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Stormlord is better.
Way back when I saw a used copy of this game and didn't know what the hell it was, I created a fib amongst my grade-school friends that I saw a copy "Midnight Resistance 2" somewhere. This was due to "Slaughter Sport"'s box art:
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images...7116_front.jpg
in which the guy kind of looked like the guy in the US "Midnight Resistance" box art.........sort of:
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images...8953_front.jpg
(Quite an ugly grin that feller's got there.)
so I spontaneously made that up. Yeah..........my friends didn't give a hoot regardless since most of them didn't even know what the HELL "Midnight Resistance" was. Sorry for the bad SS box art, it's the best one I could find. Funny how Razorsoft tried to emulate Sega's "grid" packaging......sure fooled me.
I also recall reading back in the day how this game was delayed to hell (announced at or before the Genny's '89 launch) and finally came out 2-3 years later.........AFTER "Street Fighter II". Game Over.
*walks like a duck to the middle of the screen*
"This game sucks and came out way after it should've come out."
*continues walking out of the screen*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Cv3xwbccP0
Slaughter Sport is not much of a great game in my mind... crap music, not much moves, bland GFX...
And the hero on Midnight Resistance cover has a spike in his ass face...
I honestly didn't see those 8 Megs being put to good use of the MD Midnight Resistance. Oodles of flicker, slowdown and even poorer animation than the coin-op.
Now "Ranger-X", that game maxed out the 8 Meg cart. So much that the last boss has no moving animation whatsoever and is fought on a black background...........they ran out of space.
The only thing that doesn't suck horrifically about SS is the box art. That's it. I think there's only one fighter on the system worse that this one, and that's Street Smart.
You want to see a good use of 8 MEGA POWER look at Super Castlevania IV on the SNES. Remember, it takes more code to do the same thing on the Genesis due to the 68000, so the games tend to be a bit bigger. However I also don't know where the 8 MEGA POWER in Midnight Resistance went. Probably just unoptimized code (and great music).
Shouldn't SNES graphics take up more POWER because of the more colours? My image files are usually bigger if there are many colours in them.
It would if the SNES used common bitmapped graphics. But assigning a sprite color # 42 takes up no more or less memory than assigning it color # 12,923. Careful, we're getting in to "tech talk" here!
So what are the positive side of using the 68000's more memory-eating code? I read it has a 32-bit address bus, what does that mean and what does it do?
This thread has no bigger meaning anyway, so it better share the fate of many other OT tech talk threads...
Perhaps the 68000 was more familiar to programmers of the time and therefore easier to work with. It is also an "off the shelf" part and therefore extremely cheap.
32-bit address bus, but externally it's limited to 24bit address bus and the cartridge rom using 22bits of the address bus (32megs). What's that mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by Zebbe
It means you can have a decently large cart without using memory mappers. It also makes programming cleaner and easier (no memory/bank swapping or page/segments like old x86 or SNES CPU).
That's what I think, too. It was a very popular 16bit chip (and was out years before the 65816 used in the SNES) and many systems used it from arcades to computers, so it was very familiar to programmers.Quote:
Perhaps the 68000 was more familiar to programmers of the time and therefore easier to work with. It is also an "off the shelf" part and therefore extremely cheap.
The More You Know.
*inserts Zebbe's avatar while NBC jingle plays*
Explain the NBC jingle to a Swede.
Its from the Nbc TV network. Its sounds like this.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Ev1xhRvY-A&feature=related
but should look more like this which is also very old.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=PUU2ljnS3wY
68K is a super easy CPU, the code can take quite some space (and that amount depends how much code you have), but its all worth it. And the reason Midnight Resistance uses that 1MB(8Mbit) so poorly is that the GFX is not compressed... I think that even compressed they couldn't get the size down to 512KB(4Mbit) so they thought : "Hell with that, one 512KB + one 256KB ROM chip is more expensive than one 1MB chip, so lets kill the compression and go for 1MB chip" .... that's my idea.... and its music is great too...
"The More You Know" is generally like this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EpLFuA2i3wg
http://home.arcor.de/xelnaga/america-sees-world.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by Zebbe
HAHAHAAAAAAAAAA
What a hypocritical little map.
And it is necessary to post things like this because? Why would you do that? Do you enjoy just pissing people off?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Smith
It's supposed to be funny, but over time this stuff just gets annoying. And by hypocrtical I mean it calls us bigots while making giant, negative (read: bigot-ish) generalizations.
That map is missing the American concentration camp on the Guantanamo Base.
Posting that map was unnecessary and irrelevant.
And stupid. The whole "commies" thing was back in the 50s.
In a show of peace ill extend my bloody hand representing the all the wrongs my country has ever done to shake your bloody hand and neither one of us will have to worry about who's blood got on our clothes.
AFAIK, Vietnam and Cuba are still communist regimes. If Swedish politics was presented in the US, it would also be called communist, I hear.
It was meant as a tongue-in-cheek observation of the European perception of American ignorance. Jesus, do you actually believe that I believe the beliefs of that map to be accurate? I apologise if it pissed anybody off. I really didn't expect such a patriotic reaction. All this talk about blood, national wrong-doings and peace over a crappy little jpg is far too excessive.
Be careful with what you post. A joke to you may not be to others. In fact what you are experiencing is what us Americans deal with all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Smith
"I didn't think it would piss them off that much"
I apologize. I didn't mean to be offensive. I wanted to express how different politics can be between two so called democracies and decided to leave out how US politics would be viewed in Sweden because that would be more fuel on the fire. Again, sorry.
Guess it's just a culture difference. Zebbe could see the post for what it was - a lighthearted dig at perceived American ignorance (please be assured I didn't create the picture myself).Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
Would you have been so up in arms if I had insulted the French, or the Swedes, or my fellow Englishmen, or any other nation other than the U.S.A.? Didn't think so.
So Slaughter Sport...
Yeah, why being so serious. Is anyone serious on this forum, anyway? I sure know I am not. I don't take it as offensive when hearing jokes about Swedes in Seinfeld, Simpsons, Married With Children or other American culture. But when that Cuban UN ambassadeur said Sweden was a racist country that treated tall blondes with blue eyes as the premium people, I was pissed.
Please don't speak for me. My wife is Swedish, off the boat Swedish, and I wouldn't find it fair to stereotype any group of people or country.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Smith
For my part, I didn't realize that you were making fun of the way Americans are perceived, Mr. Smith, but then again I didn't take it as a serious view as much as a tongue-in-cheek little European Supremacy dig.
Anyway, unless there's something more to be said about Slaughter Sport (shudder) then this thread should probably die. At any rate let's not start arguing EU/US again, as nothing was intended by the pic.
Agreed?
Group hug
Haha, no thanks. Europeans don't wear deodorant.
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NO, WAIT! I TAKE IT BACK! Forgive me!
I though you wanted a bloody handshake representing all the wrongs of our respective countries. Now you want a hug. Make up your mind :roll:Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
Is this serious comment or not? I don't know. I can't tell. I don't care. I'm done with this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr Smith
Sorry about that, Mr Smith. It looked to me like you were jumping at the chance to post that map since it was barely relevant, and that made it look more like an attempted insult than a lighthearted rubbing. I'm all for making fun of stuff, though.
Not serious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iron Lizard
This how i always get in trouble. In real life I love sarcasm. On these things though its hard to tell at times.