Golden Axe Remake DC

[Christuserloeser]

I've uploaded a fully tested and working Dreamcast version of Golden Axe Remake to DCEvolution.net:

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/7548/logohe1.png

It's a full remake and enhanced version of the arcade game - Golden Axe.

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/182/borscr0002qd9.png http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/8234/borscr0007uy7.png

This game was initially made for Windows by Chinese OpenBoR coder utunnels (http://www.squarecn.com/ff/hotshow.asp?owner=A220&ID=1646377). I merely did a huge part of the RAM related optimizations for the Dreamcast port and also recorded the music modes.

utunnels (http://www.squarecn.com/ff/hotshow.asp?owner=A220&ID=1646377) helped a great deal with the Dreamcast version too. He vastly optimized the script language in OpenBoR and did many other engine related code optimizations to allow the game to run on the Dreamcast's 200Mhz CPU and 16Mbyte RAM. (In the future we will use the DC's 8Mbyte Video RAM and 2 Mbyte Sound RAM too! )

-DOWNLOAD HERE- (http://www.dcevolution.netfirms.com/downloads/bordcevo/GoldenAxeRemakeDC.rar)

Enjoy! :)


Source: DCEvolution.net (http://dreamzoneboards.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1202608299) & LavaLit.com (http://www.lavalit.com/index.php?topic=1014.15)

[Elven6]

Wow this is awesome! It seems to happen alot that coders don't take advantage of the dedicated video and audio ram the Dreamcast has. Is it really hard to code on it? Or are people unaware of it? It seems like if optimization was done on those modules, thing's like the recently released N64 emulator and the Saturn emulator would run better.

[psykotine]

It seems like if optimization was done on those modules, thing's like the recently released N64 emulator and the Saturn emulator would run better.

or the big neo geo roms;)


nice work thanks !!!

[SnoopKatt]

I downloaded it twice and both times the .RAR file was broken :(
Did it happen to anyone else?

[psykotine]

it's the same thing for me...

[rokobungi]

A Belled Sexton Modded Guy Nun Lately Creeps

sorry, too much time spent on the anagram server......

[Guaripolo]

Wow this is awesome! It seems to happen alot that coders don't take advantage of the dedicated video and audio ram the Dreamcast has. Is it really hard to code on it? Or are people unaware of it? It seems like if optimization was done on those modules, thing's like the recently released N64 emulator and the Saturn emulator would run better.

MAME4ALL use it, AES4ALL also, but you have to point to it, because functions like malloc just work in the main 16 mb of ram. The source of mame4all for example use the video ram with a pointer for some games (cps1, tmnt).

I think that n64 emu needs a good recompiler, a fast pvr module and some asm functions that take advantage of the sh4 float instructions. In DC all the memory can be accessed directly (RAM, VIDEO, SOUND) so you have more than 16 mb of ram, but also you have a fast CPU that make FLOPS 3 times faster than a pentium 2, but is 3 times slower than it in "normal" instructions. And the PVR is really fast, but seems like nobody use it at his maximum power.

[Baboon]

Those screen shots look lush!

[DrasgonDigger]

The archive is corrupted.
It does not unpack.
Could again upload?

thanks
fuy...

[Christuserloeser]

I've noticed the problems but couldn't find a solution yet. All the attempts to upload the game again gave me the same results...

I will try to upload it to Dreamcast-Scene.com to see if it is a problem with DCEvolution or if it's my ISP.

[Christuserloeser]

-UPDATE-

It seems I got it working: The problem was FireFTP. - I uploaded it using Windows Explorer now and it seems it worked fine as the file size finally is correct this time.

-DOWNLOAD HERE- (http://www.dcevolution.netfirms.com/downloads/bordcevo/GoldenAxeRemakeDC.rar)

So, please download again using above link. The file you receive should be 163.99 MB (171,961,060 Bytes) big.

Sorry for the inconvenience everyone.