intermission
Hiatus is still in effect and will be for quite some time, but here's something to keep you entertained in the mean time:
Video footage of a 5 year old unorthodox rhythm game/rpg hybrid I developed but never finished & released.
Me playing & talking about the game and the motivations behind it:
Annotated direct feed footage:
Super Road Blaster sourcecode
-also, version upped to 1.2-
I've uploaded the full sourcecode of Super Road Blaster to github.
This is version 1.2, which features a couple of bugfixes here and there as well as new features.
Regular release:
Super Road Blaster v1.2 for Super Nintendo (453Mb download)
Full changelog below:
- added support for 1/1/1 chipset SNES/SFC
- added persistent highscore saving to SRAM
- added level completion screens
- added support for new msu1 command (audio error)
- fixed glitching sprite tiles after game over/new game (super rare)
- fixed wrongly allocated palette on hud sprites (super rare)
- fixed death events in level 4
- fixed death event in level1
- fixed black flickering on scene change
- fixed invalid frames on real hardware (relatively rare)
- fixed single-frame gfx glitch on dashboard when dying
- fixed flicker on video load
- fixed pause not pausing video bug
- fixed super logo not getting deleted (super rare)
- fixed dashboard bg layer having wrong tilemap size
Extended hiatus coming up
In about two weeks, I'll be embarking on a super-awesome quest that will probably keep me busy for at least the next nine months. That means if you have any question you want to ask me, any cartridge that needs to be dumped or any game that needs to be cracked, better contact me right now. You might still get an answer from me after these two weeks, but if you don't, you now know why. ;) There will be another Super Road Blaster release soon, probably including sourcecode. Cheers!
ROM dump: 슈퍼20합
-korean SFC multi-cart-
Here's something else for a change:
A dump of a korean pirate multi-cart featuring 20 games, mostly NES/Famicom conversions.
I don't know much korean, but I guess the title means something like 'Super 20 Collection'.
They went out of their way to add new sound effects and music to the games (including a very cheesy Super Mario Bros theme remix).
Game doesn't work on emulators yet because there's a custom bankswitching mechanism involved.
Thanks to Svambo for letting me borrow his cartridge!
Video:
Super Road Blaster v1.1
-this is it, the final version!-
It's official:
I've gotten quite a lot of valuable feedback after releasing version 1.0 and have been working hard on fixing any remaining issues.
Time to give you the definitive version, the biggest game on the system by far and the Sega Mega CD killer:
Super Road Blaster v1.1 for Super Nintendo! (453Mb download)
Mirror on superfamicom.org
Game manual
Ok, maybe I'm 20 years late, but who's perfect, right? ;)
Gameplay video:
Screenshots:
Intro
Titlescreen
Gameplay
Super Road Blaster released
I'm releasing version 1.0 of Road Blaster for SNES today, which has aptly been renamed to Super Road Blaster. Not all planned features and requests (persistent highscore saving, 256color intro video etc.) have been implemented, but I hope you enjoy it anyway:
Click here to download (453Mb download)
Mirror on superfamicom.org thanks to Matthew Callis.
Download includes game manual.
[Update] Archive has been updated to ROM version 1.1.
Road Blaster
-advancing slowly-
Just a quick update for those waiting for the finished release of Road Blaster:
Progress has been slow, but steady. I've fixed a couple of memory leaks, polished up most of the graphics, added some bells & whistles here and there and most importantly corrected a couple of serious bugs in my video graphics converter tool.
On top of that, I'm also preprocessing the video with a filter in order to compress better, which is the key to NTSC video support.
Can't give you an ETA yet, and I suspect that I'll be busy working on that game for quite some time still, but I'll keep you posted.