Tiny Bobble Beta Released - A new Bubble Bobble arcade port

[ross]

Originally Posted by Superman

Sounds like the vampire has activated "turtle mode". Not that I really have a clue or anything

KONEY is trying to figure out what are the conditions for the turtle mode .

Seems that only the final Pink's version raised this issue on the Vampire (unrelated to the trainer/2nd button patch).

[DamienD]

Classic, ROFL

You mean the all singing / dancing / super compatible / supposed Amiga replacement AKA the Vampire has issues with this?

That's pure gold

What a great sales pitch: "Tiny Bobble runs on all Amiga models / accelerators and emulators except the Vampire".

@pink: you've confused the poor thing with your Amiga sorcery. Maybe you should join the Apollo team to help them improve compatibility.

[TjLaZer]

Runs well on my different systems, but is there a reason it won’t run on NTSC Amigas? I have to force my Amigas to PAL to play. And there is still a large black gap at the bottom of the screen. Why is that?

[Misclegend]

this release of BB is on the same level of the arcade version
but fact is I have been playing both to compare and Id say that tiny bobble is easier than the arcade version

also it gives more fruits to collect and more candies so I prefer this instead the arcade because is more playlable
however the music sounds better in mame/arcade version

anyways this is fantastic compared with the original lame Amiga port done in 1989
being this game so fast and smooth I wonder which program or computer language the author used to code this port ?

[Misclegend]

Originally Posted by Predseda

And now port Bubble Bobble 2 please

nope

BB2 was a very lame sequel what went unnoticed
is a crime that a talented coder waste time porting such crap

[Predseda]

Pink, is it possible to make a list of included triggers in this game? I mean something like "complete level in 10 seconds to reveal letters in next level" etc.

[mcgeezer]

I've finally got round to playing the game, it's right up there with the best arcade ports of all time (Pang, Rainbow Islands etc). I love this for the Amiga and thanks Pink for bringing it. You've raised the bar for sure on the platform and it's just what we need. Awesome work.

[kriz]

Misclegend: http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=1420431&postcount=8 http://eab.abime.net/showpost.php?p=...1&postcount=10

Originally Posted by Bartman

Shameless plug This game was done with Visual Studio Code and my Amiga C/C++ Compile, Debug & Profile extension. So don't let anyone tell you you can't do high-quality games for A500 in C.

Originally Posted by pink^abyss

Right Bartman! Without your tool this would have not been possible. Even the music replayer is done in C.

Some technical infos:

• To achieve high performance the game uses a copperlist to do all blits while the CPU uses the idle DMA cycles.
• Pretracker was used to have minimum chipmem usage (3.7kb) for music
• Between certain levels Doynax is used to decompress new gfx to chipmem as needed.
• For player animation a small asm routine is used to copy new images from fast to chipmem as needed. 180 animation frames are in memory for the two players.
• The game uses 3 chipmem buffers with 256x256 with 5 bitplanes. Two for display and one restore buffer.
• All tiles are placed in fastmem and copied with the cpu to a backbuffer and blitted to the display buffers

[mtb]

I haven't yet a chance to try but with a 2 button joystick will the 2nd button act as jump? Imho could be really nice and arcade-style!

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by mtb

I haven't yet a chance to try but with a 2 button joystick will the 2nd button act as jump? Imho could be really nice and arcade-style!

Yes, ross's trained version with 2nd button hack does

[mtb]

Originally Posted by DamienD

Yes, ross's trained version with 2nd button hack does

Thank you, what it that version? Btw, also come to mind would be cool to play as "second player" only.

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by mtb

Thank you, what it that version? Btw, also come to mind would be cool to play as "second player" only.

Originally Posted by ross

Tiny Bobble, tiny trainer + 2nd button support and fast depacking.

Into the Zone!

Kudos to Pink^aBYSS for this great release.

[mtb]

That's really cool, thank you @ross .

Yes i know i'm annoying , but would be cool to add a way/commandline switch to just load without trainer so modifying the startup sequence with for example -notrainer it will just load without waiting for lmb so playing on android and emulators like lakka should be easier?

[pink^abyss]

By the way, if someone needs a trainer for the game you can read the info file for a (big) hint.

[Alpha One]

Added another small trainer in the Zone with Levelselector if someone needs it.

[roondar]

Originally Posted by pink^abyss

By the way, if someone needs a trainer for the game you can read the info file for a (big) hint.

What!? READING!?
Are you mad?

[pink^abyss]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

I've finally got round to playing the game, it's right up there with the best arcade ports of all time (Pang, Rainbow Islands etc). I love this for the Amiga and thanks Pink for bringing it. You've raised the bar for sure on the platform and it's just what we need. Awesome work.

Thanks Looking forward to your next project.

[ross]

To sum up the requests:
- a nice trainer intro (Alpha One done it )
- 2nd button usage (done)
- command line to disable trainer (doable)
- 60Hz mode (I did some tests and it works quite well, some slowdowns but with a fast machine is fine)

That's enough?

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by Alpha One

Added another small trainer in the Zone with Levelselector if someone needs it.

Interesting background effect. Neat trainer menu for a great game.

[coldacid]

Originally Posted by ross

To sum up the requests:
- a nice trainer intro (Alpha One done it )
- 2nd button usage (done)
- command line to disable trainer (doable)
- 60Hz mode (I did some tests and it works quite well, some slowdowns but with a fast machine is fine)

That's enough?

And a non-generic WHDLoad slave!