New 3d saturn game
- Thread starter Meyitzo
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I would love to help, but I can´t program Saturn either. Still, I would love to help if you need me. I can do gfx or music and such...
Well, I can program Basic very well 🙂 and I can make a 3d-games easy in basic. Howdever, not in C. But im learning C...
slinga
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How the hell does game development work? Not just amatuer, but like real games? In the olden days you had one lead programmer, one or two artists, a sound guy, and a couple of managers. If I'm not mistaken, Guardian Heroes had only one lead programmer. Now imagine a complex game like Halo, how do you get multitple people to coordinate?
Oh yeah the topic...um let's make a 2d balloon fight with multitap support. I shot lead programmer\upper management guy.
Daniel Erickson: You rip the sprites from the nes rom.
Meyzito: You rip the music\find remixes for Balloon fight on the net.
Nescphp: Teach me how to use the SBL ::bows::
Vreuzon: Teach me how to implement multitap support ::bows even lower::
Oh yeah I'm serious. I'll hopefully have my contest entry done by the end of this week (been redoing the TUI), that leaves me about a week to program this before school starts.
Oh yeah the topic...um let's make a 2d balloon fight with multitap support. I shot lead programmer\upper management guy.
Daniel Erickson: You rip the sprites from the nes rom.
Meyzito: You rip the music\find remixes for Balloon fight on the net.
Nescphp: Teach me how to use the SBL ::bows::
Vreuzon: Teach me how to implement multitap support ::bows even lower::
Oh yeah I'm serious. I'll hopefully have my contest entry done by the end of this week (been redoing the TUI), that leaves me about a week to program this before school starts.
Well, really, its a good idea. I could fix those sprites easily if you want.
nescphp : to mix 3d and 2d makes no problem
slinga : If I am not mistaking, jordan mechner wrote prince of persia alone (I believe his brother wrote the music...)
Multitap support is not complicated at all, I can help you i you want.
If you plug it on the first position, you can acces each pad with Smpc_Peripheral, i : [0..5]. The "second" pad position is i=15. For each player, you only have
- To store the corresponding pad number somewhere;
- To store each pad's last "pad data" (as i wrote in another thread this month).
As I did the work three times already, I think it would be easy to solve common problems you could have.
We should be able to support up to 12 players using two multitaps, but I never tried. The result could be pretty confusing.
What does a 2d ballon fight looks like ?
slinga : If I am not mistaking, jordan mechner wrote prince of persia alone (I believe his brother wrote the music...)
Multitap support is not complicated at all, I can help you i you want.
If you plug it on the first position, you can acces each pad with Smpc_Peripheral, i : [0..5]. The "second" pad position is i=15. For each player, you only have
- To store the corresponding pad number somewhere;
- To store each pad's last "pad data" (as i wrote in another thread this month).
As I did the work three times already, I think it would be easy to solve common problems you could have.
We should be able to support up to 12 players using two multitaps, but I never tried. The result could be pretty confusing.
What does a 2d ballon fight looks like ?
What about Dink Smallwood port ?
Full source code is available here.
And, following the source release, a porting project has started at : http://dink.sourceforge.net/
More info at Robinson Technologies.
Do you think it would be possible to do such a port for the Saturn ?
Full source code is available here.
And, following the source release, a porting project has started at : http://dink.sourceforge.net/
More info at Robinson Technologies.
Do you think it would be possible to do such a port for the Saturn ?
slinga
Established Member
Let's go for it then guys. I was waiting to finish my contest entry first (getting stuck on programming issues, i.e. Slinga==sloppy programmer), but I guess we can start with the non-programming aspectes of Balloon Fight.
Balloon Fight is Joust clone by Nintendo.
Here's some pictures: http://www.planetnintendo.com/nindb/fran-b...loonfight.shtml
The saturn should be able to handle this with ease in C.
Daniel Eriksson: If you have time, can you start ripping sprites? The only way I know how is to load up Balloon Fight in an Nes emu and capture screen shots. I hope you know a better way 😀
Now I don't know too much displaying sprites on saturn, I'm guessing the sprites should be formatted to fit on 320x224, the Saturn's normal resolution. Ask someone *cough*cough*Reinhart*cough*cough* before you start ripping.
We also need a sound guy? Who's up for it. It's much less work than the graphics artist.
vreuzon: Thanks for offering your help. I will definitely be posting on the board couple of days or so when I start programming and I am STUCK somewhere. As for 12 player support, why not? I was thinking about 7 player (as very few people have two multitaps), but I don't see it being much more work to implement 12 players.
Realistic timeline for project: Late December\Early January.
Edit: It messed up my formatting.
Balloon Fight is Joust clone by Nintendo.
Here's some pictures: http://www.planetnintendo.com/nindb/fran-b...loonfight.shtml
The saturn should be able to handle this with ease in C.
Daniel Eriksson: If you have time, can you start ripping sprites? The only way I know how is to load up Balloon Fight in an Nes emu and capture screen shots. I hope you know a better way 😀
Now I don't know too much displaying sprites on saturn, I'm guessing the sprites should be formatted to fit on 320x224, the Saturn's normal resolution. Ask someone *cough*cough*Reinhart*cough*cough* before you start ripping.
We also need a sound guy? Who's up for it. It's much less work than the graphics artist.
The sound guy is expected to:
- Gather sound clips for balloon fight
- from the internet (including remixes)
- directly from the game
- Convert sound to Saturn format
- IE high quality WAV files
Sound is not as critical as graphics in the game development process, so this can be done pretty much anytime.
vreuzon: Thanks for offering your help. I will definitely be posting on the board couple of days or so when I start programming and I am STUCK somewhere. As for 12 player support, why not? I was thinking about 7 player (as very few people have two multitaps), but I don't see it being much more work to implement 12 players.
Realistic timeline for project: Late December\Early January.
Edit: It messed up my formatting.
That remind me that I should consider writing a little something about sprites ...
Feel free to ask whatever you want, I can try to answer as better as possible.
I can contribute this project with 2 lines of code a month ...
(days are sooo short ... )
this is going a bit off topic ...
Feel free to ask whatever you want, I can try to answer as better as possible.
I can contribute this project with 2 lines of code a month ...
(days are sooo short ... )
this is going a bit off topic ...
Ok ill start right now!
The emu I use have a window where you can capture all tiles and sprites.
The fish is indeed very important! 🙂
So we should enchance it? I probably can...
The emu I use have a window where you can capture all tiles and sprites.
The fish is indeed very important! 🙂
So we should enchance it? I probably can...
Here is the title screen in pcx-format. Do we need the ballon on the menu animated?
