Metro-Cross (Atari ST port)

[Asman]

With Wanted Team help another port from Atari ST is done: Metro-Cross. Find it here

Info from MetroCross.readme:

Metro Cross from Atari ST.
Use joystick or keyboard.

Default keys:
Cursor Left - left
Cursor Right - right
Cursor Up - up
Cursor Down - down
A - jump
P - pause (other key to unpause)

F10 - back to OS

Highscores are saved as "mc.high", during exit to OS.

This version contains 24 levels.

Requirments:
- Amiga with free 1.0 MB RAM.

Enjoy.

[lilalurl]

I hope the game was not chose based upon the reputation of its box cover


Anyway, congratulations on doing a new port (not tried it yet)

[NovaCoder]

Cool love this game, must try in out

[Retro-Nerd]

Great, one of the best ST arcade ports imo. Thanks, Asman. Will try it later.

[Cherno]

Originally Posted by lilalurl

I hope the game was not chose based upon the reputation of its box cover

The infamous box cover was the first thing I thought of when I read the title

[TCD]

Originally Posted by lilalurl

I hope the game was not chose based upon the reputation of its box cover

It's not that bad...



@Asman
Nice one I'll give it a try tomorrow

[Retro-Nerd]

Gameplay is really good. The controls are really smooth compared to the mediocre C64 version. Great Amiga conversion, just reached level 6 without any problems.

[Graham Humphrey]

Never played this game before on any format. First go tonight, really good fun, also managed to hit level six. Thank you for a sterling conversion again.

[T_hairy_bootson]

I'll wait for the s2325 youtube video.





Thanks Asman and Wanted Team.

[tomcat666]

YAY ! Go Wanted Team...

It is strange how back in the day we hated straight ST ports... now we are loving them

[Greyfox]

Amazing work, this really is now shortening the Atari ST exclusive games list now..many thanx for the great work guys

[vitux]

Thanks for the conversion and you make many more.
I have a doubt, Asman is the author of the other conversions? (Supersprint, Gauntlet etc)

And what the difference between a port and reverse engineering?

[PopoCop]

Game is a bit boring (on any format). Just running and running...
On 68040 animation slows down when obstacles appear.

[lilalurl]

Originally Posted by vitux

I have a doubt, Asman is the author of the other conversions? (Supersprint, Gauntlet etc)

No, those were meynaf's work:
http://eab.abime.net/retrogaming-gen...tml#post808731

who also ported IK:
http://eab.abime.net/amiga-scene/68546-port-ik-st.html


Asman/WT have also ported Solomon's key:
http://eab.abime.net/amiga-scene/688...st-ported.html

Originally Posted by vitux

And what the difference between a port and reverse engineering?

The experts might have a better answer, but:
A port is... a port (so a conversion to another platform).
Reverse engineering is the process to analyze how a program (game) works on a platform. This way, if you don't have access to the source code or don't want to write everything from scratch, you have a base to code your port.

So what Asman and meynaf do is checking how the games work on the Atari ST and then writing some code to get that working on Amiga.

[Phantomz]

Thanks for this.

Originally Posted by PopoCop

Game is a bit boring (on any format). Just running and running...
On 68040 animation slows down when obstacles appear.

I noticed this slow down on my 1260, runs fine on my 1230 though.

[leathered]

Just tried this and running very nicely on my 030, great work!

[Asman]

Originally Posted by PopoCop

Game is a bit boring (on any format). Just running and running...

.
So its mean there is no sense to make extended conversion of this game ?(gfx from arcade + logic from Atari ST )

Originally Posted by PopoCop

On 68040 animation slows down when obstacles appear.

I will check this. Thank you.

@Phantomz - I will check this too. Thank you.

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by tomcat666

YAY ! Go Wanted Team...

It is strange how back in the day we hated straight ST ports... now we are loving them

Super Sprint, Solomon's Key and Metro-Cross are pretty basic in technics. An ST could handle it good enough. Later games though...

Is SunDog: Frozen Legacy really that hard to convert?

So its mean there is no sense to make extended conversion of this game ?(gfx from arcade + logic from Atari ST )

I would love it. Do you considering to do it?

[s2325]

gameplay: [ Show youtube player ]
Please have in mind that I'm playing in 320x200 window on 1920x1200 display and everything is tiny for me. 'Crack intro' have YM-like music.
You can compare it with Atari ST version [ Show youtube player ]
and here is unfinished version for Atari 8-bit [ Show youtube player ]

[Phantomz]

Originally Posted by s2325

gameplay: [ Show youtube player ]
Please have in mind that I'm playing in 320x200 window on 1920x1200 display and everything is tiny for me. 'Crack intro' have YM-like music.
You can compare it with Atari ST version [ Show youtube player ]
and here is unfinished version for Atari 8-bit [ Show youtube player ]

Are you running the amiga version with an emulator?

It looks the same as the Atari ST version on both my Amiga 1200's, Title Screen is black and not blue, and blue squares on the floor are the same etc.

With regards to my 060, maybe slow due to something installed in my OS or 060 Lib etc as runs fine when booted from floppy, but get slow down running from HD.

Runs perfect from floppy or HD with Blizzard 1230 mkiv.