Rabbit 2600

August 4, 2014

I'm a high score junkie. I adore my Atari 2600 and my Mame cabinet. I'm in the mood to expand upon my Mame's game selection and was wondering which of the other older systems would cater too my high score chasing needs? Preferably those with an initial entering feature so you can see who got what score =)

May 18, 2014

And now Mario is red as he should be. Nice! =)

Romfile = Mario Kart.rar

Please let me know what you think =D

May 18, 2014

Found a better game to use as a base. Now using Mach Rider and it's alot more fun, hehe...

May 17, 2014

Just noticed Mario Kart 8 is soon to be released for the WiiU and I thought it strange that nobody has done a homebrew or hack on a racing game so we would have Mario Kart on the NES, so I'm fiddling together a silly little hack of Excitebike I would much rather have some 2 player racing game as a base but the 2 player ones are overhead view and way to many sprites for me to edit. Would be cool with something where you saw the car from the behind. The hack's not done yet and I don't know when it will be, just a fun thing I fiddle with now and then =) But I could get a move on if there's an interest for it. Mostly just wanted to show my sillyness to the world, haha....And I'd love to have something like this on a cart personaly

10348454_1503960626494384_93589521309801

May 17, 2014

Do anyone know of a list of all the racing games for the NES? I'm having a hard time finding one.

April 26, 2014

Not sure if this is the right place, but I recently got my hands on Petite Computer for the 3DS an emulator for SMILEBASIC where you get to make your own software. I dabbled with BatariBasic so I figured somethings out but I need to ask a few questions to grasp somethings.

Anyway, my code so far allows for movement of an @ which is the player and an Z which would be a zombie.

My first question would be. How would I go about giving the zombie a random chance of moving towards the player if one of the buttons are pushed? I know how to make it move towards the player every time the buttons are pushed, I would need a random counter and I'm not sure on how to set them up. Like giving it a chance of 1 in 4.

X=5:Y=12

ZX=20:ZY=12

@LOOP

K=BUTTON(2)
IF K AND 1 THEN Y=Y-1
IF K AND 2 THEN Y=Y+1
IF K AND 4 THEN X=X-1
IF K AND 8 THEN X=X+1

LOCATE X,Y
?"@"

LOCATE ZX,ZY
?"Z"

VSYNC 1:CLS
GOTO @LOOP

Many thanks in advance =)

April 6, 2014

I'm having a bit of trouble with hacking the sprites of Contra for the NES. It seems that when I look at the sprites in Tile Layer Pro the sprites for the main character is extremely hard to find. Is there any way to do an autosort so the sprites line up so I can see things more clearly. Or if there are some better tool? The closest thing I get to see the character sprites is in the editor in Nesticle.

January 19, 2014

No, I have no experience with compiling mame. Are there any documents about the subject that you recomend? =)

January 18, 2014

From what I have seen on the net hacking roms for MAME is very outdated. Dosn't seem like many (If any) people are still doing it. But I'm a sucker for arcade games and I love highscores so it rocks that you can do romhacks for MAME, even though information is hard to find.

Here is a zip with the patch for centipede. Wish I could make it standalone so you could have both the original centipede and this one...Anyone know how to setup drivers in Mame? =)

Patch - centiped.zip

January 18, 2014

Thanks! Got it working now, and I managed to make a hack, though not of Donkey Kong, but of Centipede. You are now a guy with 2 guns instead of a snake and you fire 2 horizontal bullets instead of 1. The centipede is now eyeballs. The mushrooms are now tombstones, the spider is a ghost and the flea is a skull =)

January 18, 2014

Now, I just need to figure out how to get the hacked game to work in Mame, any thoughts? =)

January 18, 2014

I managed to fix the error, it was looking for different romsets then was listed, I managed to find out what files to add and now it works. =) I only wish it had support for VS. Super Mario Bros, but it got support for tons of other games so I'm happy =)

January 18, 2014

Not sure where too put this but I'm trying to setup Turaco and do some romhacks. I keep getting the same errors and I don't know what is wrong. In this case I'm trying to get the sprites in Donkey Kong and I get these error messages. First one says: Error, dk.3n not found. Not suprising since there is no file by that name in the dkong.zip file. The second error I get says; Error loading driver : drivers\NINTENDO\DKONG.INI. Sorry. I'm guessing you'll have to manually edit the .ini file and make it go to the correct file but I have no idea which one of the files contains the sprites.

I have extracted the files in the .zip into it's own folder called roms in the Turaco map, like this: C:\Turaco\roms

And the drivers are in the Turaco map also, like this: C:\Turaco\DRIVERS

The TURACO.INI should be correct too. This is what I did in it:

[system]
Version_Major = 1
Version_Minor = 1
Info = This file was created from within Turaco.
Author = Turaco
ROMPath = C:\Turaco\roms
Font = 1
H_Res = 320
V_Res = 240
Driver_Subdirs = on
Troll_Magic = on

[PCX_Rip]
Path = .
NumPerRow = 32

If anyone has fiddled with this program please let me know how you configured it. Any help at all would be great. Thanks in advance.

November 16, 2013

Experimenting on a racing game, and I want the playfield to scroll vertical. What would the simplest way of doing it be?

Also, I've been playing Gate Racer a lot and I really like the feature of having gates to go through, Any tips on how to achieve this feature? =)

Source:

  rem CODE INSPIRED BY Atarius Maximus at http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=109288

TITLE

 drawscreen

 if joy0fire then goto start

 goto TITLE

start

  player0x = 50
  player0y = 80

 player1x = 255
 player1y = 255

 scorecolor = $0E

                                  dim _P1_L_R = player1x.a
                                  dim _P1_U_D = player1y.b
                                  dim _P0_L_R = player0x.c
                                  dim _P0_U_D = player0y.d

main


   AUDV0=0
   AUDV1=0

 a = a + 1

  rem POSSIBLY INEFFICIENT CODE, SEPARATE COLOR INFO FOR EACH FRAME...
        player0:
        %01000010
        %01111110
        %01011010
        %00011000
        %00111100
        %00111100
        %00111100
        %00111100
        %00100100
        %00100100
        %00111100
        %00011000
        %01011010
        %01111110
        %01011010
        %00011000
end

        player1:
        %01000010
        %01111110
        %01011010
        %00011000
        %00111100
        %00111100
        %00111100
        %00111100
        %00100100
        %00100100
        %00111100
        %00011000
        %01011010
        %01111110
        %01011010
        %00011000
end

 COLUP0 = $0E
 COLUPF = $0E
 COLUP1 = $0E

 playfield:
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
 ..X.X......................X.X..
end




EXPLOSION
  rem POSSIBLY INEFFICIENT CODE, SEPARATE COLOR INFO FOR EACH FRAME...
  if f = 10 then player1:
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
end

  if f = 20 then player1:
        %11001100
        %11001100
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
        %00110011
        %00110011
end

  if f=20 then f=0

  drawscreen

  if joy0right then player0x = player0x + 1
  if joy0left then player0x = player0x - 1

 if player1x < 15 then player1x = rand
 if player1x > 130 then player1x = rand

 if player1x = 255 then player1x = rand : player1y = 20

 if player1y > 90 then player1x = rand : player1y = 20 : e = (rand&3)

 if e = 0 then NUSIZ1 = $00
 if e = 1 then NUSIZ1 = $01
 if e = 2 then NUSIZ1 = $02
 if e = 3 then NUSIZ1 = $03

 _P1_U_D = _P1_U_D + 0.60

 if a = 60 then score = score + 1 : a = 0

 if joy0fire then goto faster

 goto main

faster

 _P1_U_D = _P1_U_D + 0.60

 if a = 30 then score = score + 1 : a = 0


  goto main

October 28, 2013

Nevermind, I figured it out. . .

October 21, 2013

Haha, that's awesome! =D

October 20, 2013

Any fun gameplay ideas you think could be added to this one? =)

October 20, 2013

Sure I can post the code =)

I must learn missiles sometime, I have great examples to look at but I just don't get it. Thinking of having the robots firing missiles left and right so they won't be so easy to bomb.

 rem Generated 2013-10-19 17:39:33 by Visual bB Version 1.0.0.554
 rem **********************************
 rem *<filename>                      *
 rem *<description>                   *
 rem *<author>                        *
 rem *<contact info>                  *
 rem *<license>                       *
 rem **********************************

   set kernel multisprite

        set smartbranching on


 player1x = 135 : player1y = 25
 player2x = 122 : player2y = 50
 player3x = 255 : player3y = 255
 player4x = 255 : player4y = 255
 player0x = 50 : player0y = 50
 player5x = 32 : player5y = 75

 ballx = 255 : bally = 255

   AUDV0=0
   AUDV1=0

BATTLEFIELD



                                  dim _P1_L_R = player1x.a
                                  dim _P1_U_D = player1y.b

                                  dim _P2_L_R = player2x.c
                                  dim _P2_U_D = player2y.d

                                  dim _P5_L_R = player5x.k
                                  dim _P5_U_D = player5y.l

                                  dim _P0_L_R = player0x.i
                                  dim _P0_U_D = player0y.j

 if q = 1 then player0:
        %00100100
        %00100100
        %00011000
        %00011000
        %00011110
        %00000000
        %00011000
        %00011000
end

 if q = 2 then player0:
        %00100100
        %00100100
        %00011000
        %00011000
        %01111000
        %00000000
        %00011000
        %00011000
end

   player1:
        %00001000
        %00000000
        %01011101
        %01011101
        %00011100
        %01100011
        %00011100
        %00011100
end

   player2:
        %00001000
        %00000000
        %01011101
        %01011101
        %00011100
        %01100011
        %00011100
        %00011100
end


BOMB
  rem POSSIBLY INEFFICIENT CODE, SEPARATE COLOR INFO FOR EACH FRAME...
   player3:
        %00011100
        %00111110
        %00101110
        %00100110
        %00011100
        %00001000
        %00000110
        %00000000
end

EXPLOSION

 player4:
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
        %00110011
        %00110011
        %11001100
        %11001100
end


   player5:
        %00001000
        %00000000
        %01011101
        %01011101
        %00011100
        %01100011
        %00011100
        %00011100
end

 _COLUP1 = $0E

 COLUP2 = $40

 COLUP3 = $02

 COLUP4 = rand

 COLUP5 = $16

 COLUP0 = $1E

 t = t + 1

 if t = 10 then COLUPF = $94

 if t = 20 then COLUPF = $98

 if t = 20 then t = 0




 playfield:
 ................
 ................
 ................
 ................
 ................
 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
 X...............
 X...............
 X...............
 X...............
 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
end

 scorecolor = $0E

 drawscreen

        if joy0right then q = 1 : _P0_L_R = _P0_L_R + 0.30
        if joy0left then q = 2 : _P0_L_R = _P0_L_R - 0.30
        if joy0up then _P0_U_D = _P0_U_D + 0.30
        if joy0down then _P0_U_D = _P0_U_D - 0.30

  if _P1_U_D < _P0_U_D then _P1_U_D = _P1_U_D + 0.10
  if _P1_U_D > _P0_U_D then _P1_U_D = _P1_U_D - 0.10
  if _P1_L_R < _P0_L_R then _P1_L_R = _P1_L_R + 0.10
  if _P1_L_R > _P0_L_R then _P1_L_R = _P1_L_R - 0.10

  if _P2_U_D < _P0_U_D then _P2_U_D = _P2_U_D + 0.10
  if _P2_U_D > _P0_U_D then _P2_U_D = _P2_U_D - 0.10
  if _P2_L_R < _P0_L_R then _P2_L_R = _P2_L_R + 0.10
  if _P2_L_R > _P0_L_R then _P2_L_R = _P2_L_R - 0.10

  if _P5_U_D < _P0_U_D then _P5_U_D = _P5_U_D + 0.10
  if _P5_U_D > _P0_U_D then _P5_U_D = _P5_U_D - 0.10
  if _P5_L_R < _P0_L_R then _P5_L_R = _P5_L_R + 0.10
  if _P5_L_R > _P0_L_R then _P5_L_R = _P5_L_R - 0.10

 if player1y = 35 then player1y = 34

 if player2y = 55 then player2y = 54
 if player2y = 36 then player2y = 37

 if player5y = 60 then player5y = 61

 if player3x < 255 then goto SKIP

 if joy0fire then player3x = player0x + 8 : player3y = player0y : z = 72

SKIP

 if z > 0 then z = z - 1 : if z = 0 then player4x = player3x : player4y = player3y : u = 52

 if u > 0 then AUDV0 = 15 : AUDC0 = 8 : AUDF0 = 30 : u = u - 1 : if u = 0 then player4x = 255 : player4y = 255 : player3x = 255 : player3y = 255 : AUDV0 = 0

   if n > 0 then AUDV0 = 15 : AUDC0 = 8 : AUDF0 = 20 : n = n - 1: if n = 0 then AUDV0 = 0

 if player2x = player4x && player2y = player4y then player2y = 255 : player2x = 255 : score = score + 100

 if player1x = player4x && player1y = player4y then player1y = 255 : player1x = 255 : score = score + 100

 if player5x = player4x && player5y = player4y then player5y = 255 : player5x = 255 : score = score + 100

 if joy0left && collision(player0,playfield) then player0x = player0x + 1
 if joy0right && collision(player0,playfield) then player0x = player0x - 1

 if joy0up && collision(player0,playfield) then player0y = player0y - 1
 if joy0down && collision(player0,playfield) then player0y = player0y + 1






 goto BATTLEFIELD

October 20, 2013

Managed to get rid of a lot of flickering. Press the firebutton to lay down a bomb.

RobotronBeta2.bin

October 20, 2013

Just having some fun - You can now drop bombs by pressing fire and blast the robots. Yay or nay?

Bombertron.bin

October 20, 2013

I'm intrigued by games such as Demolition Herby where you can color the playfield and I had an idea that might work as a Bomberman clone but I have no experience with using the playfield in such a manner. The premise would be that the player pushes the fire button and that makes missile0 appear next to the player. This I can do, no problem. But, how do I go about that after 2 seconds the playfield pixel where missile0 is lights up for about a second and then dissapearing, and how do I setup collision for the pixel if it's lighted up?

October 19, 2013

Working on a Robotron engine. It's still very basic but it's a start

You can walk around and shoot to the right. (Haven't gotten the hang of missiles just yet)

4 enemies on the screen that can be killed.

Game: RobotronBeta.bin

Source: RobotronBeta.bas

October 19, 2013

Okay, I managed to fix the issue with the missile collision.

But, I'm having issues with movement with player2-4. Movement in player1 works fine. Any thoughts?


 if _P1_L_R < _P0_L_R then _P1_L_R = _P1_L_R + 0.10
 if _P1_L_R > _P0_L_R then _P1_L_R = _P1_L_R - 0.10
 if _P1_U_D < _P0_U_D then _P1_U_D = _P1_U_D + 0.10
 if _P1_U_D > _P0_U_D then _P1_U_D = _P1_U_D - 0.10

 if _P2_L_R < _P0_L_R then _P2_L_R = _P2_L_R + 0.10
 if _P2_L_R > _P0_L_R then _P2_L_R = _P2_L_R - 0.10
 if _P2_U_D < _P0_U_D then _P2_U_D = _P2_U_D + 0.10
 if _P2_U_D > _P0_U_D then _P2_U_D = _P2_U_D - 0.10

Source:

 rem Generated 2013-10-19 17:39:33 by Visual bB Version 1.0.0.554
 rem **********************************
 rem *<filename>                      *
 rem *<description>                   *
 rem *<author>                        *
 rem *<contact info>                  *
 rem *<license>                       *
 rem **********************************

   set kernel multisprite

        set smartbranching on

                                  dim _P1_L_R = player1x.a
                                  dim _P1_U_D = player1y.b
                                  dim _P0_L_R = player0x.c
                                  dim _P0_U_D = player0y.d
                                  dim _P2_L_R = player0x.i
                                  dim _P2_U_D = player0y.j
                                  dim _player0a = e
                                  dim _player0b = f

 player1x = 110 : player1y = 70
 player2x = 130 : player2y = 20
 player3x = 30 : player3y = 20
 player4x = 30 : player4y = 70
 player0x = 50 : player0y = 50
 missile0x = 200 : missile0y = 200

   AUDV0=0
   AUDV1=0

BATTLEFIELD

  g=g+1
  rem POSSIBLY INEFFICIENT CODE, SEPARATE COLOR INFO FOR EACH FRAME...
  if g = 10 then player0:
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %11111111
        %11111111
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %00000000
end

  if g = 20 then player0:
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %11111111
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %11111111
        %00000000
        %00000000
end

  if g = 30 then player0:
        %00000000
        %11111111
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %11111111
        %00000000
end

  if g = 40 then player0:
        %11111111
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %00000000
        %11111111
end

 if g = 50 then player0:
        %00100100
        %00100100
        %00011000
        %00011000
        %01111110
        %00000000
        %00011000
        %00011000
end

   player1:
        %00001000
        %00000000
        %01011101
        %01011101
        %00011100
        %01100011
        %00011100
        %00011100
end

   player2:
        %00001000
        %00000000
        %01011101
        %01011101
        %00011100
        %01100011
        %00011100
        %00011100
end

   player3:
        %00001000
        %00000000
        %01011101
        %01011101
        %00011100
        %01100011
        %00011100
        %00011100
end

   player4:
        %00001000
        %00000000
        %01011101
        %01011101
        %00011100
        %01100011
        %00011100
        %00011100
end

 _COLUP1 = $0E

 COLUP2 = $40

 COLUP3 = $D4

 COLUP4 = $64

 COLUP0 = $1E

 COLUPF = $0E



 playfield:
 ................
 ................
 ................
 ................
 ................
 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
 X...............
 X...............
 X...............
 X...............
 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
end




 scorecolor = $0E

 drawscreen

        if g > 50 && joy0right then _P0_L_R = _P0_L_R + 0.30
        if g > 50 && joy0left then _P0_L_R = _P0_L_R - 0.30
        if g > 50 && joy0up then _P0_U_D = _P0_U_D + 0.30
        if g > 40 && joy0down then _P0_U_D = _P0_U_D - 0.30

 if _P1_L_R < _P0_L_R then _P1_L_R = _P1_L_R + 0.10
 if _P1_L_R > _P0_L_R then _P1_L_R = _P1_L_R - 0.10
 if _P1_U_D < _P0_U_D then _P1_U_D = _P1_U_D + 0.10
 if _P1_U_D > _P0_U_D then _P1_U_D = _P1_U_D - 0.10

 if _P2_L_R < _P0_L_R then _P2_L_R = _P2_L_R + 0.10
 if _P2_L_R > _P0_L_R then _P2_L_R = _P2_L_R - 0.10
 if _P2_U_D < _P0_U_D then _P2_U_D = _P2_U_D + 0.10
 if _P2_U_D > _P0_U_D then _P2_U_D = _P2_U_D - 0.10

 if joy0left && joy0fire then missile0x=player0x : missile0y = player0y : goto MISSILELEFT


 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player1x then n = 11: player1y = 255 : score = score + 10

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player2x then n = 11: player2y = 255 : score = score + 10

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0y = player3y then n = 11: player3y = 255 : score = score + 10

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0y = player4y then n = 11: player4y = 255 : score = score + 10

   if n > 0 then AUDV0 = 15 : AUDC0 = 8 : AUDF0 = 20 : n = n - 1: if n = 0 then AUDV0 = 0

 if collision(missile0,playfield) then missile0x = 255 : missile0y = 255


MISSILELEFT
 missile0x = missile0x - 1

 goto BATTLEFIELD

October 19, 2013

I have almost gotten multisprite collision working the old fashioned way without DPC+ but I hit a small snag.

The collision between missile0 and player1 and player2 works and they dissapear when the missile is at the same x position as them. But it dosn't work so well with player3 and player4. When missile0 collides with either player3 or player4 both of them dissapears.


 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player1x then player1y = 255

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player2x then player2y = 255

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player3x then player3y = 255

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player4x then player4y = 255

Entire Code:

 rem Generated 2013-10-19 17:39:33 by Visual bB Version 1.0.0.554
 rem **********************************
 rem *<filename>                      *
 rem *<description>                   *
 rem *<author>                        *
 rem *<contact info>                  *
 rem *<license>                       *
 rem **********************************

   set kernel multisprite

        set smartbranching on

                                  dim _P1_L_R = player1x.a
                                  dim _P1_U_D = player1y.b
                                  dim _P0_L_R = player0x.c
                                  dim _P0_U_D = player0y.d
                                  dim _player0a = e
                                  dim _player0b = f

 player1x = 110 : player1y = 70
 player2x = 130 : player2y = 20
 player3x = 30 : player3y = 20
 player4x = 30 : player4y = 70
 player0x = 50 : player0y = 50
 missile0x = 200 : missile0y = 200


BATTLEFIELD

  player0:
   %00011111
   %11111111
   %00111110
   %11111111
   %00011111
end

   player1:
   %00011111
   %11111111
   %00111110
   %11111111
   %00011111
end

   player2:
   %00011111
   %11111111
   %00111110
   %11111111
   %00011111
end

   player3:
   %00011111
   %11111111
   %00111110
   %11111111
   %00011111
end

   player4:
   %00011111
   %11111111
   %00111110
   %11111111
   %00011111
end

 _COLUP1 = $0E

 COLUP2 = $40

 COLUP3 = $D4

 COLUP4 = $64

 COLUP0 = $1E

 COLUPF = $0E



 playfield:
 ................
 ................
 ................
 ................
 ................
 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
 X...............
 X...............
 X...............
 X...............
 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
end




 scorecolor = $0E

 drawscreen

        if joy0right then _P0_L_R = _P0_L_R + 0.30
        if joy0left then _P0_L_R = _P0_L_R - 0.30
        if joy0up then _P0_U_D = _P0_U_D + 0.30
        if joy0down then _P0_U_D = _P0_U_D - 0.30

 if joy0left && joy0fire then missile0x=player0x : missile0y = player0y : goto MISSILELEFT


 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player1x then player1y = 255

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player2x then player2y = 255

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player3x then player3y = 255

 if collision(missile0, player1) && missile0x = player4x then player4y = 255



MISSILELEFT
 missile0x = missile0x - 1

 goto BATTLEFIELD

October 19, 2013

Sorry, Random Terrain. The template had slipped my mind, thanks for reminding me! =)

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