Next game to port?

[Retro-Nerd]

Originally Posted by jotd

There's an unfinished good port of Kung Fu Master for ages now, but nothing seems to move ATM.

Side Arms is a very good game. Haven't played in a while now, but I remember completing it (with not that many credits). And AFAIR Amiga version is really not that good.

Dragonninja!!!... You're picking the right games whatever you choose!

Guess this is a matter of taste. I personally think that these 3 games aren't aged very well, compared to some other Arcade classics.

[mcgeezer]

Bloody hell... I didn't realise that Wonderboy was up there.

No love for Hyper Sports or Green Beret then?

[Neil79]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

Bloody hell... I didn't realise that Wonderboy was up there.

No love for Hyper Sports or Green Beret then?

I have a huge fondness for Wonderboy, as for Green Beret well, I prefer that on the Amstrad . I know Earok took a stab at the game previously, but it could be much better!

[Havie]

Side Arms with combination of keyboard and mouse might work well to replace the rotating joystick mechanism.

I started Trojan years ago but in Z80 on the Speccy - go as far as walking character with scrolling background but not further, wasn't really a finisher when I was 15! Good game and would have thought you could make a pretty decent port on a 500?

[mcgeezer]

Originally Posted by Havie

Side Arms with combination of keyboard and mouse might work well to replace the rotating joystick mechanism.

The easy thing about Side Arms is that all of the graphics and tile-sets are stored sequentially in ROM making them easy to extract, if I recall as well the sound is two channel.

Big game though... lots of work.

[roondar]

To be honest, I'd love Green Beret. But I never really played Wonderboy. Perhaps it's a great game.

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

I wouldn't specifically say I target AGA, it's just what I think will best do the game justice... for example, I'm thinking about doing Kung Fu Master because it's a nice short challenging game... but I'd do that on A500.





A much better version of Dragon Ninja could be done on A500 for sure, it's kind of nicely set out similar to the way Rygar was which enables colour splits down the screen to get the best out of dual playfield - you'd probably be looking at 25fps. AGA though could do it arcade perfect - no problem.

I'm surprised there's not much love for Side Arms, great two player shooter that I played alot in the arcades and a great AGA challenge. I've not done a shooter yet.

Side Arms is a great 256 colors game And of course, a super shooter from Capcom

[mcgeezer]

Originally Posted by roondar

To be honest, I'd love Green Beret. But I never really played Wonderboy. Perhaps it's a great game.

It's a fantastic game... well within the capabilities of the A500 stock.

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

Side Arms is a great 256 colors game And of course, a super shooter from Capcom

Probably wouldn't put it in 256 colour mode.

If the new rewrite of emulating the Amiga chips ability to have full overscan with all 64 wide sprites available then.... well, all bets are on.

[acidbottle]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

Bloody hell... I didn't realise that Wonderboy was up there.

No love for Hyper Sports or Green Beret then?

I'd love Hyper Sports, its a right button/stick smasher though. Doubt our fragile hardware could handle it!

Kung Fu Master would also be awesome, home versions of that were generally terrible. I'll also mention Shao-Lins Road .. Guts!

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by acidbottle

Kung Fu Master would also be awesome, home versions of that were generally terrible. I'll also mention Shao-Lins Road .. Guts!

Seko is working in several ports included Kung Fu Master, been a while i don't see updates on that,though

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

It runs on the Section Z arcade hardware. It uses 2xz80. GNG use a 6809.

GNG use 128 colors. Trojan use 256 colors (if we speak in computer palette).

Just the sprites takes 80 colors all in all, since you have 2-3 differents on screen, this means 48-64 colors. bosses for some levels are alone on screen.

This game on average displays 80-100 colors on screen dynamically.

It doesn't seems to have too many objects at ones on screen. So maybe it's possible to make it run at 50hz on OCS, with some graphics redux. Maybe it's even possible to have parallax with sprites. But the real deal is Ram to use for double or better triple buffer

[vulture]

I could be wrong, but the most enemies I've counted at once are 5 at 22:37 particular point and it seems like the arcade itself is slowing down a bit:

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Not a coder, but I believe OCS with dual playfield with some copper/sprite tricks could come very close to the original.

[crazyc]

I would definitely love to see Green Beret and Hypersports. I thought someone had said in a previous thread that they were taking a look at Green beret?

Also personally Beach Head was one I used to play on the c64 that I don't think ever got ported.

[sandruzzo]

Originally Posted by vulture

I could be wrong, but the most enemies I've counted at once are 5 at 22:37 particular point and it seems like the arcade itself is slowing down a bit:

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Not a coder, but I believe OCS with dual playfield with some copper/sprite tricks could come very close to the original.

I think 32 colors would be better. What are the actual enemies and player size?

[vulture]

No idea, but they don't seem too big. You're the coder here, I think 32 colours may be unnecessary tho, it doesn't seem very colourful. Wouldn't 4bp with copper changes be enough in your opinion?

[kremiso]

Originally Posted by mcgeezer

The easy thing about Side Arms is that all of the graphics and tile-sets are stored sequentially in ROM making them easy to extract, if I recall as well the sound is two channel.

Big game though... lots of work.

kudos just for thinking at this
imo not easy to port as other in your og list
i'm thinking at the change of scrolling during gameplay, or at some big end of level bosses (ie level 2 iirc)

[CFou!]

Originally Posted by dlfrsilver

Pang is a game using real 64 colors on screen (screen is splitting in strippes, each with its 16 colors palette).

I think Pang would be a very easy game to adapt in 256 colors due to the structure of the game (more simple than EOB 1&2 badly coded in C++).
with some patches to the loading codes, copperlists and display ...

but what interest? the A500 version is wonderful for me.

if it is to do as the BitmapBrother games...
I prefer the ECS version of Chaos Engine and Speed Ball 2 ...

For me an adaptation of a arcade game never converted on amiga as Trojan is better!

or badly converted as Ghouls & ghost...

[hitm4n]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

(ruff'n'tumble >>>>> wonder boy)

so true

[invent]

@hitm4n, what about porting “Dots Adventures”

[hitm4n]

DA was obviously born from Platman, if there was a way to edit DAs graphics into Platman and adjust the maps, i would give it a go! I wonder if we can get the Platman source from John Hardie.

But hey, guess what i'm working on. I have started to learn ASM and i am trying (and might fail), to make Platman on the Speccy Next. A sort of demake, I feel this is okay to do, John said we were okay to use the game, but i don't feel comfortable using Eds code and graphics as they were all bought by his 2 colleagues (who sadly don't seem to be doing anything with it all). Such a shame. I've had ZERO contact with the them and still have admin access on the websites and the facebook groups.