Update on the Native rumors (some bad news and some good too
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Super Laydock
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Update on the Native rumors (some bad news and some good too
Thought I'd post this, but to be honest I am not convinced yet myself.
The elusive shmup of which only a demo for the Jaguar had been released, might just be ported and finished for the Dreamcast.
http://www.duranik.com/english/jaguar.html
for the conversation about it on the DCS forum click through from this site (go through the community link):
http://www.dreamcast-petition.com/
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***EDIT*** Not Native, but other shmup by Duranik is in development for the DC***
see my post below for some scarce info
The elusive shmup of which only a demo for the Jaguar had been released, might just be ported and finished for the Dreamcast.
http://www.duranik.com/english/jaguar.html
for the conversation about it on the DCS forum click through from this site (go through the community link):
http://www.dreamcast-petition.com/
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***EDIT*** Not Native, but other shmup by Duranik is in development for the DC***
see my post below for some scarce info
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Wow!
I'd heard of this thing before, but had never seen screenshots. Sexy!
Thanks for the info, Super Laydock!
*crosses fingers*
I'd heard of this thing before, but had never seen screenshots. Sexy!
Thanks for the info, Super Laydock!
*crosses fingers*
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The link Laydock provided has some exceptional looking video demos. Very beautiful, fluid animation. I didn't think much of this game until I saw these vids! Can this really be played on the Jaguar? Beautiful!
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Anyone else get this working on an emulator? I did, and... well, it needs a lot of work still. There seem to be power-ups but I can't get my ship to capture them. Touching them seems to do nothing. The graphics are'nt bad though, I'm excited about the prospects of this coming out! I love R-Type and this is certainly in that style.
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Well, it depends on what you mean by "commercial." If this news is legitimate, and the arrangements are made, then, the game could be pressed at a factory, which would be slightly above the quality of downloading and recording to CD-R. But, it wouldn't be a GD-ROM, and it wouldn't be endorsed by Sega, and, well...alpha5099 wrote:Is the game being commercially released for the Dreamcast, or is it a homebrew that we can download and burn onto a disc?
(We'll have to wait to find out whether or not it's actually coming out, and if so, in which format it will be available.)
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well, it's now official that Duranik is working on a Dreamcast game but also that it isn't Native... .qatmix wrote:I heard they are doing a differnt game for the Dc?
The afforementioned MAX got this directly from Duranik himself.
MAX wrote
hmm, Native was looking quite good, if the new shooter would be even prettier I guess it might be good in any case.Duranik told me to make it official... Native won't be released on the Dreamcast, but another shooter which is currently in development. One of the reasons it that Native won't use the Dreamcast capabilities even a bit.
Also a direct quote from a reply forum member Jon Misugi got from Duranik himself:
So bad new is: we're not getting Native.We just started work on a DC Project. It is not a Native port but
something similar.
The game has still a long way to go and more infos and screens will not
be released before we reach a beta stadium.
Regards
Johannes / Duranik
And good news: a possibly even better looking shmup for the DC.
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At least you can play the Native demo on the JagCD...
Sure, I've gotten the chance to play the single stage demo of Native (complete with sound effects and cool BGM tunes) with a cool end-stage boss fight of a praying mantis at the World of Atari 1998 Expo in Las Vegas in August of 1998. Of course, the real Native demo exists on a notebook computer and was transferred to a 2mb Jaguar Flash cartridge for demo purposes only.
However, if you get ahold of a Native demo from Songbird Productions, that Native demo has the sound effects and background music missing + you can't grab up power-ups to increase them nor can you fight the praying mantis boss either. Plus you have to have a either a "Jag Free CD compatible cartridge" or a B&C Computer Visions "Jaguar CD Bypass Cartridge" just to be able to even play the Songbird version of Native demo on the Jaguar CD interface unit.
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However, if you get ahold of a Native demo from Songbird Productions, that Native demo has the sound effects and background music missing + you can't grab up power-ups to increase them nor can you fight the praying mantis boss either. Plus you have to have a either a "Jag Free CD compatible cartridge" or a B&C Computer Visions "Jaguar CD Bypass Cartridge" just to be able to even play the Songbird version of Native demo on the Jaguar CD interface unit.
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