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Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Sun Dec 31, 2017 2:54 pm
by Br4mb0
A mugen port? Awesome!!!
I cant wait for more news about this.

I made a sd iso of dolmexica engine with Dream Fight if anyone have interest, get it here:
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/dre ... mexica-sd/
so is no need to waste a CD-R

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2018 5:17 am
by Captain Dreamcast
Anthony817 wrote:and don't go missing in action like that for years at a time, you had us worried something bad had happened to you!
W- well, it was only months this time, I'm sorry ;_;
Br4mb0 wrote:I made a sd iso of dolmexica engine with Dream Fight if anyone have interest, get it here:
http://www.theisozone.com/downloads/dre ... mexica-sd/
so is no need to waste a CD-R
This is really cool, thanks! I have no experience with making SD isos, but I'll try making one for the new demo.

So yeah, there's a smol new demo: https://captaindreamcast.itch.io/dolmexica-infinite.

Still has the stuttering, much to my chagrin, but alas. The problem is the realtime compression applied to textures that are being moved between main memory and texture memory. So the plan is to try out some other compression libraries and/or techniques. There are some better techniques for small files, which should improve performance.

Something I didn't talk about in the last post are the display errors. The most apparent one is the lower bit depth in Dolmexica, which results in some noticeably ugly textures, especially visible in the backgrounds. The second problem lies in one of the blending modes. While additive and alpha blending were easy enough to use with KallistiOS, subtractive blending is less straightforward. In the demo, this is visible at the title screen. If you compare the Dreamcast and Windows versions, you'll notice there are some differences. That's because subtractive blending does not work on the Dreamcast yet. Those graphical errors aren't high on the priority list while the game still runs like a garbage fire, but I thought I'd at least talk about them like I did with the other ones.

Overall, progress felt slow these last two months. My goal for the next demo (early may) is to eliminate the runtime errors and implement all state controllers/triggers, so adding custom characters - the whole thing a moddable engine is for - finally works reliably. I'll expect there'll still be some grave issues, so it'll probably be another demo and not a proper release.

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 1:41 am
by Green Ranger
I'll be rooting for you! I'd love to see our beloved Dreamcast get a fully working Mugen port. Take your time and continue to keep us posted on your work. :)

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Mon May 07, 2018 5:08 am
by KeiDash
Omg, this is an awesome project. Many memories come to my mind when I played with MUGEN engine. it's time to prove it on my Dreamcast!

Only two question.

- Why the sound on Dreamcast not work?
- Exists any list of compatible characters/stages for download it?

Many thanks for publish this project

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2018 3:46 pm
by SireDoime
Wow, seven years and the thread is still alive. I love this community...

I only got here because I was reading old emails from the board and saw two deleted inbox message from Captain Dreamcast..

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Wed Jun 19, 2019 7:12 am
by Ian Micheal
Hi , im working on new project and i need this, if any one has the src to svn://emuforge.com/kosports/sdl-1.2.13 .. i really need it i cant seem to get to it....

The link no longer work's .. This was the only post i could find even talking about it

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:23 pm
by justinbug
hoping for sound atleast sfx

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 7:39 pm
by PhiseJr
The engine is unstable and Captain Dreamcast said he was going to work on porting mugen or making a mugen on the DC. I was right on board for making a game in this engine aswell. I been looking towards using the Quake engine to do my bidding.

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Fri May 15, 2020 8:34 pm
by Anthony817
Last active: Sat Mar 17, 2018 9:13 am

Well, he is still active on Twitter.

https://twitter.com/captdreamcast?lang=en

Re: The Dolmexica Engine [Moddable 2D Fighter]

Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 2:15 pm
by beanboy
Nice project Captain Dreamcast.
Also, that username is cool. :D