Bubsy Bobcat Fan Blog

You're a flippin' wizard. Are you going to mod other games so they sound OK on the Gopher?

Thanks! I'm mostly about the Bobcat and I just tinker with things to get the best result. I'll say aside from working with various versions and utilities I'm not much of a hacker/programmer/decompiler though I do dabble.

 

One thing that has thinking this morning morning is the .vgm is a stripped down .wav file if I understand it correctly. Plays great even on the Sega Gopher. Why not make a .vgm of the super nintendo version of Bubsy (which was superior) and play for the background tracks? I am just amazed at what .vgm's are and how well the Genesis can play them.

How hard would be to port JagBubsy to Genesis, given usage of one of Genesis Bubsy games as a base (so you won't need to rewrite engine and you'd just be porting graphics/levels)?

Hey Darkhog! Ok, here is what I know so far. The game engine for Jaguar Bubsy is already based on the Sega Genesis code. So many similarities there. I have decompiled or collected from places most of the code and graphics.

 

If you are able to use the modplayer taken from Toy Story, then the mods (music) files are available.

 

The backdrops are in .cry or other formats used on the Jaguar. Those could be converted.

 

What I am just starting to understand are the formats used for the Bubsy FFT characters.

 

Also just starting to understand the map setup. I know that the Genesis uses a tile system. The map editor for FFT also used a type of tile format in a map editor But just barely starting to understand that. So anyway, all things are possible if you throw enough time at it.

 

We'll probably have Bubsy FFT ported to the Genesis by 2030 at this rate.