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Offline Rebel-CD32

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Any game? My girlfriend and I decided that the Amiga needs Street Fighter Alpha 3 and Metal Slug. They're doable on any AGA Amiga with a good coder. No need for PPC or OS4, just a CD32 and a couple of control pads. SWEET!
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The custom graphics hardware in CPS2 and NeoGeo is more advanced than the AGA or ECS, although with a good coder, the Amiga can match those systems with the right amount of RAM, although it would experience slow-down if there were too many sprites on screen.

A game like SFA3 would be possible in 2MB. It might need to lose a few colours and animation frames, just as the Playstation version did, but would still be perfectly playable. Games like Shadow Fighter, Elfmania and Fightin' Spirit all had large sprites, animated or parallax backgrounds, and several moves, and all those games were designed to run on 1MB ECS Amigas (even though AGA versions of two of them were released, they weren't much different to the originals). An AGA Amiga has twice as much RAM, and can handle sprite sizes twice as big as an ECS Amiga.

I'm not sure how well a game like Metal Slug would run, I guess you'd need an Amiga-specific version, like Metal Slug Advance, unless it was loading background blocks and sprites from the CD or hard drive as you progressed through the levels.
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A vertical scrolling shoot-em-up is on the cards after we finish Mr Beanbag (in about a week).  We'll see how much we can get on screen!


If there's anyone who can still program a good game for the Amiga, using all its strengths, it's you. Make sure you check out some of the best arcade vertical scrolling shooters on MAME (or in a real arcade if that's still an option) for some inspiration, and let us all know if you need any help. You could check out the Amiga Games Factory over on abime.net, they're trying to get a team of Amiga games creators together for a few projects over there.

Oh yeah, and it's been a week since your post, where's Mr. Beanbag?  :-P

Can't wait to get the full game, how about releasing a Christmas level demo before Christmas time?
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Mr. Beanbag is a new platform game coming out for AGA Amigas very soon, you can check out the screenshots and download a demo here - http://www.glastonbridge.co.uk/mrbeanbag/

And what's wrong with Mr. Nutz?? Sure, the Mega Drive and SNES versions totally sucked, but the Amiga version was a whole other game, and one of the best platformers I've played on any system (and I've played a lot of them). I finished the game once, and it's massive. Beautiful graphics, wonderful sound, perfect gameplay... the only thing that let it down was not being hard drive installable. It actually had the option to use a control pad so you could jump using the button instead of pressing up too, which all platform games should have.

Never played Mr. Pants though.


Vincent, yeah, Metal Slug totally rocks hey, we definitely need more games like that on Amiga. Try and find the PS1 version of Metal Slug X if you want another Metal Slug game to enjoy.
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