River Raider II

[SoundGammon]

Wish someone would port this over to the Jaguar!

 

Played it a lot on my old XP computer.

 

[UHATEIT]

Could a Jag even pull that off? Looks more like PS1 graphics or upwards of Dreamcast texture mapping

[alucardX]

I think if you did very basic polygons and used sprites in clever ways you could make something similar at least in terms of how it plays. Since you're just going in one direction the whole time it should simplify the 3D math and might allow for more to be done. Someone more knowledgeable check me on that though.

[sirlynxalot]

This looks well beyond anything we've seen the Jaguar handle to date. 

[alucardX]

17 hours ago, sirlynxalot said:

This looks well beyond anything we've seen the Jaguar handle to date. 

Here's a video: https://invidio.us/watch?v=hAWxhRgXDKY&list=PLTYsLUSfI7z7xS0_WGWVsU2ifFZ3Vuj_5&index=2

 

Seeing it in motion tells a whole different story than those stills. If you just wanted the game play, something could be done similar to how Blue Lightning was done. Maybe some voxel terrain could be used instead of polygons and then do sprite scaling for the objects. The player's plane could be pre-rendered.

[sirlynxalot]

7 hours ago, alucardX said:

Here's a video: https://invidio.us/watch?v=hAWxhRgXDKY&list=PLTYsLUSfI7z7xS0_WGWVsU2ifFZ3Vuj_5&index=2

 

Seeing it in motion tells a whole different story than those stills. If you just wanted the game play, something could be done similar to how Blue Lightning was done. Maybe some voxel terrain could be used instead of polygons and then do sprite scaling for the objects. The player's plane could be pre-rendered.

Sure scale it back enough and it's Soulstar or the bonus levels in T2k. I don't really think it would look or feel like the same game at that point though.

[alucardX]

40 minutes ago, sirlynxalot said:

Sure scale it back enough and it's Soulstar or the bonus levels in T2k. I don't really think it would look or feel like the same game at that point though.

There are levels to which scaling it back just won't work, this is true. There are examples of games scaled back a lot that really feel like the original counterparts. One such conversion I can think of would be SNES Killer Instinct.