Schvenn's Bastardized Collection of Playabillity

[Schvenn]

Let me start by saying that purists will hate this collection. I designed it for myself, but others have asked me for it, which is why I am posting it. I've gone through several thousand Atari ROMs, hacks and homebrews and carefully curated them into a "playability style" list.

I started with the original ROMs and organized them by type. This meant that direct rip-offs like King Kong went into the Donkey Kong folder, and Cat Trax when into the Pac-Man folder. Sacrilege, right?

 

I also ignored several games that were identical to the original versions, but with a different colour scheme. So yes, this means I even discarded some of the original Atari 2600 titles. (*gasp*) If however, the games had different graphics, but the same game play, I kept them.

 

I then went through the several thousand homebrews and hacks that are available and kept only those I personally felt added something to the game. That means that I skipped all of the games that only changed the palette. However, I kept the game that fixed the vine problem in Jungle Hunt, because a fix is not the same.

I know there are always other homebrews out there. I see references to them and screenshots to games I've never seen, even in the OneDrive spreadsheet on this forum (https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5!214&ithint=file%2Cxlsx&authkey=!ANBrJ6_VZzVCms0&fbclid=IwAR3WrzWCKVUC2nISHevCvn6qTcCuQE3uJvFyX7jVCm3n-Teo_ot02mZdzFo). I will of course, evaluate and add them, as I find them.

I also entirely replaced the PAL versions of original games with the NTSC conversions.

 

Adventure was a different story. Seriously, how many hacks/remakes/tweaks do we need of that game? I only kept those that I felt were significantly different enough to warrant inclusion. In this regard, I am sure there are many people who will disagree.

If I was unable to get the game play properly, or it was just a really, really bad homebrew, I discarded it. This one will no doubt be a bone of contention for some, as well, but again, I'm more interested in the gaming side of things, rather than the collecting. As long as you keep that in mind, it will make sense. The end result is 870 titles. Think of it as a really big Atari 2600 "essentials" collection.

Once done, I recreated all of the snapshots and added them to a single, playable collection for my Stella. I also have a separate folder of snapshots for the Stella emulator on my PC. You can find them here: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1r9byUZm2ZwD2UfqcU8dpv0e7CogPZQWh

I hope some of you find this useful.

[Prizrak]

Looks good, I've never seen roms organized in this manner before. Nice work

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[Arenafoot]

1 hour ago, Schvenn said:

Let me start by saying that purists will hate this collection. I designed it for myself, but others have asked me for it, which is why I am posting it. I've gone through several thousand Atari ROMs, hacks and homebrews and carefully curated them into a "playability style" list.

I know there are always other homebrews out there. I see references to them and screenshots to games I've never seen, even in the OneDrive spreadsheet on this forum (https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=EBF48A1964E7EEB5!214&ithint=file%2Cxlsx&authkey=!ANBrJ6_VZzVCms0&fbclid=IwAR3WrzWCKVUC2nISHevCvn6qTcCuQE3uJvFyX7jVCm3n-Teo_ot02mZdzFo). I will of course, evaluate and add them, as I find them.

I hope some of you find this useful.

I asked for it..... I'm the guilty one! LOL

 

Much easier to remember URL for my "List" is: https://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew

 

I do! Thanks Craig!!

[Prizrak]

Update your binary with this one, yours is an older versionhttp://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5f71229bd0ebc/draconian_20171020_RC8.zip

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[Schvenn]

4 hours ago, Prizrak said:

Update your binary with this one, yours is an older versionhttp://cloud.tapatalk.com/s/5f71229bd0ebc/draconian_20171020_RC8.zip

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That was actually on purpose. I found that the older version worked much faster, smoother and was far more playable. The addition of the voice synthesizer and better laser sounds made the game extremely slow.

[Prizrak]

Interesting observation, I'll try playing this version. I know the final version is very accurate to the arcade. Figured there had to be a reason for the decision.

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