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  1. Posted

    Very nice. :thumbsup:

     

    It looks a bit odd when his head looses its color, though. Maybe it would look better if his shirt gets the head color or both colors get mixed? Or we could use flicker here.

     

    Thanks. Some animations or even frames, if possible, will use their own color pallete to minimize this problem, don't worry I'm aware of that. :)

  2. Posted · Edited by LS_Dracon

    Hi, new demo!

     

    post-10940-0-15930500-1342793995_thumb.jpg

     

    It's an animation test demo, not really a gameplay, so the controllers are just functional, it's not my suggestion how it must plays.

     

    Ok the keys if Prince is stopped :

     

    hold forward = Run

    Up = jump to climb

    Down = crouch

    back = turn (it's buggy because I'm not finish the left facing missile sprites, so the prince positions is reset to the left)

     

    Hold button + Up = jump forward

    Hold button + Down = step forward

     

    Prince is running :

     

    Release foward = stop to run

    button = running jump

     

    Again, it's an animation demo I did to test my sprites, most of the motion values will be changed to match the original game. The sprites as well is only 80% done.

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  6. Posted · Edited by LS_Dracon

    If you need help with another character just ask ;)

     

    If you wanna help out and 3d model another character, Take you pick! 500-ish triangles or less is ideal. I haven't even started on any myself.

     

     

    Yes! Fire girl!

    But I would like to change her design a bit, if you don't mind....

  9. Posted

    sound effects (especially compared to the current game: different or missing)

     

    I did all the sound fx and they are most close as possible with original. All the samplers are there, including new ones like the switch sound (pause).

     

    The background siren for example updates the AUDFx on the fly, trying to simulate better than just one frame update. Here is the bullet shooting sound in .wav to compare, the first sound is the original and the second is the TIA incarnation :

    scastlebullet.wav

  10. Posted · Edited by LS_Dracon

    That's great! Thanks :)

     

    If you can add more triangles on her ponytail would looks better, don't know how much polygons can you use in a character.

     

    Her weakness must to be the ice, and the background something like jungle / jurassic park, you know, if it is not too hard to make.

     

    If you need help with another character just ask ;)

     

    See ya.

  12. Posted

    I've tested your game and think it's very good.

    You have managed how to create your own 3d texturized models, very impressive :)

    The models are well done and the animation is very good also.

     

    I've encourage you to release your game in fisical form (CDs) perhaps here in AtariAge you can find somebody to help you.

     

    The robo master list is close? Can I suggest you a character?

    Slashman is my favorite robo master, how about SlashWoman? Check the design I did.

     

    Good luck in your project.

    post-10940-0-03929300-1334267347_thumb.gif

  14. Posted · Edited by LS_Dracon

    A bit old news, the original Sim City code was released in 2008 under the GPL.

     

    There is a SimCity clone named Micropolis, an improvment of the original source.

     

    "SimCity" name still under Eletronic Art copyrights and can't to be used in projects with this source code.

     

    Wondering to know if is possible to port this game to Atari 7800.

     

    Here's the Micropolis page with more information about source and the game itself : http://code.google.com/p/micropolis/

  17. Posted · Edited by LS_Dracon

    Hell, I'd put down some cash for a homebrew cart of Space Invaders for the RCA.

     

    Anyone know how these guys made their homebrew projects? What coding? What assembler?

     

    You can use TASM. Also the Studio 2 uses same processor and similar hardware from many computers (Cosmac, Elf), these computers uses Chip-8 language wich is very easy and fun to code. There is a Space Invaders written in Chip-8 for "Elf computer" wich is very good actually.

     

     

     

    Hey guess what? There are two "systems" that are worse than the RCA Studio II. The justice system and the government! haha

     

     

    Haha and even slower!

  19. Posted · Edited by LS_Dracon

    You could remove the WSYNC and gain enough cycles for sta HMP1.

     

    Tried but I need to make the loop with exactly 76 cicles or it mess with HMOVE.

    Also there's the problem to set HMxx values 24 cicles before HMOVE, here'sthe scanline loop :

     

    ;------------------------------------------
Scanloop
sta WSYNC
sta HMOVE
lda MarioPF2,x
sta PF2
;-----
lda MarioPlayer1,x
sta GRP0
lda MarioColor1,x
sta COLUP0
lda MarioPlayer2,x
sta GRP1
lda MarioColor2,x
sta COLUP1
ldy #0
lda MarioPF3,X
sta PF2
sty PF1
lda MovePlayer1,x
sta HMP0
lda MovePlayer2,x
; sta HMP1
lda MarioPF1,x
sta PF1
;------
FinishLoop
dex
bne Scanloop

     

    I'm not good with optimizations :(

     

    The PF1 is load after PF3, to be displayed in next line, added 1 extra line in the graphic table to fix it.

     

    I've included 2 variations on the Mario, the first is Hyper Sprite based with a height adjustment for the Playfield wide pixels and the second is closer to my concept of Playfield color fill and 4 pixel wide edging pixels and tile blocks.

     

    You can use only 1 color per line, combinations like skin-red and red-blue or blue-brown aren't possible. Only if you set both players at same place, like layers, reducing the color area to 8 pixels wide. :)

  21. Posted

    The flicker don't looks good in large images (playfield and 4x sized players) in a "not black" background, I already did tests, trust me.

    Yes, I mean the hair black for the eyes be black too. Actually you can change the background color in that area to paint the eyes as black, but it's require a special timming wich is very difficult to do.

    The problem you need to change the playfield pixels at exactly 48 cicles (half of the screen) you can't miss this time, another thing that makes it difficult.

    ...

    I think you can change the playfield color, as there aren't others playfield pixels after the eye. I'll try to convert this image for you.

    BTW there are others ways to display a multi colored image, using Andrew Davie Chrono Color technique, wich flicker but looks good because the black background.

     

    Teorically, with Melody Board both ROM and RAM is no more a problem, but it's not a goo way to start to code, I think learn to code for the 2600 with all limitations makes the wole thing fun.

    Is possible to extract art from 2600, don't give up :)

     

    I see your from Brazil, how is the weather down there?

     

    The spring is ending, the summer aproaches. Yep, Xmas in the hell hehehe. Actually I live in south of Brazil wich is cold, but no snow in dezember. You don't miss what you don't know :)

  22. Posted

    Tnx.

    Your mock-ups are possible, with few adjusts (mario skin color and the red (hat) color in the same scan line is not possible, also the eyes must be brown, it's a good idea to paint the hair as black).

    Also using 1 scanline resolution require much rom. My example uses something like 128 bytes on each image, (8 scanline resolution) so you can store 9 images in 1 kb.

     

    Atari 2600 hardware is really limited to the graphics, sadly.

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