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Prophet (2436)

19-08-2016, 17:04

Works perfectly on my MSX 2+ (HB-F1XDJ) in 60Hz mode!
Maybe the joystick "B" button could be mapped to the "restart" option ?

Par Manuel

Ascended (19299)

19-08-2016, 18:11

How about supporting the HW scroll on V9958? (No moving borders for free!)

Par ARTRAG

Enlighted (6931)

19-08-2016, 22:24

It should be matter of writing r27 instead of r18 and to set bit 1 in r25

Par santiontanon

Paragon (1770)

20-08-2016, 09:32

@NYYRIKKI wow!! 5:68 for level 1 is indeed really fast!!!! I don't think I've ever beat it below 6!

Par santiontanon

Paragon (1770)

08-09-2016, 01:05

I just released anew version of Transball (v1.3). Thanks to ARTRAG, the game now has even better smooth scroll if an MSX2+ is detected (you can toggle the MSX1/MSX2/MSX2+ scroll modes from the main menu pressing '6', '7' or '8').

Small video showing off the new scroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzt6gVsL9W0

And downloadable ROMS: https://github.com/santiontanon/transballmsx/releases/tag/1.3

Par ARTRAG

Enlighted (6931)

08-09-2016, 08:16

Very cool! Well done!
Now it is ready for a cartridge version.

Par Imanok

Paragon (1198)

08-09-2016, 09:16

Cool game! But hard as hell (^^!)... too much speed/inertia (edit: at least, comparing to other games of its kind I've seen)

Par ARTRAG

Enlighted (6931)

08-09-2016, 10:03

True but think that it could be even worst than this. Now the ship is not affected by the attraction of the ball.
In a more accurate model, you should introduce reciprocal attraction between the two objects (in addition to gravity).
Think what would it be when the ball get stuck somewhere and you are attracted by it....

In Zarathustra, the two objects are linked by a solid stick, so they move and rotate as a single item where you can control direction and rotation only by the trust applied to one ending of the stick...
A nightmare...
https://youtu.be/lchvftR7DZE

Par Imanok

Paragon (1198)

08-09-2016, 10:04

It always could be worst!

But the point is getting something challenging and fun, not a nightmare to play

Par santiontanon

Paragon (1770)

08-09-2016, 13:29

hahaha, is it that hard?!! perhaps it looks easier to me since I've played it (and all the previous versions I made for PC many years ago) to exhaustion for testing all the levels during development

But indeed, Zarathrusta (one of my favorite games for Amiga btw!) was indeed harder! To make it easier, they had checkpoints half-wy through levels where you could restart if you died, but even with those, since levels were HUGE, it was still very very hard!