Developing an MMORPG on older system?

[Segavagabond]

I was wondering if it is possible in any way. Perhaps a Phantasy-Star-Online-esque Hub that allows you to interact and team up with other users to take on a dungeon. Say, for instance, if the target platform was the Genesis, but the ROM is intended for emulators and a direct connection (via kaillera?) to a server.

If not, would it be possible to force 4-player onto a genesis game, as well as Downloadable dungeons (A main ROM with ROMs branching off for the expansions)?

 

[M3d10n]

I think it's next to impossible... I never heard of a ROM, for any emulated console, that could know it was running in a HD, and could be able to branch intro files on that HD.

Anyway MM-anything are the harderst, most expensive, and most sanity-destroyer games to develop EVER. Developing a tetris game in an old console where programming required a tad more balls than it does on today's systems, plus the fact you don't have official tools/docs/support *IS* hard enough.

I can't get why so many game-dev-wannabes want to make multi-massives (check gamedev.net game design forums for some laughs). It's not like you can make one in your garage, and doing a kind of game that can only be remotely fun if you have TONS of infrastructure (servers, fresh content, lotsa users connected) without ANY resources sounds utterly pointless to me.

 

[Jurai]

Originally posted by Segavagabond@Dec 16, 2003 @ 09:29 PM

I was wondering if it is possible in any way. Perhaps a Phantasy-Star-Online-esque Hub that allows you to interact and team up with other users to take on a dungeon. Say, for instance, if the target platform was the Genesis, but the ROM is intended for emulators and a direct connection (via kaillera?) to a server.

If not, would it be possible to force 4-player onto a genesis game, as well as Downloadable dungeons (A main ROM with ROMs branching off for the expansions)?

you could do 4 player in the rom (iirc theres a genny multitap?) but i dont think gens' kaillera has 4 player support

 

[Alexvrb]

4 player is not massively multiplayer. Heed Medion, MMO is not something you'd want to attempt for an older console. Now that being said, if you were thinking of a game like PSO (which is not an MMO), that sort of thing can be done. As long as you basically forget about downloadable content.