Yuzo Koshiro is making new MD shmup.

[SuperDeadite]

Hell yeah!
https://twitter.com/yuzokoshiro/status/ ... Kgp3Q&s=19

[Bassa-Bassa]

Looks a bit too derivative specially for so talented and experienced people, hopefully I'm wrong.

[Steven]

Remember what happened last time he did the OST for a Mega Drive shooter? Yeah, that's right, fucking Slap Fight MD, one of the best soundtracks on the system (and one of the best games on the system and the single best STG on the system, for that matter). Will insta-buy.

[FunktionJCB]

Remember what happened last time he did the OST for a Mega Drive shooter? Yeah, that's right, fucking Slap Fight MD, one of the best soundtracks on the system (and one of the best games on the system and the single best STG on the system, for that matter). Will insta-buy.

Koshiro continues to be a top-tier composer.
I have no doubts he will knock it out of the park with the soundtrack for his own game.

His soundtrack for SOL CRESTA is insanely great, very energetic and catchy.

[xxx1993]

It worked for Manabu Namiki with GG Aleste 3. I wonder how Yuzo Koshiro can do this? Either way, I'm pumped.

[spmbx]

He's (obviously) doing the soundtrack and some gamedesign, any word on who else is involved?

[kid aphex]

I’m cautiously optimistic. At least the music will be good.

[pablumatic]

I'm down for a copy. Whether its a paid or free download, a cartridge, or stuck on something like a Mega Drive Mini 3.

[Gamer707b]

I'm cautiously excited. I'm a big fan of 16-bit shoot em ups, so it's a no brainer.

[Hazuki]

Great news. Always exciting to see new good (not cheep indie/demoscene garbage) games being developed for 8/16-bit systems. I'm looking forward to see what will become out of it.

[Udderdude]

Looks like it's using SGDK .. https://twitter.com/yuzokoshiro/status/ ... 9470411777

[qmish]

Is there youtube vid or smth?

[Udderdude]

It's very early in development. Doesn't even have a title yet.

[qmish]

I see. I'll wait before trying to repost all this like a "news", then.

[cj iwakura]

Remember what happened last time he did the OST for a Mega Drive shooter? Yeah, that's right, fucking Slap Fight MD, one of the best soundtracks on the system (and one of the best games on the system and the single best STG on the system, for that matter). Will insta-buy.

Koshiro continues to be a top-tier composer.
I have no doubts he will knock it out of the park with the soundtrack for his own game.

His soundtrack for SOL CRESTA is insanely great, very energetic and catchy.

Not to mention the extremely underrated Maximum Tune OSTs(outside of the scene anyway).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3U6QlCIMBsa

[MOSQUITO FIGHTER]

I'm all for it. I'm surprised that there aren't more old school game designers releasing indie games. Maybe this will start a trend.

[qmish]

Micky Albert was doing it already though

[kid aphex]

Here’s some new footage
I like the look

https://twitter.com/yuzokoshiro/status/ ... tXaYWvVnsg

[Udderdude]

Nice art. Enemies movement patterns are dull, though. And they appear to have noclip enabled ..

[kid aphex]

Nice art. Enemies movement patterns are dull, though. And they appear to have noclip enabled ..

“5% in progress”
Probably not quite at a point where enemy patterns can be legitimatey critiqued.

[jehu]

That 'swoop in' animation is really good shit for the MD. Looking solid to me. If this is 5% complete, I'm optimistic that it'll be something worth paying attention to.

Here’s some new footage
I like the look

https://twitter.com/yuzokoshiro/status/ ... tXaYWvVnsg

[pablumatic]

Looks like a good start.

That little swoop-in animation at the start of the stage is evidence they're not going to be that strict on the ROM size.

[Jonpachi]

I call major bullshit on this being 5% complete if we're already working on level intro animations. That, or it's a BADLY mismanaged project.

[PerishedFraud ឵឵]

the animation was likely made first because it's supposed to be eye-catching and unique.

[Sumez]

When you're making cool hobby'ish projects like that, the first things you make are always the cool ideas you had in your head that you want to see carried through.

[blazinglazers69]

Wow it looks great!!! Really looking forward to ZPF as well. Are there any homebrews of this quality available right now for the Genesis? Heck any good homebrews in general since even trying to google that would be tricky.

[PerishedFraud ឵឵]

tanzer is pretty good. the art is a meme but it plays like a knife through butter

[neorichieb1971]

I'm only interested if its one of those ROM sizes that is 10x bigger than the original carts that pushes the limits of animation on the MD. Like those fighters made a few years ago.

I like the palette though thats unique or at least to my collection it is. If its just just another run of the mill MD shooter, well there are lots of those already.

[kid aphex]

I'm only interested if its one of those ROM sizes that is 10x bigger than the original carts that pushes the limits of animation on the MD. Like those fighters made a few years ago.

I like the palette though thats unique or at least to my collection it is. If its just just another run of the mill MD shooter, well there are lots of those already.

You could basically assume that from the ship’s intro animation alone, but
In the twitter thread he goes on to mention that the animation is possible because memory isn’t an issue at this point
So, I guess they’re going all out with the memory

[Sumez]

Yeah there is really no reason not to put much bigger games in homebrew cartridges nowadays unless your goal is specifically to work within "original limitations" - which is completely respectable given it's kind of the reason we do homebrew in the first place. Just everyone has their own ideas of where the limitations begin and end.