Team Bomba announce Blox for GFX9000

Looks like this will be fun

I don't want to create a great discussion here but... why gfx9k??

I can understand the use of gfx9k if you want to create a game 'impossible' to run at an acceptable speed because of the specifications of a plain MSX2, but it seems this kind of games don't require too much graphical power....

Well, I suppose they use the bitmap mode of the gfx9k for this game so you can put extra eyecandy in it because of the larger amount of colours which can be used in that mode.

In that case a lot of games could just be made for msx1 only,

Also, I think Imanok is right... see that his games Bubble Rain or Cat'N'Mouse are more complex that blox. OK, Blox is impressive, but this kind of games don't need really a GFX9K.

Yours,

Because for every 100 msx users only 5 have gfx9000 If you want to be practical, is better to do a game for most of the users... Also if you made a very good MSX 2 game it will be also impressive.

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spl, your figures are simply incorrect. It's about 20 percent of that 100.
Totally is about 370 copies sold on the total amount of approx 1800 msx-active owners the are in my opinion.
And this figure is increased to this during the last two years.
So, the need for a good game for it is thus a must and not a request.

Sjoerd gave already one good reason.
Second and maybe the most important is that the gfx9000 is always sold as something for a turbo-r and not for a msx2. Later on more msx2 owners understood that it could be used on a msx2 as well.
Also people who owe the GFX9000 never saw anything as e.g. a game.
This together with the fact that open msx will support it also in the near feature it would be very unwise not to create.

I only want to add a 'goodbye 80s, welcome to the new era' here

Team Bomba are taking the first step on developing a GFX9000 game with Blox. A game that could be done on MSX2 as well, but making the game for GFX9000 gives them enough experience to be able to create other GFX9000 games with effects and speeds that simply are impossible on MSX2.

Being the proud owner of a GFX9000 I'm delighted to see that there finally are coming more and more GFX9000 products as well. I also think it's great that, anno 2004, the MSX community are both developing high-spec and low-spec software.

well it could not be done in 512*424 with 64 colors, but frankly I think it's a non statement.. a lot of msx2 games could have been done on msx1.. why on msx2 , for the better graphics.. why on gfx9000 , better graphics.. and ofcourse, because we can

msd, you rule so much

Potential buyer no.1 announces himself!

Hey... Ryu No Chie... another game I forgot to add to the 'portfolio' thread! I forgot I lent Tobias my Music Module for that and he returned it quite molested afterwards

We, the openMSX team, are working on GFX9000 emulation (or to give credit where credit is due, Aurora is working on it :-) . If MSD is willing to tell us which exact possibilities of the V9990 the program will be using, then development might be more focused towards those specs...

Didn't GuyveR800 ask for Gfx9000 emulation in openMSX first with his snowfall demo?

OK, I didn't want to attack anybody, it is only my opinion. But actually the GFX9000 is impressive, remember that the 3DO console had the V9990, for example.

Yours,

It is NOT a MYTH:

CPU: ARM60 12,5 MHz
VPU: 2 V9990 25 Mhz each

Yours,

try to find any reverence on the internet that 3d0 uses a v9990, you will find it uses another yamaha chip