The unloved one

By gdx

Enlighted (6215)

11-02-2023, 11:34

The least liked Konami game is Green Beret.

And yet, even this game has the right to makeover under the name SAK, it's been out since almost 2 weeks.

http://www.futuredisk.nl/fd47.php

...but nobody talks about it here. oO

By aoineko

Paladin (1004)

11-02-2023, 12:10

The graphics of this new version are very nice and the gameplay is faithful to the original: without any mercy for the players. ^^

By Manuel

Ascended (19468)

11-02-2023, 12:13

I also found it very hard to play. Especially avoiding the jumping enemies is very hard. Even with using reverse in openMSX it was really difficult...

By PingPong

Enlighted (4138)

11-02-2023, 13:52

Does it run on a plain msx2 ?

By tfh

Prophet (3346)

11-02-2023, 14:03

PingPong wrote:

Does it run on a plain msx2 ?

Yes, it does. But SCC is needed for the music

By gdx

Enlighted (6215)

11-02-2023, 14:43

It works fine with the 2048K Sound Cartridge.

By PingPong

Enlighted (4138)

11-02-2023, 14:53

It does use sw sprites i think, techically speaking what is the FPS?

By valkyre

Hero (661)

11-02-2023, 16:56

It's a fantastic piece of work. Amazing soundtrack too.

By gdx

Enlighted (6215)

12-02-2023, 01:47

Quote:

what is the FPS?

On MSX1, this is always 50/60hz. On other MSX generations we can reduce the frame rate by 2, 3 or 4 using bitmap table switching. Typically this is used for scrolling.

We can switch at same time the character/pattern generator table and character/pattern color table in screen mode less than 5 but I think it is rarely used. In general, it skips frames only to manage the music, keyboard, calculations, sprites display but the image remains displayed at 50/60 Hz. Anyway it can only be divided by 2 to 4 otherwise it would be too slow or variable, ie awful. Dividing by 4 is a bit too slow for an action game.

By PingPong

Enlighted (4138)

12-02-2023, 18:38

I do not mean what is the frame rate of vdp screen redraw.
I mean: the game does a lot of vdp copy operations, for moving sprites and for scrolling background. How much of those operations you get while miving sprites and scrolling background in an interval of 1 sec?

By ARTRAG

Enlighted (6935)

13-02-2023, 21:29

Just tried and it looks awesome but it is super hard (!)
I cannot pass the initial bridge section