Pier Solar HD

[Joe Redifer]

 The uncompressed rom is 100megs.

But it IS compressed. Why is Star Ocean the only game we care about the uncompressed size? Many other games use compression. Oh and it's 96 MEGA POWER uncompressed. Playing through it as I am now, it sure doesn't seem like even 48 MEGA POWER. Maybe all of the Star Trek references (and the game could pass for a Star Trek game) take up all the ROMS.

[Black Tiger]

 The uncompressed rom is 100megs.

But it IS compressed. Why is Star Ocean the only game we care about the uncompressed size? Many other games use compression. Oh and it's 96 MEGA POWER uncompressed. Playing through it as I am now, it sure doesn't seem like even 48 MEGA POWER. Maybe all of the Star Trek references (and the game could pass for a Star Trek game) take up all the ROMS.

Because like Tengai Makyou Zero, it uses add-on hardware compression and isn't like a regular cart game that uncompresses some graphics using only the console cpu. If you were to uncompress everything in a regular 16 meg cart game, chances are it would only be as much as 18 - 20 megs. That's not counting any space SNES samples save using adpcm samples over the pcm (or whatever) samples that are used in Genesis games. But there's no way that the SNES cpu is uncompressing cart games douhle the rom size. If it could, those two RPGs wouldn't require the additional hardware. Maybe Street Fighter Alpha 2 used add-on hardware partially to prevent piracy because of its popularity. But I don't think that entered into the decision to do hardware compression for those RPGs.

As for the content of Star Ocean, you'll have to play through it something like 100 different ways to see it all. Tengai Makyou Zero certainly has a lot of artwork in it for a cart game.

[Arkhan]

inb4they take out a 32,000$ loan to get this thing going and then rip everyone off to break even.

[Bonknuts]

But it IS compressed. Why is Star Ocean the only game we care about the uncompressed size?

 Because it's double the original size? I dunno. I just know that someone hacked the original rom to run the uncompressed data since the hardware on the cart wasn't emulated in like.. forEVER. So the game got a reputation for being the largest SNES cart/game.

Many other games use compression.

 According to the internet, they apparently aren't as impressive as this game's compressed assets. The compression is impressive... or it's impressive compression ... or it's impressive in compression... or it's compressed impressiveness. Either way, I'm just stating some info on why people boast about the size of the game content. We can only imagine what PS size is uncompressed.

Oh and it's 96 MEGA POWER uncompressed.

Semantics. Close enough.

[Arkhan]

Compressed or not, it's still not as good as Star Ocean.


I'd take one T-Bone steak over 10 compressed salisbury ones.
 

[Arkhan]

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[Joe Redifer]

I'd take one T-Bone steak over 10 compressed salisbury ones.
 

I'd take a zipped ribeye steak over WinRAR'd T-bone.

[Arkhan]

"123,013$"


God dammit

These idiots are going to make it.

Whoever pledged 7500$ deserves herpes.

[Joe Redifer]

Why? It's their money.

[Arkhan]

Why? It's their money.

Anyone who's that stupid shouldn't reproduce, hence, herpes.

Or maybe VD, or some shit. 

They probably pledged it themselves on alt accounts to drum up hype.

Shit like this will be the death of homebrew.

[storino03]

I'm rooting for them. Can't wait for the Dreamcast CE to arrive! (in at least a year from now..)

[Arkhan]

I'm rooting for them. Can't wait for the Dreamcast CE to arrive! (in at least a year from now..)

I'm not.


If it was a NEW game, maybe. 

but a dead horse being beaten, f*ck no!

like 8 days left, and 12k to go.   

[Duo_R]

I think i want the DLC version. Question is will it be cheaper when released for download?

[Arkhan]

I think i want the DLC version. Question is will it be cheaper when released for download?

No, probably not.   They'll claim that their download is of the highest quality and that the bits used are produced by a titanium fusion generator, so you'll be getting the best bits ever, hence 89.99$ for a digital download.

and then they will say it's not-crackable, and someone will crack it anyways and pass it around for free.

[storino03]

The digital copy is at $15 for Xbox and PC/Linux/Mac. I don't see where it says $90.