FortNinety
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I recall Fhey Area getting a lot of love in Gamefan, though the magazine were always big Wolfteam fans.
Off topic, but what happened to them anyhow?
Off topic, but what happened to them anyhow?
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New Sega Genesis RPG release... no really!
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midnightguy
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jarrod said:
I'd love to play Dando aka Vasome or Vazome, too. but I have not even been able to find a ROM of it to play via emulation, much less confirmation that the actual physical MegaDrive cartridge was released. sigh. I assume it exists as an unreleased beta, or just never even got that far. no idea
the side-scrolling element of this Action-RPG remind me of Legendary Axe.
midnightguy
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speedpop said:
what he said.
there are so many examples of such, I cannot even begin to think of them all in one sitting.
midnightguy
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DJ_Tet said:I remember that Moon Dancer scan. I really wanted that game
yeah, and also on that same page in the magazine ( you cannot see it in the scan) there were a couple other MD RPGs shown- they did make it out in Japan, but of course, not to the U.S. or UK.
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Fhey Area is your typical bog standard RPG. The fight scenes have lots of animation but are really slow. The opening and ending are voiced.
Just a little update on the game's status:
Also, the official site has been updated with details on the storyline, characters, etc. Worth checking out.
Couple updates:
And to make sure nobody misses out, I'll create a new thread for the game when it goes on sale.
Source: http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=72335
And to make sure nobody misses out, I'll create a new thread for the game when it goes on sale.
I didn't quite get the rant on the previous page. You do realize the time period in which you're talking about, right? Its about cost effectiveness at the time. You remember what type of resolution a NES had? How many colors could be displayed onscreen? The Master System, perhaps?
The Sega Genesis was a huge step up from anything on the game console market. It had a main processor that ran consistently over 7.5mhz, was 16 bit, and utilized a 16 bit data bus. AND it had as much usable RAM as a Commodore 64, a computer that cost hundreds of dollars more? Only high-end computers and arcade units costing thousands of dollars could compete graphically. The TurboGrafx-16, while being able to display a much larger amount of color onscreen, still only had an 8-bit bus to pump data through, had less ram to work with, couldn't display as many sprites onscreen, had a much more antiquated CPU, had even worse audio hardware than the Genesis (without enhancement), and only had one controller port.
I'll be the first to admit that the Super Nintendo had a much better graphics chip. The fact that it could warp, scale and rotate sprites, as well as rotate playfields was pretty damn impressive. However, it also had a slower processor, and could not display as many sprites onscreen as the Genesis. It was all a tradeoff for cost effectiveness. The SNES made a very acceptable compromise.
However, complaining that the Genesis only had 64 colors onscreen is a bit silly. Many arcade games at the time didn't use more than 256 colors onscreen. Games like Streets of Rage, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Revenge of Shinobi looked excellent, using "only" 64 colors. Hell, Yoshi's Island used only a palette of 256 colors, and I still think that game looks wonderful.
The Sega Genesis was a huge step up from anything on the game console market. It had a main processor that ran consistently over 7.5mhz, was 16 bit, and utilized a 16 bit data bus. AND it had as much usable RAM as a Commodore 64, a computer that cost hundreds of dollars more? Only high-end computers and arcade units costing thousands of dollars could compete graphically. The TurboGrafx-16, while being able to display a much larger amount of color onscreen, still only had an 8-bit bus to pump data through, had less ram to work with, couldn't display as many sprites onscreen, had a much more antiquated CPU, had even worse audio hardware than the Genesis (without enhancement), and only had one controller port.
I'll be the first to admit that the Super Nintendo had a much better graphics chip. The fact that it could warp, scale and rotate sprites, as well as rotate playfields was pretty damn impressive. However, it also had a slower processor, and could not display as many sprites onscreen as the Genesis. It was all a tradeoff for cost effectiveness. The SNES made a very acceptable compromise.
However, complaining that the Genesis only had 64 colors onscreen is a bit silly. Many arcade games at the time didn't use more than 256 colors onscreen. Games like Streets of Rage, Sonic the Hedgehog, and Revenge of Shinobi looked excellent, using "only" 64 colors. Hell, Yoshi's Island used only a palette of 256 colors, and I still think that game looks wonderful.
Bit of a nitpick. My understanding is that the SNES' mode 7 can't rotate, scale, or warp sprites... only backgrounds. So when you see a supposed "sprite" doing one of those things in a SNES game, it's merely a background pretending to be a sprite. Which is one you never see more than one "sprite" doing those things at once.
GhaleonEB said:Hm, still not out. The website says it is in the production phase, still. I was hoping to get this for a Christmas present (for myself). Now I hope it's out in time for my birthday, in March.
I hope it comes out soon as well. I'm interested in getting some people's opinions on it and then I may buy it as well.
Image in Row 2, Column 2 reminds me of Chrono Trigger.jarrod said:It was originally developed in 1996 by a Taiwanese company, C&E Inc.
Super Fighter Team is doing the localization, OlderGames is doing the manufacturing and distribution (4MB cart, 32KB SRAM). Looks pretty decent, especially by Genesis RPG standards...
And the link.
Image in Row 2, Column 4... I like that all 3 trees in the image are different.
Most of the other images are cool because the background art isn't just mirrored. I used to hate that laziness in games (still do, actually).
16-bit era is probably the last time I really paid attention to stuff like that.
Anyway, looks like it has potential.
choplifter
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The Genesis *should* have been the console counterpart of Sega's basic System16 board that powered Fantasy Zone, Shinobi, Altered Beast, Golden Axe among others. with the ability to put on-screen, at least 512 colors from a range of 4096 - and had basic zooming/scaling (but no rotation), 128 sprites of 16x16 pixels or 256 sprites of 8x8 pixels, slightly clearer audio. 2 scrolling planes. A 10 MHz 68000. Overall about 1/3 more powerful than Genesis plus a whole lot more colors, and the very important scaling. This would not have been as powerful as CPS or NEO-GEO, but powerful enough to handle decently close CPS conversions (alot closer than the real Genesis) and 100% identical System16 ports.
MD-Genesis Golden Axe
Arcade System16 Golden Axe
^that would've been a nice amount of color^
The actual Genesis' having only the ability to put 64 colors on-screen, 80 sprites and no hardware scaling, really hurt it compared to the SNES. but much worse, there was no excuse for MD-Genesis (1988) having less colors on-screen than the PC-Engine-TG16 which was 1 year older (1987) and could handle hundreds of colors on-screen from the same sized pallete (512)
the saving grace of the Genesis was the 68000 processor which, although not as fast as the one in System16, was still very powerful and let programmers pull off alot of tricks in software.
Then, the SegaCD should've had 2 more 68000s, a full scaling/rotation chip (it did have this) and an even more powerful graphics chip that allowed for 4 or 5 scrolling layers and 1024 sprites, making a SNES and Neo-Geo killer fully capable of handing Sega's 16-bit Super Scaler games including Super Monaco GP, AfterBurner, Power Drift, G-Loc. etc.
The Genesis *should* have been the console counterpart of Sega's basic System16 board that powered Fantasy Zone, Shinobi, Altered Beast, Golden Axe among others. with the ability to put on-screen, at least 512 colors from a range of 4096 - and had basic zooming/scaling (but no rotation), 128 sprites of 16x16 pixels or 256 sprites of 8x8 pixels, slightly clearer audio. 2 scrolling planes. A 10 MHz 68000. Overall about 1/3 more powerful than Genesis plus a whole lot more colors, and the very important scaling. This would not have been as powerful as CPS or NEO-GEO, but powerful enough to handle decently close CPS conversions (alot closer than the real Genesis) and 100% identical System16 ports.
MD-Genesis Golden Axe
Arcade System16 Golden Axe
^that would've been a nice amount of color^
The actual Genesis' having only the ability to put 64 colors on-screen, 80 sprites and no hardware scaling, really hurt it compared to the SNES. but much worse, there was no excuse for MD-Genesis (1988) having less colors on-screen than the PC-Engine-TG16 which was 1 year older (1987) and could handle hundreds of colors on-screen from the same sized pallete (512)
the saving grace of the Genesis was the 68000 processor which, although not as fast as the one in System16, was still very powerful and let programmers pull off alot of tricks in software.
Then, the SegaCD should've had 2 more 68000s, a full scaling/rotation chip (it did have this) and an even more powerful graphics chip that allowed for 4 or 5 scrolling layers and 1024 sprites, making a SNES and Neo-Geo killer
fully capable of handing Sega's 16-bit Super Scaler games including Super Monaco GP, AfterBurner, Power Drift, G-Loc. etc.