Support SDL2

[MiyanoOsu]

Is miyoo cfw support SDL2? I make Raw (Another World) play able in miyoo cfw, but it not run. This game using Sdl2 opengl.

[MiyanoOsu]

I check code and everything is fine, but game load sound without images, i also run test on my machine lubuntu, it run fine at 320x240. Does miyoo cfw not support opengl?

[TriForceX]

Miyoo devices are sdl 1.2, also the consoles doesnt have dedicated video or openGL support,

[Rezzy-dev]

Hmm... 🤔 It's also a lazy port:

Since the Genesis is based on a 68000, a lot of the code from the Atari ST version could be re-used to implement the VM.

Compared to the Atari ST, the only optimization seems to be in the implementation of COPY which now uses movem instruction. The performance gain is unclear (5%?).

They just took the Atari ST code, and slapped it on a Genesis cartridge. They didn't worry much about actually porting (rewriting)/optimising the game.

And, for the first time, here's the reason why Another World was renamed to Out of This World in the U.S.: 😃

For the North American release, Interplay was concerned customers would be confused with Another World, the TV series. The game was renamed "Out Of This World" for this market. Amusingly a TV series also named "Out Of This World" came out in 1991 but too late to change the game name again.

Silly publisher! 😝

[Rezzy-dev]

Did player of the time really care?

This is a very good point. It wouldn't have been all that noticable on TVs of the time. You would have just a tiny extra black bar at the top and bottom, and on the sides:

Not enough to complain about then, or to even notice on most TVs.

[Rezzy-dev]

But I've noticed something! In all these screenshots, the games are stretched to the full size of the screen, whereas in PicoDrive (and Mednafen) this is not happening. I'm guessing this is because they relied on the TV making this stretching happen, when it received the smaller video signal/resolution. Which, again, is a lazy implementation -- with not much thought given to how things will work with different hardware, in the future.

These are not very good ports. A sloppy porting job. Bad Sega titles.

Another World and Flashback still play on the PC best -- they provide the most wholesome experience there.

[Apaczer]

Another world now run well on sdl1.2!! yayta

TY for this port of AW, to celebrate I've scraped 2 fontigrid icons!

P.S. I wouldn't share those data files so easly, better leave them blank and let others dig them on internet by themself. Anyway good job and I see you have used Fabiens game interpreter (author of above articles), what a dedication from him!

[Rezzy-dev]

So this native port uses the full screen of the Miyoo? ^_^ (I guess this answers my question,)