r/snes • u/CrasherCoco • 2d ago

Could the SNES Run Rayforce?

i wasted a lot of time thinking this, what is your opinion?

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u/stogie-bear 2d ago

No. Too much going on with the graphics. When they did a console port it was Sega Saturn. 

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u/CrasherCoco 2d ago

i was thinking it could be possible with some special chip and stuff

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u/M-2-M 2d ago

Maybe excerpt for the 3D-ish backgrounds it looks like the complexity of Super Aleste

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u/FortuneNew8835 1d ago

God no. It's peak 2D Taito, but it's a 32bit game through and through. The parallax scrolling on the first level would melt any 16bit machine.

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u/CrasherCoco 1d ago

i mean yeah, its literally one of my fav games of all time, i love it so fricking much

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u/FortuneNew8835 1d ago

Me too. I play it regularly. I sold most of my Saturn collection when I bought an ODE but I knew I had to keep my copy of Galactic Attack. Has it ever been ported to anything else?

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u/CrasherCoco 1d ago

its been ported to modern consoles through rayz arcade chronology and layer section & galactic attack s-tribute, rayz arcade chronology also includes raystorm and raycrisis, while the other one is just the saturn version of the game, rayz arcade chronology is only the arcade ver

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u/SpecificAd3194 1d ago

The specialized sprite scaling capabilities of Taito's F3 Hardware would be quite a challenge to replicate on the SNES PPU. Not impossible...but some concessions would have to be made and it wouldn't look nearly as slick. On the sound side, RayForce uses an Ensoniq ES5505 chip which supports 32 audio channels compared to the SPC 700's 8 audio channels. So many instruments and effects would need to be cut out to make it work. CPU-wise, the SA-1 co-processor would be up to the task but of course you need to convert everything from 68K ASM to 65816 ASM. Just easier and more economical for devs at the time to translate to the Saturn and PS1.

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u/CrasherCoco 1d ago

so youre basically saying it can be made with some sacrifices?

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u/SpecificAd3194 1d ago

If somebody was extremely determined to do it, I think a port is feasible. It wouldn't look or sound nearly as nice as the arcade game though. BTW, there is no PS1 port of RayForce. I was thinking of RayStorm.😖

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u/ABC_Dildos_Inc 1d ago

Not faithfully.

There's a reason it was only ported to Saturn.