New CD32 compilation project (Flashback + Alien 3)

[earok]

Hi all,

I've started working on a CD32 compilation, using Lennon Lives' toolkit and WHDLoad slaves that add CD32 joypad support to otherwise keyboard-required games.

UPDATE: Third version has been added, with these 64 games. All of which should be playable on a stock CD32 (except those currently marked as broken) without keyboard or mouse.

1943
4D Sports Driving
Alien 3
Allo Allo
Altered Beast
Another World Broken
Apidya
Battle Squadron
Big Run
Bratwurst
Brutal Tenia
Buggy Boy
Damage
Desert Strike
Doman
Eliminator
Evil Dawn
Flashback
Formula 1 Grand Prix
Gauntlet (Atari Port)
Gloom Classic
Gloom Deluxe
Golden Axe
Great Giana Sisters
Gulkorn Expressen
Hare Raising Havoc
Joust (Atari Port)
Liquid Kids
Marble Madness
McDonald Land
Mega Twins
Micro Machines
Midnight Resistance
Mikro Mortal Tennis
Mortal Kombat 1
Mortal Kombat 2
New Zealand Story
Nitro
Pegasus
Prime Mover
Prince of Persia
Rainbow Islands
Rally Championships
Rick Dangerous
Rick Dangerous 2
Rick Dangerous 2.5
Shadow of the Beast
Shadow of the Beast 3
Slam Tilt
Snow Bros
Son Shu Shi
Speedball
Stunt Car Racer: The New Tracks (Broken)
Super Cars
Super Cars 2
Super Skidmarks
Super Skidmarks +
Super Skidmarks: Farmyard Edition
Super Skidmarks Silly
Virtual Karting 1
Virtual Karting 2
Worms Director's Cut
XP8
Xtreme Racing

Current version download is here: https:///#!NIhwkCYS!aI7jda...0B9qYmAlME4Wbc any playtesting would be hugely appreciated.

All of the games work on emulator, I haven't had a chance to test all of them on a real CD32 but the ones I have tested all work.

Next release includes:

- Aunt's Arctic Adventure
- Batman Returns
- Bonanza Bros
- Blues Bros
- Dyna Blaster
- FIFA International Soccer
- International Karate Port
- Speed! Demo
- Stunt Car Racer
- Super Sprint (Atari St Port)
- Super Street Fighter 2: New Challengers DX
- Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo
- Testament
- Testament 2
- Watchtower
- Woodys World




To do:

- Forgotten Worlds
- Total Football
- Speed
- Starfighter
- Disc
- Dyna Blaster
- Max Rally
- Street Fighter
- Street Fighter II
- Super Sprint
- Sword of Sodan
- Rocketz
- Rocket Ranger
- Tiger Road
- Warmup (keyboard req?)
- Xenon

Maybe: (Already on CD32)

- American Challenge
- Banshee
- Defender of the Crown 2
- Diggers
- Dizzy collection (Some are on Big 6 disc)
- Exile
- Fighting Spirit
- Guardian
- IK+
- Impossible Mission 2025
- Lemmings
- Lotus Trilogy
- Roadkill
- Sensible Soccer
- Speedball 2
- Syndicate
- Pierre Le Chef
- Powerdrift
- PGA European Tour
- Pirates! Gold
- Universe

Maybe: (Mouse required?)

- Dream Web
- Drivin' Force
- Lost Dutchman Mine
- The Legend of Kyrandia
- Transartica

Maybe: (Keyboard required?)

- Enemy 1/2
- Elf
- Epic
- Flimbo's Quest
- Moonstone
- PP Hammer
- Turrican Trilogy
- Zeewolf 1/2

Slave Wishlist:

-4D Sports driving (some mappings required) Using Joy2kbd config
- Advantage Tennis (Get past copy protection without keyboard + speedfix?)
- Afterburner (Space mapping required)
- Aladdin (Is this even possible to get running on CD32?)
- Alien 3 (Additional mapping for jump)
- Alien Syndrome (Speedfix, additional mappings required)
- Apocalypse (Some mappings required)
- Aaargh! (Lizard appears to be invisible on CD32)
- Alcatraz (player switch on CD32 control)
- Aunt Arctic Adventure (severe graphical glitches?)
- Battletoads (If it's even possible, a jump button would be great!)
- Barbarian: The ultimate warrior (key mappings for starting the game, possibly speedfix)
- Big Run (Speedfix) Done, thanks Stingray
- Beast Busters (Grenade mappings)
- Best of the Best (play without kickstarts)
- Bubble Bobble (Ability to trigger 2P mode without keyboard)
- Castle Kingdoms (Some mappings required)
- Chase H.Q. 1&2 (Space mapping required)
- Crazy Cars trilogy (Some mappings required?)
- Death Trap (some mappings required, eg open spellbook)
- Dogs of War (some mappings required, eg change guns)
- Elvira Arcade (some mappings required, eg spell)
- Epic (keyboard mappings)
- Enemy (keyboard mappings)
- Formula 1 GP (It's possible to get past copy protection screen with JOY2KBD, though mappings for the rest of the game would be appreciated!)
- Fire and Forget 2 (speed fix)
- Gee Bee Air Rally (play without kickstarts)
- Goal (Some mappings required?)
- Indianapolis 500 (Some mappings required)
- Ikari Warriors (Start without pressing 1 or 2)
- Kid Gloves 2 (Speedfix)
- The Lion King (Can this be squeezed into CD32 ram?)
- Loom (If possible to patch for CD32 control play? Does anyone have CDTV version of this?)
- Mega Lo Mania (Can't get past "black screen")
- Mercs (Crashes to white screen on CD32?)
- Mr Nutz (Pause and Escape functions mapped)
- New Zealand Story Demo (too fast?)
- Nitro (Nice to have, Player 2 + 3 to use left and right hand side of CD32 control, respectively)
- North and South (play without kickstarts)
- Rick Dangerous 1&2 (Pause button)
- Satan (Select part)
- Shaq Fu (AGA version on CD32 and/or fix for menu screen, gives resload_decrunch error)
- Shadow of the Beast 1-2 (CD32 joypad support)
- Shadow Warriors (Keyboard req to start)
- Shockwave (Misc mappings required)
- Space Harrier 1 (Too fast)
- Space Harrier 2 (Severe graphical glitches on CD32, even when tude degrade used)
- Speedball 1 (Pause button)
- Supercars 1 (Pause button)
- Super Tennis Champs (Play without kickstarts)
- SWOS 96/97 (Can this run on CD32?)
- Pinball Dreams (Keyboard fix)
- Prawo Krwi (Can this run on CD32?)
- Primal Rage (Can this run on CD32?)
- Putty Squad (Can this run on CD32?)
- Turrican trilogy (Space and Alt mapped)
- Zac McKracken (If possible to patch for CD32 control?)
- Zeewolf 1/2 (Patch for CD32 control)

Other wishlist:

- Alien Breed 3D (CD32 version without WHDLoad and copy protection)
- Alien Breed 3D II The Killing Grounds (Play 2mb version without keyboard)
- Capital Punishment (Crashes due to lack of CD32 ram?)
- Eat the Whistle (Crashes due to lack of CD32 ram?)
- Ghosts and Goblins (Latest WHDLoad version freezes at piracy screen on CD32 config?)
- Gloom 3 (some sort of fix for issue that prevents running on just 2mb chip ram?)
- Fifa international soccer (Could not run WHDLoad version as it complained about being out of RAM, could not run directly from drive as it complained about missing second disc)
- Hybris (Latest WHDLoad version doesn't run on stock CD32?)
- Monster Business (Latest WHDLoad version has graphical glitches on stock CD32?)

Please post any requests in this thread

[FOL]

Turrican 1 & 2, Lotus 1, 2 & 3.
Crazy Cars 1, 2, 3 & American Challenge.

Theres just to many to post.

[mombasajoe]

Originally Posted by earok

Any requests?

Requests for that compilation as it is or requests for more games to put on that compilation?

[earok]

@FOL I'll keep them on my maybe list, though my preference at this stage is for games that don't require keyboard support (Turrican 1 & 2, though would change my mind if WHDLoad slaves with joypad support become available) and games that don't have native CD32 versions (American Challenge + Lotus Trilogy).

@mombasajoe Either!

[Neil79]

Dizzy Collection
Pirates! Gold
Exile
Diggers
Defender of the Crown II

[Zak]

Goal! (don´t know if this would work with the WHDload patch)
Banshee
PGA European Tour
Worms
Alien Breed 3D
Lemmings
Speedball 2
Diggers

There would be many more Games, but I don´t know if there are appropriate versions available.

I am strongly interested in 2 player games.

[Retro-Nerd]

and WHDLoad slaves that add CD32 joypad support to otherwise keyboard-required games.

earok means games like Hybris, Battle Squadron, Mega Twins, Midnight Resistance etc.

[StingRay]

Originally Posted by Zak

Goal! (don´t know if this would work with the WHDload patch)

I don't see why it shouldn't. I don't really see a reason for using it on a CD32 either though as the game uses quite a few keys and mapping all of them to the CD32 joypad is not possible (read: way too much work).

[Zak]

Originally Posted by StingRay

I don't see why it shouldn't. I don't really see a reason for using it on a CD32 either though as the game uses quite a few keys and mapping all of them to the CD32 joypad is not possible (read: way too much work).

You would mostly need the function to exchange players and zoom in and out. Some functions could be left out like when coping with replays.

[StingRay]

Yes, that would work of course and I thought about that too. I will see about adding CD32 pad support to the slave but it most probably won't happen in the near future as I currently have so many other things to do. I'll add it to my evergrowing "to do" list.

[Zak]

Originally Posted by StingRay

I'll add it to my evergrowing "to do" list.

Great! I appreciate so much you did the WHDload patch! And I read all the threads about it and how much work it was!

@earok: now you edited, I see you mainly want to go for games that are not available for CD32 yet?

[earok]

Thanks everyone! I've included WIP, maybe and slave wishlists for the project in the OP.

I'm primarily looking at games that weren't originally playable on a CD32 sans keyboard, most other Amiga titles are either already on the CD32 or one of the 100+ game compilation discs. Definitely not opposed to games already playable on ISOs but they're down the priority list.

Can anyone confirm/deny if it's going to be OK if I link to ISOs in this thread?

[earok]

Making progress on the project, 1943, Battle Squadron and Desert Strike are all in my WIP version.

I feel like a real idiot - Desert Strike kept quitting out as soon as it hit the menu, and I assumed it was a memory issue and spent a couple of hours trying to resolve it. Turns out that the toolkit's default quit key (Play) was in some way interfering with it, removing the default quit key option from the WHDLoad settings was all I had to do.

[mombasajoe]

Apocalypse
Bubble Bobble
Monster Business

[earok]

@mombasajoe Thanks! Added to the lists.

[sokolovic]

I haven't seen Mr Nutz on any compilation (but maybe I'm wrong). It will be a perfect game for the CD32 (And I don't remember it needing keyboard, but there will be problems with saving :/ ).

[earok]

Having some problems with Alien Breed 3D. My dilemma is this:

- I can't get the WHDLoad versions to work (presumably, not enough memory on the CD32).
- I can directly run the Amiga CD32 version, but there doesn't appear to be a no-copy protection patch for this.
- I can directly run the Amiga 1200 version, which can be patched for no-copy protection, but I need a keyboard to enter level passwords.

Argh! What do I do?

[earok]

@Sokolovic I'll have a go at getting Mr Nutz to work

[Zak]

I wasn´t aware that Alien Breed has copy protection.

Here are some games that I think might work well and I think they were not available on CD32 (although that´s difficult to find out for me):

Buggy Boy
Fifa International Soccer
IK+
Indianapolis 500 (but with good car setup)
Loom
Marble Madness
North and South
Nitro
Rick Dangerous 1+2
Space Harrier - Return to the Fantasy Zone
Speedball 1
Super Cars 1
Zak McKracken

Edit: Argh I think you would need the keyboard for some games. That´s a difficult task!

[earok]

@Zak Alien Breed "3D" does. And it's a real pain.

I've gone through and sorted your suggestions into the lists, cheers.