Next SA-1 game!
Added 2019-05-23 04:03:10 +0000 UTCHonestly, I never thought that the Gradius III SA-1 conversion would end up having a so great reception.
I have already converted Super Mario World in 2012 to SA-1 and overall the public was another: ROM hackers. And they were more concerned about the possible compatibility issues over the benefits initially, which is completely understandable. After the retrogaming community knowing the project however and the reception of the game, I was very happy hearing that people like my SA-1 projects not just for modifying the game but also for playing it. It motivated me for keeping with my SA-1 projects, specially after so many donations I have received and the effort some of them made to make they happen.
So with the overall great reception and great support from many awesome people, I decided that I will keep converting more SA-1 games and who knows, releasing more five games though this year. That's my personal goal for this year, if I get the enough free time and tools for speeding up my work.
The winning game on my "Next SA-1 game" poll was Super R-Type, with around 25% of the votes.
However one game I was already interested in converting was SimCity. In fact, I started disassembling it before Gradius III, but I ended up focusing on Gradius III since it was a more appealing and requested game :D
My plan therefore is for either doing Super R-Type or SimCity, depending on which one looks more viable to do first. Super R-Type suffers with slowdown at a similar grade to Gradius III and SA-1 would make its gameplay completely fluid. SimCity would benefit of faster loading scenes, faster simulating time for, who knows, have a simulation speed comparable to modern SimCity games (4 and 5) and have the statistics part have a minimal speed for making it actually usable.
Suggestions? Preferences? Feel free to make a comment! =D
Comments
SimCity is a pretty nice game! But after playing and getting used to the newer games, it feels that the SNES version could be way faster. That's my initial idea for a SA-1 version.
Vitor
2019-06-15 23:20:30 +0000 UTCCool that you are even contemplating sim city! Great port of a great classic game .
Andyways
2019-06-14 06:23:16 +0000 UTCThis is interesting to know. I don't know much about Super R-Type so far, but I will definitely search more about it in the nearby future. And yeah, Super R-Type was largely more voted than other game as you can see on my newest post.
Vitor
2019-05-25 03:15:14 +0000 UTCI missed the poll, but I totally vote Super R-Type. The slowdown is so bad in places that it severely impacts the enjoyment of the game, while SimCity is quite playable as it is. Also, Super R-Type is the only console port of the levels from the arcade R-Type II, while SimCity is available to play on several other platforms.
ShootTheCore
2019-05-23 05:51:15 +0000 UTC
