Niola

I found out that in the Jonny Rock DVD of my previous post, there are JAPANESE, ENGLISH, FRENCH and ITALIAN languages

You know SHOOTOUT OF OLD TUCSON, an another game of American Laser Game:

 https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9531

For Singe 2 in Win2000, before I must to emulated OpenGL 2.

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Jonny Rock DVD iso

https://ia801504.us.archive.org/7/items/WhoShotJohnnyRockDVDGame/WHOSHOTJOHNNYROCK.iso

MY ENGLISH IS NOT MY LANGUAGE. I HOPE THAT I IS UNDERSTANDABLE.

CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM

STANDARD, this means that all things are done the same way.
Karis arranges .singe files in her games in certain folders, Poiu in others. I have already written to you that you authors should agree on the names of the files and where they should be placed, where you think is best. A person wants to make a fan game and he studies how the older were made, he watches a game and then he looks at another and finds discrepancy. So it is more complicated to learn.

You implement the very latest version of the scripts as they come out. This is one way to have more problems.
People are many different and many different computer systems. A dynamic library (example) required or many other things, which may have problems with one version of a script or another version. You have to decide which version is good for making amateur games and you should use that for years. You are not a capitalist who always wants to sell the latest technology. There are forums that update vBulletin, for example, as soon as the latest version comes out, and forums that have been using the same for years. When something is good and works, it works well even when it's officially old and no longer supported.

I have two PCs and I can run both versions of Singe. But, repeat, there are so many different people in the "internet" community. People who use old PCs for fun, or to play old games. Singe 2 is not commercial software from a company that doesn't care about old PCs. You are enthusiasts, and as such you should "worry" about running the emulator in multiple different version of operating systems. I've asked you and Scott for more and in my opinion none of you three know the Singe 2 minimum requirements.

You should pay more attention to what you do. Thanks to you I finally started playing lasergames. And before coming to this forum, or rather to say the two discussions "game lists", I read about many people asking, how does it work? Why doesn't the software start? And I still keep reading this.

A game loads on mega, "you put it in the emulator folder and you play". And then they doesn't work.
I spent a month downloading and fixing and customizing the games so that they work and they can be placed in any folder.
My upload is only 400 Kbit/s. Otherwise I would upload the versions modified by me to the Internet.

A little more attention please. In the archive Don-Quixote.zip there are two games, the first with the 300 MB mp4 video.
In another, I don't remember which one, there are two copies of the same video. 8 GB to download instead of 4 GB.
In The Last Bounty Hunter after the countdown to continue the emulator closes. Because in a .singe file there is a specific address from where it gets the files, instead of the other .singe files of the same game where a "generic" address is written.

Not one but countless superficial but important errors.

COPYRIGHT I advise you to eliminate the "MOVIE MODE (no play). The film is not complete, but if the companies that own the copyrights become aware of the fan games, you would probably bother them less if the emulator cannot be used as a video player.

I would happily enjoy making a fan game, but I have too much mercury in my brain to do it. I really suck to play at lasergames, which are all simple (arrows and action), as in all my life as a player (and not only). In the video game chart as a child, I couldn't always write "NIC" in the ten seconds of time. Then I switched from NIC to ABC, simler.

I thank you again, and only thanks to you that I can finally play lasergame. But you commit yourself to do better. These are just few SMALL changes, of mentality and substance.

19 ore fa, Karis ha scritto:

What would be the optimal format for you ? Be cause i think if you take the 1080p version and launch it in 1280*1024 you will have no cut (but a black bar up and down). 

With my pc I see all the versions well, rightly with the black bars. Mine is yet another criticism of this absurd 480p with cut video.

15 ore fa, ToniBC ha scritto:

What some users said happens to me, the videos are fast, like accelerated, but when played with an external player they work without problems.

They are two different things. To view the video the PC has to work very little. When you see the video in the game, the pc has to keep in memory and process the operations of the emulator. In theory a few things but in practice this amateur emulator is a brick (of heaviness).

Unfortunately it also happens with professional sites, which display only text and little else, but they are badly done and if your PC does many things together, the consultation is problematic. And similar sites with images are all fluid, because they are made with other technology.

I keep the cpu of my pc under the official minimum and it does almost everything perfectly. With the emulator I have to raise the frequency a lot. I did various tests and I played Conan "well", with the video, the arrows and ACTION and I hit right. But the audio was ahead of the video.

I play to Space Ace with Daphne. I ask here why the option, present in the arcade game, could also be present in Singe 2 and you might know it.

This option is WATCHDOG TIMER, what is It?

Il 17/3/2021 Alle 05:51, Striderx99 ha scritto:

I was able to download the 480p version of the Fire and Ice movie file. The narration at the beginning ran without slowing down. I may do the same for other games on here. Thanks again for your help Karis.

This version is very light for the pc. I enlarged it to 1280x1024 and it is seen in optimal hands, thanks to the very high quality of the video source. Unfortunately the video is cut.

Il 16/3/2021 Alle 20:12, Karis ha scritto:

Normally, difficulty is saved. And when you restart a save, the difficulty of the save is applied.

Difficulty is only a example. The options that can be changed are varied.

No bugs but one thing that I just thought, maybe a pc is used by two people.

Do you know what happens to your games when a user changes options (eample difficulty) and then continues from a saved game? If you have never thought about it, I advise you to test.

1 ora fa, Karis ha scritto:

For this i don't know. As i said this menu is an experiment for which i choose 2 very regular resolutions (1920*1080 and 640*480). On my screen the 480p is not cut and if you want me to correct, i'll need screen captures to understand the problem.

What is there to understand. The VGA 640x480 is the PC standard of the first half of the 90s, then the SVGA 800x600 became more and more popular (and then XGA and others). DVDs are 720x480 NTSC and 720x576 PAL. I don't understand why you insist on creating "light" videos in VGA. And why do you cut the video instead of letting it fit inside a "4:3 square".

x POIU
Ti prego ma rifai gli archivi compressi di Super_Don_Quix-ote_Singe_2 e Ninja_Hayate singe 2. Non dico per me che li ho già scaricati ma per utenti meno

esperti con il computer, che in futuro li scaricheranno.
In Ninja hai messo addirittura due volte il video. Un archivio che potrebbe essere di 1,86 GB diventa di 3,68 GB.
In Super_Don_Quix-ote_Singe_2 c'è un altro Super_Don_Quix-ote_Singe_2. Il primo con un video tagliato di 300 MB e le immagini Overlay di Principessa

Mononoke. Nel secondo sotto Overlay\Lores c'è una immagine di Time Gal e si rimane col dubbio se siano tutte di questo gioco o di Don Quix-ote.

In various games the options menu has a particular font and a colored background and I struggle to understand all the letters (I have a hard time reading),

Il 14/3/2021 Alle 09:01, Karis ha scritto:

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Unwanted characters might be the cause yes.

Everyone does it his way. I think Poiu like to place it in the script folder, and that's logical.

 

For me the reason was different. As i wanted to teach to people how to create games i put the only script to modify apart from the rest.

You three authors should agree to make all fan games the same. You have to decide whether game.singe or "game name" .singe. If a file goes to one folder or another. As you already know, for many people it is not enough to just put the game folder under Singe 2 and play. Many have problems and they have to fiddle with the software. If all games were the same, later it would be easier to solve the problems.

And to learn there is the tutorial.

I tried the new MENU. The 480 is horrible because it is cut on the right. I don't understand why you do either the FULL HD or the 640x480. The old DVD has a larger format.

The 1080p menu: Error: Specified resolution is larger than the display.
My display is 1280x1024 however the games work and the video adjusts to the maximum resolution of my monitor.

????????
difficulty: In-Game
game type: Normal, Map, Percent

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What is the Assets folder for? I have seen the images and the intro video for the menu.bat but some games do not have this folder and the menu shows them. And inside Ninja_Hayate Assets are the SuckerPunch files.

-Sucket Punch (and other your games)
difficulty: In-Game
game type: Normal, Map, Percent
estra movies:
Show Hinst:
Special Mode:what do they mean?

As there is daphne-wiki, you could write a little guide explaining the options and other things to play

Il 12/3/2021 Alle 19:06, Karis ha scritto:

What's inside the 480p folder replace what's in the normal folder. For most games it's just Overlay and movie but there's a small difference for Asterix, cause the font does not reduce so well.

All file names begin with _: "_name.x". Does this make sense? Can they be used by the emulator?

All images are not legible from Windows; all the other images of the other games are readable, and also the others of Asterix

Opening some files (txt and .singe) with Notepad I read "Mac Os X" and an Internet address for Apple.
There are titan.txt and fai.txt files.

I looked at all the images in Overlay and I couldn't find any buttons without a border. Surely the software did not fully display the image, while I was playing.

Many games have the Lores folder under Overlay with the smaller images. When do games use these smaller images?

4 ore fa, Karis ha scritto:

Yeah it is the menu, and i must admit that, despite it's not my design, i worked a bit on it yesterday (after your post).

My menu is now launching the bats instead of pushing a singe script and has the ability to launch 2 different bats (for example fullscreen and window).

I won't push it too much cause i don't have too much time and must show it to the guys first. Also for now i did it in 1080, need to convert for 480.

The menu, when the software switches to 480p game (left and right from user), closes. But the game works with its own .bat.

Also, always talking about 480p (the group of games you have already done), only in Asterix, in addition to the Movie and Overlay folders there are many images. Where do they go?

The borderless button question IS NOT a suggestion. I saw it in a game. And the bar is better for me too.

I wrote my long previous message at different times. Then I have pasted everything into this forum. If I remembered the first message, I would have simply written that this game was to be modified like the others, with the bar. (Now I don't remember what game).

Yes, letterboxing

REPEAT Niola:

-Also different color key pressed (clic cli clic... power), only without border looking quickly (and elsewhere) you can get confused in the play.

In many games, a colored bar appears for POWER (quick click click click). But before I had seen in a game (I don't remember which one) a key, the same color as those that appeared before, but without the border (only the plastic key, if you understand my comparison with the keys real). When you look away, it's hard to tell the difference between a normal key and a variant one. This is why I recommended changing the color of the special POWER button.

-Menu.bat (the graphic games list) options to play in full screen or not, and other customizations for game.

I don't know what it's called. I launch the menu.bat, a window appears with the Singe logo and then a game presentation with a title together with an image and a video of a few seconds and left and right and you can see the various games available. What is the name of this "front-end"?

This front-end launch the game like .namegame.cfg or other file (I don't know). I suggest adding, in this game selection window, the ability to play in full screen or in a window and other customizations. I don't say all the options in OPTION MENU 9. But I launched a game and it was windowed, while the ones I tried before were full screen. Some customizations, in my opinion, go into this menu. So users don't have to change any code files.

-You could put a tutorial on how to get "their audio" from dvd or bluray.
I didn't think about introducing in the your tutorial the way to extract audio from a video. But if you "advertise" this (and maybe new tutorial only for this), the circulation of your games could increase. And consequently the people who learn about it and the future authors of new fan games.

>>> K A R I S >>>

Cliffhanger

As i said in the first post, the most updated versions are on the Mega link.

I made a lot of improvements and new things after the initial upload on kangaroo. I guess the difference is those 2 new levels.

>>>

I can be wrong but I do not think. 10 minutes for two levels?

-Titan A.E. 4:3 shows the entire film, but black is too much. They should all be like him.

The video must contain only the effective video. Black, if the screen does not have the same format as the video, is automatically added by software, a video player (Videolan for example) or a video game (Singe 2 for example). And fewer bytes to download and fewer bytes for the software to decode. Many people don't have fast connections and powerful PCs. Even if little, they are all useless bytes.

Why SINGE (the name)?

The video's file is larger than the display. The same error appears to me too, bu only menu.bat. Gamename.bat is play!

TIPS
- I tried Singe2. I suggest you add the item, in the menu option "9", EXIT NO SAVE.
- Also different color key pressed (clic cli clic... power), only without border looking quickly (and elsewhere) you can get confused in the play
- Menu.bat (the graphic games list) options to play in full screen or not, and other customizations for game.

You should give the opportunity, to those who want to work for the version in their own language, to make it. You could put a tutorial on how to get "their

audio" from dvd or bluray. Then send it to you so that you create the exact "original" copy of the video but in a different language.

PROBLEMS
-In my Singe2 top trophies screen of the different colored winner's cups. In the different explanation the 4 cups are all red.
-Conan goes from level 1 to 3.
-Hologram Time Traveler is the 3D version and it looks bad, like a my Singe 1. Only for 3D glasses? Version 2 (Singe 1) is perfect vision.

QUESTIONS

Fan games of POIU: even after losing the last life, the video goes backwards with and with the countdown, then CONTINUE?

Fire and Ice v1 and v2 differences?

Cliffhanger

1080p Adaptation of the Classic. Cliffhanger includes 2 "missing link" extra levels based on the Lupin/Cagliostro movie.
Difficulty : 4/5
Link: https://mega.nz/folder/sPgWyToK#x5Uccbi2ygu55Qr0iZmcQw
video Cliff.7z 3,90GB 36 minutes

from https://kangaroopunch.com/?page=Software/3000-2006-singe.xjs
Cliff.zip 1,15GB 26 minutes

Ninja_Hayate singe 2.rar
video\Ninja_Hayate.mp4
and
video\nuova cartella\ninja.mp4.

The second lasts a few seconds less. I erase the second?

4/3 VERSIONS PACK

Titan A.E. 4:3 shows the entire film, but black is too much. They should all be like him

In the .rar archives of these games,
Esh's Aurunmilla
Ninja Hayate
Super Don Quix-ote
Triad Stone

there is also the emulator. I have arranged them like the others but they do not appear in the "graphic list" of games to choose.
Can I make changes because they appear, or are they "preliminary" versions?

Fan games are cool but they are different from the original laser games. They have audio and that's a particular thing for a video game. It is normal to always do the part several times, for example in a difficult level in a shooter game. But to hear the same "spoken audio" over and over again I'm tired of it, I don't know about others people.

I suggest you create a fan game with a silent film with Charlie Chaplin, a very turbulent film, or the short films,

The cinema is 24 fps, the TV of USA is 30 fps, the TV of Europa is 25 fps. 60fps is crazy! Respect from tv Usa is double byte/s (simply because mp4 is compressed).

FOR KARIS

You asked me for "a screen capture" 4:3 but I can't create it, so I linked the video to you. It is just a trailer, and you just need to watch the first few seconds. And I recommend you do it now, before it gets deleted from the site. Then if now you don't have time to do the correct 4: 3 conversion, do it when you can.

I did not say that the videos must be interlaced, but that I have seen videos for Lasergame with the typical noise (lines) from conversine (from interlaced video) done poorly. I saw it in Cliffhanger. Mad Dod DVD doesn't have this problem but mine was one more example of one thing you shouldn't do, like 60fps.

It is much easier faster than you think.
I feel your kindness to answer the questions of us "ONLY PLAYERS" but in my opinion, you who work at Singe, you lack the basic knowledge of the videos.

You watch this trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipTMrPQ3R2w

The whole, black + video, is 16:9. The video is in cinematic format.

1)
For your HD version you should get blu-rays that don't cut 16:9 movies but leave them in full version. And with that make the video for the game.

2)
TO SIMPLIFY (so I don't have to look for another movie) we pretend that the "ALL" (black + video) is 4:3. You will always have to do the same, take the video ONLY. Then when a person plays in a fullscreen 4:3 monitor the emulator zooms in on the video without distorting it and automatically adds black bars; the ones you see in the movie. I know this from personal experience.
In practice, in the video file (for the 4:3 version) there must be no black bars.

I downloaded the 480p movies for Singe2 and they are 640x480, 4:3. Cinema films are not 4:3 (neither 16:9) but 1.85:1 (FLAT) or 2.35:1 (SCOPE).

You should edit the Singe 2's HD videos to SD but no 4:3 (720x576 Europe or 720x480 America) but in the right format, which I don't remember right now.

You watch a NO 16:9 DVD on an HD TV and you will see black bars above and below (if the TV is configured well). You put the dvd in the pc and you watch with a video editing software what format it is.

I play with Daphne. I read (now I don't remember) in the easy level instead of "ACTION" the words HANDS and FEET and arrows appear. There are 16 difficulty levels in Daphne and ACTION always appears in the first. There is the option to disable the writing, but I can't find the ARROWS way.

9 no functon!

>KARIS: Thank you for the info but could you show me a screen capture?

I don't have advanced software but only the STAMP button + Paint . With Daphne the result is an all black image. I do not know why.