Next game to port?

[Don_Adan]

Originally Posted by saimon69

@Don_Adan

While a 1:1 port of Assault is not feasible i know that is possible to recreate a game with a similar mechanic: both Awesome and another helicopter game i forgot the title are using a rotative approach - using several sprites rather than rotate the background; i guess that could be expanded to use some filled polygons to give more colors...

I dont know, but maybe for AGA this game can be possible to do. Nice zoom effect. For me this game has very good control, two joysticks, very good for tank game, one joy for one tank caterpillar. I played this game many years ago, in only one arcade salon in Warsaw. I prefer two joysticks control than SNK control method for tank style games (rotate joystick), f.e. Ikari Warriors, Gondomania, TANK 3.

[gian2k]

my favorite game is not on the list. I want a decent port of ghoul’s n ghost

[DanScott]

Originally Posted by Don_Adan

I dont know, but maybe for AGA this game can be possible to do. Nice zoom effect. For me this game has very good control, two joysticks, very good for tank game, one joy for one tank caterpillar. I played this game many years ago, in only one arcade salon in Warsaw. I prefer two joysticks control than SNK control method for tank style games (rotate joystick), f.e. Ikari Warriors, Gondomania, TANK 3.

Could do something similar on A500 too, using a lower resolution background, but still having the scaling and zooming like in the arcade version.

I would use a 4x2 "fake" copper screen for the background, with a combination of hardware sprites and bobs for the other objects... It would probably run at 25fps, but still would look great.

The 4x4 fake copper roto-zoomout in De Profundis took approx 60% of a frame.. the other spare cycles were decompressing the next image in the background

So a 4x2 fake would leave another 70% or so (perhaps less with more planes enabled) of a 2nd frame to draw objects and run game logic

[Don_Adan]

Originally Posted by DanScott

Could do something similar on A500 too, using a lower resolution background, but still having the scaling and zooming like in the arcade version.

I would use a 4x2 "fake" copper screen for the background, with a combination of hardware sprites and bobs for the other objects... It would probably run at 25fps, but still would look great.

The 4x4 fake copper roto-zoomout in De Profundis took approx 60% of a frame.. the other spare cycles were decompressing the next image in the background

So a 4x2 fake would leave another 70% or so (perhaps less with more planes enabled) of a 2nd frame to draw objects and run game logic

Original arcade need 2 x 68000 at 12.2MHz CPU. I thinked about AGA mostly for fastest CPU and more RAM, maybe for better graphics. But im amateur coder only.

[DanScott]

I already have the tech for 4x2 fake copper full rotation and scaling background @ 50hz

[DanScott]

yeah, for AGA and A1200+ perhaps can use 2x2 bitmap scaling... but the advantage of the copper screen is that you can have full bitplane usage over the top

[malko]

and " Wonder boy " is still leading, @mcgeezer
fortunately you wrote

[...] if I was to port another game [...]

[mcgeezer]

I’d be more likely to do Shinobi if i was to do another one, or for a smaller project - kung fu master as it looks like the blitz basic one may have gone TITSUP.

[d4rk3lf]

I'd also prefer Shinobi over the Wonder Boy.
So, feel free to take my vote from Final Fight (we are going to get Metro Siege), and add it to the Shinobi.

[ross]

Originally Posted by DanScott

yeah, for AGA and A1200+ perhaps can use 2x2 bitmap scaling... but the advantage of the copper screen is that you can have full bitplane usage over the top

Hi Dan, this is a good idea but I fail to understand how you can have a full bitplane usage over the top (if I properly understand what you mean by 'full plane').
Assuming you use two planes to increase the amount of dithering on the 8 HiColor pixels made with copper (vs one on De Profundis), you can use only two more planes..
Unfortunately AGA DMA fetches are "packed" and if you have more than four planes (even with FMODE=x4) you cannot emit any more a color with copper every 8 px.

Ok, you can 'dither' every 12px or 16px but the routine is no more the same.

The only way I see is a rendering directly on the 'fake' 2x2 plane but this implies having simple four colors 'free plane' OR
a big 16 colors (64*4) plane with AGA sprites (game screen is 256px).

But I probably didn't think of other ways you have taken in consideration .

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

I'd also prefer Shinobi over the Wonder Boy.
So, feel free to take my vote from Final Fight (we are going to get Metro Siege), and add it to the Shinobi.

Done

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Done

hah...
I think you wouldn't be so fast in changing the pool, if I voted the other way around.

[DamienD]

Of course I would; these need to be made for any voting changes ASAP to keep the poll up-to-date and relevant

[mcgeezer]

I could be tempted to do Shinobi, I'd have to improve the scrolling engine from Rygar but I was going to do that anyway.

The kicker is though that ... I wouldn't be able to call it Shinobi... it would have to be something else without copyright, but I'd be happy to make the game roughly the same.

It all depends if you Shinobi fan boys could live with that though.

... and besides... the game is similar to Rolling Thunder which is a big plus for me!

[Anubis]

Looking at 005AGIMA, why not call it Ibonihs?

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

I could be tempted to do Shinobi, I'd have to improve the scrolling engine from Rygar but I was going to do that anyway.

The kicker is though that ... I wouldn't be able to call it Shinobi... it would have to be something else without copyright, but I'd be happy to make the game roughly the same.

It all depends if you Shinobi fan boys could live with that though.

... and besides... the game is similar to Rolling Thunder which is a big plus for me!

Just make an accessible IFF master screen title, that we could edit and change to whatever title we want.

Yeah, Rolling Thunder was great as well.

[amighista]

I really would like a AGA version of Art of Fighting 1.

[Anubis]

Somehow Art of Fighting always seemed bit odd and not that great fighting game.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

The kicker is though that ... I wouldn't be able to call it Shinobi... it would have to be something else without copyright, but I'd be happy to make the game roughly the same.

Why would it have to be named different and not the same gameplay wise?

The Amiga version of Rygar is called the same as the arcade version and virtually the same gameplay

[ransom1122]

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