Great Exploitations - Eine kleine mazemusik

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With sid2tia, even folks like me can add a little tune to a game! Thanks to Manuel for making it. The hardest part was listening to several hundred SID tunes, trying to find ones I liked.

 

Once I selected a few dozen candidates, I ran sid2tia on each, trying various settings to make just the right sound. Conversion didn't always go well. The TIA is so finicky, 90% of the tunes were totally off-key or otherwise sounded awful (as many have weird effects that I couldn't remove using the settings.)

 

Then one stood out above the rest - a catchy tune, basically on-key, and not terribly annoying (to me, at least.)

 

Other than music, there's now a title screen with game selection, and I improved the bot AI. The AI was really hard to do, and it's why I haven't posted an update in a while.

 

Selections (1-6)

1 - stupid bot, normal maze

2 - stupid bot, braided maze

3 - average bot, normal maze

4 - average bot, braided maze

5 - smart bot, normal maze

6 - smart bot, braided maze

 

The smart bot can complete a maze in as little as 3 minutes.

 

When the bot is about the finish, the score will turn red. When the bot does finish, the score turns a salmon color.

 

There's still more work to do.

mazecraze_2e.bin

 

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