12 January 2016, 06:48 | #1 |
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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 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, 08:17 | #2 |
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Tbh was never a big fan of these types of games but am willing to try esp as its still a new game! Id let you decide which is best, if it plays better at 12fps go for that or 8fps is still fine then go for it :-)
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Me neither really but Road Avenger is a favorite of mine, from the awesome into song (exclusive to Sega CD), the absurd anime physics, and well I don't know, it just feels more playable to me than most other laserdisc games. |
12 January 2016, 09:29 | #4 |
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Road Avenger is a guilty pleasure of mine as well, it's great to pick up now and again for a quick game or 2.
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03 February 2016, 06:08 | #6 |
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What a great idea!
Moreover the HAM mode is ideally suited to fast image filling for animated cartoons like this. Note that the license was still exploited actively in 2009 by the rights-holder (cf link below) and they made an iOS version of it not too far ago. Maybe they would be willing to license it cheaply for the Amiga? Definitely worth asking in my opinion. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUS1...009+MW20090113 |
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I'll keep it in mind, cheers |
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03 February 2016, 11:16 | #8 |
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Well the SNES version got released with no news of lawsuits, i don't imagine a lower key CD32 release would have any problems.
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But I was actually more focused on the possibility of an official CD32 release which would be newsworthy. Moreover, the support lends itself nicely to an inexpensive physical distribution. Road Avenger is on my todo-list as well, so when its turn comes, if Earok hasn't asked, I will. (Note: it is very very far down the list, won't touch it for several years at least unless my productivity mysteriously jumps up.) |
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Useless trivia: Car in Road Avenger and in Double Dragon is the same.
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14 February 2016, 16:54 | #12 |
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yes
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14 February 2016, 19:23 | #13 |
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Is it possible to have the the video with the Arrows on screen - Do these ever change position
Can you go strate in another clip say you wanted to do something like Mad Dog? |
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Not sure what you mean by the second question? |
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15 February 2016, 12:10 | #15 |
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Cut from one video scene to another without the screen going blank while loading next scene
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I think it's hard to avoid skips between clips. In Road Avenger a single perfect play is all in one clip so there's no lag if you're playing perfectly, but I think there is a short delay if you get killed as it jumps to the death scene. |
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15 February 2016, 12:18 | #17 |
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Maybe something like Mad Dog McCree could maybe work?
it would only need a simple script in the background - but cutting to death scene could be a problem |
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Mad dog mcree is already an Amiga game (core of the arcade cabinet was an Amiga). Maybe someone can hack it to run without the laserdisc hardware
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30 December 2016, 11:34 | #20 |
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Did you have any luck with this? Do you think Mad Dog is possible? can you jump to the correct position in a cdxl file with the standard cdxl viewer without problems?
Can you play CD audio while a CDXL is playing? |
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