gosub instead of goto
I spent a few hours last night trying to squish a few more bugs in Alien Greed 5. Then I went to sleep at 6pm. I was awakened by a dumb stupid cat crawling on my bed meowing at me at 4 am. Like always. Sigh. Anyway, when I got up, I decided to look at the code. I think it might have become clear what might have been causing the problem: I was using goto instead of gosub. But I still don't know why the problem didn't occur every time if that happens to be the fix. Sometimes when the game ended, the game reset and cleared the score you just got. And by "reset" I mean goes back to the beginning of the whole program, like you just put the cart in and turned it on for the first time. Anyway, I talked with Tim, the guy who published Alien Greed 4 (as well as the now-out Chief Chef Odyssey 2 game -shameless plug-) and I suggested a Q1 2016 release date for AG5. I sent him the binary file to test. So for the few if any people who want a fifth installment of the series, there's hope.
This time, our hero lands in the classic Atari 2600 game Kaboom! Instead of bombs, though, the Mad Bomber is throwing cartridges for the alien to catch. And in the boss stages, one is trying to catch carts and dodging bombs, and the other is collecting carts while dodging bombs. It's random which boss stage appears. I think the game will be just 4k this time.
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