02 June 2019, 10:05 | #1 |
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Blues Brothers questions
I'm currently reworking the blues brothers whdload slave to add second button support / joypad controls for pause, etc..
Time for me to revisit this game. Maybe I like it because I used to play it on a good friend PC. At the time, those kind of games were rare on the PC, and despite the frustration the game can provide, we enjoyed the game (and there was no music ) Now my questions & remarks In the manual, do they explain how to enter shops (up+fire)? because I didn't remember that, I had to watch a video + some review to find out... If you miss the guitar at start I think you're stuck (stupid!) I've read this excellent review too: https://vgalmanac.com/reviews/retro-...lues-brothers/ which mentions two things I didn't find in the game: - 2-player game - sound effects For me, it's a 1 player game with selectable character, and for the sfx, apart from the excellent music, the sound effects aren't hearable. Is that a bug on fast machines? |
02 June 2019, 17:56 | #2 |
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Can't recall about the number of players, but I'm pretty sure it had music and effects on my A1200/030.
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02 June 2019, 18:08 | #3 |
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You can play with 2 players
Highlight the two characters on the character selection screen and you're on 2 players (The camera seems to only track player 1 ingame) And there is SFX with music (tested on CD32 + TF330 ) Last edited by Rochabian; 02 June 2019 at 18:19. |
02 June 2019, 18:24 | #4 |
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Just gave it a try on my A1200, the thing with sfx is they're highly inconsistent, sometimes they can be heard and others they're not played back for no good reason. It could be my whdload slave or that it's behaving differently than on unexpanded systems. But the sfx are there.
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04 June 2019, 17:51 | #5 |
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Yep, played this on my A500 all the time and indeed it has two player support and does music + SFX (but the music seems to have the priority, the SFX tend to get cut off).
I think you had to do a little trick in the character selection to select both players, like press diagonally down or something. |
04 June 2019, 18:04 | #6 |
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04 June 2019, 21:53 | #8 |
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yes, real files. From custom format disk at least for 1 version.
@Stingray damn I didn't check your patch. I'll merge the new changes I'm doing with yours (and I'll check your patch since I'm curious!) Must remember to always check for an update before resuming work on a patch. |
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That always is a good idea. As all sources are in the archive (as usual) there shouldn't be any problems, hopefully. |
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15 June 2019, 21:39 | #10 |
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I merged the latest BluesBros sources with mine and it's almost done. Wasn't that hard, fortunately. I added an option to keep using the old "disk.1" file (probably will work better/will load less with CD32load and a planned full CD edition with audio tracks)
Stingray, related problem for Jim Power. I redid the patch but wasn't aware of an unpublished slave from yours until I stumbled on this mantis report: http://mantis.whdload.de/view.php?id=1095 This time, I had checked whdload page (since I didn't participate in writing the slave, I had this reflex), but not useful... Maybe you want to share your source / update my latest slave to add your patch. I don't care, the only important point would be that the new slave contains 2nd button feature + your fixes |
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