EmeraldNova
Pluto Supporter
Non-judges, please discuss competition entries from the SEGA Saturn 29th Anniversary Game Competition thread here.
SEGA Saturn 29th Anniversary Game Competition - Discussion Thread
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Always great to see the Saturn is still alive and kicking even at this year!
As of writing this, there's one entry in the official thread which is Red Moon: Lost Days...I happened to play it before - it's a game set in the same universe of another VN / RPG hybrid the dev made for PC (Red Moon of April), following a different story through what can be considered one of the "antagonists" of the first game, so as far as lore / universe go, it's really interesting to get to know more about that character.
RM:LD is more straightforward than RMA, but it's on Saturn, so that makes it just as cool. The game is on the short side but the plot is well written and the ending actually surprised me because
, so that makes it great for me already, lmao
Best of luck to all participants!
As of writing this, there's one entry in the official thread which is Red Moon: Lost Days...I happened to play it before - it's a game set in the same universe of another VN / RPG hybrid the dev made for PC (Red Moon of April), following a different story through what can be considered one of the "antagonists" of the first game, so as far as lore / universe go, it's really interesting to get to know more about that character.
RM:LD is more straightforward than RMA, but it's on Saturn, so that makes it just as cool. The game is on the short side but the plot is well written and the ending actually surprised me because
it's basically mechas with something similar to the nen ability used in the shounen Hunter x Hunter
Best of luck to all participants!
Don't know if any of you have seen, but this guy has put up a video of a sort of POC port of Metal Gear Solid to the Saturn
I have messaged him and suggested he submits it to the contest.
I have messaged him and suggested he submits it to the contest.
Thanks for this! tested it the other day and it was fine but won't load the tracks now! i've done what you said and it's ok now, have re-uploaded
fafling
Gear Supporter
Yes, v0.11 works fine on the Satiator.
FYI, using MediaInfo, I noticed that all the problematic tracks in v0.1 had the producer field set at "Logic Pro X".
A small detail, but the health gauge and the half transparent rectangles under the pause menu or the messages are slightly rotated clockwise. It creates a small aliasing and an overdraw vertical line in the center of the half transparent rectangles. Is it intended ?
i'm not sure why it looks like that - its not intentional! i'm using the jo_engine functions "jo_sprite_change_sprite_scale_xy" to change the scale and "jo_sprite_draw3D" to draw it. thought it might be a glitch due to using scaled sprites and transparency
SuperReye
Mega Supporter
in jo if you rotate the sprite, than its not rotated correctly at 90 deg intervals, there is slight dicrepancy (2-3deg)
I love seeing what the talented devs in this community come up with every year. Especially with genres or series that had little to no representation on the console during its original life span, or that ran poorly because of the various issues back in the day.
This year, Cold Case has really captured my attention as well as the Metal Gear demo. Translations are always exciting and the visual novels for fans of that genre are great.
The one genre that is practically nonexistent on the Saturn that I'd love a good homebrew effort for is a Mario Kart style game. Even the Jaguar has Atari Karts while the PS1 has Crash Team Racing. Imagine a 32-bit Sonic All Stars racing with Joe Musashi throwing Ninja Stars at Sonic. LOL
This year, Cold Case has really captured my attention as well as the Metal Gear demo. Translations are always exciting and the visual novels for fans of that genre are great.
The one genre that is practically nonexistent on the Saturn that I'd love a good homebrew effort for is a Mario Kart style game. Even the Jaguar has Atari Karts while the PS1 has Crash Team Racing. Imagine a 32-bit Sonic All Stars racing with Joe Musashi throwing Ninja Stars at Sonic. LOL
I tested Cold Case on Fenrir and it worked very well
Did you have to do anything in particular? My Fenrir crashes at Apt.tga File not found for some reason.
fafling
Gear Supporter
In jo_engine\sprite.c, try these 2 changes to prevent Jo from using an angle of 1 instead of 0 :
C:
void jo_sprite_draw(const int sprite_id, const jo_pos3D * const pos, const bool centered_style_coordinates, const bool billboard)
{
#if JO_COMPILE_USING_SGL
FIXED sgl_pos[5];
//SPR_ATTR attr = SPR_ATTRIBUTE(0, No_Palet, No_Gouraud, ECdis, sprNoflip | FUNC_Sprite);
SPR_ATTR attr = SPR_ATTRIBUTE(0, No_Palet, No_Gouraud, ECdis, sprNoflip);
sgl_pos[2] = jo_int2fixed(pos->z);
sgl_pos[3] = __jo_sprite_attributes.fixed_scale_x;
sgl_pos[4] = __jo_sprite_attributes.fixed_scale_y;
if (centered_style_coordinates)
{
sgl_pos[0] = jo_int2fixed(pos->x);
sgl_pos[1] = jo_int2fixed(pos->y);
}
else
{
sgl_pos[0] = jo_int2fixed(pos->x - JO_TV_WIDTH_2 + JO_DIV_BY_2(__jo_sprite_def[sprite_id].width));
sgl_pos[1] = jo_int2fixed(pos->y - JO_TV_HEIGHT_2 + JO_DIV_BY_2(__jo_sprite_def[sprite_id].height));
}
__jo_set_sprite_attributes(&attr, sprite_id);
if (billboard)
slPutSprite(sgl_pos, &attr, 0);
else if (sgl_pos[3] != sgl_pos[4])
//slDispSpriteHV(sgl_pos, &attr, 1/* SGL bug: doesn't work properly if angle is null */);
slDispSpriteHV(sgl_pos, &attr, 0);
slinga
Established Member
@not-AI-generated ,
Cool stuff. Obviously you will get more people to try out your game if you implement controller support. But I'm sure you know that and ran out of time.
I swear there is a memory mapped register you can use for random (pseudo random?) values on the Saturn. If not you can grab the time and seed that (with obvious issues of the year being 1994 because of the player's dead battery....).
Cool stuff. Obviously you will get more people to try out your game if you implement controller support. But I'm sure you know that and ran out of time.
I swear there is a memory mapped register you can use for random (pseudo random?) values on the Saturn. If not you can grab the time and seed that (with obvious issues of the year being 1994 because of the player's dead battery....).
vbt
Staff member
well done @cafe-alpha and thanks for the good timesMy entry is "Jacky Car" which is a racing game adapted from the eponym game for TI calculators here : Ti-Fr v3 !
Basically, it's like OutRun, but viewed from top, and without beaches, and without open cars too. It also shares some common points with PONG (regarding the lack of fancy graphics), Sonic (regarding the choice of the color of the road) and also Radiant Silvergun regarding the fact that the score is displayed in the top left area of the screen.
Apart from the race itself, the game features a small demo that can be displayed when the score reaches 999999 points.
Controls :
- Left / Right : move the car
- A or B or C : exit the race
- Start : exit to Saturn multiplayer
Last year I promised @vbt to publish an entry in this game competition, and despite the poor quality of this entry I'm glad I could fulfill this promise
