Would you play a Mode 7 style racer?

I'm attempting to get a Mode 7 (Similar to F-Zero) rendering engine working on the X68000 and FM Towns.

I've uploaded an early version:
http://www.rastersoft.net/project/

This is not fast enough for a game, but futher optimizations may help. Another option would be a fighting game similar to Ballz.

Currently I'm rendering every other pixel, and every other line.

 

Well I did play F-Zero for the SNES when it came.
Unfortunately I don't own a X68000 or a FM Towns as of yet so I can't try it =/

From the screens it almost looks like the lava stage in Mario Kart.. is the game going to be something similar, or is that just for testing?

 

DON'T EVER MENTION BALLZ AGAIN!

god dammit the nightmares! THEY RETURN!

 

Interesting. Could you post a video of it?

 

i love f-zero like games! too bad your console choices

 

Yeah why not make this racer for the PC-FX that'd be cool no?

I'm very impressed that you can get Mode 7 type of stuff running on platforms like CDi.

 

A f-zero/mario kart style racer (one that doesnt infringe on Nintendo IP of course) would be great to see.

 

You can? Wow, that's quite cool. Does the CD-i even offer (fast) pixel-mapped framebuffer access?

Programming a Mode 7 effect and optimizing it to death is fun, I remember writing one in X86 asm and optimizing the hell out of it. In the end I eliminated the FP (if I remember right) and put almost everything in lookup tables, it went quite fast after that :dance:

 

It's just for testing. I haven't figured out a theme yet.

Just like Frog Feast, it will probably be available for every system under the sun.

Yeah, that would be interesting. The PC-FX should be able to handle it.

It would have to be Hentai, right?

Yeah, it offers a 1 byte per pixel mode. The biggest problem is that the 68000 isn't powerful enough to update the display 50/60 times per second. Similar to the X68000, without the dedicated sprite hardware.

I did the same thing 12 years ago on a 486-33.

It's a lot of fun trying to optimize the routines.

The next step of the optimization process is to eliminate the 4 fixed point multiplies per scan line, and replace them with lookups, if possible.

Devin, from the Black Moon Project, posted a link to a video of the CDi version:
http://www.blackmoonproject.co.uk/footage/mode7_demo.asf

 

it is in 15 khz -_- i can try on my FM towns T_T. but it's a good begining ^^.

 

Thanks. Yep, it's aimed mainly at the FM Towns Marty.

 

I vouch for a Space Harrier clone!

 

Never thought of that, that would simplify the routine quite a bit...

 

Wow... that's really slow. Still quite an impressive technical feat, all things considered.

 

:crying::crying::crying:Nooooooooo

Enough of hentai stuff!!! The FX has too much of hentai, I want normal games!!!

 

I've optimized it somewhere, there probably quite a bit more that can be done...

 

I consider F-Zero to be one of the best looking SNES games. I'd like to see a fan sequel to that!

 

..with the right Acid Jazz music to go with it of course.

 

Indeed. F-Zero also had the best soundtrack of all the games.

 

F-Zero will always be one of my favorite games, any F-Zero Style game will be checked out by me :dance:
Btw it's very cool that you make something like this on systems like the x68000. Guess there is not a lot of documentation about it, unless you can read japanese.