Hi, Peter wrote: >There is no scrolling in the engine because we decided not to when PA3 was >created. A scrolling RPG is just too difficult to make. The scroll in XAK >I, XAK II, SD Snatcher... well, I think they suck. Only the Falcom games >have good scrolling. Well, Xak 2 works all right when played on a Turbo R... But I agree that, generally, most MSX-RPG's' scrolling is not really high quality... On the other hand, the fact that those Japanese companies' games' scrolling is of low quality, does NOT automatically mean that it's IMPOSSIBLE to make a good scrolling game. Some time ago, when Sargon was still actively developing software for MSX, we started an RPG-project called 'The Curse of Kaijruu'. Although this project didn't even approach completion, our programmers DID some research concerning acceptable scrolling AND real-time battles. They thought it was very well possible... The main cause of The Curse not to be finished, was not this aspect, but rather the fact that the project was just too BIG... If the game would ever be finished, there wouldn't be more than two or three MSX-users left to play it... But anyway, that's another plus-point of Dante 2... This game has very acceptable scrolling as well... Perhaps it wouldn't be such a bad idea when the programmers still developing software for MSX started exploring the Turbo R... It's relatively easy to make a smooth-scrolling RPG for the Turbo R, and I think many of the MSX-users nowadays own a Turbo R so that doesn't have to be a problem, either. Take, for example, MoonLight Saga. This game's scrolling is quite smooth... But I think there's one thing you really have to keep in mind: the plot is the most important part of an RPG, NOT the way it scrolls. The living evidence for this is SD-Snatcher. Rieks. ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com **** MSX Mailinglist. To unsubscribe, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe msx [EMAIL PROTECTED]" (without the quotes) in the body (not the subject) of the message. Problems? contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] More information on MSX can be found in the following places: The MSX faq: http://www.faq.msxnet.org/ The MSX newsgroup: comp.sys.msx The MSX IRC channel: #MSX on Undernet ****
