Version Beta 1.1: 26/02/07 [+] Suppression of the limitation of the instruments. One can now place any instrument on any track with any height of note. [+] Change in the instruments: 8 heights of note per instrument, except the battery (4 for the moment). Y or L+Y to change the height of a note. [+] Choice of language (EN/FR)

What's this?
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Hi,

Once upon a time I contacted a good graphician named NachoYagüe and we started a free game.

We did quite a lot in a few days, however we dropped the game due to our personal circumstances.

I've decided to go open-graphics with my game today, just before the lack of graphics kills it definitely.

Original graphician agreed recently to let me use and modify his graphics and animations freely in this project.

So there I go again, now with your help :-)

The game concept is to move quickly a cute girl in a bomberman-ish scenario completing some mission objectives, before the time goes by or before any other player wins first.

The player has to avoid other bigger animals (like a cocodrile) and players, and avoid sunking in water too.

Some mission objectives may be:

- reach a screen border jumping over stones without touching the water, before another player does it first. Enemy: time, wild wind & scenario.

- reach a screen border jumping over floating trees without touching the water, before another player does it first. Enemy: time, tree rotation & scenario.

- capture N butterflies, or other small animals before another player does it first. Enemy: time, other players & scenario.

- capture N frogs over waterlillies before the waterlillies sunk in water. Enemy: time, other players & scenario.

- capture N fireflies at night before the other player does it first. Enemy: low visibility, other players & scenario.

- push other players to water. Enemy: time, other players & scenario.

- etc

There are power ups in each screen to help players doing his job first. They include big birds to mount which lets you jump longer, big rabbit to mount which lets you move faster, honey-catapult which to attract bees to other players, boxing-glove with spring to push players to water, etc.


Wanna help?: what I need right now
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- I need you to improve current animations (please keep the same graphics style :-).

- I need you to draw new graphics and animations (please keep the same graphics style :-) :
- Girl jumping, girl running, trees, birds, rabbits, frogs, fishes, stones, waterlillies, and leaves flying.
- Others graphics and animations (not important right now).


Wanna help?: how we work
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- Draw your sprites and animations in any program you like as long as you encapsulate them later in a PSD (Photoshop) file format.

- Draw sprites and animations using palettes, however, the final PSD must be hicolor and cannot use transparency, non-rasterized layers, or alpha channels.

- Draw with larger canvas than sprite size if needed. Our exporter will crop the graphics and will do the dirty job.

- Group static objects of a same genre in a same PSD too. For example, a file named 'flowers.psd' or 'rocks.psd' must contain a full set of static frames of different flowers and rocks. Btw, put each graphic in a layer.

- When animating, put all frames (N) of an object in a same PSD. And put each frame in a layer.

- When animating different orientations of a same sprite (girl walking down, left, up, right for example), put all animation sets in a same PSD (4 sets of N frames each in this example).

- We use Photoshop's default transparent color as our transparent color. However to adjust sprite coordinates in animations we use pure green (0,255,0) and pure purple (0,255,255) in a cross-axis in bottom layer (check girl-walking.psd example). The exporter will adjust automatically coordinates by checking the position of sprites in relation with this cross-axis.

- Default animation delay is 0 between each frame. If you want to modify delay of a frame, just rename the layer to a number. The bigger number you write, the bigger delay you get.

- As final note, each layer you draw should include optionally some info in "author: comment" format. If there is a delay comment already (check previous note), keep the delay comment first.


And that's all
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Now check the current graphics set and if you feel they match your style, just join our project :-)

Have fun!

rlyeh

After some messing around with noiz2sa got back to my main project, mostly to implement missing stuff. Still no scaling/rotation chip support, but most other stuff is there now. Will do the gfx chip next, and then only the hard stuff will be left (timing problems and various bugs).

So this version has a good compatibility boost, which now should exceed 50% mark. Here are some games which can be made to work now (including some FMV ones, I mostly used this wishlist for testing):
Adventures of Willy Beamish
Final fight
Heart of the alien
Lunar 2 - eternal blue (textboxes fixed)
Night trap
Sewer shark
There is a new ultra-slow option called "better sync", which is similar to "Perfect synchro" in Gens. So all testers should try that if game doesn't boot. For example Popful mail and Vay needs it to boot, but after start that option can be disabled and they seem to run fine (at least their very beginning does). Report any hanging/glitchy games to me, so I can look at them.

Complete changelog:
Fixed a long-standing problem in audio mixing code which caused slight distortions at lower sample rates.
Changed the way 920 and 940 communicates (again), should be more reliable and give slight performance increase.
Some optimizations in audio mixing code.
Some menu changes (background added, smaller font in ROM browser, savestate loader now can select slots).
1M mode DMA transfers implemented (used by FMV games like Night Trap and Sewer Shark).
Games now can run code from WORD RAM in 1M mode (fixes Adventures of Willy Beamish).
"Cell arrange" address mapping is now emulated (Heart of the alien).
"Color numeric operation" is now emulated (text in Lunar 2, Silpheed intro graphics).
"Better sync" option added (prevents some games from hanging).
Savestates now go into their own directory (but may still be loaded from the working dir)

It is an installable otheros.bld file, which runs a custom application on the PS3.

Features:

• Web Interface (via HTTP) that lets you do all of the below featured!
• Check Blu-Ray Disk size
• Format internal PS3 HDD
• Explore HDD (Linux side), and download files to a PC.
• Explore Blu-Ray Disks, and download files to a PC (with UDF 2.5 Support!)

Note: With SAK v1.00 you can now dump your PS3/Blu-Ray disc images without installing PS3 Linux, however, you must still format the PS3 HDD prior (as if you were going to install PS3 Linux) in
order to install/use the OtherOS-- this is a $ony requirement unfortunately.

Not so "feature" features:

• Reboot console
• Reboot console to PS3OS
• Poweroff console