Porting a Games Factory game to be playable on Dreamcast

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 10:00 am

Just wondering if there is away to do this. I am not sure what programming language this software uses. But when you save the game as a .exe file it makes a .exe and then has the .gam file. If there was a way to do this we could see TONS of new Homebrewed games.

miah · Post by **miah** » Tue Feb 19, 2002 10:18 am

Most likely the .gam file is the actual game, while the .exe is just an interpreter for that file..

-miah

nowiamit · Post by **nowiamit** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 5:22 am

Now that would be a great idea! I have tons of homebrewed Games Factory games, and really would like to share them for the DC :)

miah · Post by **miah** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 8:41 am

Well good luck. Somebody else already mentioned that Game Factory used DirectX and other Windows specific code for a lot of things.

Slamoid · Post by **Slamoid** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 4:45 pm

The one good thing about porting somthing to a whole nother system: There's always a way to make somthing totally new.

Isn't there a way to simulate a DirectX protocall without having DX installed? And besides, the actual game is in the GAM file, so if somone just made a translator for the dreamcast, it would just work like an Emulator!!!

Veggita2099 · Post by **Veggita2099** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 7:28 pm

It would probably be a matter of porting the games factory program I would guess? Then the gam files could be loaded somewhat like roms.

Another idea would be if clickteam was to write a program that was just meant to load the .gam files for the Dreamcast. I seriously doubt they would do this though. And if they did it would cost money since they are out to make money. Since they have the sourcecode, and are familar with it id say it they really wanted to they could. But since the dreamcast is dead they probably wouldn't make enough money to warrant making such a thing :(.

shinokou · Post by **shinokou** » Tue Feb 26, 2002 8:46 pm

this whole thing has been brought up before. Cheechthemighty and I have actually contacted Clickteam (makers of TGF) about this, and they reccommend waiting for Multimedia Fusion 2 to come out, which WILL run Games Factory games (as well as other Clickteam products), and is being built for easy porting. What would be REALLY nice is if sega released the SDK (making this easier)... which would give us access to the modem (no bba, BLAH!) and MOO could be ported along with MMF 2 or TGF.. then we could make online dreamcast games WITHOUT programming experience (just some server knowledge... whcih i have :) )

perry · Post by **perry** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 4:58 am

Hey im likin tha sound of this. When MMF2 gets released, if it ever gets ported i'd start up site with all games made by DCEmu'ers. Lovely idea!

Miles McCloud · Post by **Miles McCloud** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 11:19 am

Such a thing would make me the happiest DC owner in the galaxy. Most games however are made with MMF1 nowadays though. So it would probably be best to wait until MMF2 were to come out. I bet you could get support and maybe even a sourcecode from Clickteam. I'm sure the lure of being able to "program" your own console game would make quite a few DC owners buy clickteam products.

reptilezero · Post by **reptilezero** » Wed Feb 27, 2002 1:12 pm

mmf, cnc, tgf, and k&p all use lots of asm....porting would be so much of a hassle. Course their new stuff is being designed with portability in mind. Has anyone asked about Jamagic being ported? I know a linux version is supposed to become available...maybe if linux for the DC improves there would be a greater chance of seeing Jamagic games running on the DC. Not really sure if linuxDC (or whatever it is called) supports opengl yet though...Hmmm.....

Porting a Games Factory game to be playable on Dreamcast

Porting a Games Factory game to be playable on Dreamcast

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