Games
Syndicate
Andrew Oliver adapted Bullfrog’s Syndicate for Mega-CD, including custom video compression and playback work.
Game at a glance
- Status
- Classic
- Released
- 1995
- Platforms
- Sega Mega-CD
- Publisher
- Domark
After Andrew completed the Mega CD version of Marko’s Magic football we were offered a contract from Domark to port the Megadrive versions of Theme Park and Syndicate to the Mega CD. The source code and assets were supplied by Bullfrog and Andrew had to recompile the code and address all the parts that were incompatible with the Mega CD console. He discovered a very complex codebase that tangled C code and 68000 together. He also has to take the videos from the PC versions and produce a video compression and playback driver which needed to be integrated back in. These were the days before any standard systems existed for this.