Amiga CD32 Bubble Bobble Trilogy special - Amiga Jay

[Neil79]

I was just about to go to bed when my mobile started dinging at me to let me know of a new message in my inbox. As soon as I saw Earok's name popping up, telling me of a new Amiga CD32 release, I was just too excited to ignore it and thus turned my computer on to share this glorious news. It's the ' Amiga CD32 Bubble Bobble Trilogy ' by AmigaJay, a brand new Amiga CD32 conversion by the same person who also does those fantastic CD sized CD32 covers!

http://www.indieretronews.com/2016/0...y-special.html

Thanks to a heads up by Earok! Having the game pack as a single post in another thread doesn't do it justice from Amiga Jay

[Amigajay]

Cheers for the news post mate!

[Neil79]

Originally Posted by Amigajay

Cheers for the news post mate!

Hey bud, one of my friends just sent me this, not sure if you can look into it?

Can't start Parasol stars = failed returncode 20 , missing ENd if

[Amigajay]

Originally Posted by Neil79

Hey bud, one of my friends just sent me this, not sure if you can look into it?

Bugger, was fine when i tested yesterday, will have a look later when i get home, apologies to whoever burned a disc.

Anyone else, just hold off downloading until i check it out.

[Neil79]

Phil O'Brien works almost perfectly in winuae as well. The games work the loader breaks if you press an option its not expecting

Another

I noticed this just now too, pressed numpad 3 through Amiga Forever and it crashes the loader

[ransom1122]

Parasol stars worked for me with winuae.

[Amigajay]

Ah so the games load, but if you press an option on the menu i.e the green button the loader fails as it has nothing set for that key.
I've tried all the games and removed any quit key in-game, so there shouldn't be a problem in a game.
This is all on a CD32 of course, I sort of forgot people play these on emulators too doh!

[Neil79]

Originally Posted by Amigajay

Ah so the games load, but if you press an option on the menu i.e the green button the loader fails as it has nothing set for that key.
I've tried all the games and removed any quit key in-game, so there shouldn't be a problem in a game.
This is all on a CD32 of course, I sort of forgot people play these on emulators too doh!

Phil O'Brien - Comment Below

Is part of the startup sequence missing, or just the way it appears on my download

there is an endif missing for the yellow option, and an extra endif on the red and blue options. Also nothing to catch pressing the wrong buttons

IIRC you could catch any unexpected buttons using the skip command after the last check (once the no endif error is fixed) to jump back to the start (after using the LAB command to set a lable to skip to

[Amigajay]

Ive had a look and all the games load fine, again if you press the wrong button on the menu it will give and error and will have to reboot, im on the case of fixing it with the skip loop option, but until then press the correct colour as indicated on screen lol

[Amiga1992]

You'll need to use the BACK option of skip to make it work. I haven't seen your startup sequence, but it should be something like this I guess:

*display intro image*
lab main_loop
 waitForInputCommand
   if input is yellow do this
    else if input is red do that
     else if input is blue do this other thing
 else skip main_loop back

That should skip back to the input command when you input anything but the first three options.

[Amigajay]

Yeah im having trouble placing it in the correct place of the sequence, tried like 30 times, had it work once but the music didnt come back on on loop, so tried loads more now i cant even get that back up lol you can tell i dont program!

[Amiga1992]

If you post the startup sequence here or on a message to me I can have a look.

[Amigajay]

assign env: ram:
assign t: ram:
doublespeed
setpatch quiet

hip hide sys:music/bb.mod

picboot sys:bbtmenu.gif vo

on DETACH
waitjoy >env:choice
hip quit
stoppicboot
avail flush >nil:

cd games

if $choice eq red
C:WHDLoad

bubblebobblentsc.slave data=bubblebobblentsc PRELOAD

endif

if $choice eq blue

C:WHDLoad

rainbowislands.slave data=rainbowislands PRELOAD

endif

if $choice eq yellow
C:WHDLoad

parasolstars.slave data=parasolstars PRELOAD
endif

[Arnie]

Is that a typo at the bottom endifif ?

[Amigajay]

oops one to many ifs!

[Retro1234]

After If Red etc skip to label at the Very end of script
Then at the end Skip Back to Label at Start
Something Like that

[Amiga1992]

OK it's longer but it should work as intended:

assign env: ram:
assign t: ram:
doublespeed
setpatch quiet

hip hide sys:music/bb.mod
 
picboot sys:bbtmenu.gif vo 

loop main_loop
on DETACH
waitjoy >env:choice

if $choice eq red
   hip quit
   stoppicboot
   avail flush >nil: 
   cd games
   C:WHDLoad bubblebobblentsc.slave data=bubblebobblentsc PRELOAD
   skip exiting
   else if  $choice eq blue
             hip quit
             stoppicboot
             avail flush >nil: 
             cd games
             C:WHDLoad rainbowislands.slave data=rainbowislands PRELOAD
             skip exiting
             else if $choice eq yellow
                  hip quit
                  stoppicboot
                  avail flush >nil: 
                  cd games
                  C:WHDLoad parasolstars.slave data=parasolstars PRELOAD
                  skip exiting
                  else skip main_loop back
endif

lab exiting
endcli >NIL:

I'm sure there's a way to just call the cleanup routine once and save some size but I am rusty on this.
Basically it cleans up and stops music+removes pic only if you press the right button. Otherwise it just goes back to waiting for input without resetting the pic or audio routine.
I just added an exit routine as I always do, you can put anything there for when the games exit or don't put anything.

[Amigajay]

Keep getting errors with that, 'picboot error value after keyword missing'?

[earok]

Regarding picboot error, the line "on DETACH" is meant to be part of the picboot line. Otherwise Akira's script looks good to me



CD32 Pad support request: Rainbow Islands, extensive CD32 mapping with custom3=3 (blue to jump, choose 1 or 2 players, set controls etc).

The other two games have trainer keys that could potentially be mapped via CD32Load, though I'm not sure if it's worth doing.

[Amiga1992]

Yeah I have no idea what that was, I kept it as Amigajay made it, so I guess it's some dragged error from the copypasting.
Thanks for clearing that up earok!

Like this, then, I guess?

assign env: ram:
assign t: ram:
doublespeed
setpatch quiet

hip hide sys:music/bb.mod
 
picboot sys:bbtmenu.gif vo on DETACH


loop main_loop
waitjoy >env:choice

if $choice eq red
   hip quit
   stoppicboot
   avail flush >nil: 
   cd games
   C:WHDLoad bubblebobblentsc.slave data=bubblebobblentsc PRELOAD
   skip exiting
   else if  $choice eq blue
             hip quit
             stoppicboot
             avail flush >nil: 
             cd games
             C:WHDLoad rainbowislands.slave data=rainbowislands PRELOAD
             skip exiting
             else if $choice eq yellow
                  hip quit
                  stoppicboot
                  avail flush >nil: 
                  cd games
                  C:WHDLoad parasolstars.slave data=parasolstars PRELOAD
                  skip exiting
                  else skip main_loop back
endif

lab exiting
endcli >NIL:

I don't know what "vo" on that picboot line is, never used picboot, so that would have to be fixed by you Amigajay.