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found a really cool document: the official developer/user documentation for the codec used to compress most of the Sega CD FMV games: Cinepak for Sega-CD (fedia.io)

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found a really cool document: the official developer/user documentation for the codec used to compress most of the Sega CD FMV games: Cinepak for Sega-CD

https://dn720003.ca.archive.org/0/items/sega-cinepak-users-guide/SEGA%20Cinepak%20Users%20Guide_text.pdf

sadly, the software (macintosh) doesn't seem to be preserved anywhere. it had a really simple interface, and came with a driver for playback on the console

#macintosh #gamePreservation #vintageApple #sega #retroGaming

Extensions for Cinepak for Sega-CD that allow for error diffusion, no-dither and ordered-dither.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@vga256 Newer versions of those tools are in the Saturn SDK; I’ve used it before. That version has you use the standard WT Cinepak encoder. I can check if it still supports Sega CD.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

@[email protected] oh fantastic. i'm just reading about MovieToSaturn now. i can't figure out if the saturn tools support the paletted export that the Sega CD version requires/uses