k.a. diamond-square algorithm: http://library.thinkquest.org/26242/full/types/ch10.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond-square_algorithm http://library.thinkquest.org/26242/full/types/images/35a.jpg http://library.thinkquest.org/26242/fu...

This page presents some map generation algorithms for roguelike games:
http://roguebasin.roguelikedevelopment. ... e=Articles
I'm not entirely sure if any of those would be useful in your case, though.

Indeed!

No, not really... like many computer hardware, Genesis' VDP only works on powers of two.
But, anyway, what are you trying to do? There's probably an alternative way.

I can see how this could work for passwords, but not so much for savestates... in that last case, it could actually reduce storage effectiveness for binary data, since save RAM can work with full-blown base 256 with no problems; it could produce some small improvement for text storage, but savegames...

Well, you could just do whatever binary encryption you want to do on the original binary data, and the convert the resulting encrypted data to base 96; you'll get better and more flexible encryption in that way.
But, anyway, what's your intended use for base 96?