The history of rolling thunder remastered 2023 documentary

[PatmanQC]

Hey everyone, just wanted to share my latest video endeavor were I do a brand-new video on one of my favorite run and gun games rolling thunder. I talked about the Amiga and also the speed hack that was released last year.

Hope you enjoy it.

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[TCD]

Nice segment of McGeezer fixing the Amiga port.

[Frog]

very nice video of one my favorite arcade game of my childhood.
Oh and strangely you've not mention the excellent Shinobi by Sega who is for me an improved version of Rolling Thunder.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Frog

Oh and strangely you've not mention the excellent Shinobi by Sega who is for me an improved version of Rolling Thunder.

He already made two videos about Shinobi some years ago:
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[alexh]

Originally Posted by PatmanQC

Hey everyone, just wanted to share my latest video endeavor were I do a brand-new video on one of my favorite run and gun games rolling thunder. I talked about the Amiga and also the speed hack that was released last year.

Hope you enjoy it.

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Thanks for your continued hard work.

If you're ever looking for something new to research how about Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters I loved the game on the Amstrad (such time care and love went into this port) and Amiga so I bought a dedicated arcade machine.

[saimon69]

Originally Posted by TCD

Nice segment of McGeezer fixing the Amiga port.

Talking about that, did he ever finished it? I remember sending him a mod with the tunes grabbed from hoot

[Frog]

Originally Posted by TCD

He already made two videos about Shinobi some years ago:
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oh thank you

[TCD]

Originally Posted by saimon69

Talking about that, did he ever finished it? I remember sending him a mod with the tunes grabbed from hoot

I think so: https://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=110468
Download: http://ftp2.grandis.nu/turran/FTP/Th...quired.%5d.adf

I haven't tried it myself though.

[PatmanQC]

Originally Posted by Frog

very nice video of one my favorite arcade game of my childhood.
Oh and strangely you've not mention the excellent Shinobi by Sega who is for me an improved version of Rolling Thunder.

I did mention it but only briefly. Shinobi was released six months after rolling thunder so it's possible it was merely a coincidence that the gameplay was so similar

[PatmanQC]

Originally Posted by Frog

very nice video of one my favorite arcade game of my childhood.
Oh and strangely you've not mention the excellent Shinobi by Sega who is for me an improved version of Rolling Thunder.

Originally Posted by alexh

Thanks for your continued hard work.

If you're ever looking for something new to research how about Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters I loved the game on the Amstrad (such time care and love went into this port) and Amiga so I bought a dedicated arcade machine.

Thanks a lot.

Funny you should mention escape…… :-)

[Megalomaniac]

Download doesn't seem to work, but I think a whole new port of Rolling Thunder might be needed. What was released is ghastly in every way, even for such an early release. It never seems to end up on lists of the worst Arcade > Amiga conversions, but for me its as pathetic as almost any, considering that they didn't even implement the gameplay properly, and the arcade original is hardly technically demanding in a way OutRun or Power Drift were.

[DisasterIncarna]

yeah its 1 of those contenders for "modern remake" which looks like its needed badly rather than fixing up the original.

[d4rk3lf]

The animations on this game are so well done, that I always wondered if some rotoscopy of the real characters was used to draw the frames.
Same as with Another World, and Flashback.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Megalomaniac

Download doesn't seem to work

Right click and select 'Save as' works fine.

[TCD]

In June 1988 the Amiga conversion earned the title 'conversion flop of the month' in the German ASM magazine:

[d4rk3lf]

Originally Posted by TCD

In June 1988 the Amiga conversion earned the title 'conversion flop of the month' in the German ASM magazine:

Little do they know that more appropriate title would be: "Conversion flop of the decade".

I remember, reading somewhere (probably on this forum) where coders discussed how Tiertex actually managed to achieve that slow of a speed, because even on an very unoptimized code, it should run faster.

[PatmanQC]

Originally Posted by d4rk3lf

Little do they know that more appropriate title would be: "Conversion flop of the decade".

I remember, reading somewhere (probably on this forum) where coders discussed how Tiertex actually managed to achieve that slow of a speed, because even on an very unoptimized code, it should run faster.

Has anyone from tiertex actually spoken about this conversion?

I would love to hear what the programmers had to say.

[TCD]

You could try to contact Donald Campbell via linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/donald-campbell-8a59864

[PatmanQC]

Originally Posted by TCD

You could try to contact Donald Campbell via linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/donald-campbell-8a59864

Excellent, will do. Thanks