Pier Solar HD

[BlueBMW]

It's designed so that emulators won't play it. Only one emulator variant is said to be able to. I've also heard that the authors of some emulators will not update their emulators to support Pier Solar as a favor to Watermelon.

I suppose once watermelon proves to be more of a company and less of a group of homebrewers, emulator writers may reconsider and give them the same treatment they give normal game companies.  IE, write the emulators to run it.

[SuperDeadite]

The thing about this game that really gets under my skin is that they are clearly milking it for all it's worth, but still playing the "oh i'm just a poor indi dev" card.  Wa$er$elon no longer cares about pleasing anyone as long as he gets paid.  Stop pretending you are doing something for the community, when you clearly don't give a f*ck.

[Arkhan]

The thing about this game that really gets under my skin is that they are clearly milking it for all it's worth, but still playing the "oh i'm just a poor indi dev" card.  Wa$er$elon no longer cares about pleasing anyone as long as he gets paid.  Stop pretending you are doing something for the community, when you clearly don't give a f*ck.

[esteban]

I don't care about Pier Solar.

You guys are wasting your time on this.

Please focus your time and energy on something worthwhile...such as the fact that Timeball is one of the most unappreciated games for our beloved console.

That is all.
http://junk.tg-16.com/audio/ICFTD/Sea_of_Love_Full_Version_TurboGrafx_CD.mp3

[Joe Redifer]

CD+G?

[esteban]

CD+G?

Yes, I pre-pre-ordered Pier Solar (I think I was one of the first 10-15 orders) and I received a soundtrack CD that is TRULY enhanced. CD+Graphics (CD+G). When I play the CD in Sega-CD, preliminary sketches of the characters from Pier Solar are displayed as the music plays. It's pretty kool.

[storino03]

CD+G just refers to when you play it in a computer or compatible device (JVC X'EYE plays CD+G audio discs), you get scrolling images/graphics when a certain track is playing. Sort of an older style music video.

[Joe Redifer]

Are Watermelon not RPG fans or something? Star Ocean is around 100 megs

Star Ocean is only a wimpy 48 MEGA POWER. Still smaller than Pier Solar.

[Arkhan]

Are Watermelon not RPG fans or something? Star Ocean is around 100 megs

Star Ocean is only a wimpy 48 MEGA POWER. Still smaller than Pier Solar.

1.21 JIGGAPOWER

[Bonknuts]

Are Watermelon not RPG fans or something? Star Ocean is around 100 megs

Star Ocean is only a wimpy 48 MEGA POWER. Still smaller than Pier Solar.

 The uncompressed rom is 100megs. Yes, there is an uncompressed rom out there because emulators at the time didn't support the additional hardware on the cart and because people where making repros for translated game.

[bartre]

Are Watermelon not RPG fans or something? Star Ocean is around 100 megs

Star Ocean is only a wimpy 48 MEGA POWER. Still smaller than Pier Solar.

 The uncompressed rom is 100megs. Yes, there is an uncompressed rom out there because emulators at the time didn't support the additional hardware on the cart and because people where making repros for translated game.

Just my $.02, but the repros portion of your argument is invalid.
I've never actually looked at the rom, but provided it didn't use any other advanced hardware, that would mean that the largest eprom the system would support holds only 1 meg of data, meaning you'd have to wire up some ridiculous 100 eprom cart roughly the size of "yo' momma's ass."

[Bonknuts]

^ I'm not arguing anything. Just stating some facts. And both repros and people making their own carts so they can play it on the real system (i.e. hacking donor carts that don't have the original hardware). Also, it's 100megabits uncompressed (not megabytes).

[bartre]

okay, so 12.5 megabytes.
it's still ridiculous to think that would fit into a snes cart shell.
hell, it's hilarious to see how people have done tales of phantasia SNES carts without TSOP, and that's 6 megabytes

[Arkhan]

I have Star Ocean for SFC.

Its awesome.

Just saying. 

cause, Star Ocean.

[Arkhan]

also 18 days and 40,000 jiggadollars to go.

Will they make it in time?