[Ripped] Magic Pockets
 

The current Magic Pockets rips had the colours all messed up, so:

Some more TileSets:

Some more Sprites:

Is there any easy way to rip the whole maps from this game, the same way that Fire and Ice has been ripped?

yes it is easy with LvlRip, but why didn´t you download the whole maps from here:

http://hol.abime.net/2385/gamemap

i´ve already done them weeks ago..;)

have fun with them...if you need the leveldata let me know and i´ll explain you where to find it and how everything is stored...:)

Thanks :)

I'm looking into doing a re-creation of the game, first under SDL, then maybe later I'll have a go at a Gameboy Advance version.

I was once an Amiga programmer so I do know about 68K and things (very rusty now though!) so the level data format might be handy. I wasn't expecting the game to have the levels lumped together the way those maps appear to be!

This was common practice amongs the Bitmap Brothers. Gods was this way too.

I guess it makes sense, it would compress better and you reduce the load time, and eliminate loads between levels. I will probably split the maps up though as it means less data to juggle about.

I did try disassembling the game itself but couldn't really make much sense of it. The game logic isn't really that complicated anyway.

I think the US version of the game even has a different 1st level. Great rips Ultron. I believe this game was possibly used on TV show Motormouth once as a phone-controlled game? (or an early version). My mind is fizzy now, but if somebody had this on tape!?

The game you're thinking of was called Wierd Dreams.

Magic Pockets was used on a tv show in the UK as was weird dreams and Hugo ;)

I think it was either MotorMouth or GhostTrain :)

If you are willing to make a remake, you always can use a original data files. I have ripped some time ago a gfx from the PC version, it was 1:1 as the Amiga ver. (I think those WERE the Amiga data files). As far I remember those were simply RNC'ed bitplanes just to use with GfxRip. There is one extra bitplane (5'th), but don't use it - I think it's a collision mask, the rest 4 bitplanes put together will get you a nice 320x200 data picture (one for player, one for tiles and one for enemies) just like up here. You can even use the original palette, since it works fine.

[EDIT] PS. I know that PC ver has slightly different maps, or there are some differences between US end European version on Amiga too. (I think, I don't remember clearly now)

Yes, there are differences:

PC version has got the same levels of world 1 as the Amiga NTSC (american version, Konami).

PC and NTSC Amiga are exactly the same version including manual protection.

The worlds 2, 3 and 4 are identical in all versions. The only difference is in world 1.

Level 1 is the same as the demo level (very easy) in PC/NTSC version
In PAL Amiga version Level 1 is the Level 3 of PC/NTSC version

Level 2, 4 and 5 are identical

Level 3 in PAL version has no equivalent in PC/NTSC version

Funny thing: normally you can warp to next world only from first level of each world, but with PC/NTSC version, since level 3 is the same as PAL level 1, you can warp to world 2 from level 1 AND level 3.

The PAL Amiga version is the only one to be disk protected.
The PC/NTSC version is protected by a password system, but is better for levels since you can enter a password to skip to any level, it also has slightly different controls: to make a mega-jump on a tornado/cloud you don't have to pull joystick down anymore (which is really annoying, specially in level 2 where you need the mask to avoid doing that mega-jump on a cloud, thus giving you access to some secret area)

I think they wanted to make first levels & controls easier in NTSC/PC version, hence the easy level 1 and level codes (which is more realistic IMHO)

bye

As was Starglider and Xenon