MSXdev'14 - Uridium announced | MSX Resource Center

Trilobyte member ARTRAG announced a new entry for the MSXdev'14 competition. Together with Toni Galvez (graphics, sound effects) and John Hassink (music) he will create an MSX version of Uridium, a popular science fiction side-scrolling shoot 'em up that has been available for a lot of well known 8 bit machines. Except for the MSX, but that's about to change!

Some of the intended features are smooth horizontal scrolling (50/60 FPS) at any scrolling speed, multicolor graphics and up to 64 sprites on screen. The game will work on Toshiba VDP's with reduced scroll resolution.

Curious? You can find work-in-progress videos here and here and of course you can also follow the Karoshi forums for further updates.

Relevant link: Uridium

コメント (24)

By syn

Prophet (2133)

15-05-2014, 00:47

I lost count.. thats entry number 19 or so??? nice activity

*edit: I just went to the site and a quick count... 18 already! nice

By syn

Prophet (2133)

15-05-2014, 10:46

Also I forgot to say: Uridium looks great! That scroll is soooo smooth.. now I wonder why I need a v9958 again

By tonigalvez

Champion (312)

15-05-2014, 10:53

Thanks @Syn, we are using a very old thechnique for the scroll, there is pre-rotated all the char combinations and later we only have to change the chars on the screen. Now it is easier thanks to cross development.

By BokanoiD

Rookie (27)

15-05-2014, 22:16

That's quite impressive actually.
I guess you do need lots of memory for all the gfx?

By tonigalvez

Champion (312)

16-05-2014, 00:06

No so much memory, we work unther 48k rom space, but we have space for a splash screen too.

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6976)

16-05-2014, 06:51

6k of uncompressed vram data + 4k of tables in ram
Not more than 3k compressed in total

By giangiacomo.zaffini

Champion (267)

16-05-2014, 11:31

Since I have a functional MSX + Joystick, I want to try it as soon as possible on a CRT telly!
Pretty good to see!

By max_iwamoto

Paladin (673)

18-05-2014, 01:55

Very nice!

By Evhor

Resident (54)

18-05-2014, 08:56

@tonigalvez
May be it's a very old technique but still that scroll looks like science fiction to me ( @ _ @ ) !!

@theWholeTeam
I won't tell you how cool is the job you're doing: you know already ( ^ _ ^ ) d

By tonigalvez

Champion (312)

18-05-2014, 12:18

Thanks, porting a C64 game to MSX is not easy task, we are doing the best, thanks to Arturo coding skills, he is some of the best MSX coder in the earth.

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6976)

19-05-2014, 09:38

there are tons of better msx coders and this game is more or less an overgrow tech demo

By hbarcellos

Hero (649)

20-05-2014, 18:13

tonigalvez wrote:

Thanks, porting a C64 game to MSX is not easy task, we are doing the best, thanks to Arturo coding skills, he is some of the best MSX coder in the earth.

By [WYZ]

Champion (451)

21-05-2014, 16:17

+&h01

By yzi

Champion (444)

21-05-2014, 19:02

Arturo has done many incredible tech demos. Would love to see some of them used in scene demos, with music etc.

By Evhor

Resident (54)

30-05-2014, 21:10

ARTRAG wrote:

there are tons of better msx coders and this game is more or less an overgrow tech demo

Even if you were actually just a good MSX programmer and not one of the best around, I would be anway satisfied with having just a quarter of your skills! And may be it's true this is just an overgrown tech demo, yet is an astounding overgrown tech demo!

Besides, thank you for everything

By giuseve

Paladin (811)

02-06-2014, 11:08

I wish it would be fantastic to have a tool like NYYRIKKI one that would import games from C64 directly to our beloved MSX !!!!
Think about all the titles (Platoon, The LAst Ninja, INternational Karate2+, Lightforce..) etc. to our beloved MSX !!!
It would be the time that Federation Against Commodore would reach their final mission :-)

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6976)

05-06-2014, 21:53

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YukREHUrsJY

By Lord_Zett

Paladin (807)