[game_preservation] AMAZING collection of E3 '95 videos!

[Captain Commando]

Well, I was able to locate an e-mail of Robyn Miller through his blog. (
http://www.tinselman.com/ ). I sent him an e-mail about the video, so will
just have to wait and see what he says. I won't be too surprised if I don't
hear anything back though.

RE: FMV games: I am continually surprised at how nobody is making the
connection between DVD games and FMV games, both of which are the exact same
concept (only DVD has much better resolution and much more storage space). I
read an article once in a DiGRA magazine that talked about DVD games but did
not make the connection. Sega-16 also has a great article reviewing a lot of
FMV games. Are there credits listed anywhere for these interactive video DVD
games? I'd like to see if anyone who worked on FMV games is making DVD games
today.

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org>
wrote:


>  Good info Mike, I wish I was more into codecs to understand it, although

> I get the gist of how it works (I've been on that site randomly I swear too,

> I was looking up obscure formats once). I'll add it up on the preservation

> site's links, it'd be of high interest to some people, obviously.

>

> One thing I still need to get used to is meGUI for encoding H264 video

> files, although I've got a substitute (StaxRip) that works okay for now. The

> only good encoder I've ever used was Windows WMV9 one, sigh :)

>

> For this stuff it needs something that reads everything (meGUI hates FRAPs

> files it seems, which was my test file - something rather integral to it :-)

> ), and outputs good H264 and AAC. If only!

>

> If you ever do upload to the archive anyone; the original file can go up

> regardless of what type it is (good for anyone who wants the source

> unaltered), while if you are able to re-encode it in the appropriate

> quality, H264 and AAC audio is a good choice. If you ever find a good

> encoder which doesn't need text scripts to run, post it :-)

>

> Andrew

>

>

> Mike Melanson wrote:

>

> Andrew Armstrong wrote:

>

>

>  I'll note these down and check to see if I can find the companies who

> own the copyrights.

>

> (This is an excellent example of why the things need preserving in the

> first place, if a lot of these are done by now defunct companies, haha).

>

>

>  According to my notes in a blog post:

> http://games.multimedia.cx/quantum-gate/

>

> the key points are:

>

> * Quantum Gate by Hyperbole Studios

> * Greg Roach was in charge

> * Website ( http://www.hyperbole.com/ ) has not been updated since 2002

>

>

>

>  Also; forgot to mention, you implemented the FFMPEG reader for the Sega

> Saturn (and possibly used in other things) video file format, that's

> totally awesome :-) will make checking out them a lot easier, so thanks :-)

>

>

>  And I should probably mention that I love researching and hacking on

> obscure multimedia formats, and documenting them in a wiki, especially

> when they come from old FMV-heavy games. I pretty much wrote the book on

> the Sega CPK format:

>

>   http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Sega_FILM

>

> No FMV format is too obscure! :) So if you have any making-of videos

> that are encoded in a game's own custom, proprietary format, there is

> hope. There are bunch of weirdos like me who enjoy figuring this stuff

> out. Here are the game formats we know about (a bunch are supported in

> FFmpeg):

>

>   http://wiki.multimedia.cx/index.php?title=Category:Game_Formats

>

> And if you know of other formats, do let me know.

>

>

>

>

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