[WIP] Moon Patrol conversion

[d4rk3lf]

Great job as always, jotd.

[jotd]

thanks. I realize that there are a lot of missing / glitchy things but I wanted to share something, it's been a long week of tweaking and trying to make it playable.

[lionagony]

Looks great. Doing the 3 levels of parallax in software and without dual playfield works really well, impressive stuff.

[jotd]

dual playfield is not of great help as everything scrolls. It would have been nice but then 8+8 colors would have made my life impossible.

Dual playfield will be back on AGA.

[tomcat666]

Huge thanks for porting this over. It was one of the only arcades that I played back in the time (none really around here, so it was Moon Patrol when we went to the sea side and Gryzor when the Luna Park visited every 1st of may ).

[stx2199]

I just tested the alpha in the zone and worked fine here, I played until level E but crashed
it seems is working at 25 fps or so because the scroll is not smooth as in the arcade and there is tearing and glitches in the rocks

anyways excellent work,

btw, do you will add the sound of the flying saucers?

or is it going to stay like this due to the limitations of the Amiga only 4 channels?

[jotd]

Originally Posted by stx2199

I just tested the alpha in the zone and worked fine here, I played until level E but crashed
it seems is working at 25 fps or so because the scroll is not smooth as in the arcade and there is tearing and glitches in the rocks

anyways excellent work,

btw, do you will add the sound of the flying saucers?

or is it going to stay like this due to the limitations of the Amiga only 4 channels?

25fps yes this is already taxing for a poor A500/no fast.


The sound of flying saucers is there but I removed it as long as ptplayer can't handle looped sound when music is playing. That or I'll have to workaround this, but with worse rendition.

[jotd]

new alpha in the zone. Fixed continue and rainbow screens. Should be playable longer.

[Cimmerian]

Thanks Jotd,excellent

[kremiso]

thanks
played the first 'round' from a to z, no rainbow screens

[zzbylu]

Moon Patrol - alpha2 gameplay:
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[DanyPPC]

The game progresses well, there is still some lag in the controls.

[stx2199]

Originally Posted by jotd

25fps yes this is already taxing for a poor A500/no fast.


The sound of flying saucers is there but I removed it as long as ptplayer can't handle looped sound when music is playing. That or I'll have to workaround this, but with worse rendition.

ah yes 25 fps for the A500 is very fine but anyways... can you make this game to run at 50 fps when AGA chipset is detected ? or is not possible? or very hard to implement?

[jotd]

Originally Posted by stx2199

ah yes 25 fps for the A500 is very fine but anyways... can you make this game to run at 50 fps when AGA chipset is detected ? or is not possible? or very hard to implement?

AGA means dual playfield + FMODE=3 so hopefully 50 fps will be possible

ATM game doesn't run at full speed either, but 20% slower.

Originally Posted by DanyPPC

The game progresses well, there is still some lag in the controls.

lag? there's some inertia in speed change, but like the original. Did you play the original recently?

[str0m]

Yer the speed change is slow in the arcade original, more realistic I guess.

[DanyPPC]

Originally Posted by jotd

lag? there's some inertia in speed change, but like the original. Did you play the original recently?

Yes, I played it on MiST fpga (moon patrol core), but if on Amiga the game is slower about 20% I think this is the cause of lag sensation.

[jotd]

that I confirm. That will be fixed soon.

[PascalDe73]

@JOTD

Hi,

Witch config for the Alpha 2 ? Because it crash on my A500ACA500 Plus

I add my Glow Icon from Acade Flyer

Best regards,

Pascal

[jotd]

thanks for the icon. Maybe it's not fully 68000 compatible yet.

[PascalDe73]

Originally Posted by jotd

thanks for the icon. Maybe it's not fully 68000 compatible yet.

Ok Thanks for Your Answer

To help You , I will post in the Zone the Bug Report on my A500ACA500Plus (68000)