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"Line scroll" was standard in lots of arcade hardware, and Sega used it in the Megadrive because some arcade hardware design philosophy found its way into the Megadrive VDP, where scroll offsets per line, cell, or plane are first-class features. However, "raster effects" is the common western term, ...

Tepples, I may be late to the game, but I wanted to go through the instructional process of getting the megadrive booting and doing things without relying on the SGDK libs, even though they are pretty fleshed out and good these days. I captured my efforts here, alongside some utility code. In a smal...

I'm taking a break from tearing out what little hair I have while working on graphics, and am focusing on some more technical aspects. One little irksome behavior that Gimmick does is that it takes advantage of the 256px screen width when having objects push or pull other objects. While acceleration...

Street Fighter II reads inputs at the start of the game's polling loop. This is troublesome for emulator authors who don't update the virtual inputs frequently. If the game has a "turbo" setting on, it means that the number of game ticks that run per visual frame can vary, and with that, the frequen...

They should have changed the graphics, music, sound effects and levels to make it more original Then the internet wouldn't care about it. This - many talented people can create a mario-esque game, but having this one actually be a faithful port of the original game (within limits) is the (imo) more...

I read the controller inputs immediately at the start of vblank in my megadrive framework . I have not had problems with this design. I don't know about the Mega Drive, but on the NES, where vblank time is at a premium, wasting part of it on a task that could literally be performed at any other tim...

Without getting into why games that require you to tap at inhuman speeds might have problems (there's no room for debate, that kind of design sucks) I will say that I read the controller inputs immediately at the start of vblank in my megadrive framework. I have not had problems with this design.

okay guys, here's the new art style in action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMpNAMPF4mA

changed the gameplay a bit too

Are you sure the port itself doesn't simply need a reflow?

Well, I don't think I'm going to be able to post something like that any time soon, but I think the change will be for the better.

About music, though, I will see.

I am considering taking the graphics in a bit of a different direction. I am going to ask if it is okay to share potential concepts that aren't confirmed for the game.

Masashi Kageyama's soundtrack demos for most* of the songs were released on CD back in 2011 - it's not hard to find online, I was able to import the CD a couple of years back. They're mostly the same as the final 2a03+5B versions, just with different synth patches and drum sounds. I haven't listene...

Oh, uh, I should also post that I'm hoping to hire an artist who is interested in doing HD sprite or tileset work; if anyone is seriously interested then I would like to chat.

Thank you all for feedback. I have a few things to which I can reply. About emulation: Is it somehow emulated or something? If you cant say, its fine. I am deeply interested in seeing what you did here! So it's emulated? You have a "layer" running on top on an unrestricted screen simulation? Seems r...

At JAEPO 2019, a project that I have been working on for a little while made its first public showing. The working title is Gimmick! exAct * Mix, and it is an arcade release of Gimmick! for the exA Arcadia platform. I am happy to answer questions to the extent of my ability. If not for NesDev as an ...