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Doom 32X: Resurrection
Mr^Burns - Mar 4, 2021

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  Mr^Burns Mar 4, 2021

https://youtube.com/RfSveeg3zKo



"The goal of the project is to have a code base from which a playable version of DOOM for the Sega 32X platform could be compiled. It is primarily focused on preservation and education but also on fixing the original game's idiosyncrasies and improving performance."

Source: viciious/d32xr...

 vbt Mar 4, 2021
what about a saturn version

 Chilly Willy Aug 3, 2021
Current state of Doom 32X Resurrection:


https://youtube.com/kKz9ItBdodw



Considering how well the 32X version is working, I'd say a Saturn version would be pretty nice.

 Amiceli1983 Aug 3, 2021

Chilly Willy said:


Wow! Look at those frame rate! That's pretty impressive on the 32x..

 TrekkiesUnite118 Aug 3, 2021

Chilly Willy said:


Yeah, I'd imagine Saturn should at the very least be able to match that.

 Lord Darkstorm Aug 4, 2021
Wow, looks fantastic for the 32x.

I always wondered, when you have both the mega cd and 32x plugged in, can a 32x game theoretically take advantage of the mega cd hardware? All the 32x CD games were FMV releases, so I was never sure if you could have both the 32x hardware and the Mega CD's hardware (like the sprite scaling stuff) used together (well, with any MCD usage limited to the Mega Drive layers of course), or if the Mega CD was relegated to purely cd streaming at that point.

 rorirub Aug 4, 2021
You can, but iirc there's so much bus infighting that you'd have an easier time working with the Saturn.

 Chilly Willy Aug 9, 2021

rorirub said:


Actually, the Sega system has very little bus contention compared to other consoles of the time... when you understand how to avoid it.

With the Sega CD, keep the code/game data in the program ram, and avoid the word ram unless you're generating shared data for the MD side.

With the Genesis/MD, keep the code/game data in the work ram, and avoid the cart as much as possible. This limits the amount of code the MD side can use, but you're better off moving most of the code to the SCD 68000 (which is almost twice as fast), or to the 32X SH2s (which can be up to 40X faster). Code on the MD should really only be enough to respond to requests by the 32X or by the SCD.

With the 32X, using the cart for code/game data isn't going to be as bad as you'd think since the SH2 has a very good and decent size cache. However, put critical code/data into SDRAM for best effect. This is fairly easy to do in gcc, and is used quite a bit in D32XR to put functions into SDRAM.

When you work to minimize bus contention, you can get really good results from the 32X. Look at Doom 32X Resurrection: remember that it's running on two 23MHz processors on a slow 16-bit bus. Now think about how Doom ran on the 386SX, which is about as close as you'd get for a hardware comparison.

 TrekkiesUnite118 Aug 9, 2021

Chilly Willy said:

Another comparison would be how it runs on an IBM 486SLC2. That's technically a 386SX with the 486 instruction set added to it, some cache, and clock doubled up to 50Mhz/66MHz. So you still have no additional FPU and have to use a 387, and you're still on a 16-bit bus. I recorded some footage from my IBM PS/2 Model 50 with that CPU upgrade put in it:


https://youtube.com/mR9kSDMnbMk


 Chilly Willy Aug 16, 2021
Nice! I bet PC owners loved that. It's easy to see why it was faster, though. More than double the clock rate, four times the cache, only one processor (as anyone who's worked with SMP can tell you, two processors don't mean twice the speed), a faster bus, a nice video card, and Carmack's hand-tuned x86 assembly code for many of the critical sections of the code. 16MB of system memory means all the game assets are decompressed and waiting to go in a reasonably fast-to-access area, unlike the compressed assets in slow cart space D32XR has to deal with.

That's one of the worst aspects of the 32X: only 256KB of SDRAM. If they'd have bumped that to even just 1MB, the 32X would have been much better. Instead of picking and choosing what bits to have in SDRAM, the whole game and data could have been in SDRAM. More game assets could be cached in SDRAM for faster access.

 Chilly Willy Oct 17, 2021
The first official release of Doom 32X Resurrection is out at romhacking! Get the patch file at:


This is a patch file against the EU rom image of Doom 32X, but makes a region-free binary. There will be another patch against the US/JP image of Doom 32X posted at some point, as well.

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 Chilly Willy May 5, 2022
Doom 32X Resurrection v2.0 is out! Same Bat-time, same Bat-channel! Lots of nice feature additions:

Changes in v2.0:

  • Network support via the Zero Tolerance (aka Technopop) link cable.
  • Fullscreen 320×184px graphics mode.
  • A refined palette / colourmap has been added for improved visual fidelity, aka “high colour” mode.
  • Controller hot plugging support.
  • Anamorphic widescreen support for 16:9 screens.
  • 32X+ (CDDA tracks from CUE files) support has been added and is enabled when the MegaSD flash cart is detected.
  • Upon completing the game, the song “The End of DOOM” is now played during the final message.
  • The colormap now inverts during invulnerability to closer match the original DOS port of the game.
  • The AutoMap now has smooth scaling.
  • The maximum number of sound channels in the mixer has been increased from 4 to 8.
  • Monsters in neighboring sectors are now more likely to wake up when a player fires a weapon.
  • Sector lighting now defaults to high detail mode.
  • Imps and Cacodemons now have slower projectile speeds.
  • Doom 2 map specials are now supported.
  • Improved multi-threaded rendering of sprites.
  • The map title and stats are now displayed in the automap.
  • When possessing the sphere of invulnerability, the god mode face is now shown in the status bar.
  • The game can no longer be paused during multiplayer.
  • You can no longer attack, strafe or use things when in the automap.
  • The Spectre is now featured in the final cast sequence.

  ROS May 6, 2022
CHEX 32X

(Hint, hint.)

 dibz May 13, 2022

ROS said:

LOL that would be great.

 yuyumaster Aug 21, 2022
We need a Saturn version working like this one, guys. It's completely possible if on proper hands, and it would be great to finally have a decent version of the game on our beloved console.

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