dphirschler Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 It’s my understanding that Super Demon Attack in cart form did not have speech (Why? I do not know). The British speech is quite impressive, and really made the game more enjoyable for me. I was very surprised to find the cart did not have the speech included. Is there any interest to make a run of carts with the speech version? I am sure I am not the only one to have this game on disk. Darryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Holy crap, it never occurred to me that the cartridge lacked speech but there is a disk version that has on the Game Shelf. Now I have to put my system up in the living room to try out the cartridge to see for sure! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gazoo Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 (edited) Holy crap, it never occurred to me that the cartridge lacked speech but there is a disk version that has on the Game Shelf. Now I have to put my system up in the living room to try out the cartridge to see for sure! Cartridge has no speech. Disk Version has speech. Speech version already on a multi-game cart. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/224528-setting-up-a-512k-cart/page-6?do=findComment&comment=2987665 Gazoo Edited August 13, 2014 by Gazoo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Cartridge has no speech. Disk Version has speech. Speech version already on a multi-game cart. Gazoo Cart Better than TI Cart 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dphirschler Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Is there an actual multi-game cart for sale somewhere? I want! Darryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+OLD CS1 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Cartridge has no speech. Disk Version has speech. Speech version already on a multi-game cart. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/224528-setting-up-a-512k-cart/page-6?do=findComment&comment=2987665 Gazoo I am curious to hear the speech. I have to transfer it to my CF7 tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dphirschler Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 In my opinion, it's the most impressive speech of any game. Beats Parsec, beats Lasso. Darryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
am1933 Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Gazoo Cart Better than TI Cart Gazoo cart number 1 cart all other cart inferior to gazoo cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Super Demon Attack has speech only in the beta version. The cartridge should be on Whtech. Btw, greetings from Laos where I'm currently spending my vacation. Going to Cambodia tomorrow. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horizon2374 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Any audio samples or gameplay footage? Would be awesome to hear or see it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Will grab some on real iron tonight when I have the chance and if none turns up by then, as I love everything about the game. The huge, sprawling background. The enemy patterns. The big sprites. The hilarious speech. Pretty sure the copy on my FinalGROM has speech. Which quite surprised me, at some point, but less so for the fact that I never had a speech synth module with which to hear it regardless, on my original TI-99. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick99 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Dowloaded the game cart that Gazoo linked to, but it had nor sound or speech. Someone have the .bin with speech? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 demon8.bin 32k required 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 oh and gamecart1 has the speech version in it.. I tested it on js99er.net select games, gamecart1 its option 3 in the games menu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Also on WHTech: http://ftp.whtech.com/Cartridges/MAME/zip/demonatb.zip (demonatb = Demon Attack Beta) 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Here's a video of the gameplay with speech, on real iron. It really is fantastic. Tragic it was removed. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airshack Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Super Demon Attack was replaced with another game recently, during the monthly game contest on this forum. Apparently there’s no way to get past level two or three? I forget which level but very early on in the “game.” Shown here: It appears Super Demon Attack for the TI-99/4 is severely flawed. Basically impossible to beat and/or play after a few levels. The title screen says DEMON ATTACK which does not match the cartridge label? Seriously? Was this game quickly released to cart before it was actually completed? Did iMagic rush to production a game in progress when TI pulled the plug back in 1983? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I'm really sorry to hear that's the case. The game really made an impact on me with its graphics, on my original TI-99. And seemed to control rather nicely, with fun enemy patterns. Consequently, I’ve always thought of it very fondly. So I’m sorry to hear that it doesn’t follow through where real long term challenge is concerned. But honestly, I was never very good at any of the classic TI-99 games I owned, and didn’t really expect to be. So in that limited scope of lazy, periodic, inept novice gameplay, Super Demon Attack always seemed to hang with the best of them. And I’ll probably continue to think well of it, consequently. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 Cool game and the speech adds a lot to its atmosphere. Controls are a little sticky and there's collision detection issues, but the main problem we have with the TI version, is due to its fancy moon and planet graphic at the bottom of the screen. They have a tendency to mask "bullets", so you end up needlessly dying more often than not as a result. That and the demons coming out of the demon ship, sure pick up speed in a hurry! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelpedant Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I wonder if someone would consider doing a rom hack to tweak the difficulty curve, in one way or another. I know as far as TI-99 games go, Demon Attack isn't among the most celebrated, and I know as far as versions of Demon Attack go, the TI-99 version isn't among the most celebrated. But surely I'm not the only one who's nostalgic about it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 I wonder if someone would consider doing a rom hack to tweak the difficulty curve, in one way or another. I know as far as TI-99 games go, Demon Attack isn't among the most celebrated, and I know as far as versions of Demon Attack go, the TI-99 version isn't among the most celebrated. But surely I'm not the only one who's nostalgic about it. It's going to take more than a hack more like new code. Without source that can be tough.Sent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airshack Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 13 minutes ago, pixelpedant said: I wonder if someone would consider doing a rom hack to tweak the difficulty curve, in one way or another. I know as far as TI-99 games go, Demon Attack isn't among the most celebrated, and I know as far as versions of Demon Attack go, the TI-99 version isn't among the most celebrated. But surely I'm not the only one who's nostalgic about it. The game graphics are beautiful especially considering it was developed in 1983. Cleaning up (removing) the moon/planet graphic and slowing down those damn demon spawn would be an awesome project. Do we have a place where game code listings are available? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bandit Posted January 22, 2020 Share Posted January 22, 2020 The Commodore 64 version has the moon background also which makes it hard to see, The Atari 800 and 2600 do not have that background and are faster, but more fun to play. I do like the speech in TI version. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toucan Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 In terms of "Super Demon Attack". Break out your Spring 1984 Triton catalog and flip to page 8 for "Super Demon Attack". Take note of the pictured manual..."Demon Attack", not "Super". Apparently some manuals were printed (or at least the covers) without the Super moniker attached. https://archive.org/details/triton-catalogs 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airshack Posted January 23, 2020 Share Posted January 23, 2020 Perhaps they meant Subpar Demon Attack? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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