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Matrix Digital Rain demo for Genesis

Post by ComradeOj » Wed Jan 06, 2016 2:47 pm

First homebrew of 2016!
Remember the matrix? I do. I never really cared for the movie, but I used to love the digital rain effect. I used it as my screensaver when I got my own PC for the first time in middle school.

I made this quick demo showing off the "digital rain" effect. It's kind of cool watching it go. I've seen this effect done on other platforms, but to my knowledge this is the only one on Genesis.

The random generation could use a bit of work. It's mostly okay though. Some combinations of parameters can give odd results. For example, all default settings but animate speed of 2 gives an odd generation pattern. The parameters chosen also seem to have an effect on the mix of Japanese/Latin characters used in the mix.

Download link (source code included) - http://www.mode5.net/download/Matrix%20 ... 20demo.zip
As with most of my stuff, the ROM download also includes the source code. I included it, but practically nothing is commented or explained.

Here is a video showing it off:
I showed it running on a few different versions of the Genesis, and I tried showing how setting different parameters works.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIS0xpYvzBg
Visit my web site at http://www.mode5.net/!

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Re: Matrix Digital Rain demo for Genesis

Post by RetroGames » Mon Feb 01, 2016 9:37 am

Looks really cool! I'm glad you showed it running on several different Genesis models. It's neat to see. :) Good work on this demo!

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