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that was quick. The most difficult part is to get the maps / enemy positions. Where did you find this?
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Cobbled it together in about 2 or 3 hours last night, there are problems with Scorpion though that would need some hacky work to get around. The map width is restricted (height is more generous) so would have to chop a level in half (or a third) and teleport to the new map area - would notice a frame or 2 skipping by doing this.
Ropes, no idea, literally none! Enemy spawns, not sure either, think they endlessly spawn so might not be too difficult. The main character is 16 colours, I didnt spend too much time and the backdrop so ended up in about 24 colour or something. Could be too slow in OCS in Scorpion, but perhaps doable. AGA is perfect though. Didnt have any more assets to play with, ripped the green lizard from MAME and took up most of the time! AGA sprite parallax works but caveat is that max size is 256 wide so statues would have to be on another layer to the mountains. Hope it inspires someone though to have a proper bash at it, is a great game. |
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great to read all these different ideas directly from coders/developers
the audio side is another not easy choice imo the arcade has deep and powerful sfx's, and a cool soundtrack too how many channels for sfx on Amiga? one or two? wondering ie if the cool @saimo audio routines, used in games like Skillgrid, could help in a game like this where the audio has almost half of the part imo |
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Yes kinda. Running the game through mame, on its original screen resolution, then use a small program called screenget. This records a chunk of gameplay and saves a snapshot of each frame.
From there used Pro Motion to cut the sprite out of the background and remap a few colours. |
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Impressive for a few hours - I'd barely of got anything on the screen by that point let alone a whole map and even some baddies!
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Perhaps somebody could hack the SotB1 game engine as a basis for a kick-ass 512k port? |
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If I ever get the chance to learn Scorpion I would use it to try and do something like 1000 Lakes/Mille Miglia isometric 8-way scrolling racing game as there are no sprite/background rips last time I looked. It's never been easier to do arcade ports from a graphics point of view with digital video and emulators for almost anything. There's even a plug and play TV game of Scooby Doo that's emulated which I used HD litecam screen cap software to make a video of the isometric driving level because it would make a brilliant Amiga OCS game. (MAMEUI32 0.154 july 24 2014 it says. File--->Play and record Uncompressed AVI video) |
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If that can only be activated upon starting a game it won't work for capturing animation frames unfortunately as you'd maybe need to record hours of playtime
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It's not a problem for me as I generally like to grab a 'longplay' of a game and keep a record of the graphics/music/sfx. |
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Wow, this Amiga adapted graphics looks fantastic. Looks like another Scorpion engine winner.
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This indeed is one to look out for! Outstanding pixel work by Basement Ape and glad this has now gone public
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Hehe no thank you, this is a project made by someone else. I did a small prototype a while back and really happy BasementApe chose Rastan and worked his magic. It really does look great and will rightly get some nice hype!
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Looks promising All the best to BasementApe for tackling this one
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This really looks great! I hope it will see the light of day. Projects like this are a marathon, not a sprint.
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Great, the graphics looks very good !
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