Earok's minor hacks

[earok]

Ahem.

I've zoned an incredibly minor/inconsequential hack for Micro Machines (literally, one byte).

This sets Player 2's controller to joystick by default, so a keyboard isn't needed to play two player (so this makes it more suitable for AmigaLive, CD32 compilations etc. With this you can immediately play two player with no keyboard, before you needed a keyboard to at least set player two's controller to the joystick). WHDLoad and ADF versions included.

I figured it wasn't worth opening a whole new topic for every little thing like this that I do (and I'm planning a few more, primarily to support my CD32 2 player collection).

Damien (or if another Admin sees this), can you please change the topic here to something like "Earok's minor hacks" or the like? Cheers.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by earok

Damien (or if another Admin sees this), can you please change the topic here to something like "Earok's minor hacks" or the like? Cheers.

[Amigajay]

Cheers Earok!

[kriz]

Thanks !!

[Aladin]

another game that should be modified:

Vroom

Same as Super Hang On: up for accelerate

[thairacerjp]

Originally Posted by Aladin

another game that should be modified:

Vroom

Same as Super Hang On: up for accelerate

.

I agree + 100000 . it's ruin it the gameplay like this, only if you got a speeking

it would be playable, just a minor hack EAROK , anyway, really nice job for micro machine

[earok]

http://earok.net/game/minor-hacks

Official home for the random minor hacks ^

Regarding Vroom, I'll keep it in mind, but I'm not really sure there's much I could do with it. Adding accelerate to fire two might be an option (though it wouldn't help with the Speed King? I assume there's only one fire?) but setting it to fire one for example would mess with gear shift controls.

[Amigajay]

Any chance to set Zool OCS (Whdload) to music instead of sfx by default?, CD32load doesnt seem to work to button assign with it.

[earok]

@AmigaJay please send me the files and I can have a look

https://mega.nz/#!krhTXJiD!nz3Jo2Igs...kzzz5EiHQpOXBs

Experimental fix for Whizz ADF OCS

Most versions of the game have an annoyingly fast timer, though this was fixed for the A1200 Magic Pack version. I've simply applied the timer setting for the A1200 Magic Pack version to the OCS version.

Since the patch is on a single byte in an area of crunched data, I'm not 100% confident my fix won't cause issues elsewhere in the game. (If anyone could confirm or deny, that'd be much appreciated!)

[earok]

http://earok.net/game/minor-hacks

Posted the Whizz hack, as well as a minor hack for both SWOS 96/97 and 16/17 (HDD edition only - NOT to be confused with WHDLoad edition though it may be compatible by swapping the SWOS2 file).

It simply allows the port 0 joystick to be used on the menu from the beginning, it's normally disabled until a two player match is configured. Granted, there isn't much of a need for such a feature except that it makes it easier in certain scenarios (such as netplay)

[NeoHippie2016]

@earok: the link for SWOS Hack lead to MEGA, but it is impossible, to downloaded it! "0 file downloaded" after the choose of the right place for download!

[NeoHippie2016]

@earok: sorry, it work! However, the message appears, but download the zip file...

[earok]

@NeoHippie I'm not sure what the issue is? I can download and open the zip fine at my end. The zip contains HDFs this time which isn't my usual means of distribution but it was the format requested (so that they can be mounted and played from an emulator easily)

[NeoHippie2016]

@earok: It was my fault...

[earok]

Republished the "Alien Breed Tower Assault HDD Edition" pack. It's not really a hack per-se but I figured it could go on that page.

What it adds is the intro video (AGA and ECS) and outro video (AGA only) from the CD32 edition to a copy of TA that can be played from a hard drive.


http://earok.net/game/minor-hacks

[earok]

New (EXPERIMENTAL) minor hack has been zoned.

This is for Beach Volley WHDLoad install, it allows for play without a keyboard. Press Fire 1 to start a 1P game, Fire 2 to start a 2P game.

Note that I can't confirm if this hack works 100% - some code modifications were made to the intro code section (and ONLY to the intro code section). I'm assuming that

1) There's no other place that you need F1 or F2 to start a 1 or 2 player game
2) There's no need to use Fire 1 or Fire 2 normally on the intro screen

I will ask Codetapper to simply add that functionality to the WHDLoad slave, but in any case if anyone needs it (for a CD32 compilation etc) it's here.

EDIT: I've temporarily pulled it from the zone, Codetapper is going to look at it so there's no point of my hack being out there if it gets added to the slave.

[Gordon]

Hi Earok, I would like to suggest a new hack please for the game Banshee. The full release has no in game music but the demo version has. Can you hack it so the full game has it too?
Heres a video of the demo version
[ Show youtube player ]

If you need any links please lt me know

[Rochabian]

Music but no SFX?

[Gzegzolka]

I vote for Banshee too I would love to play version with music, but what will fit those retro futuristic diesel steam punk style? I have no idea? Demo version have some sinple music and no sfx, that music totally do not fit it and after playing so many times full version I can not imagine version without sfx.

[Retro1234]

I doubt it's possible but worth asking do you think you could do anything to Shadow of the beast 2? Great graphics and music and atmosphere but random attacks made it unplayable and messed up puzzles