Sonic the hedgehog?

[amiman99]

Here is a Sonic MED file I converted from MIDI to MED, plays fine in OctaMED and EaglePlayer. Took me like 2hrs, lots of clean up.
Sorry I had to double zip it with "7z" and then ZIP to work around the file size limitation.

[amiman99]

This is good, could use some better samples in my opinion but the tune is spot on apart from a few unexpected shifts in octave (I guess the minimum wave period gets in the way sometimes, unless it's XMP playing the fool).  I could use this, but.. I'd need it in Protracker mod format to use it in the Mr Beanbag engine.

The samples were from Sound Terrific CD, I would need more time to find better ones or just digitize them myself (probably wont have time to digitize them :elvis:).
I tried to save it in Protracker and it did not saved it very well, I need to see where is the problem :hammer:.
If some one could tell me what instruments I need, then it would be easier to find.

[amiman99]

Your new LHA fixes the issues from before.

Unfortunately I think the Minimig is running out of RAM before it manages to to finish compiling. I'm sure my 1200 is up to the task no problem

Thanks for the game!

nate

I have a same problem on my A1200 with 64MB RAM, it will not finish compiling and it tells me to contact the Programmer.
I cant run the game.

[amiman99]

Ok try this Green Hill Zone mod I just made.  Maybe someone with greater musical skills than mine can jazz it up a little more but there's the basic tune anyway.  I modified some samples from my own collection.

Sounds good!

[amiman99]

If anyone would like to try the latest half-level demo of Sonic the Hedgehog on their Amiga I have just uploaded a new archive  http://amigachristmastree.ultimateamiga.co.uk/SonicBackboneDemo.lha

Here's a video of an earlier version:
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I like it, very nice. I wonder if the music could be redone in 3 channels and fourth one used for game sounds, so the music is not interrupted when game sounds are on. Rhythm, base and music .
I wonder if Metal Slug would be possible using backbone? It's my all time favorite run and shoot game.

Edit, The demo works fine in A1200 030 50MHz.

[amiman99]

Unfortunately with Backbone there's no control over the channels it uses for the sound effects, I think it tries to use a free channel if there is one and just cuts out a random channel when they're all in use, but it sounds fine with 3-channel mods.

Mr. Beanbag sounds good though, I wasn't sure if you had used 3 or 4 channel mods because I never notice the tune cutting out, good idea cutting out the base channel to play a sound effect.

I always wondered if a game could resume playing a note that was cut out, or if that channel would stay silent until the next note in that channel of the track is played, perhaps if the sample for the note was a long one or was inserted once with a loop. I also wonder about things like using the CPU to mix the channels to give you eight instead of four like how OctaMED does it, could it be used in an action game like a platformer or is there too much going on already?


Oh yeah, and I think Backbone is actually better suited to making a Metal Slug clone than any other type of game, so I think we should have a go at that too if people are interested.

Here is the first level of Metal Slug
http://vgmaps.com/Atlas/Neo-Geo/MetalSlug-Mission1.png
and Marco
http://www.spriters-resource.com/community/showthread.php?tid=14064

Is there any tutorial for Backbone? The trouble I have is tile making, how do you space everything correctly?

[amiman99]

Can you bounce the audio on game music?
What I mean is save whole tune as a sample cut
it up into sections and rearrange it in a tracker
that will free up channels

There maybe Chip RAM limits, the longer the sample the more space it takes in Chip RAM.