RasterSoft has revealed that a port of their game Frog Feast is headed to Nuon alongside releases for the 3DO and NEC’s PC-FX August 20 to coincide with the 5th anniversary of the game.
Frog Feast, which has seen releases on more than 12 video game consoles and arcade systems, is an updated version of the classic game Frog Bog, featuring improved graphics, sound, AI and more. The game made its launch at both the Classic Gaming Expo 2005 and VGXPO, Dallas events on the same day, according to its listing on MobyGames.
MobyGames describes the gameplay as simple to figure out. “In the single player version your goal is to catch as many flies floating about the top of the screen within the time allowed and to beat the AI’s frogs score. In the 2-player version, you do the same but go head-2-head against another player which makes snagging those flies at the last minute, just before your competitor does, a real treat.”
Beyond the release of Frog Feast, RasterSoft’s Charles Doty says he has more in store for Nuon.
“I have a game in early development that I plan to get working on the Nuon,” said Doty in a NUON-Dome forum post. “The game mechanics work, it just a matter of actually creating a fun game.”
Below is a video of the Atari Jaguar CD version of Frog Feast in action.
RasterSoft recently released “Rastersoft Invades the Nuon” - a game demo that is a port of its “3DO Invades” demo to the Nuon platform.
Click here to download the demo, which includes the burnable nuon.cd file and source code. Use the d-pad to move the alien, and start to reset. The remote is not supported.
Rastersoft is well known for its game Frog Feast, which has been ported to a number of classic game platforms including the Atari Jaguar CD, CD-i, Neo Geo CD and more.
For more information or to join the discussion, visit the forums.
Forum member SophT has written a CLI enabled, full-screen wrapper to enhance the user interface for the PC Nuon emulator “Nuance.”
Below is the readme file with more details:
This is a wrapper for Nuance, a NUON Emulator.
nWrap was written to support nuance on arcade cabs, so it supports command-line input and ‘esc’ key closing.
Usage is simple:
simply drop nWrap.exe and nWrap.ini in the same directory as nuance.exe
nWrap “Drive:\Path to\your\nuon\files\nuon.run”
This works for files on your harddrive or mounted on a virtualized drive.
Known issues:
IF there’s an error with nuance and it crashes (not as a result of the wrapper) before the video screen appears you may get hung with a black screen.
You can alt+tab and exit nuance, or kill it with taskmanager and exit nWrap.nWrap.ini contains the resolution of your desktop that you would like it to return to AFTER exiting.
NWrap will run at a resolution of 640×480x32 - so again make sure your monitor can handle that.
For more information or to get in on the discussion, visit the NUON-Dome Forums.
Skah_T from DragonShadow Industries has posted a slew of NUON goodies up for auction on eBay, including some never-before-seen collectibles, rare NUON games like Iron Soldier 3 and The Next Tetris, the Europe-only Samsung N504 player and more. Here are the links:
- Tempest 3000, Space Invaders XL, Merlin Racing and Freefall 3050 A.D. games
- Iron Soldier 3 retail disc
- Iron Soldier 3 test disc
- Misc collectibles (includes prototype controller pictured at right, VM Labs “money” and some interesting karaoke fodder)
- Aries 3 die plot
- Samsung DVD-N504 DVD Player
- Space Invaders XL test disc
- The Next Tetris (Toshiba Sampler)
Have questions about any of the items? Jump in on the discussion on the NUON-Dome forums, here.
I recently got my hands on a few pieces of NUON history so I thought I’d share some photos. First is a NUON polo shirt, with the logo on the front; second is a VM Labs/Project X shirt; third is black NUON polo with the old nuon.tv URL on the sleeve; and finally we have a VM Labs/Project X Jacket.
These are great collectors items and are in new condition from what I can tell. All I know is VM Labs must have had some big guys working there, because even the medium shirts are pretty big!
