Mjolnir Future
Phil Stroffolino has posted news about possible future developments for Mjolnir (Namco System 21/22 arcade game emulator for Windows):
There are some things I haven’t seen in any mainstream emulator that might be interesting to (eventually) explore.
For example, one of the advantages of simulating DSP code, is that you can intercept the real 3d data before it’s been transformed into 2d (screen coordinate) quads. By intercepting and using real 3d data, it opens the door to several things:
1) support for 3d glasses - stereoscopic views
2) ability to “move camera around” in the current scene while game is paused. I’d done this with Prop Cycle some time ago, and it’s interesting how clevel Namco was about using intelligently using visibility culling and sets of models at different level-of-detail to keep polycount down.
3) 3d model viewer (in same spirit as MAME’s character/sprite viewer)
