They're not world-wide, but I put some webs into Frank the Fruit Fly. Last night I spent a few hours to put in the button thing where you push the buttons in the correct order in order to move on. I made this short YouTube video about Frank the Fruit Fly before I put in the buttons:
This is a really easy screen to get past, all you need to do is avoid the webs. At the same time while programming this, I am also making a players' guide. (Is it "player's" or "players'"? I know the apostroph
Yesterday after I posted my blog entry, I got bored. So I decided to continue work on Frank. After a few hours, I finally got it so pressing a button makes the game start. What's more is I finally got it to make a second song play. I went to sleep for 11 hours (couldn't get to sleep until 1 a.m.) and woke up and changed the second song from a test to an actual second song. It isn't a very long song, though. I want to have as much space available as possible for the game elements. Right now the g
So I tried with fireworks ablaze last night, to make Frank the Fruit Fly move on Pokemon Mini, but I had to give up and go to sleep with a broken game. I finally woke up at about noon, after my daily 12 hours of sleep, and worked on it again. FINALLY got it working, but I don't know how or why, the code I wrote doesn't make any logical sense, but it works anyway. Right now the game is 12.1 k. Once I reach 64k, I have to start with bankswitching stuff again. Whoopee. I tried but failed on the Gam
I got Championship Pool and Jurassic Park in the mail. They are late releases for the NES, both from 1993. Now it makes me want to buy homebrew games for the NES. I only have one that I've never played because I don't have enough room in my room for it: Tailgate Party. I doubt I could do it because space is limited, and I don't have a cornhole board. I do have the power pad, though. I also bought the camping games game. The NES, late in life, had some truly remarkable games on it. Kirby's Adve
So my boxes of Atari 2600 games in the garage were made of cardboard and the bottom ones were beginning to crumble due to the pressure of there being 5 of them stacked up one atop another. So I decided to empty them all out and put them in the bookshelf in the pantry. While unpacking them, I thought to myself, gee I should try one to see if they all still work okay. That one I picked was Video Pinball. I could have picked a rarer one, like Mr. Do's Castle, or Miner 2049er II or Master Builder, b
It is a hot, lonely day, so I decided to return to work on my Pokemon Mini game I was working on. I completed the Electrode minigame. I tested it a lot and I never once scored above 100 points. But I got so furious trying to pput more than one song in the game. It kept giving me a buzzing noise. So I made the song a third sound effect and that worked. Why is it OK that I can have more than one sfx and only one song? I must be doing something wrong, but I can't figure out what. Now I need to th
So I am looking at the game library. I like to collect games released late in a system's life. Looked up Cliffhanger on eBay. It was about $80. Last Action Hero was about the same. Disgruntled, I thought Jimmy Connors Tennis would be a sane price. Nope. It's even higher. Who would pay $200 for a stupid tennis game? I did however find sane prices for a few I didn't have: Championship Pool (October 1993) and Jurassic Park (June 1993). I thought I had Nigel Mansell's game, but I looked in the garag
I decided to make a new level 7 background for Hamburgers. I changed the levels around so the milkshakes wouldn't blend into the background. For example, I moved the cave level so no brown milkshakes would appear in it. As a result, my level code is all screwed up. But it works. So then I needed to make the score appear darker. I changed the dark color from red to black. So I am not planning to share any ROMs from here on out because they contain the ending, especially now since the ending is e
Just about everyone loves a happy ending. Increase that number if the happy ending involves hamburgers. I am working on the ending of Hamburgers En Route to Switzerland for Game Gear. After that, I need to change a few things in the game that are there now due to testing. Then it will finally be done. So from April to July. It took 4 months to make this game so far. I should be asleep right now but I don't want to sleep because it takes forever and I'm sick of sleeping every SINGLE NIGHT! And it
Well, I got really far on the Upmonster game. Most of today was spent on the 2-player version, while on Sunday, I just started on the game. I kept on updating and posting, and it looks like I've spammed the Intv forums with my Upmonster updates. So I'm calling it quits for today on working on Upmonster. Work will resume tomorrow. I can't help it, I just enjoy adding little feature after little feature and pretty soon I've got a different version of the game with new stuff added in. Or, in the ca
I wanted a new project to work on for the Intellivision since the Waffles game is almost done. Also, I wanted to try to make a Doodle-Jump-like game for anything except the Odyssey 2 one which I failed miserably at. So I put those things together and decided to work on a Doodle-Jump game for the Intellivision. It took a few hours to finally see how and what would work about the platforms scrolling works, or at least what makes it work in this game. I am going to name the game "Upmonster," sinc
I was getting kind of angry about the two songs that played in a lower volume than all the rest of them. Apparently I forgot that I made the volume not at max level for the first two songs, thus making them sound quieter than the rest of the ones I made for the game. So I decided to try something as a last resort. I went and made each note in both the songs louder. It was hard going note by note redoing what I had done before, but at least the composing of the songs was already done. So I think
I got labels for the Kevin Vs. Tomatoes cartridges. I have to cut and print them myself. I tried my best but this is the best I could do. Needless to say, this is my copy. I would hope to do better than this very first attempt at cartridge label making. Perhaps there's some print shop I could get premade labels with my design on them?
I decided to work on the game over screen for Hamburgers on Game Gear. After considering it, I didn't want to go with just a simple "Game over" message. It's old, tired, and cliche. So I decided to go with "you died." And, after a half-hour's work, this is what I have: Some somber music is planned but not in the game quite yet. Here's what I have left to do:
+ compose game over music + make game ending music and screen + make sure game works on real Game Gear + make nuggets appear way l
So when my Hamburgers game gets finished, it will have 7 stages. I need some room for an ending and a game over screen, so that's what prompted me to decide that. And the "perfect score" will be 1,001. So that means that in order to advance to the next level, you'll need to shoot 143 milkshakes. 143 times 7 is 1,001. I read somewhere that 143 was also Mr. Rogers' favorite number (because of the fact that I, love, you had 1, 4, and 3 letters in it. He also didn't take into effect that the same go
So I decided to make the Aaron the Aardvark game. It will be a shooting game where you shoot aliens. It will be a lot like Space Invaders. If I can, I will put in rotary support as well as regular controller support. If I can only do one, it will be regular controller support so I can play it if it ever gets released. This game is for the Atari Jaguar. I brought in the Atari Jaguar from the garage. I had to search a little bit longer for the controller. I'm debating whether I should spend the
I was bored. So I went to work on a new Jaguar game. Well, it's more of a demo at this point. One thing I learned from this was I can't have more than one 8-bit image on the screen at once. I tried to have two images, both 8 bit with about 100 colors each on the screen, but the CLUTs were all screwed up. The more I worked on this, the more I got to thinking perhaps the Jaguar isn't as powerful as I first thought.
But I doubt I'll continue work on this. First off, I have no ideas on what the
I went back to work on Hamburgers Instead of the moronic games logo, I made this: And I made a song for level 6. During making the song, the program I used to make it crashed. Before it did, it saved my progress, which I thought was rather nice of it. I don't know why it crashed. There I was, working on it when all of a sudden I couldn't move the cursor or make anything work any more. Whatever. Some stupid noisy brats just moved in near me. They're out there riding their dumb bicycles an
So I decided to try printing the manuals for Kevin Vs. Tomatoes on my home printer. It didn't look very good. This was about a couple weeks ago. Time passes. I thought to myself "Perhaps I should try again." I checked the ink levels for the printer. It was about half full of colored ink. So that wasn't the problem. Nevertheless, I tried again. The result: They looked much better than the ones I tried to print a few weeks ago or so. So now I have way better looking manuals. So now what needs to
So I was wondering whether my burger game should have an ending or not. If I don't put in an ending, then that would mean the level number would increase. And it would be really hard (and weird) to put in a level number until infinity. So what I plan to do is I'm going to have 8 levels and have then each be 125 enemies long. That way, a perfect score would be 1,000 points and then the game would have an ending. Now that I've decided that, I guess there won't be an Easter egg after all since I
Level 6 of Hamburgers En Route To Switzerland will take place in a large, metropolitan city. The hustle and bustle of everyday people going about their jobs will be interrupted by a flock of flying hamburgers shooting French fries at flying milkshakes in the sky. Here's the breakdown of space used so far in the game: bank 0 - about 1% free. I hope I can fit the rest of the game's code in this bank. bank 1 - about 9% free. This is where levels 2 and 4 are stored. (Level 4 was originally level 1
So today I decided to not sleep and instead put in a splash screen in the Hamburgers game. At first this was in black, gray and white. Then I noticed "Hey, this isn't the Game Boy. Why not make it in color?" So I did. After a testing, one of the problems I described in earlier entry came back. So I had a fun time doing that. Oh, and if you've played the game, you've probably noticed the irritating yellow screen that pops up for less than a second in an intermission. As it turns out, the yel
One thing I have been wondering is why there haven't been very many long songs, like over an hour or so. I have 15 in my collection. I mean, if people have the attention span to sit through a two-hour stupid movie about superheroes, then why wouldn't they have the attention span to listen to a 2-hour piece of music? To my knowledge, the number of two-hour or so songs you need only one hand to count them with. Back in February I started work on a 2-hour long song. I stopped because I went to wo
With ants on the kitchen counter once again (they're late this year), I began working on my Hamburgers Game Gear game. Today's task was not about programming, rather composing some eerie music for the caves level. My eye hurt a lot last night so I wasn't able to sleep very good. I slept for four hours last night, and couldn't get back to sleep. I later went to sleep at noon and woke up at 4 or so. I just finished my music, which was programmed oddly. By plunking out certain notes in the MOD ma
So all the work on Doodle Jump for the Atari 2600 someone else had been doing inspired me to try and make one for the Odyssey 2. With the characters being platforms, the most I could have would be 12 at a time. But if I decide to keep working, I doubt I would make that many. So what I have now is a guy, a platform, jumping, and collision detection. I figured putting collision detection in would be the easiest way to have the guy keep bouncing. My program looks like this: Also, I have the begi
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