Gunstar Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 What ever happened to Reboot's fixing of the Soul Star corrupted beta? is this still happening? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh3-rg Posted July 13, 2012 Report Share Posted July 13, 2012 Not actively. The game works and can be played all the way through (as CJ & Neo have done with the trainer mode active). But the corrupted videos need some attention to do the game justice - every corrupt frame needs touching up by hand. There's a few way to do this including reverse engineering the cinepak video end re-encoding it, or what Neo tried to do - capture it and edit it (results are obviously lossy). By far the best way would be to capture the footage using an emulator. VJ CD emulation is something that shamus will get around to looking at in time. Once VJ is up to the task, there's still a lot of work to be done by whoever is brave enough to hand-fix all those videos with glitchy graphics (the audio is not a problem, we've seen to that) but I think Neo & myself would give it a go. Maybe by the time that is all done there will be some kind of jagcd replacement device using SD cards or similar and the game won't just crap out 'cause it's running from CD-R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted July 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 So there's no chance of it being released with what has been done? It's got to be better than the corrupted version I've got, which by the way I've made it well past corrupted areas, I think to mission 8, IIRC, but I'd sure love something better than what I've got. I don't care so much about the FMV anyway, I just skip it. There are plenty of Jag games out there with problems now, like Skyhammer for example, yet it got released anyway, and I'm very happy it was released as-is rather than not. In fact, I'm an artist myself and would be more than happy to help going through it frame-by-frame to fix it. Though while I do have the talent and will, I probably don't have the tools to help. In any case, thanks for the answer...guess I'll go play what I have again and hope it's the 25% of the time I can get past the bad areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh3-rg Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 No, if they do anything with it, it won't be a half-arsed thing - it'll be a 99-100% thing or nothing I expect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrano Jones Posted July 14, 2012 Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 The game is fixed 100% other than the two player mode, as sh3 said above, we're waiting on the video being cleaned up. Ultimately it is Neo's call as to if it gets released or not - but if/when it does it most certainly won't be an incomplete beta. You'll be getting the full game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunstar Posted July 14, 2012 Author Report Share Posted July 14, 2012 The game is fixed 100% other than the two player mode, as sh3 said above, we're waiting on the video being cleaned up. Ultimately it is Neo's call as to if it gets released or not - but if/when it does it most certainly won't be an incomplete beta. You'll be getting the full game. I definately appreciate that, except for the "if" part, since I'd rather have something than nothing. I doubt I'll ever have an opportunity to play two player mode either...here's to hoping it gets done, and if not you guys decide to release the "improved" version in years to come. Thanks for the update. At least I have something and know some tricks to bypass some bad parts and get to later levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXG/MNX Posted September 10, 2013 Report Share Posted September 10, 2013 Did NEO fix the Soulstar or is he still busy fixing the video part ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sh3-rg Posted September 10, 2013 Report Share Posted September 10, 2013 Did NEO fix the Soulstar or is he still busy fixing the video part ? he's busy with extracurricular activities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saturn Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 Hi, just wanted to offer my assistance in any way I could be of help. I'd like to see this game released too and since I literally do nothing all day at work but play Starfighter on 3DO, I thought I'd throw my name in the hat in case there was something I could do. Kudos for the effort on Soulstar! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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