Hi again, I mention the slowdowns in the last post because I burned a CD-R to test it on my sega saturn with pseudo kai. It works amazing, except for the master librarian store, everything else is working very well. I am very anxious to see how much it has improved, I am already at 50% of the normal castle. Checking all the rooms carefully.
The delays in pressing the control buttons in the librarian's store menu are due to the translucency of the large window with items. How translucency is related to control is not clear.
Any chance of seeing a full english translation patch in the future? I've seen knights0fdragons translations but all of his QOL patches doesn't compare to yours.
The new transparent hud reminds me somehow of Thunder Force V. It interacts like a transparent layer over the background, polygons and sprites. That hud still reveals effects going on. For example: TFV Stage 4, the hud with weapons and score still shows the fog and clouds while in the game is not visible, but still goes on. Is it the same kind of stuff?
Really make me feel wanna try this version too 😖 but I'm really no idea how to put this patch file into original file game like that. Hope someone feel free help sharing patch file in game already please... 🙏
When we get a MiSTer Saturn core and this Extended version gets completed with an English translation, it will be my 1st playthrough of SotN (and I'm 41yo BTW, so I was able to play this game when it originally came out).
Amazing work wow, ever closer to the ultimate Saturn version. Thank you for this. Is it possible to add the black horizaontal lines back? The castle looks strange just having lines that resemble the backgrounds in it
No, this is the native size of the portraits. In the PS1 version, they were stretched by the TV, and in the Saturn version, they were scaled in software with loss of quality. Now they have been restored.
@@MeduzaTeam2009 I don't deny this isn't the native resolution. I believe maybe they are not meant to be displayed at native resolution. They must have used sqeezed images accounting for the fact they will be stretched by the TV on PSX and then they used software to simulate that to maintain the PSX aspect ratio on Saturn. not the pause menu one, the ones of richter and dracula. Regardless great job keep it up!
Saturn supports translucency natively, but there are limitations. Most game developers took the easy route to save time and system performance. They used mesh instead of real translucency.
It all depends on how the game engine works. You may need to significantly rework the game engine in order to implement your plans. Or nothing can be done without rewriting everything from scratch.
In the PS1 version of the game, the aspect changed due to the scaling of the image by the TV, since the original framebuffer size was 256x240. Since Saturn did not support this screen resolution, the image was manually scaled, which resulted in a degradation in quality. Now the proportions of the portraits are exactly the same as in the PS1 version (not distorted).
Great work very impressed! Version 1.03 is working well. 👍 is this some thing you are still working on, you have made lots of great patches love your work thanks you for all your efforts 👍
Parabéns amigo, o Saturno é o meu Console favorito! Quanto a versão de PS1(que pra mim no momento só ganha nos gráficos e Loading), você acha que é possível colocarem os Conteúdos Extras da versão do Saturno (Áreas, Familiares, itens e etc.)?
@@MeduzaTeam2009 Foi o que imaginei, acho que seria menos complicado refinar tudo da versão do Saturno pra deixar com os gráficos e otimização do PS1. Por falar nisso vi os testes que você fez de Widescreen, seria interessante testar na versão do Saturno! Você é o cara!
Полупрозрачность изначально поддерживается Сатурном, но связана с рядом ограничений. Из-за этого некоторые разработчики игр не желали заморачиваться и шли по простому пути, используя Mesh.
@@MeduzaTeam2009 ну это я в курсе, что там два видео чипа, общая память и прочий гемор. Но как это было пофиксино в игре, переписан код? Нельзя же просто взять и поменять меш текстуру на прозрачную.
@@LexMalin Во-первых, у каждого видео чипа своя память. А во-вторых, можно просто отключить Mesh и активировать полупрозрачность для спрайтов с конкретным приоритетом. Естественно, что каждое действие требует изменения кода.
@@LexMalin Mesh - это аппаратная функция Сатурна. Но в некоторых играх (портах с аркад) решётка сделана вручную, так как оригинальная платформа не поддерживала полупрозрачность.
Very good but still missing a lot like the clouds, the waterfall and the water in the part of the cave. I'm already in the inverted castle. Megaman x4 with this mod would be the ultimate version.
Translucency has been activated where possible. In other cases, the hardware limitations of the system do not allow you to do more. Why does Megame x4 need a modification?
Excelente trabalho, muito primoroso e bacana! Me pergunto: porquê raios a versão de Saturn foi piorada? ""Saturn não manipula e cria transparências..."" BULSHIT BALELA Olhem a belexa das transparências dessa versão! Odeio esse quadriculado da maioria dos games de Sega CD/Mega CD (console subaproveitado e submestimado, faltava um processador gráfico melhor, mais cores e mais games de arcade) e Saturn!
"Now Loading" looks worse. Why a lowercase n? The character-select portraits look way worse, too bright. Richter's new outfit is canonically wrong as it's a throwback to Rondo where he wore his original outfit. The new text box is nicer, but the portraits look squished and far worse. The Warg death animation is garbage. The portal at 6:45 was always behind the castle. It's in the sky, it makes zero sense for it to be in front of it. The transparency on the item box is too bright and sometimes makes the text hard to read compared to the original.
@@zenyousapprentice3732 it isn't an easy task because the game itself is broken. The way you put the stuff: fix this, fix that, garbage, worse, too something... looks pretentious like you hired the guy for the job. You're right on each point but you can ask and be polite at the same time.
I can read both fonts just fine, on both my CRT via S-Video and my HDTV/monitor via SCART to my OSSC, as well as my RAD2X by itself. Everywhere I look, your grievance towards Knight is obvious, which is equally unfounded and pointless.
![Dracula X: Nocturne in the Moonlight - Ultimate [Sega Saturn]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/DyQ9Fcajy7k/mqdefault.jpg)
"DA SATARN Does not handle transparencies".... Great Work!!!!
you are doing justice to saturn, thank you.
You've really done fantastic work here man, unbelievable! Thank you so much for all of your hard work!👍
Last update - version 1.5.
Hi again, I mention the slowdowns in the last post because I burned a CD-R to test it on my sega saturn with pseudo kai. It works amazing, except for the master librarian store, everything else is working very well. I am very anxious to see how much it has improved, I am already at 50% of the normal castle. Checking all the rooms carefully.
The delays in pressing the control buttons in the librarian's store menu are due to the translucency of the large window with items. How translucency is related to control is not clear.
You are the master of the universe!
Thank you Paul_met this is amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed your SOTN PSX Quality Hack and look forward to trying this one.
Any chance of seeing a full english translation patch in the future? I've seen knights0fdragons translations but all of his QOL patches doesn't compare to yours.
The new transparent hud reminds me somehow of Thunder Force V. It interacts like a transparent layer over the background, polygons and sprites. That hud still reveals effects going on. For example: TFV Stage 4, the hud with weapons and score still shows the fog and clouds while in the game is not visible, but still goes on. Is it the same kind of stuff?
Wow! Wonderful work!
Really make me feel wanna try this version too 😖 but I'm really no idea how to put this patch file into original file game like that. Hope someone feel free help sharing patch file in game already please... 🙏
The original portraits are WAY BETTER than the low quality Jpegs used in the hackrom version...
What is the music used in this video?
Music from "Castlevania: Curse of Darkness" (PS2).
Can you do it on megaman x4?
It would be the definitive version.
When we get a MiSTer Saturn core and this Extended version gets completed with an English translation, it will be my 1st playthrough of SotN (and I'm 41yo BTW, so I was able to play this game when it originally came out).
wasn't there a translation of the Saturn verson?
Amazing work wow, ever closer to the ultimate Saturn version. Thank you for this. Is it possible to add the black horizaontal lines back? The castle looks strange just having lines that resemble the backgrounds in it
I love the hack but I don't understand the portrait decision. The portraits are squeezed now, the aspect ratio is wrong.
No, this is the native size of the portraits. In the PS1 version, they were stretched by the TV, and in the Saturn version, they were scaled in software with loss of quality. Now they have been restored.
@@MeduzaTeam2009 I don't deny this isn't the native resolution. I believe maybe they are not meant to be displayed at native resolution. They must have used sqeezed images accounting for the fact they will be stretched by the TV on PSX and then they used software to simulate that to maintain the PSX aspect ratio on Saturn. not the pause menu one, the ones of richter and dracula. Regardless great job keep it up!
@@Hellmiauz Therefore, I am of the opinion that the best picture quality is achieved only while maintaining the pixel aspect ratio.
This is truly amazing.
Any chance you guys can work on an improvement patch for DOOM on Saturn?
hey, thanks you, How can i access the map?
You can learn about everything from the readme file.
I thought the Saturn couldn't do transparency? Can someone explain how this works?
Saturn supports translucency natively, but there are limitations. Most game developers took the easy route to save time and system performance. They used mesh instead of real translucency.
@@MeduzaTeam2009 I see. So it's tricky to render transparency, in terms of programming I suppose.
In some points, is it too expensive in terms of performance, or even impossible.
@@MeduzaTeam2009 Impossible would be related to whatever layer you're working with, right?
It all depends on how the game engine works. You may need to significantly rework the game engine in order to implement your plans. Or nothing can be done without rewriting everything from scratch.
Господа, переводили ли вы Final Fantasy 9 ещё в начале двухтысячных? Я купил диски тогда и вроде бы был ваш перевод, но точно не помню.
Нет, конечно.
How do I play this version? Please, I don't know English and I have a hard time understanding it.
You need to download the patch (link in the description of the video). And then apply the patch to the CD image of the game.
Can someone tell me the name of the songs in this video?
OST from "Castlevania: Curse of Darkness" (PS2).
Great job !
aspect ratio on the character portraits is off, not sure if this is a known issue. great work on the transparency effects.
In the PS1 version of the game, the aspect changed due to the scaling of the image by the TV, since the original framebuffer size was 256x240. Since Saturn did not support this screen resolution, the image was manually scaled, which resulted in a degradation in quality. Now the proportions of the portraits are exactly the same as in the PS1 version (not distorted).
@@MeduzaTeam2009 Late reply, but actually, in PS1 version rendering resolution changes when menu is opened.
@@nezatrebovan А меню то тут причём? Речь шла про портреты персонажей. А они только в диалогах.
Great work very impressed! Version 1.03 is working well. 👍 is this some thing you are still working on, you have made lots of great patches love your work thanks you for all your efforts 👍
Amazing! =,)
Parabéns amigo, o Saturno é o meu Console favorito!
Quanto a versão de PS1(que pra mim no momento só ganha nos gráficos e Loading), você acha que é possível colocarem os Conteúdos Extras da versão do Saturno (Áreas, Familiares, itens e etc.)?
No idea. Probably It will be too difficult.
@@MeduzaTeam2009 Foi o que imaginei, acho que seria menos complicado refinar tudo da versão do Saturno pra deixar com os gráficos e otimização do PS1. Por falar nisso vi os testes que você fez de Widescreen, seria interessante testar na versão do Saturno! Você é o cara!
How works transparency?
Полупрозрачность изначально поддерживается Сатурном, но связана с рядом ограничений. Из-за этого некоторые разработчики игр не желали заморачиваться и шли по простому пути, используя Mesh.
@@MeduzaTeam2009 ну это я в курсе, что там два видео чипа, общая память и прочий гемор. Но как это было пофиксино в игре, переписан код? Нельзя же просто взять и поменять меш текстуру на прозрачную.
@@LexMalin Во-первых, у каждого видео чипа своя память. А во-вторых, можно просто отключить Mesh и активировать полупрозрачность для спрайтов с конкретным приоритетом. Естественно, что каждое действие требует изменения кода.
@@MeduzaTeam2009 т.е. меш это просто режим отрисовки текстуры, а не заранее заготовленная текстура?
@@LexMalin Mesh - это аппаратная функция Сатурна. Но в некоторых играх (портах с аркад) решётка сделана вручную, так как оригинальная платформа не поддерживала полупрозрачность.
Very good but still missing a lot like the clouds, the waterfall and the water in the part of the cave.
I'm already in the inverted castle.
Megaman x4 with this mod would be the ultimate version.
Translucency has been activated where possible. In other cases, the hardware limitations of the system do not allow you to do more.
Why does Megame x4 need a modification?
@@MeduzaTeam2009 The first stage lights and the final boss laser.
Excelente trabalho, muito primoroso e bacana! Me pergunto: porquê raios a versão de Saturn foi piorada? ""Saturn não manipula e cria transparências..."" BULSHIT BALELA Olhem a belexa das transparências dessa versão! Odeio esse quadriculado da maioria dos games de Sega CD/Mega CD (console subaproveitado e submestimado, faltava um processador gráfico melhor, mais cores e mais games de arcade) e Saturn!
Megaman x4 needs this.
"Now Loading" looks worse. Why a lowercase n?
The character-select portraits look way worse, too bright.
Richter's new outfit is canonically wrong as it's a throwback to Rondo where he wore his original outfit.
The new text box is nicer, but the portraits look squished and far worse.
The Warg death animation is garbage.
The portal at 6:45 was always behind the castle. It's in the sky, it makes zero sense for it to be in front of it.
The transparency on the item box is too bright and sometimes makes the text hard to read compared to the original.
Dude, you're so rude.
@@FZuloaga How? Just giving feedback so it can be fixed.
@@zenyousapprentice3732 it isn't an easy task because the game itself is broken. The way you put the stuff: fix this, fix that, garbage, worse, too something... looks pretentious like you hired the guy for the job. You're right on each point but you can ask and be polite at the same time.
@@FZuloaga Don't care, I tell it like it is.
@@zenyousapprentice3732 that's why people cheats on you.
The fonts in game are better than those horrible ones used by knightofdragon in his english version
Bruh, Knight made a good patch. I think his intent was to get a font resembling English SOTN on PlayStation.
Oh hey, it’s the troll that posts purposefully bad takes. Nice to see you again
I can read both fonts just fine, on both my CRT via S-Video and my HDTV/monitor via SCART to my OSSC, as well as my RAD2X by itself. Everywhere I look, your grievance towards Knight is obvious, which is equally unfounded and pointless.