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earok · 12 January 2016, 06:48

Also known as "Road Blaster" and "Vehicular Homicide Hero"

Yet another project I'll probably never finish! I only really got to the investigation stage before moving on to other projects, no code for it has been written at all.

As you can see it'd look nicer than the Sega CD version in HAM video (converted from a LaserDisc rip) since IIRC the Sega CD can only play back video in 16 colours.

My general plan was to use the CDGSXL player (written in C) as a base, but have it parse a basic text file script for the game. Eg in pseudocode the script might look vaguely like

Code:

AT FRAME 1000 PRESS RED ELSE DIE

Which of course would mean it could be recycled for other FMV conversions too, like Space Ace or Dragon's Lair.

Note that I did the conversions as HAM6, I could do them with HAM8 for near perfect image quality but it'd result in either a screen size or frame rate reduction.

12 January 2016, 06:48	#1
earok Registered User Join Date: Dec 2013 Location: Auckland Posts: 3,543	Road Avenger CD32 Also known as "Road Blaster" and "Vehicular Homicide Hero" Yet another project I'll probably never finish! I only really got to the investigation stage before moving on to other projects, no code for it has been written at all. As you can see it'd look nicer than the Sega CD version in HAM video (converted from a LaserDisc rip) since IIRC the Sega CD can only play back video in 16 colours. My general plan was to use the CDGSXL player (written in C) as a base, but have it parse a basic text file script for the game. Eg in pseudocode the script might look vaguely like Code: AT FRAME 1000 PRESS RED ELSE DIE Which of course would mean it could be recycled for other FMV conversions too, like Space Ace or Dragon's Lair. Note that I did the conversions as HAM6, I could do them with HAM8 for near perfect image quality but it'd result in either a screen size or frame rate reduction.