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But of course you'd also have to convince people to try a cartridge thing that requires a Sega CD… (admittedly, this is easier to justify for a tech demo than for a game) Then (old school) tech demo it is. :D Interestingly, I noticed that the Revision 2018 Oldskool Demo category was limited to 8-bi...

You do you. You've contributed a lot to the community, so you can always go to the direction you see fit. You've earned it. It's just that having changes that won't even run on actual Megadrives kinda dampen the impact. Imagine something like: "Here's a Megadrive that has 4096 colors, but won't run ...

The problem is that if you're looking at 1988, huuuh, the price was precisely the issue. The VDP has support for some improvements as it is (more VRAM, more colors, genlock onto other VDP), yet including that would have added to the cost. They also had to cut down some features from the VDP while r...

I would imagine a souped up Genesis would have been something like a Neogeo ("more of everything"). But if not that or the 32X then perhaps the Megadrive + MegaCD combo, minus the CD? Can the Megadrive access the MegaCD capabilities for non-CD games? With a MegaCD, you get extra RAM, a faster CPU, a...

I had a model 1 MegaDrive, which I bought just before Sonic 2 arrived. I remember having Sonic 1, 2. SOR2, TMNT, Gaiares, Super Hang On, Chakan, Tiny Toon Adventures, Mazin Saga, and Galaxy Force II. I sold it (with the carts) much later to add some money to buy a Saturn. My adult self regrets selli...

Also, is the system C2 backward compatible with MD ? (will a MD rom load and run normally ?) More likely not, since it lacks some of the Genesis components like the Z80, and it being arcade only (so not cartridge based?). It's more within the lineage of the SEGA System 16 arcade boards (which the G...

cero wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2019 7:36 am

There's little point to the "Tower of power" when a Saturn is better for all practical purposes.

Still being a Genesis is part of the constraint.

It is interesting to write something new for C2, as it is an improvement over a stock Genesis. My only reservation is that the hardware is not available to the general public. So binaries made for these would usually end up being run only on emulators and virtual machines. Wouldn't a Genesis + 32X +...

It looks very good. Will you create jRPG? Can you give Sprite Sorting code? I'd like to do an RPG someday, but using original material. I just used Phantasy Star for the demo. As for sprite-to-sprite sorting, I used SPR_setDepth, using the negated Y value. So if we have something like: SPR_setPosit...

For what's worth it, a lot of the stuff mentioned there is possible on top of the existing hardware: System C2 has more colors (using external CRAM) and better color depth (15-bit) Tera Drive has 128KB VRAM (which also doubles transfer bandwidth) Sega CD and 32X add more audio channels (both slots ...

Yes I had figured :mrgreen: But I can't find anything about it on the web... Stef mentioned Discord, so maybe try there. As for EMDs, I think I'd prefer it to be "doable" on actual Gennys, and are implemented on emulators now: 1. Overclocking 2. Extra RAM - like using SRAM(?) with the Mode 7-like d...

tryphon wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 09, 2019 11:46 am

What is this EMD thing ?

Enhanced Mega Drive?

It's not much, but this is my progress learning SGDK. I'm mainly using IMAGE for the tile mapping. Added some stuff Stef suggested on another thread regarding collisions, also using IMAGE but not uploaded to VDP. Then some sprite/background sorting (which one is front or behind). There's still much ...

(Running on an emulator) I just noticed that when you first load up "Goof NEW.bin", the two sprites do not move. If you do a soft reset, they'd move. If you do a hard reset, they won't move again. So I'm guessing it has something to do with variable initialization failing to account soft resets. EDI...

Unfortunately you don't have easy way to do that right now using rescomp. I plan to add features to help with that but currently the best way to do it is using a separate image representing the collision informations (using specific tiles for that). Using a separate image for collision isn't a bad ...