I got the 2018 Atgames sega genesis with the SD card on eBay , just for I could buy these future cartridges or dl the roms . Nice to see the Genesis/MD resurrected
Its cool seeing young people talk about yuzo's new game, im a huge yuzo fan from the moment I put revenge of shinobi in my megadrive in 1990 as a 14 year old.
@@jamesrichards2442 it's a masterpiece that soundtrack it's just hit after hit, if I could only have one megadrive game it would be revenge of Shinobi, it was my first 16 bit platformer.
This is really amazing and using the MD/Gennesis hardware to it's maximum potentials of all the various capabilities the device has, the programmer is very tallented. Thanks so much for the video.
that multi parallax scrolling on the clouds is insane. it's really awesome to see koshiro san coming back to the fray. now only if he will do another collab with yamane san, that would be kick ass.
I'm really looking forward to this one! Hopefully I can snag the physical Genesis cart version. I suck at playing shmups, but they're so much fun. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment lol
I agree...I am so excited about this! This is a perfect call-back to some of my favorite shmups like Gaiaries and Thunder Force. Also, Yuzo worked on one of my favorite game soundtracks, Castlevania: Portait of Ruin.
Also my most anticipated title as well. Hope it makes it out for 2024. I play all my older consoles on a CRT and plan to purchase Earthion for my Genesis.
Oh snap how did I not know about this game!? It looks magnificent 😍 👌 I love the megadrive sounds Koshiro-san is incredible love the sound track so far. Great video👍🏻✨️
The beauty of the game shows why it was so great when games were crafted for a specific system. You could tell what system a game was for from the sound and graphics. I hate that games now are all developed for PC and dumped to whatever system with less effects.
I agree! I really miss the days of games custom tailored to a specific set of hardware. The playdate was a nice refreshing take on that, but I wish there were more instances of that sort of design.
YM2612, not 2616. I’m digging your enthusiasm and attention to detail! I’m similarly blown away by the ship animations on Earthion, as well as some cool rotation effects (like when the boss comes out of the lava), the “Mode 7”-like effect on the planet in the title screen, and of course, the music. Subscribed.
Oh, I love the colors on a CRT. Still, either way this is an exciting release. One of my all-time favorite genres too, though I guess that goes for most Genesis players. Music is amazing.
Great video, I'm very excited about the game myself. But also about ZPF, which also looks very nice. So my question is, will there also be a video about ZPF? Thank you and keep up the good work!
❤A beautiful game and the way you play is wonderful. I hope to get this game when it is released This game reminds me of Thunder Force 4. It was one of the best games I played on Sega
Amazing. GREAT commentary on the subject of composite crt signal and that this game is being developed with that in mind. Where did you get the footage of koshiro playing earthion on the crt? I've been trying to find it 😅
Definitely planning to grab this on MD cart. Probably one of the few 'retro' games that are actually made with with a vintage feel rather than just being pixel art. I'm not just interested in the graphics and sound though, as hopefully it can be a beast in the gameplay department, too.
I’d never heard of it, but it looks great. I love shoot ‘em ups. The 90s really were the best decade for every form of entertainment. Films, video games, music, technology, cartoons, sports. That said, when I buy this, I’ll buy it on Switch, or PS5 if that’s an option. I love older generations of gaming, but I’m not so into retro gaming that I have an old CRT, or even a Framemeister to play things on original hardware.
It's insane what they have been able to pull off on the Genesis hardware. I've looked into Genesis development a little bit as a hobby, and it really seems like they're using every trick in the book. And some things, like the rotating ship, I don't know how they're pulling it off. It's possible that they're just using a ton of space in VRAM on that single animation (possibly unloading frames as they're used to load in new ones in their place), then unloading it all at the end. No developers back in the day could do such a thing because it would take up too much space on the ROM, and most indie devs these days are making all of their art using pixel art, not pre-rendered 3D like that ship is (or maybe a pixel-art rotoscoping of a 3D animation?). My only other thought was that they could be using colour cycling as part of the animation, but it looks too detailed for that. Very impressive stuff. I'm not the biggest shmup fan, but I'm really looking forward to this one. Great job on the video! 👍
@@pixxellie Well I'm wondering about the release date, because I wanted this game stateside yesterday ago, alongside another great upcoming retro indie title by the name of The Scramble Vice.
This game looks amazing. Are there pre-orders up for this game yet? I'd like to get it for the Megadrive. The last Megadrive game I bought was the first re-release of Gleylancer.
I had heard of this, but kinda glossed over it since the Genesis isn't really my scene. You've got me pumped, though! Glad to see that it's coming to modern consoles, too, so at least I'll get to play it even if I don't get it hooked up to a CRT. How exciting for Genesis fans. I'd totally go out of my way to get a physical cartridge if I had a collection for that system.
I will probably end up picking up both the switch and the genesis version! I think no matter how you play it, it will be a treat! I also wouldn’t be surprised if they put some CRT filters in the game. I’m so excited for the music though!
I can't wait! One of my most anticipated games for sure. Going to be playing it on original hardware and a CRT. Only way I can do it 😎 The music is such a big part of this, it's like buying an album on a genesis cartridge!
Interesting you're so intrigued by this game haha it definitely gives me U.N. Squadron (Area 88), Zero Wing and Gunstar Heroes vibes. From what I've learned from a developer from Traveler's Tales for Sonic 3D blast, they're basically rendered 3 dimensional sprites with shading and polygons to give the illusion of 3D. Similar Donkey Kong Country and Project Dream.
I think I'm going to take a break from making those for a while because it was really really difficult to edit, but I will definitely cover genesis collecting in the future.
I would look into Gunstar Heroes (Treasure), Ranger X (GAU Entertainment), The Adventure of Batman & Robin (Clockwork Tortoise), and Vectorman (BlueSky Software). Those games featured some actual 3D effects compressed down into a sprite-based-construct, and not just parallax scrolling. I know I'm missing quite a few additional titles on the Genesis that pushed the hardware to its limits, but those are the ones that stand out in my 16-bit memory. The Genesis (Mega Drive) was more than capable of squaring up with the SNES (Super Famicom), but I believe that out of every 10 lazy developers, there were 3 outstanding developers that really sat down with a full pot of coffee and grinned away in making one hell of a game.
I have also been really looking forward to this release ever since Yuzo Koshiro first announced it. I'll probably end up picking up both the Genesis cart and a Switch copy.
Do you know where you can pre order the game or pick it up in Japan? This is the first time of heard of this. Also is there any word on whether the game will be compatible genesis clone consoles like the Polymega?
@@otakuuniteda.s.2882 I don’t think it’s available for preorder yet. I’ve been wondering the same thing. Not sure about polymega support, but since it works on a real genesis my guess is it would be fine.
The Genesis can scale backgrounds and sprites but at the cost of memory. I do not know the size of this game, its probably huge compared to original games.
Hopefully when all his techniques are revealed It advances the genesis indie dev scene …! So games from 2025 & on will have a closer to 32-but era PlayStation type quality to them . . Earthion graphics & sound remind me of a 32bit disk game or coming increasingly close. . Demons of asterborg & astrabros Come to mind when I think of new genesis titles pushing the boundaries of 16-bit hardware and looking closer to the next generation after. . Hope one day we will have svp chip lock on carts & developed games utilizing the svp. Like maybe a low polygon tomb raider 🤔 or virtua fighter 3/4/5 . Maybe a Daytona USA svp chip Even scale Dreamcast games 🤷🏾♂️ Hey.! A guy can dream right .? 🙊. I mean possibilities are endless right...?……
HE hope he does a Rom file release to I have genesis Emu and i've bought new release titles from other indie creators for genesis and dreamcast. Most uf us are not lucky enough to get the actual Sega DC or genesis like other people can. Well see. Im a shmup master. And need this in my collection too
Loving the resurgence of new games developed for retro hardware. Plenty of really cool titles for Neo Geo systems released and still to come, glad to see retro hardware still getting new love :)
Gonna pick it up for my Euro megadrive (genesis) for my collection but there's chances I'm gonna order one unphysical HD version on current generation console to play it.
The cinematic of the ship rotating is done by storing 100's of frames of animation and joining them together. Its not that fancy, the reason its not been done more is because to store all that animation in 1990 would have cost half of the ROM space just for that animation and ROM's cost a lot back in the day. These days memory chip space costs a few cents. So yeah, its not a trick, its just that things got incredibly cheap since 1990. If you want to see games from the 90's manipulate sprites into 3D objects, look at Donkey Kong Country on SNES which used Sillcon graphics workstations, or super huge cartridge games on the Neo geo MVS like Pulstar and Blazing star which both use a lot of pre rendered sprites which can be rotated into 3D objects, without actually having any 3D hardware.
@@pixxellie super street fighter 2 on megadrive was the biggest commercial Rom release at 5megabytes with everything else at 4mb or smaller. That is 32 megabits vs 40 megabits. Neo geo games went to 716 megabits . A lot of cartridge games used banking technology where it would seemlessly swap from one bank to another. That's how super mario bros on famicom went to Mario bros 3 graphics. It used banking. So instead of 32 kb being a ceiling, they just banked lots of 32kb chips and seemlessly switched between them. Maybe this is the megadrive doing bank memory switching as well. Bank switching was the reason a lot of famicom games never got released into the west. Nintendo would only allow certain bank switching techniques to be used in nes cartridges so games like Gradius 2 which uses Konamis version never made to the west.
@@atomiswave1971 I've heard a lot of the newer indie megadrive games use bank switching. I'd bet Earthion is using it as well, unless they've come up with some new technique for getting tons of storage onto MD carts.
wouldn't the 70 framed spinning ship surely just be one sprite with a ton of animation frames. Impressive but would take a lot of ram away from additional game graphics unless they can kick these frames out I guess
THis looks SUPERB....However I wish they used the WHOLE Screen. I utterly despise Score Rasters that chop off pixels when they have a black empty background...should have had a passthrough score showing some of the action behind...yes requires a bit more mem/cpu.
The opening animation is done pre render ,first a 3D model, then you save the animation out as a png sequence and all then put on a sprite atlas !
The amount of love the Sega Genesis has been getting the past 5 years from indy developers is insane and I love it,
same!
I got the 2018 Atgames sega genesis with the SD card on eBay , just for I could buy these future cartridges or dl the roms . Nice to see the Genesis/MD resurrected
I wonder if not making extensive use of enhancement chips has an impact on Genesis having a more active homebrew scene than snes.
Its cool seeing young people talk about yuzo's new game, im a huge yuzo fan from the moment I put revenge of shinobi in my megadrive in 1990 as a 14 year old.
Revenge is one of my favourite MegaDrive games. Some absolute bangers on that soundtrack.
@@jamesrichards2442 it's a masterpiece that soundtrack it's just hit after hit, if I could only have one megadrive game it would be revenge of Shinobi, it was my first 16 bit platformer.
This looks incredible! Can't wait to play Earthion.
This is really amazing and using the MD/Gennesis hardware to it's maximum potentials of all the various capabilities the device has, the programmer is very tallented. Thanks so much for the video.
This looks rad!
beyond excited to play this one!
Same! I can’t wait!
god this both looks and sounds gorgeous as hell! thank u for letting us know about this omg
my pleasure!! thanks for watching!
that multi parallax scrolling on the clouds is insane. it's really awesome to see koshiro san coming back to the fray. now only if he will do another collab with yamane san, that would be kick ass.
I'm really looking forward to this one! Hopefully I can snag the physical Genesis cart version. I suck at playing shmups, but they're so much fun. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment lol
@@vegeta8259 I’m not that great at them either tbh but I still love them for whatever reason!
Yuzo's my favourite game composer too! The effects he's getting the humble Megadrive to pull off here are incredible.
Hi! I didn't know your channel, but I love Koshiro-San's work. Just subscribed. Thanks for the video 😄
Nice analysis... I especially appreciated the CRT side-by-sides.
thanks!
His sister Ayano Koshiro is also working on this game. They both started at Falcom in the mid 80's she was a graphics artist on the first Y's game.
Visually stunning! Can’t wait to play and great video!!!
I still can't believe how they pulled off that 3d effect so smoothly. Looks incredible on the genesis!
Thanks for watching as always!!
@@pixxellie absolutely and thanks for sharing! I could watch those 3d scenes on a loop! Especially on a genesis!🤯Lol
Definitely hyped for this! It's definitely one of my top anticipated upcoming games. I'll pick every version i can. I can't wait.
I agree...I am so excited about this! This is a perfect call-back to some of my favorite shmups like Gaiaries and Thunder Force. Also, Yuzo worked on one of my favorite game soundtracks, Castlevania: Portait of Ruin.
oh yeah that's a great one! My fav Yuzo music is prob the from the etrian odyssey series, but it's all so good!
the game looks incredible. i cant wait until it releases. yuzo koshiro is a legend.
he's the best!!!!
Hell yeah dude. Can’t wait for this - good comparison on the CRT vs direct feed footage.
This looks and sounds amazing. Just heard about it here. Can't wait to play it on my genesis.
I've lost the count of how many times I replayed the trailer for the music
Sega for life!
Pixxellie forever!
haha yes! thanks!!
Also my most anticipated title as well. Hope it makes it out for 2024. I play all my older consoles on a CRT and plan to purchase Earthion for my Genesis.
Oh snap how did I not know about this game!? It looks magnificent 😍 👌 I love the megadrive sounds Koshiro-san is incredible love the sound track so far. Great video👍🏻✨️
Thanks!!! yes this game looks + sounds amazinggg
The beauty of the game shows why it was so great when games were crafted for a specific system. You could tell what system a game was for from the sound and graphics. I hate that games now are all developed for PC and dumped to whatever system with less effects.
I agree! I really miss the days of games custom tailored to a specific set of hardware. The playdate was a nice refreshing take on that, but I wish there were more instances of that sort of design.
Where can you pre-order?
YM2612, not 2616.
I’m digging your enthusiasm and attention to detail! I’m similarly blown away by the ship animations on Earthion, as well as some cool rotation effects (like when the boss comes out of the lava), the “Mode 7”-like effect on the planet in the title screen, and of course, the music. Subscribed.
Thanks for the sub! whoops I got the numbers mixed up! 😅
I really can’t wait for this game
Oh, I love the colors on a CRT. Still, either way this is an exciting release. One of my all-time favorite genres too, though I guess that goes for most Genesis players.
Music is amazing.
Great video, I'm very excited about the game myself. But also about ZPF, which also looks very nice. So my question is, will there also be a video about ZPF?
Thank you and keep up the good work!
never heard of ZPF! sounds like I have some homework to do!
❤A beautiful game and the way you play is wonderful. I hope to get this game when it is released This game reminds me of Thunder Force 4. It was one of the best games I played on Sega
Looks amazing
Wow, i hope it'll be released everywhere else too. Thanks for showing this 😊😊😊
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!!
Amazing. GREAT commentary on the subject of composite crt signal and that this game is being developed with that in mind. Where did you get the footage of koshiro playing earthion on the crt? I've been trying to find it 😅
You have to dig through his twitter feed
@@pixxellie nice. You dug better than I did 😁
Definitely planning to grab this on MD cart. Probably one of the few 'retro' games that are actually made with with a vintage feel rather than just being pixel art. I'm not just interested in the graphics and sound though, as hopefully it can be a beast in the gameplay department, too.
I have a feeling the gameplay will be good!!
I’m hyped for Earthion and would love a cartridge for my mega drive
I’d never heard of it, but it looks great. I love shoot ‘em ups. The 90s really were the best decade for every form of entertainment. Films, video games, music, technology, cartoons, sports.
That said, when I buy this, I’ll buy it on Switch, or PS5 if that’s an option. I love older generations of gaming, but I’m not so into retro gaming that I have an old CRT, or even a Framemeister to play things on original hardware.
im sure it will be awesome on modern consoles as well!
So cool how many new games are being made for old systems.
It's insane what they have been able to pull off on the Genesis hardware. I've looked into Genesis development a little bit as a hobby, and it really seems like they're using every trick in the book. And some things, like the rotating ship, I don't know how they're pulling it off. It's possible that they're just using a ton of space in VRAM on that single animation (possibly unloading frames as they're used to load in new ones in their place), then unloading it all at the end. No developers back in the day could do such a thing because it would take up too much space on the ROM, and most indie devs these days are making all of their art using pixel art, not pre-rendered 3D like that ship is (or maybe a pixel-art rotoscoping of a 3D animation?). My only other thought was that they could be using colour cycling as part of the animation, but it looks too detailed for that.
Very impressive stuff. I'm not the biggest shmup fan, but I'm really looking forward to this one. Great job on the video! 👍
Getting some serious Gundam and Macross vibes from Earthion and definitely want that on modern consoles and PC ASAP!!
I know it's coming to switch but im pretty sure it's coming to all modern consoles as well!
@@pixxellie Well I'm wondering about the release date, because I wanted this game stateside yesterday ago, alongside another great upcoming retro indie title by the name of The Scramble Vice.
@@mattmaddogwheaton4724 Koshiro said on his twitter the game is slated for a 2024 release date
@@pixxellie Yeah, but what month is what I'm asking. Not too close to Christmas I would hope.
I miss these games....hey will you be making a video on some of the Sega CD games?😊!😊
This game looks amazing. Are there pre-orders up for this game yet? I'd like to get it for the Megadrive. The last Megadrive game I bought was the first re-release of Gleylancer.
I don’t think you can preorder yet, sadly!
I wasn't aware ancient was still around. Would love to know if he's using original tools for developing the game or some sort of modern iteration.
Great video and anlysis. Is it possible to pre-order yet?
I don't think the preorder is available yet
I had heard of this, but kinda glossed over it since the Genesis isn't really my scene. You've got me pumped, though! Glad to see that it's coming to modern consoles, too, so at least I'll get to play it even if I don't get it hooked up to a CRT. How exciting for Genesis fans. I'd totally go out of my way to get a physical cartridge if I had a collection for that system.
I will probably end up picking up both the switch and the genesis version! I think no matter how you play it, it will be a treat! I also wouldn’t be surprised if they put some CRT filters in the game. I’m so excited for the music though!
I can't wait! One of my most anticipated games for sure. Going to be playing it on original hardware and a CRT. Only way I can do it 😎 The music is such a big part of this, it's like buying an album on a genesis cartridge!
same! I'm so excited for this game!
Interesting you're so intrigued by this game haha it definitely gives me U.N. Squadron (Area 88), Zero Wing and Gunstar Heroes vibes. From what I've learned from a developer from Traveler's Tales for Sonic 3D blast, they're basically rendered 3 dimensional sprites with shading and polygons to give the illusion of 3D. Similar Donkey Kong Country and Project Dream.
The game looks incredible! Could you do a genesis video like the one you did for the saturn? About games in different stores
I think I'm going to take a break from making those for a while because it was really really difficult to edit, but I will definitely cover genesis collecting in the future.
I would look into Gunstar Heroes (Treasure), Ranger X (GAU Entertainment), The Adventure of Batman & Robin (Clockwork Tortoise), and Vectorman (BlueSky Software). Those games featured some actual 3D effects compressed down into a sprite-based-construct, and not just parallax scrolling. I know I'm missing quite a few additional titles on the Genesis that pushed the hardware to its limits, but those are the ones that stand out in my 16-bit memory. The Genesis (Mega Drive) was more than capable of squaring up with the SNES (Super Famicom), but I believe that out of every 10 lazy developers, there were 3 outstanding developers that really sat down with a full pot of coffee and grinned away in making one hell of a game.
Wow! can't wait to play this on the CRT!!
me too!
Uhhh you have a voice of a Angel
I am so stoked that you are such a nerd! How cool is that! And i found a new cool game!
Thank you!
thanks for watching!
I have also been really looking forward to this release ever since Yuzo Koshiro first announced it. I'll probably end up picking up both the Genesis cart and a Switch copy.
It's not too late to change the thumbnail to "Unearthing Earthion"
lol cant believe I didn't think of that!
So ready for this game oh yes 👍 👍
@@RoninJoegenji0085 the suspense is killing me!
What Kushiro San worked makes the games better listening 😊😊😊
🎵🎶
This is giving me big Thunder Force 3 vibes.
I wonder what size cart is being used
Do you know where you can pre order the game or pick it up in Japan? This is the first time of heard of this. Also is there any word on whether the game will be compatible genesis clone consoles like the Polymega?
@@otakuuniteda.s.2882 I don’t think it’s available for preorder yet. I’ve been wondering the same thing. Not sure about polymega support, but since it works on a real genesis my guess is it would be fine.
The Genesis can scale backgrounds and sprites but at the cost of memory. I do not know the size of this game, its probably huge compared to original games.
Hopefully when all his techniques are revealed
It advances the genesis indie dev scene …!
So games from 2025 & on will have a closer to 32-but era PlayStation type quality to them .
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Earthion graphics & sound remind me of a 32bit disk game or coming increasingly close.
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Demons of asterborg & astrabros
Come to mind when I think of new genesis titles pushing the boundaries of 16-bit hardware and looking closer to the next generation after.
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Hope one day we will have svp chip lock on carts & developed games utilizing the svp.
Like maybe a low polygon tomb raider 🤔 or virtua fighter 3/4/5
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Maybe a Daytona USA svp chip
Even scale Dreamcast games 🤷🏾♂️
Hey.! A guy can dream right .? 🙊.
I mean possibilities are endless right...?……
I move to tokyo in September ❤😊
good luck!
@@pixxellie thanks perfect to leave before the election 😅
HE hope he does a Rom file release to I have genesis Emu and i've bought new release titles from other indie creators for genesis and dreamcast. Most uf us are not lucky enough to get the actual Sega DC or genesis like other people can. Well see. Im a shmup master. And need this in my collection too
Loving the resurgence of new games developed for retro hardware. Plenty of really cool titles for Neo Geo systems released and still to come, glad to see retro hardware still getting new love :)
Gonna pick it up for my Euro megadrive (genesis) for my collection but there's chances I'm gonna order one unphysical HD version on current generation console to play it.
The cinematic of the ship rotating is done by storing 100's of frames of animation and joining them together. Its not that fancy, the reason its not been done more is because to store all that animation in 1990 would have cost half of the ROM space just for that animation and ROM's cost a lot back in the day. These days memory chip space costs a few cents. So yeah, its not a trick, its just that things got incredibly cheap since 1990. If you want to see games from the 90's manipulate sprites into 3D objects, look at Donkey Kong Country on SNES which used Sillcon graphics workstations, or super huge cartridge games on the Neo geo MVS like Pulstar and Blazing star which both use a lot of pre rendered sprites which can be rotated into 3D objects, without actually having any 3D hardware.
good point about storage! I bet the rom size on this game will be quite large for a megadrive game!
@@pixxellie super street fighter 2 on megadrive was the biggest commercial Rom release at 5megabytes with everything else at 4mb or smaller. That is 32 megabits vs 40 megabits. Neo geo games went to 716 megabits . A lot of cartridge games used banking technology where it would seemlessly swap from one bank to another. That's how super mario bros on famicom went to Mario bros 3 graphics. It used banking. So instead of 32 kb being a ceiling, they just banked lots of 32kb chips and seemlessly switched between them. Maybe this is the megadrive doing bank memory switching as well. Bank switching was the reason a lot of famicom games never got released into the west. Nintendo would only allow certain bank switching techniques to be used in nes cartridges so games like Gradius 2 which uses Konamis version never made to the west.
@@atomiswave1971 woah! Very cool!!
@@atomiswave1971 I've heard a lot of the newer indie megadrive games use bank switching. I'd bet Earthion is using it as well, unless they've come up with some new technique for getting tons of storage onto MD carts.
This game looks great. Looks way too hard for me but a really beautiful art style with some excellent music.
Cool
"We need to talk about..."
No, no we don't.
Nice video anyways, keep them goin' 🙂
wouldn't the 70 framed spinning ship surely just be one sprite with a ton of animation frames. Impressive but would take a lot of ram away from additional game graphics unless they can kick these frames out I guess
Just take my money
THis looks SUPERB....However I wish they used the WHOLE Screen. I utterly despise Score Rasters that chop off pixels when they have a black empty background...should have had a passthrough score showing some of the action behind...yes requires a bit more mem/cpu.
I like pickles
After the disappointing Cygni: All Guns Blazing, I am itching for a good, new shoot-em-up. I will get this on PlayStation 5, because it needs games