Saturn Content Library discs

[SeGaFrEaK_NL]

I just won two Saturn dev discs (See Assembler boards) called 'Content Library' containing movies and sounds for use in game development. I they prove useful (I.e; don't contain just a couple of scrappy CPK's) I'll make sure the Saturn DEV community here will be able to put them to good use.

Any questions PM me.

 

[dibz]

That sounds awesome.

 

[RockinB]

Everything is welcome 🙂 . Every piece of official development stuff can potentially turn out useful.

 

[Amon]

Yeah, arent we lacking video encoding and mpeg stuff?

 

[SeGaFrEaK_NL]

I got the discs in. They were MAC discs so they needed to be loaded with the Transmac program. Sadly, they don't contain much of use. The 'Sound' disc contains roughly 130 sound effects in AIF format;



The movie disc contained three folders; 'Desktop Folder', 'Fires' & 'Trash'.

Only the 'fires' folder contains roughly 20 movie (.MOV) files in 160x120 and 320x240 format. Quicktime doesn't playback these..

The other two folders seem empty 🙂questionmark🙂

Well, quite a disappointment but if someone here has a MAC perhaps I could send out a carbon copy of the disc (not sure if that works with a MAC disc). I can offer the AIF files for download if they are of any use. (they're quality sound effects).

Here's a sample MOV file, maybe someone can open it. (Quicktime gives '-2048 H' error, 'no movie found')

 

[antime]

The movie disc contained three folders; 'Desktop Folder', 'Fires' & 'Trash'.

Only the 'fires' folder contains roughly 20 movie (.MOV) files in 160x120 and 320x240 format. Quicktime doesn't playback these..

The other two folders seem empty

The example file does not seem to be a technically valid QuickTime MOV file, so you probably need some special tools to view it (everything seems to be contained in a single mdat atom, but its size field is zero). Looking at the Cinepak spec it looks quite possible that the video is coded using that codec, but in that case it probably uses the Saturn-specific version.


The empty folders are standard folders created on every volume by MacOS (they're named differently on modern OS X).

 

[SeGaFrEaK_NL]

Thanks for that. If anyone is succesful opening the MOV file let us know.

 

[SeGaFrEaK_NL]

Good news, I obtained another two dev discs and they are filled with tools. More news soon.

 

[vbt]

Good news, I obtained another two dev discs and they are filled with tools. More news soon.

It sounds interesting 🙂