Tiny Bobble Beta Released - A new Bubble Bobble arcade port

[DamienD]

Originally Posted by ross

To sum up the requests:
- a nice trainer intro (Alpha One done it )
- 2nd button usage (done)
- command line to disable trainer (doable)
- 60Hz mode (I did some tests and it works quite well, some slowdowns but with a fast machine is fine)

That's enough?

The only others things I would suggest to make the ultimate disk version, is the following in-game keys:

... Level skip
... Yellow candy power-up
... Pink candy power-up
... Blue candy power-up
... Shoes

Then the perfect port has the perfect trainer

[skyzoo73]

Today I was able to try the two-player game with the help of a friend of mine. On a real Amiga 500 (+ 512k), Commodore crt monitor, and two KTRL CD32 + joypads.


The game is very fun, even more so with a friend, but unfortunately it suffers from many slowdowns due to the greater presence of objects on the screen. Another thing we noticed throughout the game, until the end of the game (100 level) is that no special bonuses, bottles, diskettes, or anything else appeared. The only special items that appeared during the levels were candy of various colors, some shoes, and the letters EXTEND. Unfortunately nothing else.

[pink^abyss]

Originally Posted by skyzoo73

Today I was able to try the two-player game with the help of a friend of mine. On a real Amiga 500 (+ 512k), Commodore crt monitor, and two KTRL CD32 + joypads.


The game is very fun, even more so with a friend, but unfortunately it suffers from many slowdowns due to the greater presence of objects on the screen. Another thing we noticed throughout the game, until the end of the game (100 level) is that no special bonuses, bottles, diskettes, or anything else appeared. The only special items that appeared during the levels were candy of various colors, some shoes, and the letters EXTEND. Unfortunately nothing else.

Appearance of items is not random (like in some other ports) but depends on how you play. Some things that improve item appearance: Create many bubbles

• Fall through the ground
• Collect EXTEND letters you already have multiple times
• Pop many enemies at once
• Walk around

I hope this helps

[samo79]

Originally Posted by ross

To sum up the requests:
- a nice trainer intro (Alpha One done it )
- 2nd button usage (done)
- command line to disable trainer (doable)
- 60Hz mode (I did some tests and it works quite well, some slowdowns but with a fast machine is fine)

That's enough?

Maybe an option to change the game difficult:

Easy
Medium (Arcade)
Hard

[ross]

Originally Posted by samo79

Maybe an option to change the game difficult:

Easy
Medium (Arcade)
Hard

A bit too much, this could be done only by Pink

[mtb]

i don't know if it will be feasible.

With ross improvement loading time has gone from something like 102 seconds, to ~34 seconds (great!). Without the trainer lmb wait i think another little improvement.

But... is there any change placing the file differently - optimizing it - where the files are on the disk?

e.g. iirc the first track accessed when loading the floppy is 40? (so probabily the startup sequence should go there and the file maybe @41? )

[Alpha One]

Sorry, this starts to get ridiculous. :-)

Originally Posted by mtb

i don't know if it will be feasible.

With ross improvement loading time has gone from something like 102 seconds, to ~34 seconds (great!). Without the trainer lmb wait i think another little improvement.

But... is there any change placing the file differently - optimizing it - where the files are on the disk?

e.g. iirc the first track accessed when loading the floppy is 40? (so probabily the startup sequence should go there and the file maybe @41? )

[acd2001]

Decompress tiny bubble and trackload the game

[ross]

Originally Posted by Alpha One

Sorry, this starts to get ridiculous. :-)

(in any case the post gave me an idea.. )

[Ponder]

Originally Posted by pink^abyss

Download link
http://www.abyss-online.de/static/do...TinyBobble.adf

Final fixes

• Fire & Lightning kept moving when HURRY UP was shown
• In potion screen the 10.000 score is not correctly positioned
• BPLCON3 default was not written (AGA display fix)

Thanks to everyone!

Happy playing.

I shall test this tomorrow and report back

[mrupp]

Originally Posted by ross

To sum up the requests:
- a nice trainer intro (Alpha One done it )
- 2nd button usage (done)
- command line to disable trainer (doable)
- 60Hz mode (I did some tests and it works quite well, some slowdowns but with a fast machine is fine)

That's enough?

Would it be possible to deactivate „up“ after first press of 2nd firebutton? That way there would be no accidental jump on a joypad.

[BigD]

@ross/Pink^Abyss

Using ross's patched version I managed to find a bug in level 10 in a two player game we'd cleared all the botniks and the level wouldn't finish with constant hurry up! loops etc. No obvious enemies trapped anyway. Reloaded the game and played up to level 10 again and it was fine!

Thanks for the 2-player version though ross ;-)

[ross]

Originally Posted by mrupp

Would it be possible to deactivate „up“ after first press of 2nd firebutton? That way there would be no accidental jump on a joypad.

Yes, but I don't know if it's the best way.
Perhaps some prefer to have both active...
The best would be an option.

[Predseda]

I confirm Escape now works as it should, no more Software Failures on my Ami.

[mrupp]

Originally Posted by ross

Yes, but I don't know if it's the best way.
Perhaps some prefer to have both active...
The best would be an option.

Agreed, to have an option is always best.

[ross]

Originally Posted by DamienD

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Maybe you could speak with Alpha and:

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We could get the ***ultimate*** Tiny Bobble disk version that has;

... ross's 2nd fire button hack.
... Alpha One's cool trainer options.

Originally Posted by DamienD

The only others things I would suggest to make the ultimate disk version, is the following in-game keys:

... Level skip
... Yellow candy power-up
... Pink candy power-up
... Blue candy power-up
... Shoes
+ surprise

Then the perfect port has the perfect trainer

When Dreams Come True (ops.. this remind me of something )

[nikosidis]

I will try whd-load version soon. Thanks Ross
What about automatic high-score save?

[malko]

This evening my mini-Godzillas have tested Tiny Bubble and they told me they much prefer this "Tiny" version than the version they usually play on the classic NES-mini !
It was even hard to make them stop playing

I also gave it a good try and... it rocks !

KUDOS to all the team for the hard work and the achieved result !!!!

[S. Campbell]

Is it my imagination or did there used to be continues?

[S. Campbell]

Originally Posted by nikosidis

What about automatic high-score save?

This would be the best of all possible tweaks.