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I wish they had =/

There's one thing I have to say about this whole idea: Quake 32X CD. The lack of RAM in the 32X and the inability of the SH-2s to access any of the Sega CD's extra RAM is going to make any decent 3D game on the 32X CD combo difficult without extra hardware. This is not to say that it's impossible (...

There's one thing I have to say about this whole idea:

Quake 32X CD.

The only problem I can see with a MOD player is whether the Z80 has very many timers. Lemme check the docs...hmm, I'm not seeing any timers other than the ones on the FM chip. Which means you could have at most two different playback frequencies. For MOD playing you'd need a different timer for each...

Is that a Genesis board separated from the case? That's awesome.

Eh, I can't locate a Japanese version of the game, and sound loss with MP3 really isn't all that bad for most songs, depending on the bitrate. Also, yeah, the Japanese version of Time Gal on SCD had vocals, but the European and US releases replaced the vocals with an organ sample playing the vocal m...

Does anyone know where I can get an MP3 of the Japanese opening for Time Gal? I'd like to replace the organ-as-vocals version in the US release with the actual vocal version, but I can't find an MP3.

When writing C code on practically any platform, unless you're writing inline assembler, the processor used is pretty much transparent. There are some exceptions - for example, you need to worry about whether I/O on the platform is memory-mapped (68K, 6502,) or port-based (Z80, x86,) since that affe...

No, 64 total, not 256. (4 palettes x 16 colors.) And yes, same deal for sprites - they can be one of the four palettes (the same four palettes as the background,) 16 colors per tile. The easiest way I can think of to make sure you have only 16 colors per tile is to use a tile editor like Tile Layer ...

I'm not a Guitar Hero fan, but I heartily approve of the PSX->C=64 interface being built.

I'm a little confused here. Is there a good explanation of the details of extern somewhere? Specifically, how are extern symbols in the code linked to specific binary files on disk?

Where does one get that?

I can work with assembler okay, but C makes things so much easier to keep organized and saves a lot of work. And on an 8MHz machine, the (very minor) speed loss doesn't really matter much. So...C, with some ASM.

Do you still need a background artist? What level and style of graphics are we talking? The Sega CD could do Sierra AGI-style graphics with ease (think King's Quest 1-3, Space Quest 1-2,) and I've had some experience with that, but I'm not sure I could help with more advanced stuff.

Actually, it sounds like he's proposing using a microcontroller and having the Z80 watch it.