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Title: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Raizor on June 10, 2011

I've been digging through some of my old PS2 coding stuff and have captured some bits using a PS2 emulator (PCSX2). I don't have a video capture card, so using the emulator is my only option at the moment. Most things work ok, but there are some graphical glitches and slowdown issues sometimes in the emulator.

Anyway, I thought it may interest someone, so I've uploaded them to YouTube for posterity. Here they are in chronological (I think) order:

Cloudy:
[youtube]3bSyZTq9fxs[/youtube]

Fireballs:
[youtube]afvrTeAfS98[/youtube]

3D Mutha:
[youtube]FlcpNYt9KN4[/youtube]

Stop Gap:
[youtube]S3n86RHiuSg[/youtube]

Christro:
[youtube]j0ZOBdlc1YQ[/youtube]

Adventures in Wonderland:
[youtube]dyXY9nKzSjE[/youtube]

Sixtee Fore:
[youtube]ciCB233-0tE[/youtube]

AHX Musicdisk:
[youtube]1UT2K1AoiEg[/youtube]

b000p:
[youtube]C4K_ZV4QWj4[/youtube]

These are all from 2003/2004.  All developed using the homebrew PS2 devkit in C (and sometimes a little C++). I have some other bits and pieces floating around on various drives and discs which I'll dig out and add later.

Raizor

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Hotshot on June 10, 2011

Bloody Amazing!  :kewl:

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Raizor on June 10, 2011

Thanks Hotshot :)

They were fun to make for sure. I'll see what else I can dig up...

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: rain_storm on June 11, 2011

Thats truely awesome.

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: benny! on June 11, 2011

Yeah, some cool intros there. Did not know that you coded on PS2. Well done, mate!

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: zawran on June 11, 2011

I haven't really seen much stuff done on the PS2. Looks like you were busy back then :)  Thanks for sharing, it was well worth the time it took watching them :)

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: padman on June 11, 2011

Cool stuff indeed!  :clap:

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Shockwave on June 11, 2011

What a treat!  I think Fireballs is my favourite - they all have that great cracktro vibe!

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: ferris on June 11, 2011

b000p was certainly the coolest for me. Had a real late 90's DOS demo vibe, which I love :) These are all well put-together. A fun challenge would be to remake them for pc...with software rendering ;)

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Rbz on June 11, 2011

Nice work Raizor, my favorite is also b000p, very nice twister effect.

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Raizor on June 11, 2011

Thank you all for the nice feedback :)

Ferris, I may make something similar for PC, I don't think I'd remake any of them though, except maybe the Musicdisk.

Here are a couple more:

Trainer:
[youtube]gztYAKZUjoY[/youtube]

Cracktro:
[youtube]feCJW2EziQU[/youtube]

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: combatking0 on June 13, 2011

Cool. I wish I could produce graphics of this quality. And code for the PS2.

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Raizor on June 13, 2011

Thanks Combatking. I'm not sure I could do it again without some more practice :)

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Clyde on June 14, 2011

Raizor!!! These are absolutely great!
I have a PS2 wondering how I could burn and run these on the real thing?

Title: Re: Some of my old PS2 stuff
Post by: Raizor on June 14, 2011

Quote from: Clyde on June 14, 2011

I have a PS2 wondering how I could burn and run these on the real thing?

Thanks Clyde :)

Not sure about burning them and running them from disc as some of them need access to the 'host' file system.  Does you PS2 have a modchip?

The ps2independence exploit was always the preferred way to run these things. It used a modified save-game file on a memory card and a buffer overrun exploit to boot a load application. If you have a chip installed, you can probably run ps2link (a loader app) from disc and then use the ps2 ethernet addon to load the ELF files for a PC (ELF files are the equivilent of EXE files for PS2). There is also a program called Naplink that allows loading via USB from a PC.

Let me know your setup and we'll see what options there are :)