Ninja Champ 2600

[salzmafia.com]

I present to you a weekend project. Ninja Champ 2600 (tentative title of course). This is inspired by the Karate Champ arcade game. It already has 1 player, 2 players VS and Demo/Attract mode. A few more features are still to be added including pain and defeat animations, health bars, etc. Enjoy as I know I did. Gameplay footage is available at my site salzmafia.com, if there is interest I'll post periodic updates here.

 

 

 

 

[cvga]

Looks great. Keep us updated on your progress.

[Jess Ragan]

Already looks better than Karate! It'll be interesting to see how this pans out.

 

One suggestion? Try varying the heights of the color bars used for the background. I think you can make it more eye-catching that way.

[tremoloman2006]

Nice job thus far! Excited to see how it comes along!

[YANDMAN]

This looks cool, Please take these great sprites and make a 2600 shinobi

[+Random Terrain]

If this is made with batari Basic, you could use the DPC+ kernel and make it look even better.

[+Gemintronic]

R.T. is right but I think it looks pretty good as is. My personal preference would be to use both pfheights and pfcolors but then you lose the no_blank_lines.

 

Along with the Brix guy I wonder why they don't mention batari BASIC as their preferred tool?

[salzmafia.com]

It is bB, but I do the sprites in Excel in a workbook I created.

[+Random Terrain]

It is bB, but I do the sprites in Excel in a workbook I created.

 

Have you tried the tools that Visual batari Basic has?

[salzmafia.com]

Have you tried the tools that Visual batari Basic has?

I have but the workbook I use can do a lot more. I can join sprites next to each other, stretch the columns to see what the sprite would look like double and triple size etc, compare color schemes, etc. Also I can work on stuff from my job as well :-)

[salzmafia.com]

Just a brief update. Blocking has been added, mode select screen (1 player, VS, Demo) has been added, three different backgrounds added. Health bars added, and "sparks" for when contact has been made have been added. More screen shots and video soon..

[+Gemintronic]

How does blocking work (control-wise)?

[salzmafia.com]

Hold fire and press away for medium block, fire and away and up for high block, fire down and away for low block.

[Der Luchs]

Looks great! :-)

[Amstari]

Hold fire and press away for medium block, fire and away and up for high block, fire down and away for low block.

 

This game is looking great. The controls remind me of "Way of the Exploding Fist". That game only used one button too. I've attached the instructions which lists how the players were controlled, it might be useful for your game.

 

WayOfTheExplodingFistThe.pdf

[salzmafia.com]

Here is latest video if you're interested. Ninja Champ 2600

[PFL]

Looking good so far though I haven't seen the latest video yet (I will watch it when I get home). I used to love all those old one button beat 'em ups on the 8 bit computers (Speccy mostly). Way of the Exploding Fist, Yie Ar Kung Fu even Kung Fu Master. Keep up the good work.

 

PS: Do you plan to make your avatar into a real game? That would be cool. It's one of my favourite films from the '70s...

[+Gemintronic]

You know you can use the

 

pfscroll left

 

and

 

pfscroll right

 

to make it look like the background is moving as the characters battle for position

[salzmafia.com]

PS: Do you plan to make your avatar into a real game? That would be cool. It's one of my favourite films from the '70s...

 

It's already made. The game is complete and will be released in cartridge format by CMS. I made a goofy commercial of the game,

 

http://youtu.be/lfOGOiorBRg

 

But the screen shots and video is a pre-final version the final version has lines cleaned up, full option menu for 1P, 1P VS CPU, 1P VS 2P, and DEMO. The label used as my avatar was used to make a shirt for a different project.

 

 

[+Random Terrain]

It's already made. The game is complete and will be released in cartridge format by CMS.

 

Kind of reminds me of the example program that batari made:

 

zombie_chase_example_program_by_batari.bin

[salzmafia.com]

 

Kind of reminds me of the example program that batari made:

 

zombie_chase_example_program_by_batari.bin

 

Yeah me too. I was trying to port the Arcade version as close as possible.