Topic of short updates

[Gemini]

I decided to make this topic so that I don't have to worry about the main page missing most of the small updates I do every now and then.

So, let's start with something from yesterday:
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kDG_HbaMTE" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kDG_HbaMTE</a>
As you can see from the video description, it's a new sound engine for streamed music. This one replaces the old XA streams and allows more custom stuff, like slower/faster playblack, but it's also a lot better for organizing files on disk as XA is really an ISO mess (needs a fuckload of parameters just to play fine with anything that doesn't use 8 channels). It also offers real 44100 Hz support (XA is only 18900/37800 Hz), meaning that audio quality is just like CD track, even tho it's actually compressed as it uses the native Playstation SPU format.
Implementing this little beast took about a couple days to do, doesn't consume much memory at all (32 KB in regular ram, 16 KB in SPU ram), uses efficiently CD asynchronous reads, and it finally made me understand how to separate left and right channels in a WAVE track. :p
Cheerio.

PS: Added the [youtube] tag for the occasion.

[Fenris]

I like the sound quality, that means the music of this game it's gonna be pretty good isn't it

[Gemini]

It also means that I can make it loop from say, point X of track Y, instead of the beginning of every track. It works just like Castlevania Chronicles, where the music is streamed but can loop just fine unlike other Playstation games using streams (i.e. SOTN). And the fast/slow mode is just too cool. I wonder if reverb could be applied to XA, cause now it's possible to do that too.

[Fenris]

cool that gives you more posibilities to play with the sounds
can you talk about the music? what do you have in mind about that, gregorian music, symphonic, a bit of rock, something else or everything I just said?

[SlyStrife]

Looking good Gemini! Can't wait to say how you'll play around with this. ^.^

[Gemini]

Yeah, that's really who you think he is. Guess what I'm gonna use him for.

can you talk about the music? what do you have in mind about that, gregorian music, symphonic, a bit of rock, something else or everything I just said?

My original idea was to have all remixes of old themes using a SOTN gothic style, but Paolo is probably taking care of everything on his own.

[Fenris]

Yeah, that's really who you think he is. Guess what I'm gonna use him for.

mmm lemme see, he's gonna be a bonus playable character?

My original idea was to have all remixes of old themes using a SOTN gothic style, but Paolo is probably taking care of everything on his own.

well now I'm more curious. I was expecting some remixes but it looks like it may be something totally different, the little we heard so far sounds promising to me. I always wanted to make a videogame myself so I like to follow your progress to have an idea on how these stuff are done, not like I'm actually planning to do a videogame because I have no clue but I do have ideas lol, I've been wondering for a while what if I could make a videogame with these two (refering to Richter and Maria) but not a Castlevania but the story of how they became vampire hunters, more personal. I don't really care about fan cv games because I've only seen silly boring stuff so far but I see you're putting a lot of effort here and it looks good man, keep us posted.

[Gemini]

mmm lemme see, he's gonna be a bonus playable character?

Not exactly, but yes. He's gonna be playble in a minigame mode starring a Kid Dracula+Parodius theme. What that's gonna look like, it's still a mystery.

[Fenris]

Not exactly, but yes. He's gonna be playble in a minigame mode starring a Kid Dracula+Parodius theme. What that's gonna look like, it's still a mystery.

haha we'll just have to wait and see then

[Takehaniyasubiko]

I didn't even know about Parodius until now, lol.

You're going to use him as a super-deformed Alucard or as his brother (as far as I know, it's not determined whether he's one or another)?

[Fenris]

hi any new short updates to talk about?