Mass Destruction / マス デストラクション (Sega Saturn) Campaign 1/Mission 1

Quick play of 1st Mission from Mass Destruction for Sega Saturn.

Mission-based overhead 3D shooting game.

UPDATE :
got contacted by one of the game's former developers, correcting my initial 30 fps statement and providing me with some interesting informations:

"Hi, someone sent me a link to this, and I just thought I'd point out your comment about the game running at a solid 30 fps is slightly off. I wrote the Saturn version, and it ran at a constant 60 fps. The PSX version could only manage 30 fps though.

The Saturn version got the extra performance from having some custom hardware that really helped that particular game. The terrain was displayed much like Mode7 on the SNES, ie a scroll screen that could have a perspective transformation to display it at the correct viewpoint to match the polygonal display drawn over it. It wasn't tiled by the hardware though, I used the bitmap mode, and dumped the tile data in 2 strips, to update the horizontal and vertical edges. Since the scroll screen wrapped round in both directions, it gave a seamless scrolling landscape.

The PSX had to draw the terrain as a grid of polygons, and so was forced to run at 30 fps due to the limited rendering power of that console generation. Without the scroll screen hardware, the Saturn version would also have been stuck at that frame rate.

The game was written almost completely in C, with a few SH2 assembler functions to handle the update of the scroll screen data in the vertical blank. This was the first game I'd written in C at that point, everything prior I'd done in assembler. I used the SGL libraries, as these were far more capable than the SBL libs that were initially available.

The Saturn hardware also allowed me to have parts of the scene reflected in the water, by drawing the reflected geometry inverted and using various priority/blending settings in VDP2 to combine the frame buffer and scroll screens.

As for programming the Saturn now, I'm sure you'd find the stuff available on the web will cover any of it admirably.

This was my only Saturn game, after that I moved on to various crappy projects on the PSX, and then PC."

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[arkaros0]

i am srry but that looks like a sucky game

[realcatgirllover]

PLZ GTFO ^_^

[Skiddla]

i remember that gamne it pwns

[CrimsonMist]

Damn that looks like an awesome game :D

[GuerillaContra]

Good times, loved the game. Always picked the "Cobra" tank.

[Da1shocker]

One of the rare Saturn 3rd part game that is better than it's PSx counterparts.

[saturndual32]

@MoonCrashed Well, there is Powerslave, Duke Nukem 3D, Grandia, Hexen, Thunderstrike 2 and most 2d stuff. But as we all know usually 3d multiplatform games were better on PS1. One of the reasons games like Mass Destruction and Grandia were better on Saturn was because they used the VDP2 to generate most of the terrain in the game instead of generating the whole of it with polygons, like PS1 had to do. If you got creative with the Saturn quirky hardware, it payed off...

[MoonCrashed]

@saturndual32

Just curious, but what are some other Saturn/PS games that came up on top on the Saturn?

[RaveIndustrial]

Hell yeah, one of the best games i've played on my Saturn!

[TwaletBrush]

Hi there, those ol'school boys who like this game like me; the pc version is 13,3Mb(!!!) check for abandonware websites, but there is also a similar and better looking free game named Crimson Road... at gametop . com

cheers

[gamesDAMNED]

This video game looks FANTASTIC on my Sony HD Trinitron. It's glorious to see games running in Saturn's hi-res mode. Kudos to the skilled programmers for all their dedication and hard work.

[behindyourtrouble]

such a trip watching this, i loved this game

[SHITTYBOYBOY]

aaahh.... the good'ol games.... the nostalgic feeling....

[Mr0life]

haha I had this thing on PC, it was so awesome