Anyone know much about the MD VDP (Game Gear welcome too!)

Aerosol · Post by **Aerosol** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:39 pm

I'd just like to know...

By what method do games like OutRun, RoadRash, and Sonic Drift scroll the race track?

TmEE co.(TM) · Post by **TmEE co.(TM)** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:37 pm

Sonic Drift uses palette scrolling + raster effects, Road Rash is doing software rendering mixed with raster effects. No idea about OutRun

Gigasoft · Post by **Gigasoft** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 5:04 pm

Outrun has a static field which is line scrolled to give the appearance of a curving road. There are two roads, one on each layer. The moving horizontal stripes in the road are displayed by changing the palette, to visualize the movement.

Aerosol · Post by **Aerosol** » Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:43 pm

As soon as palette scrolling was mentioned, everything clicked into place. Thanks guys!

I don't suppose anyone knows where I might find some asm examples of the things TmEE and Gigasoft mentioned do they?

WayneK · Post by **WayneK** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:34 pm

A nice write-up of various games and how they do their 'road' effects can be found here:-

http://www.gorenfeld.net/lou/pseudo

Everything is fully explained, so you should be able to write your own routines for your platform of choice after reading