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Alien Odyssey source code found for Sega Saturn

Mr^Burns - Apr 23, 2021

		Mr^Burns	Apr 23, 2021
		https://youtu.be/Qiw-C2E_uRA Video above of the ms-dos port. Alien Odyssey is a game made by Argonaut Games (Star Fox) and released for ms-dos, here is the source code for the Saturn version, it was released anonymously on discord, at this stage it will need some extra work (devkit maybe) to see if it can be built to work. Download: Part1... Part2... Part3...

		Fandu	Apr 23, 2021
		So, the 4th link shared was nothing related Saturn. It will be very complicated to rewrite the entire code to do it works.

		Mr^Burns	Apr 23, 2021
		Fandu said: 4th link was the Mad Video Codec source code, unrelated to Alien Odyssey, but if somebody compiles it it might be of interest. Also it would be interesting to know who made the codec and if any games used it, I have not heard of any. Edit: Mad Video Codec source code released for Sega Satu...

		vbt	Apr 25, 2021
		there was a picture codec sample with this unreleased game : Quick demo of SRJ decompression of images on the Saturn. All credits goes again to @stevekwok... who added successfuly CPE file support on Nova !

		slinga	Apr 27, 2021
		This does not appear to be Sega Saturn code. I'm seeing malloc() and stdio.h calls. I was curious to see save game parsing and there isn't any. I see the #ifdef __SATURN__ #define. Looks like they were building for Saturn and MS-DOS from the same source.

		MartinPiper	Dec 24, 2024
		I worked on this. Generally speaking, for ports like this I would try to use as much of the original code as possible. The Saturn port was always going to be a challenge due to the PC version making quite heavy use of a Z buffer.

		xesf	Oct 17, 2025
		Does any of you have these source code files? I am interesting in having a look at them. Cheers