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I spent all last night playing this, and luckily i know the arcade game inside out, how much student grant went into that machine, i will never know, i prayed for this on the Amiga, after it came out on the 8bit machines, and it was awful. This really has made a 36 year old dream come true for me, thanks.
Sometimes, when you die, it keeps the speedup that you had, inside of going back to no speedups, so you die, and start again, and the ship is REALLY fast on the screen, sometimes, after dieing, the bullets shoot from behind me when i fire, but i am not complaining, i love it, it's magnificent. Have you ever thought about doing an AGA version? it would look identical to the arcade, or maybe do an option for jopads etc, with more than one button. You could do Salamander, i should imagine alot of the code is reusable. Rastan would be a great choice |
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Just gave this a go, plays beautifully in my A600 with ACA620! Two things I noticed: - 2nd button does not work with my Sega Megadrive pad. - Checkpoints did not work on the first level at least, always took me back to the beginning when I lost (I am bad at this game ok, haha). - The little enemies that are crawling on the ceiling and floor of the cave, are impossible to hit with the regular shot, the shot passes right through them without damage (laser works as intended), and if I get any lower/higher, I'd hit the cave. It al just sounds and looks SO GOOD, it's really amazing. Kinda miss the powerup speech, but I guess you can't have everything! Last edited by Amiga1992; 09 February 2021 at 16:25. |
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Didn't find the time to play by now, but judging from the videos in this thread I'm truly amazed. Sounds great, looks great, and I'm sure plays great . Thanks alot Pink for another great conversion !
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2nd button never worked with Megadrive Pad on Amiga, the pad that works with the 2nd button is the Master System controller.
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Gradius do not have speech, Gradius 2 have it. |
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09 February 2021, 15:07 | #89 |
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What an absolutely stonking release! Stellar work
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I just tried it and this is super impressive! It plays so well! If only more arcade ports to the Amiga would have been this good!
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That's 100% not true, both pads work, just not all code works with all pads.
Most WHDLoad installs have code that supports all multibutton controllers. Good point, I had a brainfart there. |
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Second button works in two button mode on my PSX convertor! Didn't try CD32 mode but will next time I have a play.
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Oo-er - my 1000th post!
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Damn - messed up my 1000 now!!!
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In level 3 at the start. First enemy is the yellow on top that got a powerup.
Some times it is impossible to react it. In one continue it was not a single time I got to it. I think it is important to get the speedup. The game is a beauty Runs so perfect on my A600 Furia 020/38mHz |
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It is good that patched games support Megadrive controllers 2nd button. |
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Just had the game hang (music keeps playing, but the level does not restart) after dying on level 7 - semi-frustrating, but also great fun while it lasted... Also noticed some graphical glitches on the level 6 boss (things flying under it were corrupted).
One bug that is definitely there is that if you have something ready on the power up bar, but not yet activated, after completing the level the meter still shows this icon (say, "Option"), but when you collect the next power up, the meter actually starts from the beginning (both "Speedup" and "Option" are highlighted, but if you cash in, you will get only "Speedup"). |
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I tried the game on Amiga500 (1meg) and Amiga 600 (2meg + 4fast) and I must say that I noticed a big difference in fluidity between the two machines.
- On the Amiga 500 the slowdowns are very present, let's say that the game is 60% smooth 40% slowed down. - On the Amiga 600, on the other hand, the game is almost perfect (90% fluid 10% slowdowns) and slows down only in very few cases. In theory, the two Amigas should be very similar in terms of cpu performance, but obviously the 2 mega chips and the fastram on the 600 give a boost on all fronts more than I thought. |
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