KidGameR186496 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Sorry for the microbump but i thought it was interesting to share with y'all here: Mike recently posted on Twitter a sprite sheet of Bomberman Legends + that drawing of the three Bombermans he posted a few years ago cleaned up that would've been used for the game's intro sequence (https://twitter.com/MikeJMika/status/1377048462089281537). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 7 hours ago, KidGameR186496 said: Sorry for the microbump but i thought it was interesting to share with y'all here: Mike recently posted on Twitter a sprite sheet of Bomberman Legends + that drawing of the three Bombermans he posted a few years ago cleaned up that would've been used for the game's intro sequence (https://twitter.com/MikeJMika/status/1377048462089281537). Looks somewhat worse than on SNES and TurboGrafx. Iam a "64bit" disappointed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fadest Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Maybe @SebRmv & The Removers will one day release their Bomberman like game... But I haven't see him/it (neither Seb or the game) for many years 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 Something is very wrong with the pixels of Jaguar BM sprites, they look misaligned and messy, probably due to scaling? That is how they should look: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) 2 hours ago, Fadest said: Maybe @SebRmv & The Removers will one day release their Bomberman like game... But I haven't see him/it (neither Seb or the game) for many years With 2 bomberman games comin to Lynx, it will eventually show up on Jaguar. ? I think we (homebrew community) could do a much nicer version than BM Legends, at least for the graphics. Edited March 31, 2021 by agradeneu 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidGameR186496 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 8 hours ago, Fadest said: Maybe @SebRmv & The Removers will one day release their Bomberman like game... But I haven't see him/it (neither Seb or the game) for many years Speaking of, what happened to that project? There's still images of the game out there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidGameR186496 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 8 hours ago, agradeneu said: Something is very wrong with the pixels of Jaguar BM sprites, they look misaligned and messy, probably due to scaling? That is how they should look: That's how Mike posted the image on Twitter. If you want my two cents, they probably wanted to give their own spin with how Bomberman looked compared to the 16-bit iterations with a more cartoon-sequel movement. Atomic Bomberman (another US-developed Bomberman title) had radically different designs compared to the Japanese one. That's just my opinion though... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) 28 minutes ago, KidGameR186496 said: That's how Mike posted the image on Twitter. If you want my two cents, they probably wanted to give their own spin with how Bomberman looked compared to the 16-bit iterations with a more cartoon-sequel movement. Atomic Bomberman (another US-developed Bomberman title) had radically different designs compared to the Japanese one. That's just my opinion though... I don't think so. They tried to mimic the cartoon style of the originals but it falls short. The pixelwork looks messy. But maybe it looks better animated? But it does not look that there are more than 4 frames per movement. Overall it could be done alot better. I would say it looks a bit amateurish, but to give them the benefit of the doubt, it is a very early WIP. Edit: It's 8 frames, so probably more fluid animation Nontheless the PC Engine version looks 3x times better than what the screenshot of the Jag version promises to be. Edited March 31, 2021 by agradeneu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoboz Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) On 2/1/2017 at 8:50 PM, D.Daniels said: oh I get you, I suppose it is like the PC Engine, it was 8 bit but looked and competed with the 16 bit era (SF2), I always think of bits as power because being a kid in 80's/90's that's all we were told all the time lol The PC engine main CPU was indeed an 8-bit CPU, just like the Atari main CPU is a 16-bit CPU (the same main CPU as in the Genesis) However, the PC Engine hade a 16-bit graphics system more similar to the 16-bit arcade mahines (482 different colors on the screen at the same time). Just like the Jaguar has the 64-bit object processor (65536 different colors in the screen at the same time) My point is, how do you really define the number of bits a system has? Do you take the highest number of bits of any part of the system, or does it have to be the bits of the main CPU? To this day there has only been one pure 64-bit system, and that is the DEC Alpha (as mentioned above). Today PCs are not even pure 64-bit, because in the x86_64 most of parts are 32-bit or less, at least half of it is 16-bit, some 8-bit parts, and some part is 4-bit (it's really only the address space that is 64-bit). It's not even a RISC CPU, like the Jaguar co-processors, and the DEC Alpha. So how do they achevie speed on the PC, they just crank up the clock frequency crazy (e.g. giga hertz) I have tried Linux on a DEC Alpha (the only pure 64-bit) running at a couple of hundreds of megahertz (compared to the gigahertz of a PC), an it runs like a blast. Imagine how fast that could be if they would crank up the clock speed of the DEC Alpha to several gigahertz? But having such high frequency is really an energy bandit, so imagine how much resources we waste just becuase the didn't make the PCs pure 64-bit, and RISC (e.g. smarter), running at a few hundreds of megahertz instead... Edited March 31, 2021 by phoboz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 9 minutes ago, phoboz said: The PC engine main CPU was indeed an 8-bit CPU, just like the Atari main CPU is a 16-bit CPU (the same main CPU as in the Genesis) However, the PC Engine hade a 16-bit graphics system more similar to the 16-bit arcade mahines (482 different colors on the screen at the same time). Just like the Jaguar has the 64-bit object processor (65536 different colors in the screen at the same time) My point is, how do you really define the number of bits a system has? Do you take the highest number of bits of any part of the system, or does it have to be the bits of the main CPU? To this day there has only been one pure 64-bit system, and that is the DEC Alpha (as mentioned above). Today PCs are not even pure 64-bit, because in the x86_64 most of parts are 32-bit or less, at least half of it is 16-bit, some 8-bit parts, and some part is 4-bit (it's really only the address space that is 64-bit). It's not even a RISC CPU, like the Jaguar co-processors, and the DEC Alpha. So how do they achevie speed on the PC, they just crank up the clock frequency crazy (e.g. giga hertz) I have tried Linux on a DEC Alpha (the only pure 64-bit) running at a couple of hundreds of megahertz (compared to the gigahertz of a PC), an it runs like a blast. Imagine how fast that could be if they would crank up the clock speed of the DEC Alpha to several gigahertz? But having such high frequency is really an energy bandit, so imagine how much resources we waste just becuase the didn't make the PCs pure 64-bit, and RISC (e.g. smarter), running at a few hundreds of megahertz instead... Like the Lynx, 8 bit CPU, but 16 bit graphics engine. The level of graphical detail is more comparable to 16 bit machines than to 8 bit machines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phoboz Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 19 minutes ago, agradeneu said: Like the Lynx, 8 bit CPU, but 16 bit graphics engine. The level of graphical detail is more comparable to 16 bit machines than to 8 bit machines. Yes so it's not only the bits of the main CPU. In the end it's all about how you program whatever system you have. For example, the reason why the PC is locked in the gigahertz race is because it has to be able to run all kind of legacy software from MS DOS etc. Since these programs were made using 16-bit techniques, they can only be made faster by increasing the clock speed, because 64-bit will not speed up a 16-bit program. Unfortunately this has also lead to laziness, there there is very little gain to program for the PC using high-performance computing methods. So programming the Jaguar is actually more similar to program a high performance computing system, because the true power of the Jaguar can only be unlocked by using the combination of different subsystems in an efficient way. If you only employ 16-bit programming methods, like in the old MS DOS software for the PC, you will never see any 64-bit quality games on the Jaguar... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 As some proof of concept we (Phoboz and me) have an early homebrew "Bomberman" proto running, done in a couple of weeks. So it is possible, you don't need to wait another 10 years or pay 100x bucks for an unfinished prototype of BM Legends 8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SlidellMan Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 I wonder if Mike would be interested in getting another pixel artist to help with this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidGameR186496 Posted March 31, 2021 Share Posted March 31, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, agradeneu said: As some proof of concept we (Phoboz and me) have an early homebrew "Bomberman" proto running, done in a couple of weeks. So it is possible, you don't need to wait another 10 years or pay 100x bucks for an unfinished prototype of BM Legends No joke, you guys are truly on fire! If this is like the GBA Bomberman adventure game then cool, the more the merrier! (P.S.: I welcome having Bomberman Legends and this Bomberman concept on the Jag :D) Edited March 31, 2021 by KidGameR186496 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterG Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 There's never enough Bomberman. Imagine going from zero to three versions. Heh 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidGameR186496 Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 1 hour ago, PeterG said: There's never enough Bomberman. Imagine going from zero to three versions. Heh That's the spirit! We need more games to make use of that Team Tap for multiplayer action on Jaguar 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 7 hours ago, KidGameR186496 said: No joke, you guys are truly on fire! If this is like the GBA Bomberman adventure game then cool, the more the merrier! (P.S.: I welcome having Bomberman Legends and this Bomberman concept on the Jag :D) It would focus on local multiplayer battle mode (with team tap) . That is the most fun part of any BM game by far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted April 1, 2021 Share Posted April 1, 2021 8 hours ago, SlidellMan said: I wonder if Mike would be interested in getting another pixel artist to help with this? So he really wants to complete it? Then he should have no problem hiring better pixelartist I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted April 7, 2021 Share Posted April 7, 2021 Short video of the WIP in action: 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KidGameR186496 Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 (edited) Finally! A brief demo footage of Bomberman Legends for the Jaguat was shared by Mike on his Twitter feed https://twitter.com/MikeJMika/status/1487940150915047426 Edited February 1, 2022 by KidGameR186496 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guSTaw Posted February 2, 2022 Share Posted February 2, 2022 We are waiting for more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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