sage

strange. how about a short at data or address pin of suzy? but then chained sprites would work, and it does not look tooo bad

chipper writes outr HandyMusic tracks, too ... but the instruments are not 100% compaible and must be modofied by hand.

sry was wrong. it up to 8 players 🙂

yeah, wish i just coudl put your graphics in and release it 😛

like this?dynalynx.zip up to 6 players, but never found enough lynxes to actually test it ... (for test play, the players wont get killed)

check the loader which block size it is expecting. or check if the data is repeating after 512 or 1024 bytes.

you can always use 2048 and check what you get. then choose the correct one.

without asking the authors I guess ...

Then ... go ahead!

you have contact with him?

boooring

your caps-lock is broken

I never was able to use it handybug was already available when i started doing seriouz stuff

Wasnt there some debug interface in the BLL kit which allowed to modify memory by comlynx ;-)))

you can still modify the rom. (see my AVP or Xenophobe cheat for example). Unless its well packed and encrypted (like the tetris above)

Maybe for the SV competition

next question would be if there is a level editor with which one can change the backgrounds

got a game for free and still complains ...

Not sure how Suzy is influencing the timing as it shares the bus.

left/right choose character up/down choose level avp_patch.zip

AVP Hacking (some notes I wrote down years ago, think I might share them ...) Using the "official" ROM from 1993. Goal: Find out why Alien mode is deactivated. Activate Alien Mode in Menu. Maybe do a cheat for level select. Help: We know its there because someone (http://zenade.angelfire.com/AVP/lynx/avp.html) found out how to activate it by patching into memory as well as selecting the level nr. But this Cheat is not really telling where and how to patch ... 😞 We further know that it was possible to select the alien in the menu in older ROM versions. (which I do not have available...) Findings: Alien Mode is in and "just" deactivated in the menu. It can be activated and the item picture in the menu is appearing, too. There is some conditional branch before the picture is displayed. But it is not clear yet what is this condition... My guess: COMLYNX Mode! Comlynx? Indeed there is support for Comlynx in AvP! Just connect a second lynx and one player can select marine while the other is predator. But: It does not seem to work. At least not with my two Lynxes. Add: With three Lynxes every player gets adifferent character ... means the Alien pops up in the menu as expected. Investigating: First, extract files from rom. We get something like 200 file entries, but a lot of them are zero entries. File 0 is the title picture (as always). Trivia: It is not a single sprite but four, background, alien, vs, predator are seperate sprites. File 1: main code/basic fuction stays resident. File 2,3,5,7: menu and actual game ... swapped in at the same address as needed. File 2 contains Intro? File 3 contains the selection menu! File 5 is engine. File 7 contains the Game Over screen. Remark: switched pics??? Most of the other files are sprite data, but sometimes with some additional data (table?) in front of it. Lets concentrate on the file 3 and look for the menu selection part. And there it is... LDX $06 LDA #$00 L2E22: ORA $0A,X DEX BPL L2E22 BIT #$03 BNE L2E6B BIT #$10 ; Left/Right BEQ L2E46 LDA L2E7A ; CURRENT SELECTION DEC CPX #$02 ; And this is crazy... because x is always -1 here!! BPL L2E3B ; And this is crazy... if this should be cmp this makes more sence... but limits AND #$01 ; And this is crazy... the value to 0 and 1 for the selected character BRA L2E41 ; And this is crazy... L2E3B: CMP #$00 BPL L2E41 LDA #$02 L2E41: STA L2E7A ; Store selection BRA L2E5F L2E46: BIT #$20 ; Left/Right BEQ L2E5F LDA L2E7A INC CMP #$02 ; And this is crazy, too ... must be CPX as above?? BPL L2E56 ; And this is crazy, too ... doesnt make sence AND #$01 ; And this is crazy, too ... BRA L2E5C ; And this is crazy, too ... L2E56: CMP #$02 BMI L2E5C LDA #$00 L2E5C: STA L2E7A ; Store selection L2E5F: LDA L2E7B ; Animation of Frame or similar? INC AND #$03 STA L2E7B JMP L2DBF ; The following is interesting, too L2E6B: LDX $07 LDA L2E7A STA $10,X STA $AD JSR $058e JMP $1822 ; And if we check a bit of code before, we find the following ; This is run when we first enter the menu... LDX $07 TXA STA $10,X STA L2E7A What do we learn from this? a) there is a bug in the avp code b) selection can be 0,1,2 BUT ther is this CPX on something which limits this to 0 and 1 (alien is 2!) c) on start this value is read from $07 Some very nice piece of code is: LDX L2E7A LDY #$07 LDA L2D88,X STA ($AB),Y LDY #$09 LDA L2D8B,X STA ($AB),Y LDA $AB LDX $AC JSR $056e this code is plotting the selection frame ... based on a three entry look-up table. three characters! We learn: L056E is plotting a sprite! looking where it is used will find an additional piece of code which draws one sprite only under a condition: LDA $06 CMP #$02 BMI L2DE4 LDA #$b0 LDX #$52 JSR $056e L2DE4: What sprite is it? yes, the alien head for the menu. (not shown: right above that was the plotting of marine and predator) What do we learn? Based on the value of $06 the alien head is (not) shown in the menu. The same value is used on some loop above the selection code to OR some values which are tested for left/right. What does this mean, why do we want to make an OR if we have only one Lynx... and why is all this keypad reading and storing (not shown at all) done so terribly complicated... based on some indizes... could it mean...yes indeed!!! Checking the main code result in a lot of SERDAT occurances... means: COMLYNX code!!!! => a short check with two Lynxes, yes we have comlynx support. And the complicated code for selection "just" synchronizes the selection between two(?) Lynxes.

Only if you fit solder some more memory

Yes, true. And the Java virtual machine was release for Atari Lynx at April 1st 2011

Hehe too late for the competition. But maybe for some other project.

Unlikely. I am fed up with GUI coding. this eats time and sux. but i did not changed much in chipper. the last thing was the midi import, which was never release. I focused a bit on the lynx part in the last year, by adding some kind of midi support.