Pier Solar HD on DC (kickstarter)

[mazonemayu]

50% & counting

[radtastic89]

Going to have to pick this up. I don't know if I want the LE or not.

[sega_SHARK]

I sat on the fence about the LE, but I'm a sucker for guidebooks. They just said that you can find a Mega Drive cart in game and unlock the 16 bit version. That's kind of cool. I wanted to check out the original sprite artwork.

[Omnibot2000]

Well the sprites (characters, enemies,...) remain the same. The only thing to be redrawn will be the backgrounds and the cutscenes.

[sega_SHARK]

Well the sprites (characters, enemies,...) remain the same. The only thing to be redrawn will be the backgrounds and the cutscenes.

Ahh, ok.
So I guess you get to unlock 16 bit cutscene goodness then.

[BrianC]

Probably not. Those bonuses seem to be designed for the HD versions. What we get is more than likely going to be a direct port of the Genesis version but, as mentioned before, a couple of things will be redrawn. I think there's a lot of confusion regarding this and showing the SD/HD comparison on the front page of DCTalk isn't going to help diminish that.

[sega_SHARK]

This is from the update, so I guess they have the unlock on all versions.


Wow, 57,000 in 2 days...we are really humbled by everyone's support. We can't express how excited we are and how much we are looking forward to bringing you guys Pier Solar HD!

We've got a surprise for everyone to celebrate!

We wanted to keep this easter egg a secret till a little later... but since there have been so many questions about it, we decided to announce this for everyone right now!

The original SEGA Mega Drive/Genesis graphics of Pier Solar HD will be playable on every single platform, XBOX360, PC, Mac, Linux, and Sega Dreamcast.

It will be unlock-able by finding a special in game item, a "Pier Solar Mega Drive Cartridge" that is hidden somewhere in the very beginning of the game...

Once you fin d this, it will unlock the entire version of Pier Solar for the SEGA Mega Drive & SEGA Genesis!

[Omnibot2000]

Probably not. Those bonuses seem to be designed for the HD versions. What we get is more than likely going to be a direct port of the Genesis version but, as mentioned before, a couple of things will be redrawn. I think there's a lot of confusion regarding this and showing the SD/HD comparison on the front page of DCTalk isn't going to help diminish that.

Pier Solar on Dreamcast won't be a direct port of the Genesis/MD version. They'll take the backgrounds and cutscenes of the HD version and scale them down to 480p (which is still twice the resolution of the Genesis/MD version). The backgrounds and cutscenes will still contain all the (hundreds or thousands of) colors of the HD version. The Genesis/MD version managed to display more than 64 colors at once (which is the official limit of the system's capability) using tricks like shadow- & highlight-mode, but the DC version will of course look significally better because of its (PC/Mac/XBox) origin.

Even the HD versions will contain SD-sprites though. I'm still not sure if I like that. I hope WaterMelon will spice things up with some nice transparency- and lighting effects for the spells or at least more colors and/or more frames of animation for the (SD-)characters and enemies.

[BrianC]

Ahhh thank you for clearing that up! That makes all the difference in the world; I just had no interest in buying a relatively direct port that would probably run worse than it would on the MD for such a high price. Now that I know that to not be the case then this project sounds very exciting. Had anyone played Piers Solar on the MD because I'd love to hear some thoughts.

[#1phoenixsunsfan]

Topics merged so it might look a little messy.

http://dreamcast-talk.com/forum/viewtop ... f=2&t=5127