AmplituDS v3 released! Also DS 3D model tools!

Dark Knight ez · May 26, 2007

AmplituDS v3 is now released. A huge update over v2 which improves graphics, feel and adds 3 new stages.
If you don't know what the game is about, it's based on Amplitude for the PS2... which was created by the team that made Guitar Hero later on.
The official AmplituDS website:
http://amplituds.drunkencoders.com

First off, the boxart.

Then, a couple of images:

And last, a couple of movies:
Movie 1
Movie 2

Hurry up to the AmplituDS site and get it!

Now, as for the model converter and viewer.
They both run on the NDS. How's that for portability?
The converter converts models in the .x format of a certain syntax to a .c file which contains a display list in an array.
You could use that .c file in your own homebrew projects.
The model viewer reads out that .c file, and also slaps on textures if you've put that in the same directory.
Check it out. It's worth it.

Direct link to the model converter and viewer.

Example models available (not to be used in your own projects):

Xeijin · May 26, 2007

Amazing, your not by any chance the creator, or affiliated to AmplituDS by any chance?

Great lookin' game though

Dark Knight ez · May 26, 2007

Creator. ;p

chalupa · May 26, 2007

ahh man you beat me to this post. I just read it off ds-scene.

FAST6191 · May 26, 2007

Nice one Dark Knight ez, especially for the model creators: my 3d programming skills never really got beyond VRML and pro engineer.

lagman · May 26, 2007

Wow, looks great, can't wait to get home and try it.

chalupa · May 26, 2007

This is not working on my R4 dldi. I just get a white screen = (

lagman · May 27, 2007

QUOTE(chalupa @ May 26 2007 said:
This is not working on my R4 dldi. I just get a white screen = (

Did you copy the amplitudeds folder? It takes like 6 seconds to load.
I'm playing it right now. It's really funny, sadly it doesn't have a sleep mode

EDIT: I'm playing the first scene after the tutorial and I have no idea how to play this

Can someone help me? or....OUENDAN!! or something.

Sonicandtails · May 27, 2007

I've been playing for about 3 out of the last 6 hours. It's VERY addicting and I am in love with it.
I am on Insane now, and I do believe it could use some more songs (Unless there are other worlds that I don't know of).
It's pretty easy to play lagman, and I have no previous experience with the original Amplitude.
When a 'button' comes over a crosshair, hit the corresponding button (Left Middle Right = L, X, R) and when you need to move over to another sample use Left and Right. Read the PDF file included for more information.

I've got everything down myself, from hitting notes while moving to maximizing double points advantages.
Such an awesome game, and a custom song creator is most certainly needed.

One problem I have with it is the lack of proper pausing; You can't do it, you must restart the song if you do. Another is that in your screenshots it shows the 'buttons' looking like sprites and looking alright. While in the game, they seem to be models, which I like much more, but when viewing them from the right side there seems to be a polygon on the side missing completely (possibly to save rendering power?).

Otherwise, this is a great game, and it is currently taking my Ouendan 2 time...Which is rare!

lagman · May 27, 2007

I get it now, thanks.
It's really funny...and a little hard

Everybody should try this.

TheStump · May 27, 2007

nice work man, i remember seeing this in the EZflash comp a while ago, looks like you have made some great development since.

BTW the boxart looks bad ass!

OrR · May 27, 2007

GREAT! I was looking for an update a few days ago since I could never get the original one to work... I hope this does!

Devil_Spawn · May 27, 2007

[hint] get lots of stars mostly in insane to unlock the secret bonus level [/hint]

Dark Knight ez · May 27, 2007

First of all, to everyone, thank you for your positive feedback.
It's really great to hear everyone enthusiastic about your project.

Sonicandtails said:
and I do believe it could use some more songs (Unless there are other worlds that I don't know of).
It's like Devil_Spawn just mentioned. There's some more goodness if you've completed insane and have 2 stars on average for every stage on every difficulty. Definitely worth it. The people who got that far consider it the best of all of AmplituDS, so go for it.

Sonicandtails said:

a custom song creator is most certainly needed.
Creating a custom stage is not that hard... just takes a fair bit of spare time. There have been a few ideas on how to make GUIs for doing such a thing, but they all would take about as much or even more time than the current way of doing it. Also, I'm not that familiar with creating Windows programs.

Sonicandtails said:

One problem I have with it is the lack of proper pausing
I know. Because libmikmod (the music playing library) fills a buffer (of half a second?) every time, I can't let it just pause... the synch with the stage would be off by a way too large margin if you'd continue after that.

Sonicandtailsbut when viewing them from the right side there seems to be a polygon on the side missing completely

Click to expand...

Impressive that you noticed. The screenshots are actually well made mockups, because taking pictures wasn't that succesful, and I haven't gotten AmplituDS v3 to work in an emulator (yet). I only noticed the polygon missing on the side of the targets like 4 days ago myself. Never noticed it before that because they're moving fast anyway. You're the first person who let me know he noticed this. Good eyes.

Sonicandtails

Click to expand...

Otherwise, this is a great game, and it is currently taking my Ouendan 2 time...Which is rare!

Great to hear.

SAORIxMEGUMIN · Aug 10, 2020

Dark Knight ez said:
Creator. ;p

Any chance you have a copy of the stage creator? Can't find a link since the forums no longer exist.

The Catboy · Aug 13, 2020

SAORIxMEGUMIN said:
Any chance you have a copy of the stage creator? Can't find a link since the forums no longer exist.

The user hasn't been on since 2011 and the wayback should work
https://web.archive.org/web/2016*/http://amplituds.drunkencoders.com/
Actually, I can't seem to find even a remotely decent link, it might just be lost until someone shows up with a working link

FAST6191 · Aug 13, 2020

SAORIxMEGUMIN said:
Any chance you have a copy of the stage creator? Can't find a link since the forums no longer exist.

https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/amplituds/amplituds-stage-creator-v0-1-t286.html
Don't want to direct link the download but main site for the thing is http://www.aaronlindsay.com/

Link was fixed a few years back on that by the AmplituDS author.
Fired it through virustotal and it said nothing of note. Added an upload of that here too.

Author of the stage creator is also apparently still active on https://github.com/AerialX (possibly twitter as well but they have a protected profile)

SAORIxMEGUMIN · Aug 14, 2020

FAST6191 said:
https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/amplituds/amplituds-stage-creator-v0-1-t286.html
Don't want to direct link the download but main site for the thing is http://www.aaronlindsay.com/

Link was fixed a few years back on that by the AmplituDS author.
Fired it through virustotal and it said nothing of note. Added an upload of that here too.

Author of the stage creator is also apparently still active on https://github.com/AerialX (possibly twitter as well but they have a protected profile)

Thank you.

VzUh · Aug 14, 2020

for anyone interested, "the biggest necrobump (https://gbatemp.net/threads/news-sega-confirms-sonic-adventure-dx-for-2003.4892/)
was of 5036 days. this one is of only 4825 days. 201 days of difference

the champion is still there, but this is probably a good second place

FAST6191 · Aug 14, 2020

VzUh said:
for anyone interested, "the biggest necrobump (https://gbatemp.net/threads/news-sega-confirms-sonic-adventure-dx-for-2003.4892/)
was of 5036 days. this one is of only 4825 days. 201 days of difference

the champion is still there, but this is probably a good second place

Spam, "is this any good?", "I like this" and whatever else is one thing. Asking for a reup of a relevant download for an old piece of homebrew (probably one of the better offerings on the DS at that, and one of the few places on the internet likely still active and listing it) is quite another.

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