Rastan - Amiga Version

[acidbottle]

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[jotd]

that was quick. The most difficult part is to get the maps / enemy positions. Where did you find this?

[acidbottle]

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.

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by acidbottle

ripped the green lizard from MAME and took up most of the time!

How did you do it? Video recording?

[kremiso]

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

[acidbottle]

Originally Posted by gimbal

How did you do it? Video recording?

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.

[Havie]

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!

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by acidbottle

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.

I guess i need to work out my magic on this game.

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by acidbottle

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.

Nice, both screenget and pro motion look very interesting. I've been using some other tool which can record the desktop (don't remember the name right now) and paint.net to cut out and polish sprites. It works but I've always felt it can be done easier

[ImmortalA1000]

Originally Posted by zodiac

Back in the day I recall much disappointment that an arcade port of Rastan was never completed and released for the Amiga. With all the recent ports and conversions, an arcade port of Rastan would be wonderful to see. Anyone contemplating it?

Shadow of the Beast 1 is a pretty unashamed Rastan Saga knock-off (which is why so many clueless reviewers gave it a bad score like that dick at Amiga Format who gave Deluxe Scrabble priced at £27.99 a whopping 25% more!).

Perhaps somebody could hack the SotB1 game engine as a basis for a kick-ass 512k port?

[ImmortalA1000]

Originally Posted by gimbal

Nice, both screenget and pro motion look very interesting. I've been using some other tool which can record the desktop (don't remember the name right now) and paint.net to cut out and polish sprites. It works but I've always felt it can be done easier

I have a really old version of MAME which allows me to capture video of gameplay from within the emulator (uncompressed AVI video?) so I usually just do that with cheats on and then grab screenshots of frames I am interested in using VLC. This was the best way to get sample screens of Alien Syndrome as the colours are so weird on that you need the actual source graphics with zero compression to even attempt at scaling them down to Amiga colour depths supported.

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)

[gimbal]

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

[ImmortalA1000]

Originally Posted by gimbal

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

Yes you have to select that function from the game selection screen and then it runs the game from the start so if you need level 3 of Viewpoint etc it's no good for that.

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.

[Retro-Nerd]

Wow, this Amiga adapted graphics looks fantastic. Looks like another Scorpion engine winner.


https://www.indieretronews.com/2023/...a-and-its.html

[acidbottle]

This indeed is one to look out for! Outstanding pixel work by Basement Ape and glad this has now gone public

[dlfrsilver]

Originally Posted by acidbottle

This indeed is one to look out for! Outstanding pixel work by Basement Ape and glad this has now gone public

Do you need also the sprites for Rastan ?

[acidbottle]

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!

[TCD]

Looks promising All the best to BasementApe for tackling this one

[jotd]

This really looks great! I hope it will see the light of day. Projects like this are a marathon, not a sprint.

[dlfrsilver]

Great, the graphics looks very good !