Decaying Orbit - From Yaroze To Nuon

Thanks to InsertCredit for pointing to the Nuon-Dome page, which has the latest info on the Nuon port of cult 2D "space action" freeware title Decaying Orbit, which was originally created via Net Yaroze for the PSOne. In this title, you must "navigate your way through levels filled with [gravity-changing] planets, nebulae, enemy emplacements, and who knows what else.." in order to get home. Since the DVD players that include the bizarre Nuon console-on-a-chip can read normal CDRs, there's a downloadable/burnable demo of an "optimization forthcoming... first three levels" of Decaying Orbit.

Comments

Re:Cool

[K3V]

To be honest, the NUON features that were available for DVD movies were not very useful or intriguing. The problem was that movie studios didn't want to invest much money into the features since there weren't many DVD players with the chipsets, and the DVD player manufacturers didn't want to make a lot of models with the NUON chipset because there wasn't much NUON content. Unfortunately VM Labs ran out of money before the situation could be resolved and NUON is now left in the hands of the users. Luckily some at VML were smart enough to see the commercial end of NUON coming and released the public SDK so the fanbase could play around with the hardware. Info on the NUON features in DVD movies is up on the Movies section of NUON-Dome (http://www.nuon-dome.com/movies.html) or you can download the Public SDK and other freeware games such as Doom, PacMan, BOMB, etc from the Download page (http://www.nuon-dome.com/download.html). -Kevin

Re:does anyone know where i can get hold of a NUON

[!the!bad!fish!]

Nuon Experience
July 2003

There are two options for those who need a Nuon in the UK. Either you could try to get one of the US models on import, or fly to Europe and get yourself a machine there (if you can find one).

Pity :0(