4th Dimension by Noice [web]
Name: 4th Dimension/Noice Release Date: 2007-01-11 Code: Andreas Gustafsson aka. Shadow/Noice Music: MIDI-version of some NES Castlevania 3 tune, found on the net. Running the demo: To run it you will need a J2ME device (cellphone etc.) which supports MIDP2.0, CLDC1.1, JSR135 (Mobile Media API) and JSR184 (Mobile 3D Graphics for J2ME) Successfully tested on Nokia 6630 and Sony Ericsson K750. Release info: This little demo is the second result of my experimentation with what you can do in 4096 bytes with J2ME (the first was Proof Of Concept 4k). This time I wanted to have both music and some rudimentary 3D. For music there was not much other options than MIDI considering the size I had to work with. I found some MIDI-tunes that were around 300 bytes, but if I wanted something that resembled music and not just a short jingle, I had to go up a bit. After some searching I found a 700 bytes tune that I thought was a good compromise between song length and size. The 3D is done using JSR184. This has the nice benefit that those that have the real bleeding edge high-end phones will actually have hardware accelerated 3D! However the scenes are very simple, so they should run fairly well even on the software implementation most phones use. One thing I noticed is that many phones seem very bad at looping the MIDI. On my 6630 there is a pop and some silence before the song restarts. But since I used the mediatime to time the scene-changes, so it should be somewhat synched atleast. Once I had the music playing and the 3D-rendering up and running I was left with very little space, so the actual 3D scenes ended up being very minimalistic... Anyway, it was a fun experiment, but I think I will go up in size a bit for the next J2ME demo release! :) Contact info: http://sdw.webhop.net andreas.gustafsson@gmail.com
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