toptenmaterial Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 If I may digress a little... I, too, have this weird obsession with demakes. The question is, which demake/port/conversion would cause only a minimal headache to a 7800 programmer? I would love to see Super Mario All-Stars... I suppose that we can start by looking at games that are available on both the 7800 and NES and studying their similarities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted November 6, 2011 Share Posted November 6, 2011 I'm surprised no one took up my challenge a few years back to take Desert Falcons source and make a Zaxxon port for the 7800. V I'm still surprised no one took Centipede source and made Millipede. Well hopefully the XM will spur more coders to try their hand on the 7800 both for XM and standard 7800 games 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZylonBane Posted November 8, 2011 Share Posted November 8, 2011 I, too, have this weird obsession with demakes. Nobody in this thread is talking about demakes. Demakes are reformulations of games into the gameplay tropes of a weaker platform, like Halo 2600. What is being discussed here is a straight port of Paperboy (which, as has already been pointed out to you, is an ATARI classic, not an NES classic). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 (edited) I'm surprised no one took up my challenge a few years back to take Desert Falcons source and make a Zaxxon port for the 7800. V I'm still surprised no one took Centipede source and made Millipede. Well hopefully the XM will spur more coders to try their hand on the 7800 both for XM and standard 7800 games I'm still waiting for the 2nd weaker player bug to be found in DF code- ... I tried twice but got lost somewhere in the coding. (The bug is the falcon who's on the higest level will send those enemies to the other falcon regardless of the level of that falcon. EX> player one dies before Sphinx 1 and is still level one, player two gets to level 3- the rest of player's one's lives will be spent at level one speed facing level three enemies (even if they DO manage to advance to level two- the enemies are still level whatever the stronger player has) EX2> Player one is having a great day and gets to level 5, player two cannot get past the music zone as the enemies are now all level 5) In some other therad I posted my best guesses to where the reset or lookup for level for the enemy table would happen but I was either so wrong everyone was too busy laughing or nobody saw the post. Edited September 24, 2014 by FireTiger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevaside Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 (edited) I really hope someone would pull it off... It was the #1 game I dreamed for on my 7800 when I was a kid...Pacmania, Roadblasters & a couple others I really wished for too...I've mentioned this before on here but I actually wrote Atari a letter back then asking about it (on my typewriter, mind you ) & was crushed to find out there were no plans...Only recently have I learned of the Atari Corp drama & why none of these Atari arcade games would ever get versions on my 7800...Made no sense at all to me back then as a kid, especially since the NES was getting all kinds of em I enjoyed the NES version but in a way was kinda dissapointed & thought they coulda made it a little better...I thought the Genesis version was great & I've spent HOURS upon HOURS of my life playing it haha..I also have it on a Dreamcast arcade compilation but from what i remember the controls weren't too good on that 1..Planning to get a Lynx soon & looking forward to trying that version Edited September 24, 2014 by Stevaside 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted September 24, 2014 Share Posted September 24, 2014 I'm surprised no one took up my challenge a few years back to take Desert Falcons source and make a Zaxxon port for the 7800. V I'm still surprised no one took Centipede source and made Millipede. Well hopefully the XM will spur more coders to try their hand on the 7800 both for XM and standard 7800 games Agreed! Both would be excellent games to make for the 7800!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 (edited) Ah, the never-ending obsession with porting NES classics to the 7800. I must admit, it's afun topic. So... which games out there are similer to Paperboy? Similar to where you control a bicycle-riding, paper-throwing character? Probably none. Even the "three quarter scrolling genre" has hardly been reproduced. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Zaxxon, Viewpoint, Desert Falcon, and Paperboy. Edited October 8, 2014 by Zap! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Similar to where you control a bicycle-riding, paper-throwing character? Probably none. Even the "three quarter scrolling genre" has hardly been reproduced. Off the top of my head, I can only think of Zaxxon... Don't forget Super Zaxxon and Future Spy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Dragon Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Humour me :-) How well could the 7800 of handled these 3? http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DnrBIlQp5GaQ&sa=U&ei=vI01VNKEN9LCsASK6ICgCQ&ved=0CBUQtwIwAA&usg=AFQjCNGsV8vdkjZEoOQCXxMfw7Zb0a_HqA http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DHJcslLXGb5w&sa=U&ei=A481VInHIq_bsASVhYHYAw&ved=0CBUQtwIwAA&usg=AFQjCNF2sBqsfqpb8CjnbJaxMmmetE4csg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Don't forget Super Zaxxon and Future Spy. Yeah Super Zaxxon was great. Believe it or not I never played Future Spy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I personally think Paperboy could have been done back in the day. Call it a gut feeling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zap! Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I think nearly everyone in this thread would pay to see a homebrew. I know I would. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I personally think Paperboy could have been done back in the day. Call it a gut feeling.it was. your guts right. talked about for 3 weeks now in this and in the paperboy thread on the 7800 forum. check it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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