Saturday, March 12, 2011

*.JSV Viewer

Once upon a time I used to program in a little language called QuickBASIC. Now, when I was still quite the beginner, I came across a little game called MiniRPG 2 by Jaws-V Soft. I was completely blown away by this little gem. Eventually, I came to know the developer of this series and we collaborated on a little game project. You see, I was working on a graphics library, I called Nexus-13, which was written in "pure QB", no assembly language calls or non-QB libraries. So, after testing the Nexus-13 library, Change-V (the programmer behind Jaws-V Soft) decided to go use it to create MiniRPG 1 Board Game:


It was such an honor to have a programmer I admired and respected so much, use the Nexus-13 library to produce such a solid piece of gaming entertainment.

Honestly, I think that Jaws-V Soft's work would do quite well on the app store and it would be awesome to collaborate with them, once again , and bring their classic software to a new audience. Hopefully we can work something out. In the meantime, I've been working on a *.JSV viewer. It loads and displays the sprite sheets used for MiniRPG 2's sequel, MiniRPG 3.
*.JSV File Selection Table

Jaws-V Soft Splash Screen
Rom Sprite Sheet

I must say that writing the loader for the *.JSV format was more tedious than I expected. But I'm quite happy I could actually get it working! Now that the ground work is laid, we'll see what else I can do with this on the iPhone.

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