Dolmexica Infinite

Hi! How i can build web platform, help me please

I'll try to go into more detail:

1. Download the Dolmexica Infinite Make-your-own-game kit for Dreamcast
2. Extract it to a folder. For the purpose of this tutorial, I will assume the kit is under C:\dolmexica\dreamcastkit
3. Open the command prompt. Tthe command prompt is opened like any other program. Under windows 10, you would hit the windows key, enter command prompt and then select the program. The only issue here could be that the command prompt is called differently in different languages, for example, the German version is called Eingabeaufforderung. If all else fails, you can press the windows key + R and then enter cmd in the window that pops up.

4.  Next, you change the directory to the place where the dreamcastkit is by entering cd C:\dolmexica\dreamcastkit (this should be the folder where your make_cdi.bat is, if you have it somewhere else). If there are spaces in your path, you have to add "" around your path, like cd "C:\dolmexica\dreamcastkit"

The tutorial was too long, so I have to split it into multiple parts, it will continue below.

5. This is where the command I mentioned before comes in. If you now type make_cdi.bat CD_NAME CdiName, a CDI will be created based on the files in the assets folder. Modifying the assets works analogously to how it works in Mugen, here is a good tutorial on that: https://mugenarchive.com/forums/showthread.php?210-Tutorial-How-to-Add-Characters-to-your-Mugen-roster . There are things to remember when making games for the Dreamcast, most importantly the memory limits. The Dreamcast has very limited memory compared to modern computers, so make sure to pick characters that fit. From my experience, characters with a 5MB sprite file represent the very upper limit of what you should put in. I'd probably go with 4MB as an upper limit to be sure, since there are also other factors, like the size of the statemachine playing in. Finally, you have to make sure your CD_NAME is not too long. If that is too long, the creation of the CDI will fail. That being said, the command should look something like this (replace CD_NAME and CdiName with the name you want your CD to have and the name you want the output cdi to have respectively):

Once again, I had to split it up, the next steps are in the next comment.

5. (continued)

This will start the cdi creation process, which will look something like this:

(Will be continued, itch really doesn't like large images)

5. (continued): This will also create a CdiName.cdi in the dreamcastkit folder, this is what it looks like in the example:

6. The final step is burning the CDI to a disc. This works like with all other Dreamcast cdi images if you have experience with that. For burning those, you generally use Padus Discjuggler. The trial version is available here: https://legacy.padus.com/downloads/demo.php . It supports everything you need to burn CDs, so that can be used. The Padus site seems to be timing out right now, so I'd like to mention that an alternative to Discjuggler is ImgBurn (https://www.imgburn.com/) which also supports CDI files. I can't give an in-depth tutorial for that since I have never used it though, so the tutorial will continue with Discjuggler.

7. After clicking away the various messages, click the New symbol in the upper left corner:

8. Select Burn disc image from the list that comes up:

9. Click on the source button to select the CDI you want to burn.

9. (continued): After selecting the CDI you created earlier, it should look something like this:

10. The final step is starting the burning process. Make sure you have inserted a blank CD-R in your drive and press the Start button. It is greyed out in the image because I don't have a blank CD-R right now, but in your case it should be clickable:

It is generally a good idea to set the writing speed as slow as possible to avoid disc errors.

11. Wait until the burning has finished and put the CD-R in your Dreamcast. If everything works out, you should see a little message on the licensed by Sega screen and the game will start afterwards.

That was pretty much as in-detail as I could make it, I hope it helps!

Great, it deleted most of my images. Will fix real quick.

Edit: Done fixing the images, I never knew how terrible the itch commenting stuff could be. Will probably change this comment section to forum-style with the next demo.

I think I understand what the issue is here: The make_cdi.bat is supposed to be used with the command line, if you just click it, it will flash then immediately close itself. It is supposed to use with its parameters like this:

There will be a version with a proper GUI in either Demo 15 or 16, but I still haven't started work on that yet, so I can't tell when that will be included. Sorry that the README was unclear on that, I have added the fact that it needs to be started from the command line to the Demo 15 version.

Now in Portuguese with Google Translate (probably pretty wrong, but I hope the general meanings come through, I'm not actually sure if it is even Portuguese in the original question, looks like it could be Spanish too, I'm sorry, please blame Google Translate autodetect):

Acho que entendi qual é o problema: O make_cdi.bat deve ser usado com a linha de comando; se você clicar nele, ele piscará e imediatamente se fechará. É suposto usar com seus parâmetros como este:

Haverá uma versão com uma GUI adequada na Demo 15 ou 16, mas ainda não comecei a trabalhar nisso ainda, portanto não sei dizer quando isso será incluído. Lamentamos que o README não tenha sido esclarecido, mas acrescentei que ele precisa ser iniciado na linha de comando para a versão Demo 15.

Suave Dude, the character included with the current demo, has a few special input attacks (using the default keys to indicate weak kick/strong kick):

• High Kick: Forward, Down, Down-Forward, then A or S or A+S
• Dude Kick: Down, Down-Forward, Forward, then A or S or A+S
• Air straight kick (while in Air): Down, Down-Back, Back, then A or S or A+S
• Triple Dude Kick (Power bar must be at least 1): Down, Down-Forward, Forward, Down, Down-Forward, Forward, then A or S
• Smash Dude Slash (Power bar must be at least 1): Down, Down-Back, Back, Down, Down-Back, Back, then A or S

Yeah, that should be the way to go. Did you try it with the Windows version? Maybe the Dreamcast version ran out of memory. Other than that, unlike the original Mugen, the Dreamcast version is picky with upper/lower case filenames. So if the original character creator didn't pay attention to that in the .def file, the character might crash.

If it also crashes in the Windows version, that's some error in the interpreter. On that note, I'm sorry about the lack of error output (e.g. infos  about what went wrong, etc.), I'll add that in the next version. If you don't mind, could you tell me which character crashed so I can take a look too? 

Official pro-tier indefensible ranking as generally accepted by everyone as signed in the Sega home console treaty of '68:

Dreamcast > Mega Drive > Saturn = Master System > CD > 32X > SG1000 though it may be good, but how will we ever find out.

The CD thing reminds me that I wanted to add SD card support later down the line, so you only need to burn the disc once and then read characters and all that dynamic stuff from the SD card. Though I guess technically, you could just start the game from the SD adapter then and do away with CD-Rs altogether.

So I guess the web version ignores my plea for 60 frames per second. Proper handling of variable fps is something I'll have to tackle in the future anyway, for the five TVs left in the world who only run in 50Hz.  The other games had 50Hz support, but since Mugen relies so much on integer frame values, I've removed it from this one. Of course only until it's all properly sorted out™. 

For me the jam pages still have comments: https://itch.io/jam/agdg-demo-day-19/rate/220871. Does it not show the comment stuff for you? Either way, thanks for risking life and limb outside of the safety of the jam page to share your experience with the demo!