Jack-Ass Tramiel Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 How about Missile Command? Or Donkey Kong? Could anyone correct these graphics? J-AT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr. need some Serious help! Someone should really give them a try. For the love of god make Donkey Kong look like a Ape rather than an bloated hamster! Tempest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 An ape?? Thats what its supposed to be? I thought it was a giant gingerbread man. As far as Galaxian... It certainly looks closer to the original...Way to go Jeff!! Too bad I always hated that game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+johnnywc Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 Great job on the Galaxian hack - the graphics look excellent! (almost like the 5200/800 version). Does anyone know how difficult is it to change the colors? If the enemies were teal/blue w/red eyes, purple/blue w/red eyes, red/blue w/yellow eyes and yellow/blue with red eyes (like the arcarde) it would look even more authentic. Also - is there a way to blank out the border (make it black or something?). Either way - an excellent update... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhindle The Red Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Tempest: For the love of god make Donkey Kong look like a Ape rather than an bloated hamster! I actually worked on trying to fix Donkey Kong. There's a major problem, however: Donkey Kong himself, the major graphic f-up, is comprised of only one sprite (eight pixels wide, just overblown to the max) that is reversed back and forth. There's nothing any graphic editing can do to change that. It would require an overhaul to the code, and I'm not up to it. Donkey Kong Jr. might just be able to be tweaked a bit, but I'm not sure by how much considering how shabbily Coleco programmed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhindle The Red Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 Hey Alex, In the .txt file accompanying the Galaxian hack you say the .bin is referred to as NEWGALAX.BIN, but it is, in fact, called GALAXNEW.BIN. Man, am I anal... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 Thanks for the comments, guys! I'm relieved that all of them are positive... ^_^ Personally, I was thinking of making Gorf my next target for hacking. Some of the graphics are all right, but the aliens in the first round are totally different from the arcade version and the flagship looks like the world's largest hypodermic needle. Y'know, it's kind of weird... the game designers of the time had the technology to make the 2600 games look better than they did, but many of those games ended up looking blocky and ugly anyways. Maybe the companies they worked for (except Activision and Imagic) didn't think it was important to hire artists to work on the actual games; just programmers. JR (that's Jess, not Jeff, by the way... ^^ P.S. It'd be nice to spend some quality time with Springer as well. It's a promising concept, a lot like Kangaroo, actually, but the graphics in that game are nowhere near as cartoony as they should be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chad5200 Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 Can someone post side-by-side screenshots of the original and updated version? Also, do the same for the other hacks (Mario Bros, etc..) Thanks, Chad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhindle The Red Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Chad Hendrickson: Can someone post side-by-side screenshots of the original and updated version? Also, do the same for the other hacks (Mario Bros, etc..) This may be too big a hassle, but if there are going to be a lot of these now, maybe AtariAge could set up a section for these things. I mean I'm not going to keep the original Return of Mario Bros. file on my web page forever. (That space is actually used by my theatrical company, The Shakespeare Company of Greater Rochester. I'll eventually need the space.) It's going to have to have a central location eventually. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Rhindle The Red: This may be too big a hassle, but if there are going to be a lot of these now, maybe AtariAge could set up a section for these things. I mean I'm not going to keep the original Return of Mario Bros. file on my web page forever. (That space is actually used by my theatrical company, The Shakespeare Company of Greater Rochester. I'll eventually need the space.) It's going to have to have a central location eventually. Working on it, expect something soon. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack-Ass Tramiel Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 Yeah, what's the deal with the orange/yellow border surrounding the game field? Can the color of this be turned to black, or does it need to be there and at this color for some particular technical reason? J-AT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gregory DG Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 What do you use to hack these roms? A hex editor? Maybe someone should write a 2600 rom hacking program?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Greg @ TAT: What do you use to hack these roms? A hex editor? Maybe someone should write a 2600 rom hacking program?? Hi Greg, Take a look at this thread which has lots of answers regarding how to hack 2600 games. We should probably create a page based on this information: Return of Mario Bros. Thread Enjoy! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muddawg Posted October 19, 2001 Share Posted October 19, 2001 Yeah, someone should fix DK and DK Jr. to have all the levels, Beter locking DK, the background music and In donkey Kong should make 2nd player green! [ 10-19-2001: Message edited by: Muddawg ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack-Ass Tramiel Posted October 20, 2001 Share Posted October 20, 2001 Albert, How about mentioning this guy's hack in the news, too: http://kudla.org/raindog/pac26.html He hacked Ms. Pac-Man to make a better version of Pac-Man. I'm surprised this isn't listed in the ROM archive. J-AT [ 10-19-2001: Message edited by: Jack-Ass Tramiel ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 20, 2001 Share Posted October 20, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Jack-Ass Tramiel: [QB]Albert, How about mentioning this guy's hack in the news, too: http://kudla.org/raindog/pac26.html He hacked Ms. Pac-Man to make a better version of Pac-Man. I'm surprised this isn't listed in the ROM archive.[QB] Thanks for pointing that out. We're busy collecting hacks so we can put them online now that the Mario Bros. update has generated so much buzz. We probably won't put these games directly into the database as regular entries in the rarity guides, but they will be linked from the normal games to their own pages (and vice versa). It should be pretty slick when it's done, and we'll certainly solicit feedback once it's online. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhindle The Red Posted October 20, 2001 Share Posted October 20, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Albert: We're busy collecting hacks so we can put them online now that the Mario Bros. update has generated so much buzz. Gosh, what have I wrought? Anyway, (and I'm sure you thought of this) you should make certain and get the a-ok from the person who did the hack before putting it up. You've certainly got mine, but you want to be sure not to step on anyone's toes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moycon Posted October 20, 2001 Share Posted October 20, 2001 Yeah the border in Galaxian is annoying ...But also does anyone know why they didnt include stars in the back ground?? Doesnt matter tho... Even if both these things were corrected...I still say, once again, *yawn* the game sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted October 20, 2001 Share Posted October 20, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Rhindle The Red: Anyway, (and I'm sure you thought of this) you should make certain and get the a-ok from the person who did the hack before putting it up. You've certainly got mine, but you want to be sure not to step on anyone's toes. Yeah, we'll only be including hacks that are already widely available on the net, and those that aren't we'll get permission from before posting. Not yet sure how many hacks we'll have in there initially, but I'm sure it'll grow at a steady pace. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted October 20, 2001 Share Posted October 20, 2001 the Coleco employees that made the Colecovisions donkey kong and the 2600 donkey kong must hate that game just as much as the 2600 pacman's programmer hates pac-man I mean have any of you seen Colecovisions Super Donkey Kong? its WAY better (if i did something wrong correct me so Ill know but if you aren't sure either dont correct me or ill go and find out for sure and the correct you not like thats some threat or something awful like that....) erm... im gonna end...this...post now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari-Jess Posted October 20, 2001 Share Posted October 20, 2001 also remember thats if your wrong about what you thought, otherwise ill just agree and correct myself as well as you have possibly Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Posted October 20, 2001 Author Share Posted October 20, 2001 [img' target='_blank'>/images/news/GalaxianHack.gif[/img]In the spirit of the recent Return of Mario Bros. mod, we bring you Jess Ragan's Galaxian mod. Jess tweaked the graphics of the original 2600 Galaxian so that it would look more like the Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted October 22, 2001 Share Posted October 22, 2001 Galaxian features seven sprites in a line. That is a very complicated VCS trick. I don't think there was enough time left to do stars ala Cosmic Ark. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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