dmsc Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 Hi, If you like that image, I think Rastaconverter could make a good conversion. The best result theoretically achievable is something like that: output.png-dst.png I will try the conversion in a few days; my netbook have not the necessary power and I am away from home. Well, that image seems based on this: http://www.mobygames.com/game/great-escape/cover-art/gameCoverId,181918/ I modified it to remove the title at the top, this is the result: IMHO, this is a better starting image. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirx Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 and finally you can see it is not p***s by the soldier's mouth. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 and finally you can see it is not p***s by the soldier's mouth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmsc Posted June 17, 2015 Share Posted June 17, 2015 And here is two attempts with RastaConvert, both of over 5M evaluatios: greatEscape-run1.xex greatEscape-run2.xex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 (edited) Sorry for the delay but I wasn't home. Thanks dmsc for source image. Here is my conversion, 60 colors: Philsan_TheGreatEscape.xex Perhaps an even better result could be achieved, but first I would like to know if Mariusz likes that image and wants to use it in his game. Edited June 20, 2015 by Philsan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 I'm doing a Rasta conversion too but it's not doing very well and I've had it one for a couple of days now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Played on my 130XE/PAL/1050/Mydos/MyPicodos. Didn't have a clue but was fun walking around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+CharlieChaplin Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Well, I played a little bit with the file - and compressed it by more than 33%. At first I used Superpacker/Exomizer, but since the gamefile has dozens of segments (short code patches/fixes at the end I assume), I finally used Code3 Cruncher to make it shorter... see attachment here. Next, I also added a simple Gr. 2 text-title, which currently displays "LOADING", just change it to "THE GREAT ESCAPE"... Regarding a title picture, well, I prefer irgendwer`s title picture (from the movie, I guess - to me the guy looks like Steve Mc Queen), but I would like to have some more colours and a bit more details in it. The other picture looks to speccy-like to me.Tried to put irgendwer`s title picture in front of the packed game, but it did not work - the pict. did not initialize but run/execute instead (allthough I changed the run adress into an init. adress) and then the file did not continue loading the game... maybe someone can change this... The attachment now has three files: a) codge.xex, the code3-cruncher compressed game file, b) exotge.xex, the exomizer packed title-picture from irgendwer and c) greatesc.txt, an ASCII text for the game, describing what to do (description taken from mobygames, hopefully usefull for the A8 version too)... greatesc.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariuszw Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Played on my 130XE/PAL/1050/Mydos/MyPicodos. Didn't have a clue but was fun walking around Thanks for report. For instructions, please go here: http://c64games.de/phpseiten/spieledetail.php?filnummer=338and download Manual and Loesung (= Solution in English). Manual and solution are in English. These should give you some hints about where to walk actually Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariuszw Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Here is new version of Great Escape. It has PMG overlay implemented, so now it has some more colors. Thanks for Jose Pereira for coloring game screens. Also, it has bugfix for using fire button in joystick, so now it can be actually played, and items can be picked up, used, and dropped. ge.obx 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariuszw Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 Sorry for the delay but I wasn't home. Thanks dmsc for source image. Here is my conversion, 60 colors: Philsan_TheGreatEscape.png Philsan_TheGreatEscape.xex Perhaps an even better result could be achieved, but first I would like to know if Mariusz likes that image and wants to use it in his game. Picture is nice and I thinking about using it, however it looks that picture uses lots of CPU time due to mid-scanline color changes and I wonder if there will be enough CPU cycles to play a music, which I would also like to include in the game. Now I am waiting for th music to be done and then I will start implementing title screen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snicklin Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Wow, this version seems to be a lot quicker and looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 And hopefully there will be more colouring... Marius what colouring has this one? I can't have Altirra on phone, can any here post a screen? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Picture is nice and I thinking about using it, however it looks that picture uses lots of CPU time due to mid-scanline color changes and I wonder if there will be enough CPU cycles to play a music, which I would also like to include in the game. Now I am waiting for th music to be done and then I will start implementing title screen. New game's version is awesome, thanks Mariusz and José! Regarding title screen, I think there are enough CPU cycles to play music, perhaps I'll need to make a smaller picture (200 pixels high instead of 240 pixels). I am now working on a new picture that I think everyone will like! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariuszw Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 And hopefully there will be more colouring... Marius what colouring has this one? I can't have Altirra on phone, can any here post a screen? This has all the colouring apart from colors on items on status panel. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Here's my latest conversion, 42 colors. Do you like it Mariusz? Philsan_TheGreatEscape_2.xex 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariuszw Posted June 21, 2015 Author Share Posted June 21, 2015 I like it, but I like previous picture more. This one has too much details, making them look not good, because of picture resolution being not big enough. Thanks for your efforts! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Both Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Here's my latest conversion, 42 colors. Do you like it Mariusz? I'm speechless. Not a common situation i have to admit... Stefan 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Thanks. I see you get them all fine. Is there also the tunnel when red, right? I'll post to you the items coloured tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
José Pereira Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I like it, but I like previous picture more. This one has too much details, making them look not good, because of picture resolution being not big enough. Thanks for your efforts!Humm, I have to say that I really like this last picture but it needs like most of Rasta pictures some fixes and on a first and quick looking it maybe not all that hard.Philsan please send me the Rasta Converter .ras file so that I can load it onto G2F and see what can be done. I never tried this because I never did any Rasta screen but lets see... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Regarding a title picture, well, I prefer irgendwer`s title picture (from the movie, I guess - to me the guy looks like Steve Mc Queen), but I would like to have some more colours and a bit more details in it. Ok... tge2.xex 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irgendwer Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 Not a common situation i have to admit... Let me fix that for you... SB.xex 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirx Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 I like it, but I like previous picture more. This one has too much details, making them look not good, because of picture resolution being not big enough. Thanks for your efforts! it looks superb as a miniature here on site, but when run full screen it is less impressive indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stefan Both Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 Let me fix that for you... :lol: If laughing out loud is the opposite of speechless, you fixed it ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Philsan Posted June 22, 2015 Share Posted June 22, 2015 I made another Rastaconverter conversion (35 colors), from The Great Escape PS1/XBox game (the same image Irgendwer used for the conversion made with his awesome tool, JAG-Creator): Philsan_TheGreatEscape_3.xex Previous conversions: Philsan_TheGreatEscape_2.xex Philsan_TheGreatEscape_1.xex 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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