Resident Evil: Behind the Mask [+Hazardous Battle]

[Northman]

Damn, that's so smooth. The original game looks clumsy by comparison. :p

[Gemini]

^ That was a great motivator for me, which is why today I decided to upload a brief WIP chunk of Plant 42 in action:

Of course, it's not completely working yet, but at least the way all those tentacles move and die seems close enough to the original, and you also get to see the FN Minimi. Now, since this boss was a bit too messed up in the encoding, I'm considering the idea of providing some different attacks, like an acid spit coming from those flower-tentacles instead of the usual slap+grab+dandruff fall.

[-Rusty-]

It's done. I just have to do a few minor things and that's it.

[Getta robo]

I'll leave the details to Rusty, he's kindly taking care of upgrading Yawn. The preview he sent me a few days ago is quite literally outstanding.

I knew Rusty wouldn't let you down, all his previous models are incredible, so his Yawn couldn't be anything less than that. Also, I hope that you could make a video showcasing the new Yawn once the times comes!

[Gemini]

I'll leave the details to Rusty, he's kindly taking care of upgrading Yawn. The preview he sent me a few days ago is quite literally outstanding.

[Getta robo]

In other news, there may be some updates on Yawn. He could end up looking a bit different, as in "remade" with a look slightly different than giant green sausage of crap. Another good news is that that engine still keeps it together with 3 trunks working differently.

Excellent news Gemini! Yawn definitely deserves an uplifting, can't wait to see him in action!
May I ask if it is going to be a completely new model, or is it going to be similar to another incarnation, such as later games, like the umbrella chronicles variation?

[Gemini]

Brief update:

I resumed programming Purple-chan, who is now a bit less of a mess, but still sucks quite badly.

In other news, there may be some updates on Yawn. He could end up looking a bit different, as in "remade" with a look slightly different than giant green sausage of crap. Another good news is that that engine still keeps it together with 3 trunks working differently.

[Ultimacloud123]

Not sure if you would be interested, but there is a website that is hosting the full Dreamcast Dev Tools...

Spoiler:

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I am actually going to be experimenting with it myself (As soon as I can get a usb mouse for my old PC running XP SP3)

so yea, who knows... maybe you could toss out a Dreamcast version one day...

PM me for the link~ ;)

also, I read somewhere in here something about possibly redoing Gaiden? I am a somewhat huge fan of Gaiden (Even tried doing my own version some years back, albeit in 2D) I would love to see a gaiden remake somewhere down the line...

Gemini is pretty much stricly doing it for PSX and PSP. That doesn't mean it can't be done however.

As to your comment in regards to Gaiden....I'm the guy you'd be looking for. The project is live and well though I may have neglected to keep it updated. Don't worry, the team will post an update in the near future ^_-. Now I won't keep spamming Gemini's topic with my project. Reply to mine if you have questions.

[Gemini]

Not sure if you would be interested, but there is a website that is hosting the full Dreamcast Dev Tools...

Like I said before, there's really no need for a Dreamcast port. PC and PSP should have plenty more usefulness, especially because I can actually test on both and I'm more familiar with their hardwares.

also, I read somewhere in here something about possibly redoing Gaiden? I am a somewhat huge fan of Gaiden (Even tried doing my own version some years back, albeit in 2D) I would love to see a gaiden remake somewhere down the line...

This is the project you're referring to.

[Ss4gogeta0]

I haven't done any benchmarks on platforms different than the PlayStation

Not sure if you would be interested, but there is a website that is hosting the full Dreamcast Dev Tools...

Spoiler:

show spoiler

I am actually going to be experimenting with it myself (As soon as I can get a usb mouse for my old PC running XP SP3)

so yea, who knows... maybe you could toss out a Dreamcast version one day...

PM me for the link~ ;)

also, I read somewhere in here something about possibly redoing Gaiden? I am a somewhat huge fan of Gaiden (Even tried doing my own version some years back, albeit in 2D) I would love to see a gaiden remake somewhere down the line...

[chrisliam2]

looks very nice
hope it's all going well for you.

Taking influence from MvC2? That's something I didn't expect, by far one of my favourite games, it looks great! In addition, perhaps you could create challenges for unlokcables for each stage that once completed you get a gold boarder surrounding the stage icon, just like you get for unlocking the alternate colours on the MvC2 character select.

[Gemini]

^ I won't bother with Lisa one bit, but an escape from the laboratory all the way back to the mansion front door could work.

In other news I've been messing around with VFX as usual:

This is more or less a recreation of what the Saturn Battle Game has for mission results (IIRC western editions don't have a rotating title logo). Imagine it with stats of what you've done an a little rotating statue indicating your final rank, à la Dino Coliseum. While this looks extremely simple it actually took a lot of tries to make it render properly and with no clipping.

Also more VFX crap:

Testing out a sphere-shaped grid for selecting missions and bosses. This idea come from Marvel Vs Capcom 2.

[blackpower]

Gemini : I thought you might realize the chapter of wesker fleeing the mansion with Crinsom head is lisa trevor, with the timer before the palace explodes?

[Gemini]

Why not do more along the lines of the REmake? So the baby sharks are larger, more normal sized - and Neptune is bigger as well (maybe not as big as in REmake, but at least so he doesn't look ''normal'' sized and that would make him scarier?

The original Aqua Ring is way too small, that's the main issue with having larger sharks swimming around the place. I think REmake made a lot of changes there, and it's not just the size.

Maybe have it so they're really fast and can kill you in two hits, and then have the water slowly draining.. (so they slow down gradually) that could be tense

It's like a test of survival until the water is completely drained.

I guess it could be a nice survival challenge if well thought, especially because of the tense moments. I'll look into the possibility of implementing this at some point.

I loved the puzzle on the DS where the water burst and flooded.. or did it poison, I forget..

It uses poison and it also expands that button puzzle for locking the control room.