Is Professor Pac-Man for 2600 Possible?

[Miss 2600]

I know nothing about programming, but I've read that, back in the day, you couldn't put much text in games. Prof Pac-Man has a lot of text as each problem has a sentence to ask the question. With technology as it is now, though, is a game with a lot of text like Prof Pac-Man possible? Could Prof Pac-Man be made into a 2600 game?

[Jinroh]

I don't think the text would be too much of a problem, there are nice 13+ character text routines, but the game uses so many complex bitmapped graphics it would have to be watered down or really flickery I'd say.

 

Though some of the other guys who can work their magic may say otherwise. I'd probably say the A8 or 5200 would be a better choice.

[+SpiceWare]

We hashed out 32 character text routines a while back, so a lot more text is possible in games now. It'd be monochrome. I used it in Space Rocks for the Credits Easter Egg:

 

[Jinroh]

Oh nice Spiceware. I'll have to check that out, I wasn't super active at the time and apparently missed it!

[SvOlli]

But keep in mind that this will only work with a Harmony/Melody cartridge, not a plain (bankswitching) rom.

[DarkCart]

Not sure how much of the original game you'd like to recreate, but some parts of it seem to be easily do-able.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_Y-n18ca60 <- Let's Play

[+SpiceWare]

But keep in mind that this will only work with a Harmony/Melody cartridge, not a plain (bankswitching) rom.

 

Not true. While my particular spin on it uses DPC+, Eshu's original routines were done using a stock 4K ROM.

 

[SvOlli]

Whow, that's cool. Is the source also around somewhere?

 

@Spiceware: no needed to include a proof to your claim. You where right so many times, I believe you blind.

[+SpiceWare]

Whow, that's cool. Is the source also around somewhere?

I don't have any source for it on my machine, so I think I converted it to DPC+ by stepping thru the code in Stella.

 

@Spiceware: no needed to include a proof to your claim. You where right so many times, I believe you blind.

Thanks, but I to tend to do that.

[eshu]

seems like I never cleaned up the code....

 

heres some messy code

32char_upload.asm

[Crimefighter]

Prof. Pac-man wasn't that heavy on text compared to a game like Quiz & Dragons, there was a lot of compare figures and graphics questions.

[Dauber]

Could Prof Pac-Man be made into a 2600 game?

 

No. Never. EVER.

 

EVER.

 

EVER.