ZeroPage Homebrew

Heya Splendidnut! We're doing an 'early WIP homebrew' special episode tomorrow on ZeroPage Homebrew and thought Chaotic Grill would fit in perfectly. :-) We'll be broadcasting LIVE on Twitch tomorrow (Friday) at 2PM PT/5PM ET, so I hope you can make it! If not, you can catch the episode in our YouTube archives the next day. Hopefully see you there in the chat! Twitch LiveStreams: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube Channel: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew

Thanks for the update mobiusstriptech! I'm looking forward to buying a board kit from your new batch. Right now I broadcast an all homebrew Twitch livestream show using an RGB Atari 2600 and I'm looking to get into showing off the latest Coleco homebrew as well, in the best quality possible of course! :-)

Hi grafixbmp, I haven't covered that one! We've played the Dark Chambers to Gauntlet hack but not the one made from Haunted House. Do you have a link for that? My searching hasn't come up with a result.

Thanks to everybody out there for making today's livestream of ZeroPage Homebrew the most watched episode in the show's history!! (Yes, even more than the live unboxing of the Retron 77) You rock, thank you so much for your continued enthusiasm and support for the show. It just keeps getting better and better because of all of you!

Heya Muddyfunster, here's the graphic I made for the Twitch livestream broadcast tomorrow for the let's play of your game on ZeroPage. See everyone there at 11AM PT/2PM ET! Twitch LiveStream: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew

Hi TidusRenegade! We'll be showcasing your game 'Escape from Kukuku Temple' tomorrow LIVE on our ZeroPage Homebrew Twitch stream! :-) We're doing a WIP Homebrew special! Twitch Livestream Channel: https://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube Archive Channel: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew We're be broadcasting live at 11AM PT/2PM PT tomorrow (Wednesday) but if you can't catch it live it will be posted in our YouTube archives 24 hours later. Hope to see you there!

I've been playing the game a little to check out the new version and was able to get perfect scores on the first three levels (full throttle, no stopping) but the fourth level is a hellscape of fast reflexes and memorization!! I'll get it eventually. When I first played level 1 I thought that the game was too easy, by level 3 I was changing my mind and by level 4 I was sure that the game was not too easy! Some suggestions: - Ability to press the button to take you back to the main menu when you die. - Have the main menu remember which race level you're on when you reset the game, otherwise you have to constantly select the level each time you retry. - Have the levels selectable (left/right) with the joystick on the main menu Great stuff, looking forward to playing it on the livestream tomorrow!

Awesome, thanks so much Thomas! I'll use this version on the livestream on Wednesday. :-)

It's got amazing strategy to it as Karl G said above, it's very, very playable and super challenging. Do you have a to-do list for what's left to finish up on the game?

I can't believe this amazing game of Thomas' has slipped by me and I haven't put it on ZeroPage Homebrew yet!!! Time to remedy that. Robot City will be on our next livestream of ZeroPage on Wednesday September 5! The show will start at 2PM PT/5PM ET and if you not able to watch it live, it it'll be on our YouTube archives the next day. :-) Twitch: https://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew

Hi Muddyfunster, the graphics on your game are amazing, such rich colours! We're going to feature your game on ZeroPage Homebrew on our next livestream on Wednesday September 5! The show starts at 2PM PT/5PM ET and I can't wait to show it off to our audience. Hope you can make it, if not, you can watch it in our YouTube archives the next day. :-) Twitch: https://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew YouTube: https://youtube.com/zeropagehomebrew

Here is my collection of homebrew carts so far! A bit of a reflection in some of them as they're all in cases or plastic. Edit: Oops, Marble Craze was missing from the photo, it was on another shelf...

Oh sorry, yes, she is sicksweet in the rankings listing. Yes, I think Lady Bug is going to be more up her alley, mine too. Looking forward to the next round! Oh nice about the Brazil version of her name, thanks for that info! She's actually named from the Russian version of it, although she isn't Russian.

Thanks Lid! Tanya and I played the game last night streaming on the show as a last attempt to get some decent scores in. I couldn't best my previous score but she was able to get a score of 5870 on her last round. Tanya 5870

Definitely an amazing set of games to start with!! :-)

Could it be a result of the RGB video board that I've upgraded my light sixer with? http://etim.net.au/2600rgb/installation-6switch/ I've also attached some photos of my VCS in case that helps.

Thanks so much almightytodd! I definitely wanted a name that would be intimately tied to the Atari 2600 (and 6502+variant architectures) and ZeroPage jumped out to me almost immediately. It had a great sound to the words and definitely had an association to a specific era of programming & gaming!

Thanks everybody who tuned in to watch the super fun Atari 2600 Homebrew Hack's livestream episode yesterday. I just posted YouTube archive link to the episode in the top post (20180829 episode). If you have any more great hacked 2600 games that you'd like me to include in another episode of hacks, leave your favourites here or PM me! :-) EDIT: As Thomas pointed out below, I am looking for hacks that not just alter the graphics but add something significant in terms of either gameplay, level design etc..

Thanks so much for watching the show! We'll definitely be giving the game another go on the stream with two players once you've got a stable picture with the line count fixed up. The game looks like a lot of fun with all the changes made to Dark Chambers. Great job, keep it up, can't wait to try it again! :-)

Gauntlet is definitely one of my all time favourite games and it's awesome to see it on the VCS, love it CDS Games, great work! We're broadcasting an all hacks special LIVE on ZeroPage Homebrew tonight and we'll be featuring your hack of Gauntlet 2600!! ZeroPage Twitch LiveStream: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ We'll also be playing these games: - Bouncer (hack of Boing!) by Scott Dayton "neotokeo2001" - Wolfenstein VCS: The Next Mission (hack of Venture) by Scott Dayton "neotokeo2001" & Robert Mundschau - River Raid Fantasy Mode (hack of River Raid) by Nukey Shay The show will be livestreaming on Twitch at 7PM PT / 10PM ET, hope to see you all there!

Amazing hack Nukey Shay! We're broadcasting an all hacks special LIVE on ZeroPage Homebrew tonight and we'll be featuring your hack, River Raid Fantasy Mode!! ZeroPage Twitch LiveStream: http://twitch.tv/zeropagehomebrew/ We'll also be playing these games: - Bouncer (hack of Boing!) by Scott Dayton "neotokeo2001" - Gauntlet 2600 (hack of Dark Chambers) by Claudio Salvucci "CDS Games" - Wolfenstein VCS: The Next Mission (hack of Venture) by Scott Dayton "neotokeo2001" & Robert Mundschau The show will be livestreaming on Twitch at 7PM PT / 10PM ET, hope to see you all there!

Oh wow, that would have been amazing to have been there for, too bad you missed it! Yes, I will definitely keep everyone updated as Dan passes me the new builds of the games for livestreaming on my Twitch channel!

He said he might release the original prototype ROM and that it would be after he's finished his new reworking of "Keystone Kapers 2" if he does. Thank you so much for watching the show AtariLeaf, it's been a fun six months so far! It's a blast doing the livestreams and showcasing all the amazing programming talent out there for the VCS! Every new game blows me away at the continuing innovation that is still available from a 40+ year old console! That's actually a good question. If he was continuing to finish off the code he was working on back in the day it might be a bit of both since it was both before and after the discontinuation of the system? Since he's programming the new version of the game from scratch I think it definitely counts as homebrew in this case. :-) He's stated that he intends to publish it through AtariAge and they have a booth at PRGE so I would at least think there would be a demo of it ready to show off. The most he's revealed for a release date is 'later this year' so it's a possibility but since we're only about 6-7 weeks away from PRGE I don't think there will be a boxed copy on cart with manual in that short of time. You never know! I'll definitely keep people up to date. :-)

I thought I'd provide an update for everyone following the news on this highly anticipated game! :-) I'm happy to announce that ZeroPage Homebrew will be exclusively debuting TWO new WIP games from Dan Kitchen on an upcoming Twitch livestream!! 1) Keystone Kapers 2 (aka Keystone Cannonball): The game will be written completely from scratch with a new name. "The train will be a runaway circus train with various exotic animals to avoid. Each level ends when the player locates a varying number of engine parts that have been scattered in and around the train cars and makes their way to the locomotive to stop the train before time runs out." 2) Bon Voyage: "Activision-style game where the player pilots the Titanic from Southampton to the Americas" You can check out the links in my signature to keep updated on the details as I get them from Dan. :-) I'm really looking forward to playing these two work-in-progress games for you live on an upcoming episode of ZeroPage!!

I thought I'd provide an update for everyone following the news on this highly anticipated game! :-) I'm happy to announce that ZeroPage Homebrew will be exclusively debuting TWO new WIP games from Dan Kitchen on an upcoming Twitch livestream!! 1) Keystone Kapers 2 (aka Keystone Cannonball): The game will be written completely from scratch with a new name. "The train will be a runaway circus train with various exotic animals to avoid. Each level ends when the player locates a varying number of engine parts that have been scattered in and around the train cars and makes their way to the locomotive to stop the train before time runs out." 2) Bon Voyage: "Activision-style game where the player pilots the Titanic from Southampton to the Americas" You can check out the links in my signature to keep updated on the details as I get them from Dan. :-) I'm really looking forward to playing these two work-in-progress games for you live on an upcoming episode of ZeroPage!!