35th Barcelona RU footage on YouTube

Source: MSX Forum

selios2000 has published a video footage on YouTube about the 35th MSX Users Meeting (colloquially known as RU) held last weekend in Barcelona, Spain. Two games in development got very good reviews from the audience:

Goonies 'R' Good Enough which will be available in a few months and will feature two versions in the same cartridge, one for MSX1 and the other one for MSX2/2+/tR. According to Ramones only about 100 units are going to be produced due to the availability of SCC chips. The PSG-SCC balance will be adjustable
Moon Over Arba Minch. A new platform game by ARTRAG, DemonSeed and Huey. It also will include an SCC chip and will come in a 4Mbit MegaROM cartridge

You can take a look here at the list of groups that attended the meeting.

Relevant link: 35th MSX Users Meeting in Barcelona - YouTube

Comments (36)

By Ivan

Scribe (1354)

03-06-2009, 23:50

The room was crowded! (11:30~13:30) I guess the video was recorded around 10:30...

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1311)

04-06-2009, 18:10

Can we please have video of MSX1 goonies r good enough?

By JohnHassink

Ambassador (2363)

04-06-2009, 19:20

Cool!

@ MäSäXi:

This one seems to be pretty recent (posted May 27th):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KCjCqqGGFo&

I'm really looking forward to this game as well.

By SapphiRe

Master (150)

04-06-2009, 19:29

May 27th 2008... a little bit old

By JohnHassink

Ambassador (2363)

04-06-2009, 19:46

LMAO

Please give us an update then.

By SapphiRe

Master (150)

04-06-2009, 20:46

Ask Ramones...

By PingPong

Paragon (1732)

04-06-2009, 20:56

but enemies does not fight against the main charather? They only go left and right?

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1311)

04-06-2009, 21:25

Demonseed, thanks but I asked for MSX-1 video of this new goonies.

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1311)

04-06-2009, 21:27

Okay, I ask Ramones...

Ramones, please give us video of MSX-1 Goonies R Enough!

By JohnHassink

Ambassador (2363)

04-06-2009, 22:04

MäSäXi, yeah I know. "Misinterpreted" the date.

By Manuel

Enlighted (5675)

04-06-2009, 22:55

Wow, Goonies looks terrific! I love the V9958 images between scenes! Very polished!

By muffie

Hero (636)

05-06-2009, 05:46

AMAZING! congrats for the fair. So many items... I think I've even saw a guy holding a plastic MSX bag with the items that he probably bought on the fair...

By roadfighter

Resident (64)

05-06-2009, 12:03

Oke and how do we get a version of the new Goonies, were can we order the game ? and of course what will bee the price ?

By Huey

Paragon (1436)

05-06-2009, 13:16

According to Ramones only about 100 units are going to be produced due to the availability of SCC chips.

Why not support an external SCC? I guess everybody nowaday owns an SCC cart already. Well at least people who buy/collect games.
Its cheaper and easier to produce more items that way.

By selios2000

Champion (266)

05-06-2009, 13:36

He said that an external SCC would not be possible due to programming problems (slows down the game)

By Huey

Paragon (1436)

05-06-2009, 13:58

Hmm perhaps.
My knowledge about that issue is limited. But I have been told that it wouldn't be a real problem.

For our project we are trying to implement an external SCC. So if there is a success I'll let Ramones know asap.

By muffie

Hero (636)

05-06-2009, 15:34

How hard it would be to use a new sound chip? I'm pretty sure there are alternatives on the market and it wouldn't be the massacre of the original scc konami cartridges right?

By hap

Paragon (1101)

05-06-2009, 15:37

Huey: Yeah, it shouldn't be a problem, Montana John supports an external SCC/SCC-I too.

By muffie

Hero (636)

05-06-2009, 15:58

Can't we just plug Yamaha's YMF262 or YMF278? Or even an Yamaha YMU786? those are easily found on the market. It's not just a matter of plugging it correctly and make them accessible through some ports? I'm pretty sure new music artists would also be able to create good content?

By Edwin

Paladin (826)

05-06-2009, 17:30

Making an external SCC work is not all that hard. It only takes a few cycles to switch slots. Not something that would likely wreck the timing of a game. However, you may run into a problem if you didn't design for it from the start because switch slots hides two 8k banks from access, while the internal SCC only hides one.

I worked around that by using extra ram for the tune. Which I needed anyway since the tunes are ridiculously large.

By Huey

Paragon (1436)

05-06-2009, 18:52

Hmmm. is it possible that (without a slot expander) the game cart and scc cart are in the same slot (but in different sub slots)?

By muffie

Hero (636)

05-06-2009, 19:22

ExecROM does not patch the game, on the fly, to use SCC from an external slot?

By muffie

Hero (636)

05-06-2009, 20:32

I mean... it PATCHES the ROM...

By Ramones

Resident (55)

06-06-2009, 10:25

Hi, you lot!

Thanks Huey for your offer: it's very kind of you and I'm always glad to see this generous behavior among coders.

Now...

...the policy of Kralizec has been *quality* from the very beggining.

So, if we sell a product (vorsicht! not freeware! XD ) we want to achive best results. It's our duty.

The complete success, in our opinion, is to make a cartridge videogame that needs just a msx machine (ANY msx machine, in this unique case) to be enjoyed.

So you buy the game and insert it on your msx. And you can play it completely. Including all features, as SCC music.
No need to own a previous scc cartridge.

To make a long story short, we chose to develop complete products in the way any software company would do.

(when you pay you expect serious stuff, don't you? we do!)

About a new youtube video to show a little bit of the first generation version, just wait! It's comin' very, very soon.
We're working on it and want to get it ready asap.

Thanks to everybody for the feedback.

(u goonie?)

By hap

Paragon (1101)

06-06-2009, 11:47

Can we order fridge magnets from Sprite Girls online?

By Ivan

Scribe (1354)

06-06-2009, 11:59

Meanwhile we can listen to some Goonies music

: YouTube link

By Huey

Paragon (1436)

06-06-2009, 14:31

Meanwhile we can listen to some Goonies music : YouTube link

Even better. Going to start the real movie now

By Imanok

Champion (436)

06-06-2009, 17:18

Can we order fridge magnets from Sprite Girls online?
Sure!... email them here:

sprite [dot] girls [at] gmail [dot] com

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1311)

06-06-2009, 19:49

Meanwhile we can listen to some Goonies music

Hey, a strange promotional video for new msx game!!!

And it comes with real actors, must have been expensive!!

Where you got all those Cyndi Lauper and Goonies look-a-likes, they look exactly just like real 1985 Cyndi Lauper and Goonies!!!!!

By Alex

Master (133)

08-06-2009, 22:11

How about putting a small fpga on the cartridge and program an SCC into it? In that way, you can make as many cartridges with the game and with an SCC as you want.

By muffie

Hero (636)

08-06-2009, 22:45

I agree with the complete product policy. But, just for curiosity, it's not possible to use other sound chips? You're disassembling konami carts to get scc chips?

By Ivan

Scribe (1354)

08-06-2009, 23:13

You're disassembling konami carts to get scc chips?I doubt they are disassembling Konami cartridges... Read here!

By Huey

Paragon (1436)

10-06-2009, 16:15

Goonies R good enough MSX1 (!!!!) version video here

By cidra

Expert (115)

10-06-2009, 16:23

Nice work.

Waiting to buy it...

By MrSpock

Expert (79)

10-06-2009, 20:13

Not only the MSX1 version, there are some new musics! At least, I didn't heard them on the previous (MSX2) video.

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1311)

10-06-2009, 21:15

It sounded and looked like music changes everytime you change Goonie, is there own musical track for every Goonie?

I was waiting to hear PSG tunes also and when there wasn´t one in MSX1 video, I meant to ask about PSG soundtrack, but since you revealed that there is SCC chip inside every cartridge, I guess there is no PSG soundtrack (except maybe PSG is part of SCC soundtrack?

). No, that is not a bad thing, but it just feel bit strange, MSX1 game which has music (and it is not Konami game) but there is NO PSG tunes. I, like others too, have learned to hear PSG!

And now, no matter are you Kralizec guy or somebody else, please don´t get me wrong, I just wanna say, that I feel it somewhat very strange, as game is based on 1985 american movie, starring ordinary looking american kids and american bad guys, and this new game shows 1985AD american kids and baddies as 2000AD trendy spike haired japanese techno kids. It looks very strange to me.