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Awesome, I just love these type of games.
This was really fun once I got the hang of it, wasn't able to beat all the levels, though.

Fx3 wrote: Complete SNES + TV = perfection++

qft.

Out of curiosity, how much is the VDP, em, PPU data bandwidth in SNES anyway ? Doing FMV should not be any too serious task... unless compression is involved. I could do display around 10x 320x240 4bit BMP files per second on MD ( http://www.hot.ee/tmeeco/DWNLOADS/CAR.RAR ) without using DMA in 50H...

Universal Soldier is a direct port/rip-off of Turrican 2 from the Amiga.
I believe the music player runs on the 65816, making spc dumps of the music impossible.
The tunes are just horrible conversions of the TFMX originals, anyway.

00h - 07h : Custom instrument registers -> This mean $9000-$9007 ????? 10h - 15h : ffffffff -> mean $9010 - $9015 ??? 30h - 35h : iiiivvvv -> $9030-$9035 ??? No, you got it wrong. This is how you do it, at least according to Kevtris' description: lda #$07 sta $9010 lda #$AA sta $9030 writes $AA to ...

To put an end to this little mystery, here's what a Rare employee had to say about it: Hi Matthias, From what I can gather, Chris Sutherland programmed the coin-op version of Battletoads while Mark Betteridge handled the NES version (my source being… Chris Sutherland). Hope that helps! I really enjo...

I was surprised myself when I noticed Pocket Monsters has an actual ending. I mean, this game isn't like, total crap. If the controls weren't so rubbish and the scrolling a bit less choppy, it would make for a mediocre to decent run-off-the-mill SNES platformer. Or solid gold by HKO standards, so to...

What all of these games have in common is the unbelievable degree of crappiness and the fact that they feature hardware copy protection. Ah, what a neat coincidence. About six months ago, Nach sent me Pokemon Stadium and X-Men vs Street Fighter. I worked on Pokemon Stadium for a few minutes at work...

Although most are virtually unknown, there are a couple of relatively recent unlicensed rip-off games out there for the SNES based on titles that originally appeared on more powerful consoles. What all of these games have in common is the unbelievable degree of crappiness and the fact that they feat...

I don't think I'd ever want to port FF7 to the SNES. Would be a nice feat, but not worth the tremendous effort imho. I guess just about everything can be downgraded if you're willing to make compromises. N-Warp Daisakusen doesn't render graphics in realtime 3d, btw. That's just a pre-rendered video ...

Oops, I guess you're right. Never heard of that one tbh.

They quite cheaped out on that one. Didn't even include a full pass-through connector.
I've recently had a look at that cart aswell.
Although it reports as Riverse Kids, my guess would be that they the originally intended the game to be called Reverse Kids.

I think the programmers from the story aren't real persons.

The Stamper brothers founded Rare afaik, but I thought they weren't programming anymore by the time they released Battletoads.

At least around 1994, Chris Sutherland seems to have been the main coder at Rare.
Prior to that, I've no idea.

Slightly unrelated, but I just love the way they squeezed out all these effects out of the NES.
Does anybody know who was in charge of programming Battletoads at Rare?
I did a quick search on google, but came up with nothing. The ROM doesn't contain any hints, either.

I'm sure it's doable. The small videoplayer that's used in a part of the intro of nwarp daisakusen was merely an afterthought slapped together in a couple of minutes without any optimization. It's capable of 60fps playback (no buffering of frames) and each frame is around 7kb in size(tiles+tilemap)....