A Prototype Of The Cancelled SNES RPG SpellCraft Has Been Preserved

It's a little [a lot] annoying that SNES gets mostly a bunch of old half-baked stuff like this in modern times, and Genesis gets literally tens of brand new and often quite brilliant games released for it.

And, yeah, it's cool to preserve and archive these old games, but, man, I just want to see some new SNES games that properly take advantage of the hardware in modern times. There's so much untapped potential there waiting to be tapped.

I'm so annoyed that I literally went away and took no more than a few hours to create some SNES-spec assets that could be used on a potential port of Symphony of the Night, just to show what would be possible on the system:

https://youtu.be/cEfJybDpSOI

That's just a single background layer running in Mode 3 at 8bpp 256-colour. And you wouldn't want to make a full game like that, as it's a bit too memory intensive, but it just goes to show that you can get a nigh-on perfect visual representation of the PlayStation game on SNES, at least in terms of the colours and tiles and the like.

Now all it needs is for someone to take it and code it to run directly on the SNES. And, honestly, at this stage it doesn't need to be any more complex than my little test, which, like I said, took me a few hours to put together in GameMaker 8.1. Pigsy's tests of Symphony of the Night on Genesis started off no more advanced, probably even less so, so this is a perfectly good starting point to even just think about a SNES version.

I've contacted a few SNES programmers to see if they'd at least be willing to hack this to run on the system, so let's see what comes of that.

PS. The other stuff in the video is a bunch of 8bbp 256-colour images that would also use the standard features of Mode 3 to produce some gorgeous quality images, and some shump tests that use Mode 0 to take full advantage of the full four background layers that SNES unique offers in this mode (these ones have actually been coded to run on SNES by some talented SNES programmers for me, and they were tested just to make sure everything is a legit representation of the system's capabilities).

And I'm not even a SNES programmers, so wouldn't it be nice to see what the SNES dev community could do if it actually started making some more stuff for the system, and specifically stuff created with the intention of making it shine.