Saturn Rhea & CD+G idea...

[cleeg]

Having seen some screenshots of the above types of disc being run on a Saturn I note that images are displayed on the CD player GUI behind the control buttons.

Now, as there is no (and I believe unlikely to be) front end menu for the Rhea system I wondered if it were possible to make some kind of graphic for each game using the CD+G 'system' as described above?

This may be way off the mark and potentially impossible but if anyone knows please let me know. Cheers!

[cleeg]

Bit of a bump, and change of subject here...

I don't think I can make the above happen, but how feasible is it to have a small LCD screen with game titles displayed, it'd look pretty cool mounted on the front and centre of the console; perhaps with a cover flap and external selector button...

[zyrobs]

That's actually not a bad idea, but it would need some serious data injection into each game. I was thinking of a 2-way communication that uses a dummy first image that intercepts the track jump commands (L and R button on the cd player) to read and display the title info from a folder, and then automatically set Rhea to that folder and reset the machine to load a game. But your CD+G idea is much more elegant, even if it is less comfortable for the end user.

Best of all, it would not require any SH2 coding at all, just a graphic converter, and something to inject the cd+g into the subcodes of the image.

[cleeg]

Do you think it's possible then? And thanks for the reply.

[cleeg]

http://assemblergames.com/l/threads/...n.57377/page-8

It's landed...

[xelement5x]

Woot, everything looks pretty sweet! I am getting closer and closer to grabbing a Rhea.

[TailsCD]

No longer own a Saturn anymore unfortunately, but I'm glad Rhea exists.

[cleeg]

As far as I can tell the only game that won't work is Bug!, which doesn't matter because it's rubbish. It is a bit annoying though, but if that's the only game that won't work it's a good trade off for me.