THE wrote:@Hair
We are a 100% NEOGEO/Arcade developer and have nothing todo with homebrew, nor would we ever take homebrew as an role model for anything but how it's not done.
I am personally a 100% Japanese Jamma connoisseur btw. so I wouldn't touch anything like that with a pole
You've piqued my curiosity here, because, well, quite honestly, Last Hope says "Hi".
What is your definition of "homebrew" and what in that definition do you dislike? Is it strictly what hardware is targeted?
Now, as you are an Arcade developer, I can understand your approach to game design (actually I fully believe in it). A game for the arcade requires certain necessary influences on game design, foremost being "the need to make money". This leads in the direction of the vague "hard enough that games are short, compelling enough that players keep putting in quarters." Time is money after all.
It's shooters that derive from arcade games that I personally like the most. However, there are still some very good free ones, written solely for the PC, such as the already mentioned Kenta Cho games, or Astro Ports free games (Sonic Ironstorm or Demolition Gunner) that share much of the design aesthetics of arcade shooters. There are even free ones like Linley's White Butterfly or Garden of Coloured Lights that, while not "arcade" in the sense I'm discussing, are excellent shooters and have absorbed a lot of play time from me.
I guess you're coming across as a little elitist. Am I misreading you here? You've certainly earned some right with Fast Striker, but you're also not yet at the point where "your shit has stopped stinking".
Bill
basically the same as running either mars matrix or how the sprites from capcom vs snk 2 look running through VGA slightly cropped playing area and pixelated sprites. I dont really understand the tech side but can someone roughly explain to me why mame can get 320/240 games to look fantastic on a 1080+ pc res setup but nothing is done or applied to have the same effect for low res running at 640x480 console output?
