** EBH Sega Genesis Bullet Hell Update ** Well strap yourselfs in - tonnes added since last update. Its had about 30 hrs spent on it - burning the candle at both ends haha. Updates since last : Player Death animation - we now have a very nice scaled hop after player death. Changed to XGM1 sound driver ( was XGM2 ) , the heavy PCM in this game was just too much for XGM2 to handle and slowdowns in music persisted , so changing to XGM1 we trade a bit of 68k performance ( about 2.7% ) but solve the slow down issue and also gain another PCM channel - it does cost some rom space though !! Explosion SFX added to ships and Cruisers, Cruiser s now take damage with Explosion Animations also. We have about 5 different SFX for explosions so far and using XGM1 driver we have 2 PCM channels dedicated for enemies . Made some more custom XGM1 asm routines for channel hopping with channel groups to lower cpu usage. Basically we take the first free channel we can without adding much cpu cost. Target tracking Lazers !! Dual beams track targets across the screen with latching - this part alone took me about 10 hrs to do !! They started out been way too expensive .. thankfully just with my cpu budget for them now after optimising. All the rotations too time , thankfully some scripting did a lot of the heavy lifting as theres a lot of rotations ! Sword attack added !! Able to pickup purple bullets which can be later used in a mega weapon ( to be added ) - see mid level . Again scripting helped with a lot of the rotations. Cruiser artwork re done, new small ships and 2 more Cruiser types added. A couple I touched up from an purchased artpack , one is completely my idea so hopefully they look ok. @GabrielPyron fixed bullet artwork - bullets looked a bit weak before , @Carsten1349 provided more ships for the game - and the final boss which has loads of parts and animations i need to get in yet , without their help it just wouldn't be the same @Luke86McQueen provided new SFX including Lazer and also new Explosion SFX , its really got some punch now thanks to him. The stage will keep getting bigger yet and its all WIP . Hope you like it !!! #SGDK #SegaGenesis #SegeMegadrive

I worry about doing any port at this stage due to AI making them trivial to do - doesn't mean they will be good but the damage gets done regardless - It puts me off ports in general. If someone does a port of a game we are doing - we will just stop and go onto something different - why waste our time etc. AI vibers seem to have no respect for other peoples time / effort in this regard. With original games the risk of been copied / jumped on is lower - as you can't copy what doesn't exist yet. EBH will be made , with extremely high performance targets - it will push the envelope in every respect , its not a demo - its a game.

** SEGA GENESIS - MEGA VALKYRIE ** Formerly the 3D engine- now becoming a game ! Since last showing : Back face culling of objects added - increase performance by 15% !! Basically we don't draw what gets overdrawn which saves performance - Some scripting helped to sort models into cullable ones and ones that weren't and also analysed co-planer triangles and reworked those to quads for the engine ( a quad is faster vs 2 triangles ) . Optimised quad drawing ~ 2% gain, saved some resetting of the DDA points amongst shared sections. Optimised joypad reading ~ 0.8% speedup every cycle counts haha. Added dither patterns to the renderer so dithered surfaces can be used - only a slight hit to draw speed. Modified the vblank dma timing to allow XGM2 driver to run at full speed without lagging , so now we can switch from XGM1 to XGM2 and gained 5% cpu performance. Added a basic Enemy - much more complex ones to come , hes using the same movement logic as the player attract mode before. No destruction or collision checking yet . Added player attacks - nothing final but a good start. Reworked the camera to keep a constant background load on here so its indicative of a real stage. Maintaining a solid 20 FPS in this demo. @TonimanGalvez is doing great work on map layout and huds, hes made some very nice internal renders of how the game will look once fully populated. Music is a placeholder for now, kindly provided by @laurent_crouzet so we can model music load in the game. #SGDK #SegaMegadriver #SegaGenesis

** SEGA GENESIS E.B.H update ** Added since last update : Woah .. progress this week is wild !! Blitted Starfield ( makes the most of one layer by compositing stars over each other for added parallax ) . Enemy explosions - debris and particles to come yet. New spread shot firepower and 2 levels of both firepower concentrated and spread - this will be upgraded a lot yet . With further types and animations added. New enemies and new Battleships enter the scenes, the new battle ships are spawn 32 bullets in 4 pulses ( 128 bullets each ) .. so bullet counts a nice and heavy in those scenes. Music added !! SFX to come, using XGM2 driver here for a 1.6% cpu load - thats about my budget for it too in this game haha - every cycle counts when we climb to 350 objects onscreen. Huge thanks to @Luke86McQueen for the amazing OST you are listening too now . @GabrielPyron for the player ship frames, @Carsten1349 artwork for Battleship and Red enemy - I've also done a bit of the art myself which has been a nice change from endless coding. Early days but its shaping up . It seems 3 shooters on the go (Parodius , Lufthoheit , EBH ) might be the right number !! #SGDK #SegaGenesis #SegaMegadrive