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• vmdav : unbreak decoding of samples from game The Last Dynasty

  2 mai 2013, par Paul B Mahol

  vmdav : unbreak decoding of samples from game The Last Dynasty
  This fixes video output with samples HG060808.VMD and
  
  HG060810.VMD. Regression since c0cbe36b18ab3e.
  While here show warning if decoding is aborted for some reason.
  Signed-off-by : Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com>
  

  • [DH] libavcodec/vmdav.c

• Game Music Appreciation

  16 juillet 2012, par Multimedia Mike — Game Hacking

  A little over a year ago, I was prototyping a method to leverage Google Chrome’s Native Client technology in order to play old chiptunes (video game music) directly in a web browser. The last time I posted on the matter, I said that I might have something ready for public consumption by the time Google Chrome 21 rolled around. I thought I was being facetious but I wasn’t too far off. Chrome 20 is the current release version as I write this.

  Anyway, I did it : I created a chiptune music player in Native Client by leveraging existing C/C++ libraries such as Game Music Emu, Audio Overload SDK, and Vio2sf. Then I packaged up the player into into a Google Chrome extension and published it on the Chrome Web Store. Then I made a website cataloging as many chiptunes as I could find for 7 different systems :

  http://gamemusic.multimedia.cx/
  

  Check it out if you have any affinity for old game music or you want to hear how music was made using a limited range of bleeps and bloops. Thus far, the site catalogs NES, SNES, Game Boy, Nintendo DS, Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast songs. I’m hoping to add support and catalogs for many more systems, though, eventually bringing support in line with the Chipamp plugin for Winamp.

• Studying A Game Wave Disc

  23 novembre 2010, par Multimedia Mike — Game Hacking

  I picked up a used copy of game called Gemz — a rather flagrant Bejeweled clone — for a game console called Game Wave Family Entertainment System. Heard of it ? Neither had I. But the game media is optical, so I had to get it and study it.

  
  
  

  When mounted in Linux (as UDF), the disc is reported to contain 2.8 GB of data, so it has to be a DVD. 810 MB of that is dedicated to the movies/ directory. Multimedia format ? Just plain, boring MPEG files (very YouTube-friendly— here’s the opening animation). Deeper digging reveals some more subdirectories called movies/ that, combined, occupy the lion’s share of the disc space. Additionally, there are several single-frame .m2v files in a directory called iframes/ which are used to encode things like load screens.

  
  
  

  There are more interesting data files including .zbm files for images and fonts, and .zwf files for audio. I suspect that these stand for zipped bitmap and zipped wave file, respectively. They can’t be directly unzipped with ’gunzip’. Some of the numbers at the start of some files lead me to believe they can be easily decompressed with standard zlib facilities.

  Based on the binary files on the Gemz disc, I couldn’t find any data on what CPU this system might use. A little Googling led me to this page at the Video Game Console Library which pegs the brain as a Mediamatics 6811. Some searching for that leads me to a long-discontinued line of hardware from National Semiconductor.

  The Console Library page also mentions that the games were developed using the Lua programming language. Indeed, there are many Lua-related strings in the game’s binaries (’zlib’ also makes an appearance).