Mord Posted December 31, 2015 Share Posted December 31, 2015 Not everyone hangs out in the homebrew forum, so just linking the little game project I've been working on (slooowly since mid-summer) over there. Gameplay/info/current roms are in the first post. While the Alpha is technically part of it's name now, it's also still in alpha but playable. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stun Runner 87 Posted January 2, 2016 Share Posted January 2, 2016 Will this be available on cart? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted January 3, 2016 Author Share Posted January 3, 2016 Will this be available on cart? No idea yet, although I am trying to keep it to 48k for various reasons. From what I understand it's bankswitched games that are a pain to get on carts right now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPUWIZ Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 From what I understand it's bankswitched games that are a pain to get on carts right now. Not at all, I fixed this problem over a year ago, Albert has access to most of my PCB's. He has MegaCart and VersaBoard's in stock, in large quantities and I can order infinite more. The MegaCart can do up to 1MB and it also has the ability to do schemes that do not exist currently, like 256K + 16K, or 512K + 16K. EDIT: What I mean by the non-existing bankswitching methods, is an expansion on 128K + 16K (which is what BBCQ uses), basically 7 banks at $8000, 1 bank at $C000 and 1 bank at $4000. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted January 3, 2016 Share Posted January 3, 2016 hi If it eher will be released....i want a CART Greetings Walter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldenWheels Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Any gameplay vids for me to peruse? Didn't see anything but screenshots in the homebrew forum thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Any gameplay vids for me to peruse? Didn't see anything but screenshots in the homebrew forum thread. Apologies in advance for not being very good at GSA; regardless, here is a relatively short video of a few waves from the Dec 31 WIP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIvs_179FhE 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Very nice graphics and interesting game. I wonder if each level had different crashing sounds to mix it up a bit also make a more intense feeling like many atari games would by doing that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 The sounds in the game right now are mostly placeholders anyway until I take some time learning the TIA/Pokey stuff a bit better, so things like that are going to change/improve later on before the game's done. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78001987 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Can I ask a stupid question? What the hell does this game's name even mean? Since the PS1 generation of video gaming there seems to be an influx of games with badly translated/Engrish names that make no sense, with completely made up words that have no meaning. "Gundam Girls Gravure for the Parties Fire!" "Sek Sek Kubyo on the War Puddle" Maybe I'm just getting old, but I just don't get it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Graze - to touch or rub something lightly, or so as to produce slight abrasion, in passing. The suit the player wears in the game charges power by grazing against objects. It's an experimental alpha version of the suit being tested. Or something. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
78001987 Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Graze - to touch or rub something lightly, or so as to produce slight abrasion, in passing. The suit the player wears in the game charges power by grazing against objects. It's an experimental alpha version of the suit being tested. Or something. well, there you go. That makes total sense! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stun Runner 87 Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 Looks like a fun fastpaced game. And decent graphics so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireTiger Posted January 7, 2016 Share Posted January 7, 2016 *watches* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 Updated the rom again. Mostly bug fixes and tweaks. Of course I seem to have managed to add a random game freeze bug in the process, unless that's been there longer and just unnoticed til now. Still pondering about bankswitching it in the near future. I might just spend this weekend playing around with bankswitching in general in between some normal 7800 game playing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Propane13 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Of course I seem to have managed to add a random game freeze bug in the process Heh, sounds oddly familiar. I hope you solve it. -John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Heh, sounds oddly familiar. I hope you solve it. -John Say - that reminds me, how is Arkanoid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Propane13 Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Oh, yeah, almost forgot all about that one, sadly. Typically, programming-wise, I get really active for anywhere between 3-12 months, and then burn out and disappear. For me, it's really hard to remain focused and excited when hitting a constant and innumerable number of technical problems. For Arkanoid, there was something in the ball math that didn't make any sense. I think I took like a full week on it, mapping out the numbers and I still couldn't figure out why it behaved in a strange way. For Get Lost, it was the random freeze that got me. I spent a LONG time on that one, and the only solution I could determine was to purchase a logic analyzer and generate a backtrace. I really feel badly about that one; it was so close to completion and just needed some polish. During those technical issues, I was burning out at work, which ended up with me leaving a job and moving halfway across the country. And, after all of that stress and nonsense, resetting seemingly takes forever. The good news is that I've started lurking on atariage again these last couple of months, so who knows what could happen? -John 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 [...]For Get Lost, it was the random freeze that got me. I spent a LONG time on that one, and the only solution I could determine was to purchase a logic analyzer and generate a backtrace. I really feel badly about that one; it was so close to completion and just needed some polish.[...] If you can trigger the issue in emulation... in the MAME debugger you can "trace" the instructions the CPU is running to a file. Once the issue is triggered, stop the trace. The trace file will be massive, but you can just work your way backwards through it. Or if that winds up taking too long, typically the first BRK encountered will be fairly close to where the CPU started crashing, if it started executing data or misaligned code. I used the trace facility a while back to semi-automatically determine which areas of a game contained executable code, so I could feed that to distella. Super handy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebor Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Oh, yeah, almost forgot all about that one, sadly. Typically, programming-wise, I get really active for anywhere between 3-12 months, and then burn out and disappear. For me, it's really hard to remain focused and excited when hitting a constant and innumerable number of technical problems. For Arkanoid, there was something in the ball math that didn't make any sense. I think I took like a full week on it, mapping out the numbers and I still couldn't figure out why it behaved in a strange way. For Get Lost, it was the random freeze that got me. I spent a LONG time on that one, and the only solution I could determine was to purchase a logic analyzer and generate a backtrace. I really feel badly about that one; it was so close to completion and just needed some polish. During those technical issues, I was burning out at work, which ended up with me leaving a job and moving halfway across the country. And, after all of that stress and nonsense, resetting seemingly takes forever. The good news is that I've started lurking on atariage again these last couple of months, so who knows what could happen? -John What may be of assistance is MAME(MESS was 'absorbed'), which has matured greatly regarding its 7800 driver since those games were initially started. It is highly accurate in replicating console behavior and contains a debugger. Edit: LOL...RevEng beat me to it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DracIsBack Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Oh, yeah, almost forgot all about that one, sadly. Typically, programming-wise, I get really active for anywhere between 3-12 months, and then burn out and disappear. For me, it's really hard to remain focused and excited when hitting a constant and innumerable number of technical problems. For Arkanoid, there was something in the ball math that didn't make any sense. I think I took like a full week on it, mapping out the numbers and I still couldn't figure out why it behaved in a strange way. For Get Lost, it was the random freeze that got me. I spent a LONG time on that one, and the only solution I could determine was to purchase a logic analyzer and generate a backtrace. I really feel badly about that one; it was so close to completion and just needed some polish. During those technical issues, I was burning out at work, which ended up with me leaving a job and moving halfway across the country. And, after all of that stress and nonsense, resetting seemingly takes forever. The good news is that I've started lurking on atariage again these last couple of months, so who knows what could happen? -John Totally understand. Only out of excitement for the games that I raz. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Not at all, I fixed this problem over a year ago, Albert has access to most of my PCB's. He has MegaCart and VersaBoard's in stock, in large quantities and I can order infinite more. The MegaCart can do up to 1MB and it also has the ability to do schemes that do not exist currently, like 256K + 16K, or 512K + 16K. EDIT: What I mean by the non-existing bankswitching methods, is an expansion on 128K + 16K (which is what BBCQ uses), basically 7 banks at $8000, 1 bank at $C000 and 1 bank at $4000. Am I misremembering or can those boards do a max combination of 1MB ROM and 1MB RAM cart-based RAM? And on the 5200 side, you have a 348K ROM version, right? Someone else has a 512K ROM board but supposedly hasn't made enough of 'em to justify porting Tempest Xtreem over. And the lack of a 1MB ROM board at the moment precludes porting Space Harrier over. Didn't you also figure out a way to pack RAM into a 5200 cartridge board despite the lack of such lines in the cartridge slot too? Like 16K or 32K? Maybe I'm mixing things up between the 5200 and the 7800…it happens [to me]. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lynxpro Posted January 13, 2016 Share Posted January 13, 2016 Apologies in advance for not being very good at GSA; regardless, here is a relatively short video of a few waves from the Dec 31 WIP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIvs_179FhE Reminds me of the Atari/GCC Nightmare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mord Posted January 13, 2016 Author Share Posted January 13, 2016 Reminds me of the Atari/GCC Nightmare. Checked out some videos of Nightmare on youtube just to see what it's about. Only thing that looks similar to me is the spiral thing that sucks up enemies at the end of the levels but in the builds for graze, the stationary gear on wave one is currently just a test enemy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funknflow5200 Posted January 14, 2016 Share Posted January 14, 2016 I have not yet read the homebrew forum yet but has anyone pleaded for trak-ball support for this one?? Seems like it'd be a thing of beauty. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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