That game basic looks fucking awesome, mate. It's like a super-powered Commodore 64 with japanese game music. That's the vibe I get for that. Man, I wish I'd had a Japanese Saturn back then... That whole "programming games in your TV" brings me back to those early days of home computing. And really, the indie potential makes it one of the sexiest things ever created. And boy, does that "Lunar" opening bring memories...
Damn Xerdo, you spoke my mind upon SS Basic. No wonder that we think alike Yakumo-sama it was a lovely episode, and it is good to see that RTC is back in some way or another I must be a psychic by deciphering the "code" in the hint when you made that abbreviation SSRC/RCSS . But then again I have always abbreviated your show as RTC. But as I said before, it is good to hear you are back with RTC in one way or the other
Some of the homebrew stuff for the Game Bsic software is very nice. After making that show I got a few shooters and that Virtual Mario to run before it crapped out on me again. I guess it's because I'm running the software on XP rather than win' 95.
I really want to watch this, but I think I'll wait until the high quality version comes out. Any idea when that'll happen?
This weekend. The resolution will still be 480p since that's the resolution of a Saturn so making a 720p or 1080p show isn't a good idea unless I stuck the HD video camera in front of the TV rather than using a capture card. Probably look crap though. I did notice that the YouTube version has crazy scanline issues on the video camera sections. I have no idea whythat happened. The original Flash video file is fine.
Just had a very quick look and it looks like interlaced video to me. Are you sure your software isn't automatically deinterlacing the original file (in realtime) when you watch it? Should be pretty simple to do some deinterlacing in software next time anyway.
I'll check but I'm sure it isn't. By the way, Retro Core SS Vol:2 will be uploaded within 24 hours :thumbsup:
Retro Core SS Vol2 out now on YouTube with their crappy down sampled image quality. Better quality versions will be available from the Retro Core site this coming Sunday. For now here's the YouTube link - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1N7L6HBqYU
Great! I didn't that the MPEG card had such a great impact on games that supported it, the quality of the video greatly improves when using it.
I watched the first one. Pretty cool stuff. I liked that Pilotwings-ish game. I haven't had a chance to watch the second one yet. Unfortunately I have quite a bit of work to do.
Just watched Vol. 2, some pretty neat stuff there. I didn't realize how (relatively) good video CDs looked. I had seen them playing on laptops when I was a kid, but they were always really choppy and pixelated. They looked worse than VHS (if that's possible). The ones in your video look slightly better than VHS, if anything. You learn something every day.
Yes, a quality Video CD can look pretty good if encoded right. A Super Video CD is near DVD quality but the Saturn can't play them since they use MPEG 2. I have a few original Super Video CD movie that work fine in a DVD player. The problem is that most films take up two discs.
Your coverage of the Saturn's CD audio playback has reminded me of something - did anyone actually use all the fancy sound options, the pitch-altering effects, vocals removal etc? I remember 'back in the day' I used to show my friends this to show that the Saturn was a better CD player than the Playstation... but I don't recall actually using any of them! I have a Victor Mpeg card, and only one game - Lunar Mpeg Edition. I sometimes fire it up just to watch the intro, these Mpeg cards seemed to exotic in the Saturn's heyday!
Man, that Saturn really was a true enthusiast-oriented gaming machine. It was pure class. It's like ... Hi-Fi gaming, I guess. The more I see Saturn stuff, the more it impresses me. I wish gaming still had all this vibe, man.
The Saturn was way ahead of it's time in many areas. The CD player was more advanced than any other console even if most people never used the options. It could play Video CDs. It could go online. It could do higher resolution than any console at the time or before it. It had faster CD access times than any other console at the time or before it. It had an official 1.4" HD floppy drive, keyboard and mouse and printer (PlayStation also had a printer, same one in fact). It had a real time clock that could be used within games for environments, special presents on certain days and so on. Yes, if it wasn't for Sega's crappy launch and constant fighting within the company who knows what would have happened.
Actually yeah, I am pretty nostalgic today. And I wish it weren't monday and I could spend the whole day playing old games. That would rock so much... But no, I'm fucking stuck at the university - I had some guided study at four (for which nobody showed), then I have advanced business english at 6 (and it is 6:17, and, again, no student of the three taking my class has appeared). If I just wasted my whole fucking afternoon here for nothing, all hell will break loose when it comes to me uploading grades, for certain.
