Another PCE Rarity: The HuVideo Sampler SCD

[Bt Garner]

This is a Sample SCD made by Nimai Malle (or at least he made parts of it).  It has about a dozen (or so) HuVideo clips, and a Dr Mario Clone (Malle-O).  At least one of the clips (STADIUM) ended up as the opening to John Madden Football ....yup, that was HuVideo too.

Here is a youtube video I made of it.  You can even see my reflection in some of the shots because I'm too lazy/tired to re-shoot it and upload it.  Besides, it is close to Halloween.

[DragonmasterDan]

Nice, definitely a cool tech demo. I also like the chicks apparently in the bathtub at the start.

This was being done as a Super CD?

[Bt Garner]

Nice, definitely a cool tech demo. I also like the chicks apparently in the bathtub at the start.

This was being done as a Super CD?

The ladies in the opening are in a hot tub, and yes it's a Super CD (SCD).  In the menu you can see where it says "2Mbit System."

[PunkCryborg]

Wow thanks for sharing this! There's some cool stuff for sure on that disk. The Dr Mario game is pretty hilarious too. Was that a playable game or just a demo video?

[Bt Garner]

Wow thanks for sharing this! There's some cool stuff for sure on that disk. The Dr Mario game is pretty hilarious too. Was that a playable game or just a demo video?

Playable game.  You can see that I suck at it.

[ccovell]

Very cool tech demo -- Nimai Malle was obviously talented, but stuck working by himself, maybe?

The idol in the video was the then-popular Rieko Miura:

[PunkCryborg]

I'd love to play some Dr Mario on my PCE even if it's called Mr Malle-o

[LostFlunky]

Very nice! Thanks for sharing!  Really shows what a difference HuVideo could have made for Sherlock Holmes...

[Bt Garner]

At one point I emailed Nimai Malle about this SCD, and he was surprised that it had made it "out of Hudson."  I forget exactly what it was that I was asking him about, or what his reply was (pre-dates my gmail account), may have to search through older email archives).

[Bt Garner]

I found the old emails ... I was asking him about "Compressed Sprite Format," -- I think this is mentioned somewhere in the Hu7 manuals, so I wanted to see if he had any info, he did not, and he also consulted one of the guys from the Bomberman 93 dev team, who also denied such a thing.

[Sadler]

Very cool! Looks quite impressive! I wonder how much (if at all) this differs from later huvideo like Gulliver Boy. Thank you for sharing!

[Keith Courage]

Man, that 4th video of flying around in first person actually looked really good. They should have made a game like that.

[hizaygizirlz]

that was neat

[LostFlunky]

Man, that 4th video of flying around in first person actually looked really good. They should have made a game like that.

I would wondr if there is any horsepower left to do game graphics with video like that and at that size. 

That video reminded me of Pyramid Intruder on the 3DO.

[Bernie]

That is insane that that is running on the Duo.  Thanks for sharing!!  Any chance you would rip it and share it?

[Bardoly]

So, where can another one of these be acquired?

I would love to be able to play Dr. Mario on my Duo.

Thanks for showing us this!

[Bt Garner]

So, where can another one of these be acquired?

I would love to be able to play Dr. Mario on my Duo.

I have never seen, nor heard any mention of any other copies of this floating around.  Not saying they don't exist, but as for sources, I can offer no help there, sorry.

[esteban]

At one point I emailed Nimai Malle about this SCD, and he was surprised that it had made it "out of Hudson."  I forget exactly what it was that I was asking him about, or what his reply was (pre-dates my gmail account), may have to search through older email archives).

Thanks for going back and scouring those ancient email files

I have a question for you: the sprite compression you were inquiring about... does that have anything to do with the compression technique that NEC referred to as "NID" during trade shows? I remember reading about NID, but I always assumed that it was never implemented in PCE hardware (perhaps PC-FX...), and was a lossy .jpg-esque sort of thing.

Thanks in advance .

[turbokon]

That is insane that that is running on the Duo.  Thanks for sharing!!  Any chance you would rip it and share it?

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.

[Bt Garner]

At one point I emailed Nimai Malle about this SCD, and he was surprised that it had made it "out of Hudson."  I forget exactly what it was that I was asking him about, or what his reply was (pre-dates my gmail account), may have to search through older email archives).

Thanks for going back and scouring those ancient email files

I have a question for you: the sprite compression you were inquiring about... does that have anything to do with the compression technique that NEC referred to as "NID" during trade shows? I remember reading about NID, but I always assumed that it was never implemented in PCE hardware (perhaps PC-FX...), and was a lossy .jpg-esque sort of thing.

The emails were from 8 years ago, and although I do not have a copy of what I wrote, I am pretty sure that the sprite compression stuff is mentioned in the Hu7 docs (may need to grab those and re-check), or possible the published notes from the Hudson Developer's Conference (1990 time range).

[NecroPhile]

Pretty neato, thanks for sharing the video. 

[SuperPlay]

Interesting post :-) Thanks for sharing the video.

[JoshTurboTrollX]

great video BT, thanks for sharing!