Flying Shark new Amiga port [was: Going to Drop this here :)]

[ImmortalA1000]

Originally Posted by saimon69

I asked him to get in touch with Magnus to extract arcade assets so to have a better conversion, however i feel Magnus want to complete the engine first

It's better to get the coding right and change the graphics later I think.

[nitrofurano]

when using sprites for rhat plane rotation when moving to left or right, please use at least 5 sprites, as 3 are not enough - just analyse arcade games like scramble formation, vulgus, flying shark, etc. - use a counter for that - when you are not moving left or right, the counter is 0 or going to 0 (mentioning 0 as reference), when going left it is decrementing, and going to right incrementing - the plane sprite number is related to the countrer, not changing when you go to left or right - http://webmsx.org/?ROM=http://nitrof...eformation.rom -
http://webmsx.org/?ROM=http://nitrof...Shark_msx1.rom - http://webmsx.org/?ROM=http://nitrof.../roms/cmjn.rom - https://notabug.org/nitrofurano/bori.../cmjn/cmjn.bas

[nitrofurano]

Originally Posted by ImmortalA1000

It's better to get the coding right and change the graphics later I think.

i think it is better to work on both simultaneously, working on code having better graphics is totally different

[Rob68K]

Originally Posted by nitrofurano

i think it is better to work on both simultaneously, working on code having better graphics is totally different

Everyone's different.

Some coders ( like myself ) are more motivated when there's good content to work with.

Some are just motivated enough.

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by nitrofurano

when using sprites for rhat plane rotation when moving to left or right, please use at least 5 sprites, as 3 are not enough - just analyse arcade games like scramble formation, vulgus, flying shark, etc. - use a counter for that - when you are not moving left or right, the counter is 0 or going to 0 (mentioning 0 as reference), when going left it is decrementing, and going to right incrementing - the plane sprite number is related to the countrer, not changing when you go to left or right -

Is using bobs, not sprites for the main plane

[Rob68K]

Originally Posted by saimon69

Is using bobs, not sprites for the main plane

I presume he's using the term generically.

And referring to the number of frames in the rolling animation rather than the size of the object.

[saimon69]

A level 2 teaser with the level 2 soundtrack too!

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(forgot to fix the highscore tune on the other levels that is why sounds bad)

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by Rob68K

I presume he's using the term generically.

And referring to the number of frames in the rolling animation rather than the size of the object.

Was looking at the sprite sheets for the arcade in case we don't find anyone to convert assets, and i see five positions as you said; i know Magnus is actually still using assets from the old port but he might change things once we reach the point to insert the converted arcade assets so let's keep this on hold.

[saimon69]

Magnus might just have entered history as the first to code a trainer for its own game!
(as far as i know)
It also doubles as sound test

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[Adropac2]

Originally Posted by saimon69

A level 2 teaser with the level 2 soundtrack too!

[ Show youtube player ]

(forgot to fix the highscore tune on the other levels that is why sounds bad)

cracking job on your music port of these. I love the arcade originals and these use the material very well

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by Adropac2

cracking job on your music port of these. I love the arcade originals and these use the material very well

Thanks! Adaptation to three channels turned out good, but some of those need a bit of rework to improve even further

[Adropac2]

Originally Posted by saimon69

Thanks! Adaptation to three channels turned out good, but some of those need a bit of rework to improve even further

excellent, it's in good hands

[saimon69]

Demo 1.6 is available, this time with stage 2 on the youtube page below
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[ImmortalA1000]

Originally Posted by nitrofurano

i think it is better to work on both simultaneously, working on code having better graphics is totally different

Ideally yes but as all the best 8bit games from the C64 scene proved a thousand times it's not essential. Apart from an increase in bitplanes for the chipset DMA, extra frames of animation to be added or adding extra copperlists it makes no difference if the code is finished first as long as there is a place holder for it.

[Drittz78]

Flying Shark is brilliant. This would be an awesome release.

[AmigaDweeb]

Nice work

[saimon69]

Another demo released today
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[ransom1122]

Originally Posted by saimon69

Another demo released today
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Download link is down

[malko]

Originally Posted by saimon69

Another demo released today
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[ImmortalA1000]

Getting a bit worried that the same graphics are still in there, is somebody actually doing any updated graphics to make it look like the arcade?