Which project should I work now?
Added 2021-02-23 00:30:55 +0000 UTCHi! We just reached an awesome milestone - over 100 patrons! Thank you so much everyone that is supporting me! You have no idea how that makes me happy and how it's helping me real life. As a commemoration for this milestone, instead of going on the monthly "Requests Center", this time I would like to you pick the game you would like to me work on.
Exactly, my next conversion will be based on the opinions of my patrons!
Not necessarily the winner will be the next conversion, I always pick 3-4 projects, analyze them and based on that I decide which one I'm the most confident in going. But definitely the most votes one I'll fulfill as the next project.
This is exclusive for patrons, so if you would like to your game end up picked, make sure to comment the reasons on this post so you can convince the other patrons in picking it as well! ^^
By the way, you can pick more than one option.
Explaining tags:
- SA-1: I will install and optimize the game to use the SA-1 chip, allowing to the game run up to 500% faster than original. Normally SA-1 makes the game run up to 400% faster.
- Super FX: I will either install or upgrade the GSU chip into the game.
- FastROM: I will add FastROM to the game. If FastROM is not enough, SA-1 will later be added. Normally FastROM makes the game run up to 30% faster.
- Delta: I will apply Delta-Based Frame Correction to the game, making the game run smoothly and not too fast. Normally this is used in conjunction to an enhancement chip.
- Widescreen: I will add widescreen support to the game, which can be played on bsnes_hd and futurely on ares/higan. MiSTer is also possible. Widescreen will let the game display fullscreen on 16:9 displays, without any pillar or letterboxing. The game will also feature more visible area, making it look better.
Note that I don't have the equipment required for doing Super FX conversions yet, however I can start with Star Fox using bsnes and sd2snes using the 21.47 MHz as base. Once I have the required equipment, I can do GSU-2 optimizations with hardware-edge optimization and overclocking. qwertymodo and The Real Phoenix are currently making Super FX specific carts for me and parts of this Patreon funds are being used to get the additional equipment for flashing, programming and maintaining Super FX ROMs.
Comments
Starfox at 30FPS would be amazing :)
2021-02-23 19:30:44 +0000 UTCWhen you say "MiSTer is also possible" for the wide-screen modes, do you mean as-is or do you think the core would need to be updated? Is this something that's already proven to work on real hardware? If the core would need changing, what kinds of changes would be necessary? This is something I'm curious about but not necessarily enough to vote for it. I think that's mostly because I can't think of many SNES games that would benefit much. For example, it would probably help Uniracers a good bit because it can be hard to see far enough ahead (like Sonic the Hedgehog). I can see the benefit for SMW too. But I'm not sure how many games there are where it's appropriate.
Muriel Melvin
2021-02-23 16:25:17 +0000 UTC
