Definitely dig the idea of a simple puzzle game, tomaitheous, I'm sure that would still give me a huge headache once I started getting my feet wet.Īnyways, it's good to hear there are many people who are passionate about the subject. I would also LOVE to make a Street Fighter that made usage of TmEE's awesome musical talents, but trying to design and balance a game like that would be hell.
Maybe a heavily modified port of Beats of Rage? There's a version of OpenBoR for Wii that supports four players, I believe. (an arcade compilation disc like the saturn got could have been nice) Then again, perhaps the limited RAM in the Sega CD was the issue.īut I think I would like to try developing a four player beat 'em up regardless of brand on the 32X. Likewise I think it's a shame that the CD never got ports of classics like Space Harrier and AfterBurner, like the 32x did.
On another note, Knuckles Chaotix probably could have been done at least as well on the Sega CD, with the exception of lower colors in some areas, and lacking the polygonal special stages. (so it could take a bit of work to get comperable quality)Ī 32x-CD enhanced version of Sonic CD would have been more promising IMO, higher quality FMV sequences, enhanced special stages, maybe some added effects/extras elsewhere as well. The thing is, the CD has that nice 8-channel PCM chip, while the 32x only adds the 10-bit stereo PWM, controlled by software. I think a lot of Sonic CD music could have been done reasonably well on the native hardware (except for the vocals), and all the past music was synth, not CD. (though other CD games show that much better scaling/rotation could be done on the Sega CD alone than shown in Sonic CD) Still, not practical for large amounts of compressed streaming audio, or significant amouts of FMV, but the large levers should be fine, and you could do a revamped special stage with better scaling. The big factors being that the 32x CPUs could probably be used to decompress data in real time, allowing more to fit in the limited cart space. SOnic CD probably wouldn't be a whole lot better on the 32x than it could have been on Genesis.