Buck Rogers

[Inky]

I FINALLY got to level 10 on Buckl rogers, and lo and behold, instead of saying "Level 10" it says "Level BC" (or 8C.. Hard to tell..)

 

What is this? I was thinking hex code, but if that was the case, I'd think that on level 11 it would say something like LEVEL 8D

 

Any ideas?

[King Atari]

Inky, I can honestly say I have no idea what you're talking about. Of course, the highest I've been is level 3, but I'll go investigate this.

[Tempest]

Yeah that's a known bug in the 2600 version, I have no idea what they were going for. 10 in hex is still 10 (10*16^0 actually).

 

It's not present in the 8-bit version.

 

Tempest

[Scott Stilphen]

I always thought it was 8C, but BC would make a little more sense(?) Maybe Thomas can look at the code and see if it's a glitch or intentional

[Nukey Shay]

Maybe a missing SED instruction?

That can have unpredictable effects if the program is expecting decimal numbers only.