Star Dust Wars is the New Star Wars Game You WANT to Play!

[@thorr2]

The bats are mynocks inside the giant asteroid monster from Empire Strikes Back.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haha thanks for answering. I did not know

[@Vospi]

Oh my god, this is insane. I don't even know a thing about Amiga, but it still looks SO stylish.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s a vibe and I’m there for it

[@aliceinmansonland448]

This AND a Sega Genesis/Megadrive/Nomad Holiday Special?!? The force is STRONG this Christmas!😁 Excellent video!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haha glad you enjoyed. Happy holidays

[@kosmosyche]

This reminds me of Rebel Assault.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def feels at least partially inspired by

[@KyleReeseCel2029]

The amount of detail on this is crazy for a homebrew. Impressive.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s def a tech showcase graphically

[@Mike-B-Jackson]

Oh wow! This looks good even for an on-rails FMV shooter! I remember playing Megarace (an on-rails FMV racer) when I was a kid, back when I was too young to realize or understand that it was all pre-rendered, and all I thought was how much better it looked than other games at the time. This reminds me of that and I love it!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Megarace was awesome. Basically felt like The Running Man

[@JustinCherriman]

The title Star Dust Wars is 100% relating to the 3D bonus stages of Super Stardust AGA Amiga A1200 and Amiga CD32 games. I wonder if they used the same engine? Really impressive!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Ooh good info. I am not versed in Amiga

[@ianfisch7289]

Oh my god are we just gonna forget about the Rebel Assault games completely? They were exactly like this, except they actually looked good.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

lol all that grump on Xmas day?

[@GreyMatterShades]

I love that compressed FMV style! This game looks great. I'd love to see a Sega CD version.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Sega CD 32X version ala Doom Resurrection would be fun

[@jamiec2023]

Merry Christmas and Amiga new year!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

A very Amiga Christmas indeed.

[@Idelacio]

Fmv games have been done : Timegal was ported in 2017 and originally there were the dragon's lair and Space Ace games. Not downplaying this, they've also got a cool motion parrallax look that is an optical illusion caused by the overlaid sprites over panned video.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

But remember the Amiga files are like 3MB each. It’s not just fmv

[@Idelacio]

@VideoGameEsoterica the first dragons lair is only 2mb, mostly by keeping the animation and color data down. :p The gameboy color version is 2.5mb and is arguably more impressive than the amiga one. :3 Iridium 2 on the gba does something most similar to this game, albeit at higher fidelity with still only 8mb and a much gruntier system. Impressive technique there, even more so on the Amiga!

[@martinh4982]

Imagine 700 Mb on an A1200, it would ship with 800+ floppies!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haha it could be a couple. At least three. Maybe 700+

[@garyoneil9791]

This was worth waiting for when you said you were uploading a Star Wars video. What a Christmas present, thanks! I wonder if I can get this on my real 1200... I think my CF card is 4Gb. If not, mister it is!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Should work fine from what I’ve heard :)

[@ElectroCurmudgeon]

this is really cool. its amazing to me someone can go and create somthing like this.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It def an impressive project

[@BrianLamtman]

Disney sucks. They destroyed StarWars. Disney needs to go to hell. I hate that company. George Lucas was stupid for selling it to Disney.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I don’t think anyone loves Disney. Not even Disney loves Disney haha

[@MarginalSC]

I suppose the closest thing would be Dragon's Lair. Maybe Wing Commander, but that's a different beast entirely.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def diff

[@Bijuklich]

looks crazy, thanks for the video and info

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Happy to do it. Merry Christmas

[@Bijuklich]

@@VideoGameEsoterica Merry Christmas to you too

[@GzegzolkaDA]

Nice video, I have played earlier version of that game, it was shorter and more like a tech demo. Now I think I will back to it if only I have some spare time. And maybe Star Wars arcade on model 3 too because it was also awesome.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Model 3 SW is just 10/10

[@tangreen7267]

Impressive. Most impressive.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def a visual treat

[@tangreen7267]

@@VideoGameEsoterica , I like the way it looks. I don't want to take anything away from it, but, I would enjoy anyone coming out and explaining it from the dev team or someone reporting how this was achieved. Yes, it shouldn't matter, it looks great, no problem, there, but enquiring minds want to know. 😀

[@damn5987]

Is the music meant to come out of the left speaker, and the laser sfx the right?

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

That’s how it captured. So maybe?

[@damn5987]

@@VideoGameEsoterica OK, that's how it is with the Vampire version on PC I tested also. Bit weird, will take some getting used to. Now all I need is to be able to run CRT filers via reshade or similar, and I'm set.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I almost stereo paired it in Resolve but I left it as I found it so people knew it was “the norm”

[@SianaGearz]

Mhm best double check that two of the channels didn't get dropped. Amiga has 4 wave sampler channels panned like this: left right right left. If a game or something has mono sound and can make do with 2 channels, it can just replicate the first channel to the third and the second to the fourth to un-hardpan it. Though in case game actually need to hardware mix 4 channels... well many people play Amiga in mono sum because otherwise... yeah.

[@damn5987]

@@SianaGearz Thanks, I changed the config of the Emu from stereo to mono, and the audio is central. Did the trick.

[@AllyStar877]

I’ve barely used any of the computer cores on miSTer. Someday perhaps.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Same. I use X68000. Not much else

[@fv_ys_]

PRO TIP - playback speed 1.75

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

6.9 speed

[@DirtyDelay]

I order 66 speed

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

🤣

[@mikeuk666]

420 speed

[@mrburns366]

88 Mph! 😊

[@bringbackmy90s]

So many of Lord Vader's Fighters out there ! )

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Couple two tree

[@ciaranmccarthy]

Please do a video on Pyron's demo of the Batman Returns port to the Mega Drive.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s on my list 👍

[@eebobobo2565]

Doesn’t really make sense it running any quicker on the A1200. As standard, it’s the same specification as the CD32, minus the optical drive. Unless it’s being used with the A1200 specced as running one of the higher end 68000 variants.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

You can up spec on MiSTer

[@ankhenaten2]

That looks so good it could be a 2024 phone game

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Haha this is true

[@alceearsberry4150]

That's incredible they were able to do that with such ancient hardware is there any way to play this on Android with an emulator Merry Christmas

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It works via emulation yes. Merry Christmas

[@DaveRepairs]

FMV was an addon cartidge for the CD32, this when Amiga was made for the home to take on Playstation but didn't really work... its very nice, first time I seen it.... Amiga is very impressive however from a programming point of view its not really showing the Amiga at the best, see the Demoscene as in UK and Germany each year we have 'Revision' and 'Nova' parties where people make demos maxing out the hardware.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Well yes the demo scene is doing things with Amiga that are wild.

[@METR0lD]

So what you're saying is that this is a dust play game.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

lol what does that even mean?

[@spidervenom14]

fr fr no cap

[@METR0lD]

You need to get on my level! dust play must play!

[@SianaGearz]

Reminds me of Iridion 3D on the GBA. OK that was not a great game, but it was a great looking game. Iridion II in turn is really good, and looks amazing, but it's a completely different style of gameplay. The first one is rail shooter with this type of behind view, and the second one is like a perspective top-down view. Both are based on prerendered graphics and animation loops. Obviously not FMV due to space constraint. Prettiest Amiga game? Agony. Not sure i can recommend it though. And of course Another World but you know that one from all the other systems. Oh here's a WEIRD suggestion, Metal Mutant. Maybe GODS. Oh also why not check out The Lost Vikings while at it.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Another World is always pretty no matter the platform. Such an iconic visual design

[@lasersnake]

This looks cool as FUCK

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Def give it a play

[@SuperEarther]

best looking game on the amiga? moon stone!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

I’ll have to check it out

[@AKUMA-KILLER]

It reminds me of Pyramid Intruder...

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Very similar vibes. Same with Night Striker

[@chrisbent5734]

This is insane.

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

It’s quite the fun technical showcase

[@spidervenom14]

Insane in the brain!

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Insane in the membrane?

[@DissociatedWomenIncorporated]

“I find your lack of licensing disturbing…”

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

🤣

[@aquapendulum]

There's no way "Star Dust" isn't a reference to Rogue One - the only movie in Disney canon that Star Wars fans don't hate. Rogue One establishes canonically that the project to construct the Death Star is called "Project Stardust".

[@VideoGameEsoterica]

Ahh could be? I’m not versed in Star Wars at all outside of video games

[@spidervenom14]

Plenty of Star Wars fans HATE Rogue One lol

[@damn5987]

@@spidervenom14 It's the highest rated outside of the Original Trilogy. That's also where I fall. If you remove nostalgia, it may be my favourite, who knows.

[@Tamacat388]

Plenty didnt like. Has way too much bad prequel habits. The ending act is like the most high budget fan film youve ever seen. But I think Andor is causing people to view it in a much better light after the fact.

[@garyoneil9791]

Ther was an ST/Amiga game Stardust that used a background texture scrolling effect on the Warp levels that looks very similar to the effect used here. The guy who developed it is active on the VCS still making Atari games