neotokeo2001 Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 (edited) I wanted to post this here for the people who don't read the general Atari 2600 forum. You can read the original topic if interested. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241026-anybody-know-the-guy-that-made-the-fat-albert-hack/ Fat Albert is a hack of Fast Food done years ago by DaveM (David Marli). He only ever posted once at AtariAge and it was in response to some praise for Fat Albert. Well, I guess this is as good a time as any to finally jump into this message board... Glad to see you all liked the game! The graphics were pretty much just plucked from the cartoon. I found some images on the net, resized them a bit, printed them out on some graph paper, and went to work on it. I just wish I could've done better with the head you control during the game itself, but there's only so much you can do with an image that's only 8 pixels wide. It bothered me that Fat Albert's head was left as several shades of purple and knowing that it is an easy fix I went ahead and corrected it it. As most people know a typical Atari sprite can only be one color per horizontal line. That left a problem with the original head sprite since his hair goes down the back of his head. In order to have his face and hair different colors they can't be on the same horizontal line. I added an ear to fill up the big blank space. I always have to start tweeking other things once I start on something. The next thing I did was change the title graphic at the bottom of the screen. I added Jello Presents to do a tie-in with Jello Pudding Pops. A What If back in the day Fat Albert was really made for the Atari 2600 instead of Fast Food and it was sponsored by Jello. It was then suggested by Crazy Climber to change the purple pickle It's been a LONG time since I saw this show, seriously around 30 years....but IIRC didn't a Dog used to chase after them or something? You could change the purple pickle to the dog from chase the chuckwagon, lol. The dog was quickly added but something was missing, it was not animated. Now it is. Don't get chomped!!! In the original game you lose a life/chance every time Fat Albert eats a Purple Pickle. You get 6 lives before the game is over. Each time Fat Albert eats one it is displayed under the score so you can keep track. I added a line of 6 hearts that are replaced one by one with a dog as you lose lives. Not really needed but I thought it was cool. Also changed the color from purple to red. The next thing was to try to improve the items that Fat Albert eats. Here are the original items and my changes. Fast Food: Purple Pickle Green Pickle Root Beer Cola Soda Pop Hot Dog Hamburger Ice Cream Bar Milk Shake Ice Cream Cone French Fries Pizza Cheese Burger Fat Albert: Dog CokeHamburgerFrench FriesPizzaIce Cream ConeCoffeePineapple CakePudding PopAstro PopBananaCherryRoasted Pig The Intermission screens were already pretty much perfect and basically unchanged. I did do a few tweaks here and there but nothing of note. And that brings us to the latest version. Here is a video and the BIN file: Fat Albert release ver 2 BIN: Fat Albert release ver 2.bin There are plans to try to add voice to the game. Hey Hey Hey and Game Over. iesposta is trying to implement that feature. I will post any updates here. Here is a composite video showing how the voice should work: Edited August 13, 2015 by neotokeo2001 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariTexas Posted August 13, 2015 Share Posted August 13, 2015 Love the Fro Great job! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tremoloman2006 Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Great job neotokeo2001! Everything is a major improvement! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Dogs Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 I programmed a copy for myself years ago. Its a fun game. Voices would be really cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotokeo2001 Posted August 15, 2015 Author Share Posted August 15, 2015 I programmed a copy for myself years ago. Its a fun game. Voices would be really cool. The voices are in thanks to iesposta and Omegamatrix. BIN with voice: http://atariage.com/forums/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_id=405817 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 It would be fun to make a satirical version called "Dirty Bill". Of course it would need all the food changed to various items from his "hobby". 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotokeo2001 Posted August 16, 2015 Author Share Posted August 16, 2015 It would be fun to make a satirical version called "Dirty Bill". Of course it would need all the food changed to various items from his "hobby". Everything is possible... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iesposta Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 I know neotokeo2001 posted a video of the "final" version of Fat Albert, but I just had to add better sound samples, and change hitting the dog to a bark-type sound. I won't be adding anything more. I don't want paid for helping on this fun project. neotokeo2001 has the binary and source for the version with the bark sound. It is up to him to post the binary and/or source, or not. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neotokeo2001 Posted August 16, 2015 Author Share Posted August 16, 2015 Reserve your copy now: http://atariage.com/forums/topic/241724-fat-albert-atari-2600-reserve-now/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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