Sales Discontinued

And while yer addit, could you make it a ROM that runs on a standard MSX1/16K/PSG? please?
/bullshit

NOP has done a wonderful job making use of external extensions that have been around, oh, a few years. Come to think of it, could have been V9990 too. anyway - I like the idea of going all out. And it works. Nice job fellaz.

This is it, play it.

Just saying; Unknown Reality would not have existed if we were limiting ourselves. Most of the 256K expansions for the MSX-Audio were because of that demo.

Sales Discontinued would not have existed if we were limiting ourselves. Oh wait I am hearing an echo...

SjaaQ: does this engine allow anyone to make any P&C-game using any screen modes, music players etc.? Or is it in its current state very much intertwined with $D?

It's been a great experience, I hope you enjoyed it to see me suffering throughout the game.

And all this need for so much audio support, I remember the days, if you don't have the desired memory mapper, or music addon, yes you were not able to experience the full sound and all of the games and demos.

Simple, add it to the wishlist and play it another time or go for an emulator.
Like I said I do have the OPL4 cartridge, but I for example I am not an owner of a fast cpu MSX!
Like a TR or 7Mhz mod.
Ok it has a modification, but since the button for usage of the 7Mhz is broken, there's no such thing.
So that's a thing that I would love to see that modification being fixed now. ( but not doing that myself lol )

So I experienced the slow loads ingame and meh, yet not complaining, the game gives a lot in return, besides all the sounds, the dialogues you go through, and regarding to the puzzle element, that's a whole new level as well

Great job, NOP ( Upcoming weekend a new chapter to play? )

Good question. I now only supports screen 8. But palette mode screens would be possible, so would screen 11 (I think that is the one I researched) and so would the bitmap mode for the v9990. But I don't think things would run faster at this moment. Animations are RLE compressed and real time decompressed (while drawing) so no waiting on the VDP there. The ego (main character) is mostly draw with the scaler function and therefore does not have any wait loops. I am currently investigating the v9990, I have ideas for another project.

I think if you want to improve either the graphics quality and speed I would adopt it for v9990 and pre-render the softsprites. But I rather build a new game than adapt SD for it. I've learned a lot from this project and would just rewrite most of the engine anyway.

As for the music player, I currently only implemented the NOP mod player. But since that code is not really part of SD it would be pretty easy to use another player, as long as it fits in ~15K of memory. It must also be able to be assembled and work at 0100-3FFF.