Final Fight: Enhanced

[Brick Nash]

Originally Posted by h0ffman

@Brick

Congrats! Shipping a game is a huge milestone and you should be super proud of yourself. I played it on my A600 from the a Gotek and it's smooth as butter. Top work!

Just a note, the EXE you're building is uncompressed and also contains debug symbols (about 250kb ?). I put it through a packer which removes these and got it down to about 50kb. This would leave a large chunk of space on that disk which could be used for some file dupes and maybe help reduce the amount of disk swapping on one drive.

Thanks mate! That means a lot.

I had no idea the EXE had useless stuff in it, though I did think it was a bit big. I guess the learning never ends. What packer are you using? Will it need a separate extractor on boot? Cheers!


I'm going to try and update the WHDload pack myself so that both the disks and pack will have the latest build if any changes are made, but I just need to learn to use the LHA archiver (I've having issues adding targets with nested folders as it doesn't seems to add them).

I may just dump the un-archived folder on GD and folk can do it themselves.

[jotd]

please leave the symbols or share the source

Symbols can be removed by building/linking without debug. A few games have those symbols left in and it's great for reversing them!

[h0ffman]

Originally Posted by Brick Nash

Thanks mate! That means a lot.

I had no idea the EXE had useless stuff in it, though I did think it was a bit big. I guess the learning never ends. What packer are you using? Will it need a separate extractor on boot? Cheers!


I'm going to try and update the WHDload pack myself so that both the disks and pack will have the latest build if any changes are made, but I just need to learn to use the LHA archiver (I've having issues adding targets with nested folders as it doesn't seems to add them).

I may just dump the un-archived folder on GD and folk can do it themselves.

I used Shrinkler but I wouldn't necessarily recommend that because the unpacking time is quite long on a base 68000. Maybe Cranker is a good choice, packing ratio won't be as good but it'll load pretty quickly.

[jotd]

cranker is what I'm using for all my arcade remakes. It's very good and fast. It even uses async io to load from floppy & unpack at the same time! Incredible.

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by Dunny

Which, like Robocop, is ironic because the Spectrum version of ChaseHQ was utterly sublime.

and the CPC version even better

[ransom1122]

If it's not too much trouble, can we have a Press Fire option for whdload users?

[PiCiJi]

Thank you for this game. Since I couldn't get it to run on my emulator yet (maybe missing ECS Denise emulation or a ECS Agnus bug), I played the first 4 levels on WinUAE.
The gameplay is really good and it's much closer to the arcade than the original version.
Maybe we'll see an Amiga remake of Black Tiger and King's Quest 5 someday.

two suggestions for improvement:

1. Defeated opponents become invisible very quickly after they have fallen to the ground. This looks like a bug.
Maybe blinking looks better here.
It would also be cool if defeated bosses would briefly rise up again and then lie down instead of disappearing.

2. The new passing lights in the subway are certainly nice, but the swinging handles on the ceiling would be nicer. And if they are missing, a lot of atmosphere is lost.
I suspect both will be too much for our best friend. If I had to choose, I would choose against the passing lights.

[Brick Nash]

Originally Posted by ransom1122

If it's not too much trouble, can we have a Press Fire option for whdload users?

No problem. In the latest build now.

That's the last update I'm making, so I'm closing the project and stepping away from everything now to go and do other non-game things with my spare time.

Got a million unfinished albums I need to record and release, so I'm off to get mad at compressors and EQ instead of code bugs.

Cheers everyone! It's been a crazy ride.

[Evillord68]

Thanks a lot for your hard work. You made a great job.

[ZEUSDAZ]

My video showing how much more I enjoyed playing this superior version over the U.S.Gold unplayable dudd that was originally released to us over 30yrs ago, such an improvement, well done!
[ Show youtube player ]


...and my "Shit Game Time" review video of the original unenjoyable release by U.S.Gold: [ Show youtube player ]

[ransom1122]

Originally Posted by Brick Nash

No problem. In the latest build now.

That's the last update I'm making, so I'm closing the project and stepping away from everything now to go and do other non-game things with my spare time.

Got a million unfinished albums I need to record and release, so I'm off to get mad at compressors and EQ instead of code bugs.

Cheers everyone! It's been a crazy ride.

Thanks a lot WHDLoad is great now... Thanks

[Gzegzolka]

Thank You Brick Nash for Your hard work. You made something great.

[Jacques]

Big thanks to the Author!

But am I the only one to experience speed-ups and slow-downs in gameplay? 060@50MHz, latest WHDLoad version with tooltypes as they were (ChipNoCache).

[Torti-the-Smurf]

Its a generic Slave, so there are no game specific fixes.
It a "better then nothing" slave.

We would need JOTD & Co to do a game specific Slave with Blitter waits n stuff.

Sorry

[DanyPPC]

Originally Posted by Jacques

Big thanks to the Author!

But am I the only one to experience speed-ups and slow-downs in gameplay? 060@50MHz, latest WHDLoad version with tooltypes as they were (ChipNoCache).

You must insert also NOCACHE on 060 cpus and then the game works at correct framerate.

[PascalDe73]

I made a little video about a Little bug on this level.
Tested on my real A1200 GVP Turbo+II 68030 @40 MHz with FPU and 32 MB Fast Ram.
It’s under WHDLoad with the Torti’s Slave.
Version 05/02/2024 Final file = 255.776 Octets.
The bug was already present with the preview version.

[ Show youtube player ]

Could You have a look ?

Many Thanks,

Best regards,

Pascal

[Bren McGuire]

no freaking way I just grabbed a bottle of Buckfast from the floor? was that in the original game or is this a great joke from the lands up north?

and a can of Irn-Bru!!

[ransom1122]

Is it here?
https://www.arcadequartermaster.com/...ght_items.html

[Brick Nash]

Originally Posted by PascalDe73

I made a little video about a Little bug on this level.
Tested on my real A1200 GVP Turbo+II 68030 @40 MHz with FPU and 32 MB Fast Ram.
It’s under WHDLoad with the Torti’s Slave.
Version 05/02/2024 Final file = 255.776 Octets.
The bug was already present with the preview version.

[ Show youtube player ]

Could You have a look ?

Many Thanks,

Best regards,

Pascal

Try it now. There was a Blitter Wait missing for the rope drawing code, so that might be it. It wasn't really designed for anything faster than an A600 running at 7MHz, so there'll likely be glitches and speed issues on roided-up miggies.

Originally Posted by Bren McGuire

no freaking way I just grabbed a bottle of Buckfast from the floor? was that in the original game or is this a great joke from the lands up north?

and a can of Irn-Bru!!

Yeah there's a couple of little Easter eggs like that in the game. I did the same thing in Double Dragon Legacy for the PC, although it's not as heavy handed in Final Fight.

Pretty sure there's a can of Tennent's or Tartan Special in there somewhere too (I forget).

[Dougal]

A1200 with TF1230 and I confirm the fix for the Sodom boss works fine Thanks

Minor issues are glitching in energy bars, clock/timer not working properly and after I killed the final boss it quit back to workbench with some error.


Again, I appreciate that it is designed to work properly on an A600 ECS.