Thanks for the offer, I need a Cross Products modified Saturn, the one that came with the Cartdev development kit. If you have one of those I will gladly take it from you, otherwise I already have a standard NTSC-U Saturn. Cheers, JR The code is missing a fair amount of critical files, which seem to have been part of a very, very early version of the SBL. I guess I will have to reconstruct the functionality of those files from scratch, by using pieces of code from early SBL/SGL versions, and writing additional code, this is going to take a while guys... JR
Thank you for all your hard work JR. I can imagine what a headache some of it must be but the results are gonna be amazing!
I wouldn't be surprised if Ofer Alon is still serious about this stuff, but I doubt he cares now since it's SEGA's own fault for the leak via POV. When I worked on helping kurisu try to get Ofer's level editor running on modern hardware by reverse engineering the NV1 driver (Bunch of Thunk32/Thunk16 stuff), Ofer was furious that kurisu was trying to use his level editor (I'm talking about angry phone call here). Despite getting the editor to start somewhat, kurisu and I decided to abort that and just reverse engineer the levels from the files directly, hence how the Sonic X-treme level viewer came about. Though, when Chris sent me just the levels themselves to reverse engineer, Ofer still freaked out since some of the levels were his. Man you can never make Ofer happy.
I have a few ripped DTS CDs from 1994 but none of them have SBL on it, only a few independent demos. Many of the libraries still date to 1994 November on this 1995 release though. It can't hurt to check it, so here's the link: SEGA DTS CD (Unknown Date, 1995 summer).7z 37.8 MB https://mega.co.nz/#!Z88D1CZQ!zJK8e8T87JCa6W6oIT0DmPCv2MZJZu2A4pb1mWZy2Zc Here's hoping it helps.
SEGA DTS March 96.rar 182.6 MB https://mega.co.nz/#!0oVmSSiL!6YhvVYL5KgAB3LiUiyvqALzqPI4naUuCs4329YX7QL4
There are pieces of source code I need to reconstruct, which were based on DTS demos circa 1996, so demo materials (source code of) from Sega DTS between 1995 and 1996 can help. I have the NV1 Saturn controller board incoming, so that is good news :-)
Ok, some bad news and some good news. The bad news first: it looks like the version of the engine we have does not contain the "paths" code, the snapshot of the code predates that feature. There is a fragment of a source tree (header files only) from June 1996 that has a "path.h" and all the other header files are also more recent than anything else we have; unfortunately that fragment has no source code at all, only header files, presumably a backup. This means it will be essentially impossible to reconstruct the path functionality from the original code, unless we code it from scratch. The good news: I FINALLY managed to build the Saturn version of the engine entirely from the source code, what a royal pain... The code is in a bad state, clearly in the middle of development. The player controls are not active, as the code was being rewritten to reduce the memory footprint and increase the performance. We do have the "original" player movement code though, so it will be a matter of finishing the conversion that was partially started, and that should give us a buildable version with controls, it will take some time though. Jollyroger
Is there anything in there that looks like it'd have art, music, and that sort of thing? Just curious, really, although I'd love to know just how late of a state this build was in.
