opcode Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 Arcade ports are all nice and swell, but there are also MSX ports I'm personally looking forward to, like Maze of Galious, Penguin Adventure and Gradius. Those are still on your personal to-do list, along with Knightmare and Goonies, right? Yes, they are coming, however I want to better space them between arcade ports. The exception would be next year with Goonies and Knightmare, since we want to grow the SGM catalog as fast as possible, but after that I plan to release a single MSX port in between arcade ports. Sounds like a good plan. So with the extra RAM and the extra sound chip in the SGM, I suppose porting those MSX games should be relatively easy, assuming going from MegaROM to MegaCart is not too difficult? I want to beef up both Goonies and Knightmare sound to use all 6 sound channels, which means rearranging all music. Going from MSX MegaROM to CV MegaCart2 should be trivial. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBrian Posted February 24, 2012 Share Posted February 24, 2012 If the sgm is expected to be out in late summer and donkey kong is later on, what game or games will be out with the sgm? Will goonies or knightmare be any of them? Im looking forward to those 2 for sure. Im a huge Gradius fan by the way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted February 24, 2012 Author Share Posted February 24, 2012 If the sgm is expected to be out in late summer and donkey kong is later on, what game or games will be out with the sgm? Will goonies or knightmare be any of them? Im looking forward to those 2 for sure. Im a huge Gradius fan by the way We know that Rollerball will be out in March or April, and I believe J-F has some other SGM titles planned in time for the SGM release, but it is up to him to announce the names. DK will be my first SGM title, probably around November/December. Pixelboy will also have 4 additional SGM titles later this year, King's Valley and Thexder have been already announced, with 2 more being voted. So I believe there is good chance we will see 8 SGM titles this year. Goonies and Knightmare are scheduled for 2013. About Gradius, yeah, huge fan as well. The SGM version will be based on the MSX version, but with several tweaks to make it closer to the arcade version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted February 26, 2012 Share Posted February 26, 2012 About Gradius, yeah, huge fan as well. It would be cool to see Life Force as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted February 26, 2012 Author Share Posted February 26, 2012 (edited) About Gradius, yeah, huge fan as well. It would be cool to see Life Force as well You mean Salamander... ? Yeah, that might happen. Edited February 26, 2012 by opcode Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 About Gradius, yeah, huge fan as well. It would be cool to see Life Force as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted March 2, 2012 Share Posted March 2, 2012 Great-looking game indeed. I have a question though: Salamander obviously uses the Konami SCC chip for sounds. How well can the dual PSG setup of the SGM perform in comparison to the SCC? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted March 2, 2012 Author Share Posted March 2, 2012 Great-looking game indeed. I have a question though: Salamander obviously uses the Konami SCC chip for sounds. How well can the dual PSG setup of the SGM perform in comparison to the SCC? Surely it isn't going to sound the same. But... there are options... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arjak Posted March 7, 2012 Share Posted March 7, 2012 I must also throw my vote out to Maze of Galious. Good call, Pixelboy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted March 13, 2012 Author Share Posted March 13, 2012 So now Pengo is a single vote ahead of DK Jr. I didn't expect DK Jr to get that many votes. I thought after DK people would want something different, though I guess Jr is different enough of its predecessor to justify the votes. Whatever comes in first place I am good, as I love them all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yurkie Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Come on people we need some Dig Dug votes please! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youki Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 I think you will have to make both of them... Pengo and Dk Jr! Why not a XONOX type of cart! lol!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hakogame 箱亀 Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Combine the two into one: Pengo Kong Jr - rescue your father from the evil snow-bees! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 (edited) So now Pengo is a single vote ahead of DK Jr. I didn't expect DK Jr to get that many votes. I thought after DK people would want something different, though I guess Jr is different enough of its predecessor to justify the votes. Whatever comes in first place I am good, as I love them all... Pengo's taken a bit of a lead again (16 for Pengo vs 12 for DKJr, as I write this). The existing DKJr on ColecoVision was actually pretty good, for the time, so to see the arcade port come in second place in the poll, with twice the vote count of Dig Dug, says a lot about what people thing of the arcade version of DKJr. EDIT: My bad, Dig Dug's been getting a few more votes itself, and is slowly catching up to DKJr. Yurkie may get his wish after all! Edited March 14, 2012 by Pixelboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoDan Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I vote for cloning Opcode 3 times so that all 4 games can be created Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted March 14, 2012 Share Posted March 14, 2012 I vote for cloning Opcode 3 times so that all 4 games can be created Great idea! I say we call William Bell and arrange for Massive Dynamic to perform the cloning. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 So now Pengo is a single vote ahead of DK Jr. I didn't expect DK Jr to get that many votes. I thought after DK people would want something different, though I guess Jr is different enough of its predecessor to justify the votes. Whatever comes in first place I am good, as I love them all... Pengo's taken a bit of a lead again (16 for Pengo vs 12 for DKJr, as I write this). The existing DKJr on ColecoVision was actually pretty good, for the time, so to see the arcade port come in second place in the poll, with twice the vote count of Dig Dug, says a lot about what people thing of the arcade version of DKJr. EDIT: My bad, Dig Dug's been getting a few more votes itself, and is slowly catching up to DKJr. Yurkie may get his wish after all! Indeed, I find it surprising that DK Jr has got that many votes so far. Popeye had a good start, but seems to be getting behind the pack now. And Dig-Dug is quickly closing the gap between itself and DK Jr. Pretty much unpredictable so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NIAD Posted March 16, 2012 Share Posted March 16, 2012 The original CV release of Donkey Kong Junior is actually a very good port, like Luc mentioned, but with the very unforgiveable omission of the 4th screen and some hideous graphic representations of the caged Donkey Kong as well as Mario. At least the Prototype version, that is easily found in rom format via search, added the 4th screen BUT is still missing all the intermission screens! If you have an ADAM, at least you can play the full version with intermission and hall of fame and even play the 5 screen unreleased version. If DK Jr. does not come out on top, it would be nice to see someone make a CIB release of the prototype seeing as there were so few of these made... and that way everyone that likes to own and play from and actual cartridge can have a chance to purchase and at least play a version on their CVs that has all 4 screens. With all the titles already planned by the current stable of Homebrewers, I know this isn't likely to happen anytime soon though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 Pengo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 Wonderful! So does that mean the voting period is over for the time being? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 Not really. The video shows only portions of the game that had already been ported a couple of years ago. In fact there is more, the glacial landscape, but I will save that for later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted March 21, 2012 Author Share Posted March 21, 2012 Hey, look that. DK Jr is catching up again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ColecoDan Posted March 21, 2012 Share Posted March 21, 2012 the only reason I chose Pengo was because the others at least existed currently on the system even though they have faults. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixelboy Posted March 24, 2012 Share Posted March 24, 2012 (edited) Hey, look that. DK Jr is catching up again. If you needed a reason to invest your time and effort into porting the arcade version of DK Jr, well, there you have it. Edited March 24, 2012 by Pixelboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opcode Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 Oh boy, should I make DK Collection after all?.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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