Mad Video Codec source code released for Sega Saturn

[Mr^Burns]

This was released with the Alien Odyssey source code batch but is unrelated to Alien Odyssey, I have no idea who made it or for what games it was intended for so any info is welcome.

Download: Mad Video Codec Source

 

[antime]

Looks like Argonaut's BRP codec.

 

[Mr^Burns]

Thanks antime, looks like it is related to Alien Odyssey after all then.

 

[vbt]

yes it's from the Brender engine

 

[vbt]

thanks to @stevekwok this demo runs on a WIP of Nova (Saturn Emulator) all credits goes to him

 

[Mr^Burns]

Amazing work!

 

[vbt]

FX Fighter on saturn 😛

 

[MartinPiper]

Arise necro thread. I wrote the MAD video coded with David Williams, this was while we were working at Argonaut. The Sega Saturn port was done by me around the same time I was working on the Alien Odyssey porting effort. I don't remember much from all those years ago, but I do recall after the game port was canned I moved on to SGI Firewalker and BRender integration work.

 

[vbt]

Arise necro thread. I wrote the MAD video coded with David Williams, this was while we were working at Argonaut. The Sega Saturn port was done by me around the same time I was working on the Alien Odyssey porting effort. I don't remember much from all those years ago, but I do recall after the game port was canned I moved on to SGI Firewalker and BRender integration work.

good job on this codec, it's hard to recompile the stuff from this game, would you have keep the brender sources/library for saturn ?
the other versions of brender are available on archive.org but not the one we are looking for. My guess is it was also used for Croc which was really great even on saturn.

 

[MartinPiper]

Sadly I don't have th

good job on this codec, it's hard to recompile the stuff from this game, would you have keep the brender sources/library for saturn ?
the other versions of brender are available on archive.org but not the one we are looking for. My guess is it was also used for Croc which was really great even on saturn.

Sadly I don't have the BRender sources, except the header files which contained vector/matrix stuff.