CometTheRobot

@Textilismusic Hey there, how you been man? I've been trundling along as per, lol. The MnC burnout is real tho lmao

@CometRobot how is everything, friend? Been a while since I've seen you around. Looking forward to hearing from you!

@ArcadeRacing_0 @eidos Heh, I was gonna pick it myself, but because I was only picking five (did I do this wrong? 😅), I picked Kawasaki Superbike Challenge instead - the inclusion of a framerate-boosting Turbo Mode in player settings gives it the edge for me :)

This one passed by you lot in the poll! F1 by Domark/@eidos is amazing. Nostalgia goggles off, it is better than either Super Monaco game on the Mega Drive. Controls are best-in-class, and just listen to those sound effects... impressive stuff for the system! 🇪🇸❤️💛❤️💛

@ArcadeRacing_0 There's a number of surprisingly decent-to-good quality Mega Drive racers which utilise the "pseudo-3d-using-polygons" look - never seen this one tho! Obviously gonna have to give it a try sometime, looks fun :)

Newman Haas Indycar ft. Nigel Mansell on the SEGA Mega Drive + Genesis. Also ft. Takenobu Mitsuyoshi ;) Stock clocks vs 500% CPU overclock in RetroArch w/ the Genesis Plus GX core. A banal facade hides awesome gameplay. A bit of a hidden gem, really - the controls are sublime.

凱風快晴 (South Wind, Clear Sky) by 葛飾 北斎 (Katsushika Hokusai), pixel art rendition Hope you're having a happy new year :)

@ArcadeRacing_0 Yeah, the default Esperanza is super rough lol, really slow up the many inclines in Rage's courses too. I also think playing with analogue input instead of d-pad/buttons really helps - it still feels a little rough at times, but I find it becomes that much more controllable🙂

@CometRobot Even getting to the upgrades is uuuugh, haha. Possibly the worst starter vehicle in the series?

Trying so hard to 'get' Rage Racer. I can drift in any other RR fine, why does Rage Racer elude me? I WILL get good at this one in 2025. I've missed out on those grungy aesthetics and amazing soundtrack for too long.

@ArcadeRacing_0 Hmm, I wonder how difficult it'd be to 'fix' the background palette. It'd be really cool to see Neo Tokyo with its 'correct' palette of purples, greens and oranges! And heh, those mundane-looking "Neo Tokyo" signs are pretty funnily juxtaposed against everything else lol.

Road Rash vibes? The riding segment of the cancelled - & now publicly available - Akira prototype for the #segamegadrive #segagenesis Controls are like a simpler Road Rash; weight, punching and all. Graphically nice! I'd be happy if it were just a racer. And also finished ;)

@KaidoGenkai Heh, it's a tough one. Virtua Racing's absurdly difficult precisely because it *lacks* rubber banding, but Hotshot Racing is like the other extreme. Personally? AI should NEVER pass the player if they're leading/driving well, but they should also keep the pressure on too.

How do we feel about rubber banding AI? It can be too extreme for sure, but if its done lightly? Without it, if you crash once in a race you might as well restart since the AI ain't gunna wait for you.

New Song... But for someone else's game! Midnight Challenge: Lucid Dreams prod. by Textilis Made this as a small Collab Project for my friend's game! Midnight Challenge by @CometRobot. I gave them the song to use in their game, but it will make an appearance in my game as well as a hidden bonus unlockable! Go support their game! They unfortunately suffered a hard drive failure but don't worry the game is still safe! Also New Car for my Game!!! Meet the Lucky Cat - Aidol! A class 3 sports coupe done in Team Popstar Livery! All of Lucky Cat's cars look cutesy and fun, it was a real pleasure to work on this one, it's nice to see what wild ideas you can come up with when not following any sort of template. I really like the bowtie-esque double spoiler in the back! Since this is a Class 3 this will be featured in the intro cutscene of my game, and is the car that represents Lucky Motors as a whole. comettherobot.itch.io/midnight-chall…

Gameplay of "Ridge Racer," an i-mode port of the homonymous arcade game. It was preserved this past September. For a 2005 keitai game, it's graphically impressive! It runs too fast in the DoJa SDK emulator, so it's likely easier to play on original hardware.

@KaidoGenkai @Textilismusic Hey I mean if it works, it works!😅I find it helpful to keep multiple backups at various important milestones in case anything goes wrong lol Thanks to all of ya for the support btw - it really means a lot 🥲

@Textilismusic @CometRobot I make periodic backups to Dropbox which is.. probably also not the best way to do things ahh

Well folks, I'm afraid I must apologise - the last few weeks, my computer's been glitching out more and more, and this morning it seems I've had a catastrophic hard drive failure. Until I can get a new machine (hopefully the next week or two), development will be postponed.

@Textilismusic Don't worry! I've got just about everything important backed up on cloud services. Now the hassle is finding a reasonably-priced machine suitable for development lol. Luckily GM isn't hugely demanding so hopefully it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out 😅

@CometRobot Nooooo! Is the game safe? Do you have backups at least?

(As an added note, a silver lining of this is that I've had quite a lot of time the last couple of days to really sink my teeth into Shadow Generations - man, haven't been this impressed since Mania and OG Gens)

@Textilismusic Looking good! Oddly the super-wide highway with 'greyer greys' is giving me slight OutRun 2 vibes lol. Are you thinking of including affine texture mapping too?

Some Tests with a free PSX shader, I'm gonna see if I can find one with a reflection map built in, and also supports vertex-based lighting. Pretty soon I'm going to have to build an actual track. But man, Baked Lighting really adds a lot to the model. I love the wobbly mesh but at HD resolution.

Okay, I'm really having a lot of fun with this. Seriously I could play this all day. I think I solved most of the force issues, also, the fact that the car naturally drifts away from the Apex of the corner due to centrifugal force was completely unintended. I wrote the code for it not to do that or that I was gonna manually do it, but its one of those happy accidents. I'm never gonna touch that part of the code again lol. Also, the song in the background was an old abandoned project of mine, I scrapped it because I pretty much made a Ridge Racer song unintentionally lol.

@Textilismusic Oh man, this really looks like a blast to control! Beware though, the danger of 'getting distracted and running a bunch of laps' looms haha. Great work!

@Textilismusic That's an absolute joy to see! Congrats on getting it working :)

After months and months of development spanning back to 2023, I have successfully created a Spline based drift mechanic for my game. There is still so much work to do, but I have the system in place and working as they should. There will still need to be a lot of fixes, but the basic principle is there. Things to be fixed would be the friction or sideways drag, changing inputs for bools, and changing how the forces are directed. Right now I'm pressing 2 buttons to make this work, it's jank I know. But this is such a huge deal, OMG. I did it bros! I fricken did it! Also I added drift sounds so you can hear when the system is working, only lays when the car is in drift state. Pretty soon I'll be doing 360s, stick around for more!

@Textilismusic Judgement, you say? youtu.be/ffbsraDrpi0 Looking good :D

Judgement is coming... 👁️ Gonna need a way faster vehicle than all my cars, so this is the first Ultra Class Car, it also happens to be one of the final boss cars. 1500HP, 250MPH, and 7 speeds. Never got a chance to implement the 7 and half speeds like I wanted lol. Music is Rage Racer - Volcano Vehicle.