Beiträge von sh3-rg

  • Chu Chu Rocket Atari ST

    Very nice to see this thread bumped :)

    mSg's musics are the thing that stands out for me, especially the tales of him sat in front of the Dreamcast in one room and running back to Sid Sound Designer in the next room, back and forth, back and forth :D

    After nearly 10 years without a release (well, apart from the sudoku game I released on '05, lol) RG are back working on things again. We've not really said anything (but we never really did, we were very secret squirrels) but maybe I will at least have something fun and fairly impressive with me at this years ejagfest, that would be too soon for release, but hopefully a preview would be possible.

  • Port von Heretic für Atari Jaguar

    People have been working with Jaguar Doom for years but nothing has become of it. Belboz and ViMaster worked on Death Tongue, with Belboz making his own versions of tool for WAD building. Neo hacked Doom II levels into Jaguar Doom by hand (!), Matthias made a stripped-down "BJL" Doom that we've all seen.

    Attempting to make Jaguar Doom play Heretic levels and making a Jaguar-style box mock-up for the youtube video seems a little reckless and misleading as it cannot be put out legally. Showing it running in an emulator without enemies/collects/whatever and without all the things that make Heretic different to Doom only seems like more of the same.

    Probably destined to be yet more Jaguar vaopurware, hard to see this ever being anything more than an exercise in tinkering with the code of others.

  • Downfall+ Jaguar

    For me, it is a gimmick, it plays pretty disastrously :D

    Only there because the Falcon game did it.

    Pro Controller is better than spinner, but really, regular d-pad is all you need.

  • Downfall+ Jaguar

    I added the delivery/packing details to the thread on AA. If you don't have an account there but want to order, you can PM me here. Hope that is OK for everyone interested. Thanks.

  • Downfall+ Jaguar

    I haven't made a thread on AA yet so have not talked much about it, but I might as well do now since you guys have your own thread here.

    downfall+ is a 4MB ROM. It wouldn't work as a CD as it requires that 4MB of ROM space + the 2mb of Jaguar memory to make the magic of the backdrops happen. While the game itself is pretty simple stuff as you know, all that fancy stuff in the background and on the title screen isn't so straight forward (well, it is, but it isn't :D ). When you're working with Jaguar CD, while you have the benefit of allowing lots of loading if required, you only have the Jaguar's 2MB of memory to play with. That simply wouldn't be enough to pull off the effect. There is cinepak or other streaming, but that's not something we wish to get involved with, it's fraught with potential pitfalls, therefore we only had simple parallax backdrops in the CD version as it's just a single shot 'BJL' game.

    downfall+ supports rotary controller and pro controller shoulder buttons if mere d-pad gaming is beneath you ( :P ). It saves games to cartridge and supports webscores on reboot.atari.org. Our QR code generation for high score entry via smartphone is ready, but we simply ran out of space to include it in this release.

    The game does have a version of the Falcon's "Heiko" mode, a game play variation that was inspired by CD-i's amazing and legendary Jaguar downfall video.

    It was a surprise to us that downfall would be the game more people requested than any other when asking for cartridges of past titles. Probably not as surprising as the explosion of clones it kick-started such as Fahrfall on the coco, Downfall Amiga, The various PC games... I've lost track, I used to keep a list... and from a game that itself was a clone from the older herbs64 games. We always said it'd not end up on cart unchanged unless it was a multicart. After GGN made the Falcon version, CJ was keen to let the Jaguar keep pace. I certainly took a lot more care and attention creating the Jaguar backdrops than I did the Falcon ones (most of those released were simply tests), still using GGN's excellent purpose-made tool but spending much more time post-processing the results to liven them up (or totally destroy them, as in the case of the title screen!).

    Once it's ready to go and I've posted on AA, people will be able to PM me to obtain a copy either there, here or facebook.

    EDIT: The sprites are also reworked. Frutier!

  • ejagfest 2013 - Atari Jaguar Europe Festival - 23.-24. November (Duisburg)

    Been locked out of my NexGam account for about 2 weeks /o\ Thanks to CD-i I got back in just now! cheers!

    Wanted to post a long series of thank yous to BMX and the rest of the organisers and attendees who made the Euro Jagfest 2013 the best one yet for me, but I'm far too busy hitting F5 on a courier website to make sure my ps4 will arrive tomorrow :P

    Once again, sorry we didn't manage to get either the CD or cart release ready in time, we'll hopefully make it up to you all soon with some new games to download and own :)

    Thanks also for all the feedback from those who played our games and to those with ideas for new ones (hi, Daniel!).

    Big manhugs & brofists all 'round, cheers!

  • Neues Jaguar Spiel: Lady Bugged

    Matmook rewrote Ladybugged entirely using Raptor/RMotion but has not finished it. He gets very little time for Jaguar stuff and has other projects it seems he's more keen to work on (I think he was working on DDXSP for the recent RGC party).

    He used to visit the #dbug and #jagware irc channels quite a lot but not so much recently. Next time he appears I'll ask about LB.