Thrust versions, what are they?

[Keatah]

I was going through and finishing de-duplicating some things. And my roms of Thrust seemed to be a mislabeled mess.

 

According to the AA store there are three versions:

 

THRUST

https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=872

 

THRUST+ DC EDITION

https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=2355

 

THRUST+ PLATINUM

https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=2384

 

The first two are identical roms, and display THRUST v1.2

The third one is THRUST PLUS and also displays v1.2

 

Yet I seem to have a 1.5 version of THRUST.

And a 1.6 version of THRUST+

And other lesser versions still greater than the 1.2 shown in the AA store's rom downloads..

Ugh.. and on it goes..

 

Can someone please set me straight on the latest versions of each of the three editions? And also check that the downloads on AA are also correctly labeled?

 

 

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Its a bit complicated.

 

The 1.2x (x not displayed on screen, but you can see it inside the ROM) versions are the ROMs which are for downloading. The versions on cart have a different versioning (1.x). The differences between ROM and cart version are minimal.

There are three main releases:

• The original release (available from Hozer and then AA)
• Thrust+ (which supported additional controllers) (1.5/1.22 ff)
• Thrust+ Platinum (with better sound and music from Paul Slocum). (1.8/1.25 ff)

The versions in between and never are just bug fixes (e.g. the pause key not working in 1.5 and PAL mode; a fuel overflow bug in 1.8 ). Also I have added an extra feature in the latest version (1.9/1.27), which no one has noticed so far.

 

The Thrust+ ROM for download is indeed the same as the original ROM (1.22). I never cared here, because the latest version is the one that counts for playing the game.

Edited November 24, 2015 by Thomas Jentzsch

[Keatah]

Ok, it looks like I should be keeping the following two versions:

 

Thrust v1.22 -- CRC32 c6ba1bc6

and

Thrust+ Platinum v1.27 -- CRC32 da7a96cf

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Actually you only need the last one. There are no differences in game play between the two.

[Keatah]

Thanks for the clarification. I kinda thought so.

I'll dump all the other intermediate versions into the curiosity, wip, and oddities folders.

 

We're preparing for guests over the holiday weekend and one of them gets all giddy over Gravitar. So I thought I'd highlight this along with the arcade Gravitar via mame.

Edited November 24, 2015 by Keatah

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Please let me know how if he liked it.

[+McCallister]

Its a bit complicated.

 

The 1.2x (x not displayed on screen, but you can see it inside the ROM) versions are the ROMs which are for downloading. The versions on cart have a different versioning (1.x). The differences between ROM and cart version are minimal.

 

There are three main releases:

• The original release (available from Hozer and then AA)
• Thrust+ (which supported additional controllers) (1.5/1.22 ff)
• Thrust+ Platinum (with better sound and music from Paul Slocum). (1.8/1.25 ff)

The versions in between and never are just bug fixes (e.g. the pause key not working in 1.5 and PAL mode; a fuel overflow bug in 1.8 ). Also I have added an extra feature in the latest version (1.9/1.27), which no one has noticed so far.

 

The Thrust+ ROM for download is indeed the same as the original ROM (1.22). I never cared here, because the latest version is the one that counts for playing the game.

Nevermind. Its already documented.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Nevermind. Its already documented.

[Keatah]

Please let me know how if he liked it.

 

Went over pretty good.

 

Much time was spent perusing the emulation rig. Everybody tried to sample everything. And nobody played anything at length.

[+McCallister]

Bumping this up with a question: in addition to high score support, was there a bit of speech added, too? I swear I heard a bit of speech at the end of a game, but other times, I just got a beep noise.

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Nope, no speech in Thrust.

[Keatah]

Sometimes we want something so bad we imagine it is real, then it becomes real, and now you have it!

[+McCallister]

Nope, no speech in Thrust.

Cool, man, good to know! Must be my vox.

 

Thanks for the high score support; I really like seeing my previous best.

[+McCallister]

Bumping this up because I've run into a problem with Thrust and the Atarivox. The vox stopped recording the high score on thrust once it got to 35,000 and some change. If I go past this score, it no longer records it. When the score was lower, and I went past it, but not past the 35,000 mark, it would update it. I've tried the vox on a couple other games and it seems to work on those. Anyone else run into this problem or similar?

[Thomas Jentzsch]

Sounds like a bug. Just tested within Stella, it works. Unfortunately I cannot test for the next weeks on real hardware. I hope someone else can do.

 

Is your high score exactly 35.000? The exact number may help.

Edited July 9, 2016 by Thomas Jentzsch

[Jinks]

I don't even have this game and I hear speech. Is that a bug?

[+McCallister]

Sounds like a bug. Just tested within Stella, it works. Unfortunately I cannot test for the next weeks on real hardware. I hope someone else can do.

 

Is your high score exactly 35.000? The exact number may help.

The exact number is 35, 860. So far, I've tried it out on 2 different systems with the same results. I'll try it out on a different one later, but am starting to think it's the vox that's faulty because...

 

…I tested this out with a Savekey and encountered no problems. Got a high score, it saved, went back and got a higher score above the 35, 860 mark and it overwrote the old one with no issues.

 

So, yeah, I'll try out the Atarivox later on this setup to be sure, but it's looking like it might be flakey.

[killersquirel]

I can't figure out the high score feature. I have an Atarivox+ plugged in and it works for every game that I have tried except this game. I have tried it with the latest download located at the top Thrust v1.26 (PD).bin. I'm also curious what the extra feature is that you added that hasn't been noticed yet?

[Thomas Jentzsch]

The high score feature only works with the cart release. A litte bonus for those who buy my stuff.