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The Maxx

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They are games I am working on. I can't figure out what I am doing wrong. I will post three ROMs here. Each are VERY early in development, but I can't see the point in continuing development if they are unplayable on real hardware. :/

 

I haven't stripped the skating game back to see if I can isolate the bug, but the other two are pretty bare and I still haven't a clue.

 

skate d.bin

pseudopods d.bin

TEST3.bin

 

They all work well enough in Stella. On my Harmony, the skate game crashes after a second or two. Pseudopods, i believe, crashes while you are rotating your ship. TEST3 crashes when scrolling to the next screen on your left.

 

I don't know if it is crappy code and maybe Stella is very forgiving...? Maybe my Harmony is not completely compatible. It is an earlier model, I believe. I got it back before I dropped out of the scene for awhile. Has something changed with the newer Harmony cartridges?

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They all work well enough in Stella. On my Harmony, the skate game crashes after a second or two.

I had a similar problem with Gizzle Wap and Great Blizzard. It is also DPC+ kernal. My game would crash while the Gizzle wap was searching for food. I spent the last couple of days taking the code apart and found that the game has issues with the 5th bank. I was able to fix the code by jamming everything into the 3rd bank and being more careful where and how the code jumped around.

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Interesting... I switch banks with the platformer, but not with the other two. It makes me think I should set up my Atari next to my PC and test each build on real hardware as I go.

 

Even more strange is that I didn't have this issue at all with my first two games... it's like I get worse as I go... haha!

 

Thanks for the feedback. I will keep playing. ;)

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I got my platformer engine working on real hardware today. As it turns out, I needed to set more limits on when different events in the code were triggered. I must have tried 50 some odd things first... I'll work on the skate game next. I am pretty sure it is a similar problem.

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