Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs

[Arkhan]

Semi-Irrelevantrelevant:

They had a functional dreamcast demo at a european game convention (gamescom)

but, again, without assets, we do not have a great starting point unless one expects Paul to do it all from scratch.

I am awaiting a response about what the current status is. 

If they intend to publish out from under us with little communication, maybe we will just make Sword Surfer and the Planet Police instead.

[spenoza]

I fully support the new SSatPP IP.

[haightc]

I haven't heard of any of these games before ( Sword Surfer and the Planet Police)
Sword Surfer looks fun and had great sound track.   Could find much on it other than one youtube video and the soundtrack.

Couldn't find anything about Planet Police.    I am guess perhaps a shmup or adventure game?

Would these be PC Engine games or perhaps I am missing a joke?

Semi-Irrelevantrelevant:

They had a functional dreamcast demo at a european game convention (gamescom)

but, again, without assets, we do not have a great starting point unless one expects Paul to do it all from scratch.

I am awaiting a response about what the current status is. 

If they intend to publish out from under us with little communication, maybe we will just make Sword Surfer and the Planet Police instead.

[Arkhan]

[MrBroadway]

Would these be PC Engine games or perhaps I am missing a joke?

Bigly.

[Necromancer]

So that's another unfortunate KS side effect:  You pay an idiot and they f*ck off with your money.

I think this sums it up nicely. 

[Arkhan]

So that's another unfortunate KS side effect:  You pay an idiot and they f*ck off with your money.

I think this sums it up nicely. 

at least it frees me up to make more MSX games for you to enjoy thoroughly.



lol

[spenoza]

I don’t have or want an MSX. I have a Duo and want more fun things to play on it. I demand satisfaction, sir!

[Arkhan]

everyone wants an MSX.  They just don't know it yet.

[nodtveidt]

I just want an MSX so I can whine about the lack of proper scrolling like every other scrub does.

[Mathius]

I just want an MSX so I can whine about the lack of proper scrolling like every other scrub does.

It just adds to its charm. 
If you get too bugged by it just get an MSX2. It's not perfect but it can be a huge improvement.

[gilbert]

Or, MSX2+, which was an even bigger update. It could have smooth scrolling (real one, not faked ones by adjusting the display position like in earlier models) and multi-colour "natural picture" modes(with restrictions).

There were shops BiTD that had the system regularly on show, and I was thinking of getting this or the Mega Drive. The Super Famicom was not released yet, and the PC Engine was just a joke, an inferior 8-bit system that couldn't do any thing as good in every single department (No FM! No scroll! Not 16-bit!). Eventually I got neither, and ended up getting a PCE Duo in the early 90's.

[nodtveidt]

It just adds to its charm. 
If you get too bugged by it just get an MSX2. It's not perfect but it can be a huge improvement.

Trust me, I said that with a massive dose of sarcasm. I actually don't mind it, I was poking fun at all the plebs who bitch about it.

[Arkhan]

Funfact: MSX2/2+ games still chunky scroll games that were written that way, lol..

There aren't many games taking advantage of the 2+'s hardware for smooth scrolling.

If the game wasn't coded for it, it won't use it.  Some people seem to think it's some magical update that magically smooths things out.   It doesn't.

Regardless, the scrolling isn't that bad.  It actually looks worse on YouTube if the videos aren't 60FPS.   

Games like Xak and stuff, on real hardware, are fine.




...who said PCE had no scrolling?  lolwtf

[gilbert]

If the game wasn't coded for it, it won't use it.  Some people seem to think it's some magical update that magically smooths things out.   It doesn't.

That, of course, as in the case of MSX2 running games designed specifically for the MSX1 (and similarly, SG1000 games in SMS). It's that MSX2 was massively popular that most games in the era had support for this system. The 2+ was just not as popular to motivate more people to code for it. Talking about unpopular, let's not mention the even more advanced 16-bit TURBO-R... 

...who said PCE had no scrolling?  lolwtf

By that I meant no hardware 2nd background plane for parallax scrolling obviously. The "NO SCROLL" thing (I think) was actually a joke possibly most used in the forums here some years back, probably many instances in the screenshot comparison thread, with joke comments like "The PCE version has more colours than the MD one.", "But the PCE has NO SCROLL!"

I was actually a lurker here for years, but stopped visiting for awhile since member registration became mandatory, thinking I wouldn't have anything interesting to post. It's until recently that I suddenly decide to check again so eventually I registered (this site was always in my bookmark).