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Fantasy Zone

SeGaFrEaK_NL - Apr 30, 2004

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Apr 30, 2004
			Im converting Fantasy Zone (SMS version) to the Saturn in semi 3d. The ship is done (with Wings animations) and so is the first boss. I'll post some first screens later today..

		it290		Apr 30, 2004
			Awesome idea. Let's see some 3d Opa-Opa action!

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Apr 30, 2004
			Only the backgrounds are 3D thought.. done the death animation now.. (exploding ship into 'stars')

		slinga		Apr 30, 2004
			Your using sprites I take it? I want to see a screen shot :cheers

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Apr 30, 2004
			Ok I've done 2 more enemies and fixed a boss morph screen, the boss now really is battled on a different colour screen and it fades in just like in the original Okay let me tell you how this was done. I am using the Saturn Shoot em up maker 'Dezaemon 2' for a base, next Im using MEKA (The SMS emu) and make grabs of the enemy sprites. I use Irfanview (a handy image resizing program) to balloon the sprites to about the size of my pc screen and next I rebuild the sprites, PIXEL for PIXEL (seriously) and it works and is quite fast too I use multiple grabs for animated enemies and insert the second/third etc frame into deza. That way I have in-game animation. (See Opa Opa's wings and the yellow enemies) Not everything is correct yet (the background detail is yet to come and some more enemies for the first stage as well as some boss logic that has to be added) but it sure look good (Well imo anyway ) Check out THIS FILE... and check out what I created in !2 days time! (about 6 hours real time work)

		slinga		Apr 30, 2004
			Cant' download

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Apr 30, 2004
			URGGHH Im an idiot..it was a RAR instead of a ZIP. Fixed now. Work in progress pics

		M3d10n		May 1, 2004
			Ah, I see. You're just creating a Dezaemon2 game. Do you have any plans on how you're gonna make the saved game public? You'll have to transfer it from your Saturn's RAM to the PC. Does it fit in the internal RAM at all? If you can get the same, you can use the Slinga's Save Game Copier and build an ISO with it, so people can copy the save onto their Saturns.

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		May 1, 2004
			Yeah Im planning that. I have an action replay..but as it doesn't allow direct save dunno how I will manage this.. any help on getting the save (which is my sega memory card) to public would be appreciated..maybe the Saturn floppy disc drive could help..

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Jul 18, 2004
			Im updating this game today. Oh and someone answer me this; If I would obtain a floppy disc drive (Help me finding one please! ) and I'd simply save it on a floppy and copy it to pc and thus spreading. How (and does) would that work? What would be the easiest (if any) way to get this game on multiple memory cards? If I had a floppy disc drive I could load it from floppy and save it to memory card no? I'd buy 50 memory cards, letting someone print some neat stickers and we're off! Oh and last question, anybody interested for a price of -say- $20? (For an official SEGA memory card with save. (card probably JAP but they are universal anyway).

		M3d10n		Jul 21, 2004
			I don't think Dezaemon2 will let you split the game in multiple saves. The saves will hardly fit the internal RAM, but they should fit in a memory cartrigde (I think the standard ones have 4MBs of memory - around 8000 blocks). If the game is getting bigger than that, then you're overdoing it.

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Jul 21, 2004
			Huh? I know that I need memory card Read it again, im trying to copy it to a memory card, just a lot of times. I did some background stuff yesterday..starting to look very cool.. this is a zoomed image from the original SMS version..

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Jul 21, 2004
			and this is how it's developing on screen. Took about half an hour to do.

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Jul 21, 2004
			This is how it looks right now.

		slinga		Jul 22, 2004
			If you have a netlink try writing a program to copy the save to saturn RAM (real RAM, not backup RAM). Then have your program break up the save file in chunks, and copy it to your internal RAM. From there copy it to your pc. Keep repeating until you have the entire file. Then just merge the file together on your pc. Should work... I think another option would be to use a 4in1 with a Comm Card. You probably have to redo your save though.

		M3d10n		Jul 25, 2004
			Wait... you've been working on this games for months... and can't save it? This means your Saturn has been running all this time? Dude, that's insane! I'd never even start the project before securing a way for saving it. Good luck.

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Jul 25, 2004
			LOL. No way. What I meant is that I can't save it one MULTIPLE carts, thats all.

		dj898		Aug 14, 2004
			thought of FDD or that x10 backup memory cart? :lol: cheers

		SeGaFrEaK_NL		Aug 14, 2004
			Hmm I can buy Gaijin Punch's FDD but I don't have money at moment because I just bought a SEGA pinball machine. Does that memory card allow direct save?

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Aug 15, 2004

	
	
		
		
			Originally posted by SeGaFrEaK_NL@Aug 15, 2004 @ 09:20 AM



 ...I just bought a SEGA pinball machine.

That's so cool. :thumbs-up:

Which one did you get?