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#147 - Hyper Lode Runner

My Game Boy collection is getting bigger. Game Boy game #147 arrived today. It's Hyper Lode Runner. I tested it to see if it works, and it does after a cartridge blow. One odd thing though is the number imprinted on the game. All the legit Game Boy games have a number imprinted on the label. But this is the first time I saw this: This one has a letter in it. It says "20A". Never saw an imprint number with a letter after it before. Does it mean anything special?   The label and the titl

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X vs. O - bop-a-letter

I started work on the bop-a-letter game. I was having trouble with the randomness until I realized "Hey! I don't need to use the seed stuff in this bank!" So I didn't. I used instead the timer. And now it works good. There is still a lot of work to do, but it's a good beginning. I decided since the player is reaching for the 3 button on the console to not start the game right away. So an ACTION button press starts the game up. There are Os to bop and Xs to not bop. I need to make

Finishing up again.

So I went ahead and made the last changes. I got an idea for the museum screen. I made it like the old Atari 2600 homebrew "Elevators Amiss." This is definitely not a wheelchair-accessible museum. I also made it so the music doesn't stutter while the flying boxes are hitting you for long periods of time. I am guessing the limit for sprites on a certain row is 10 (same as the Game Boy) since it can reach that and do it without flicker. I also found that the layout of the grocery s

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Stupidman Redux

I like feedback on my games. It helps to make them better. So when I got some that I agreed with about the game's maze parts were too boring (for lack of a better word), I agreed and decided to get rid of two of the three of them. Today I worked on replacing the hideout maze with this. It is a lot like the giant's room in Jack and the Beanstalk for the Odyssey 2 I made. Differences: the boulders fall down instead of being thrown across. instead of starting over in the s

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Banana jokes.

Here are some more banana jokes I made for that banana joke book I was making. I discovered it when I was going through my computer when I was bored so I thought I'd work on it some more. What is the name of the banana you stepped on? Gre-gory.   What famous Brit used to open bananas sloppily? Jack the Banana Ripper.   What game show offers a banana slicer as its grand prize? “The Slice Is Right.”   Woman: “Help! My banana is on fire!” Firem

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Whack-an-O

More work this morning on X Vs. O. I was working on something else yesterday night and I looked at the clock only to discover it was almost 10 in the morning! So I went to sleep at about 11 last morning and woke up at around 11pm. Last night was spent trying to make the X vs. O game be sane. The reason for the insanity: I had put in to make the score be 0 since it was displaying garbage a long time ago. I fixed it and now everything (should be) working fine.   So I decided to work on t

You learn something new a lot

Perhaps not every single day.   I am working on a Game Boy game with multiple banks. Yet the ROM size finder only showed 1 bank., even though I had stuff in 3 out of the 4 banks. Since I learned how to put "#pragma bank x" to put data in a certain bank, I thought I'd try it with the code for the game. And yes, it works. And now the ROM size finder shows all 3 banks I have stuff in.   Before I did that, I guess the compiler just shoved everything into one bank. Since I did tha

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Kablammo!

Work continues on Minigame Mayhem after some time away from it. Decided that C is better than ASM, so I'm going to work on C some more. I use C to program for Virtual Boy. I couldn't sleep last night, so I made an image of Kablammo and put it on the PVB Discord server and went to sleep. I finally went to sleep around 1 or 2 or so. Woke up at about noon and worked some more on it.   There can only be four bombs on the screen at once. (Well, it could be more, but that would require more

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X Vs O - art

Today I woke up. That is a real accomplishment. I went to bed at 2 p.m. and didn't get up until about 8 a.m. I could go back to sleep for a few more hours, too. So I got bored and drew a picture. It is an X shooting an O and the O shooting back. It is for my X Vs, O game. It probably won't be used or anything, but I was bored and decided to do it anyway. After a few modifications to the art after I drew and scanned it, it looks like this: One of the big problems I had was having

How to fix a bug.

So I found a rather nasty bug in X Vs. O: I had to spend about one hour total trying to figure out what could have caused it before I found the answer. The answer was whenever O was going into the lower right spot when there was an X already there, it did this. So I changed a "ret" to jmp to another bit of code and lo and behold, it worked. That was a dumb thing to happen. I hate it when it does stupid things when it's not my fault.   Also, I remember it doing this even befo

The return of me.

I decided to start work again on my fly swatting game for the Atari 2600. I figured since I couldn't make the scanline stable, I could try making it in batari Basic so it would be. Unfortunately, this led to the deletion of the banana. I couldn't chip away at the banana with basic since I can't use no_blank_lines and pfheight together for some stupid reason. So I just got rid of it. In return, I made it so if you don't swat the fly in a little bit, the game ends.   Also unfortunately I

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I'm leaving AtariAge.

Al sold his soul to the devil. That never is a good idea. Because of this, I have made the decision to leave the forums for good. I don't want to be posting in the forums of a zombie company, so I guess I'll be leaving now. I won't be gone for good, you can still catch me on the Video Game Sage forums. I am the user named "GameGearGuy," but I guess I should change my username there, so I may. Thanks for the 17 years (!) of fun, but I think it's time to move on to a more trusting forums since Al

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I made a splash screen

For a game that doesn't exist...yet. I got bored, so I thought I'd work on the Pokemon Mini some. While I couldn't make 4 colors, I did manage to make this: This is the splash screen. It plays "Yes, We Have No Bananas," the only song I know about bananas. I wanted a song here to showcase the PM's (awful) ability for music. It only has one channel. I don't know how the original games sound so good with just one channel. When the short song is over, it switches to a screen that says

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It's done.

After playing and testing and stuff Sunday night and this morning I think I got all the bugs fixed and I'm calling Ugly Uppity Umpire completed and finished. Now I'd like for someone to publish this for me, but I doubt anyone will. I worked on this for about a year off-and-on.   I tested this on a real Super Game Boy and I can't get rid of the black screen for a few frames when it powers up due to the fact that the PAL SNES needs four frames to wait for the Super Game Boy border to loa

Levels 49 & 50

Well, it took about about a year of off-and-on working on this, but I finally put 50 levels in the game. I worked on level 49 today, and after finishing it, I decided I might as well just design and put in the 50th. I will not put pictures nor update the site with the final version with all 50 levels, so don't go looking for them. You'll have to play the game to find out what they are.   Level 50 was really hard to design correctly. So hard to beat I got so angry even though it was pos

The Ants

I was getting ready to write a blog entry when I noticed my computer needed updating. Why it does who knows, perhaps just to annoy people. I don't want to update my computer any more. Is there a way to turn off checking for updates? It makes my computer unusable for at least 10 minutes every time it feels like annoying me.   Anyway, I was looking through my old CDs and DVDs when I came across a CD that had The Beatles' Rubber Soul and Revolver on the same disc. I only liked a few songs

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Level 48

I worked on Ugly Uppity Umpire today. I made level 48. Do you know what this means? I only have 2 more levels to design! It's been really REALLY hard designing these levels, so not having to stretch my brain trying to design them will be really good. So once level 50 is done, I can work on the ending. I'll put the ending in bank 5. I'm also wanting to design a really cool Super Game Boy border and put it in bank 6, but I suck at drawing. I should have all the levels designed by ea

47

Long-time readers of my blog know the fascination I have with the number 47. Well, one of my projects and 47 collided. I finished level 47 of Ugly Uppity Umpire. Nothing special though, I had this idea and at first I couldn't pass it (a requirement for my levels being done. If I can't even pass it, who else would be able to?!) A change of making the squares kitty corner from the teleports be open so you could get away from the underwear really quickly after using them.   So a

August 26, 2023

I worked on level 46 of Ugly Uppity Umpire. I also worked on Flies for the Odyssey². Both were great success. I was working on Flies last night but I couldn't get to make the flies drop down and die when being swatted. Well, I did last night, but the letter K kept showing up in the upper left hand corner of the screen. After sleeping for 15 hours, I finally found the reason and fixed it.   Sneaky Snakes came in the mail today. It works fine, but I'll have to explore it f

I slept through a thunderstorm.

So apparently there was a thunderstorm last night. I slept right through the entire thing. I woke up a few hours later at about 7:30 a.m. I had some really weird dreams last night.   I was wondering whether my SNES Game Genie was still working. So I tested it. It worked. So it also occured to me that I should get all the SNES games I had when I was a kid for some reason. So I purchased Bubsy off eBay to play with my Game Genie.   The stupid doctors office still hasn't called,

fire.

So yesterday a fire broke out about 3-4 miles from my house. The local news outlets went down there to cover it, which is interesting since they had to travel all the way frpom Portland to do so. My sister was nearer the fire than we were, she said she heard the planes flying around fighting the fire. It even got a name: The Liberty Fire. (It was near Liberty Rd.) So I went to sleep, and when I woke up 9 hours later, the Liberty fire was dead. We've lived here about 15 years, and this is only th

Fly idea

So now I have an idea for the fly game for Odyssey 2. I spent most of the morning programming it. I hit a rather nasty bug that turned out to be a "well duh!" moment once I realized what was happening. I have used up 1,671 bytes doing this so far which leaves me with a little over 300 bytes left to do stuff with (out of a possible 2,048 bytes total in the in-game bank). I have to put in a game over screen, and some logic that tells the game it should end. As well as a high score check, but that

Two flies.

I finally got two flies in the game after learning that three is impossible without major flickering and one is too much like my celery game. I still need to learn my fate about the ultrasound I went to yesterday. But I got two flies in my game and I got my RZone SuperScreen working, so that's good. I also decided to put in The Voice support for it. It says "Go!" at the beginning and "Gotcha!" when you swat a fly. But unfortunately, I can't test the game's Voice support on a real conso

Flies on Odyssey² (August 21, 2023)

I had a version working with three flies, but as I suspected, the Odyssey 2 could just not handle three flies without making the swatter flicker when it was near the top. So I deleted the two flies and made it a little better. It works on an Odyssey 2 since I tested it on it. Not very much color, is there? And when I was done discovering it only could handle one fly, it was time to go to the appointment.   I just got back from the ultrasound. They kept having me hold my breat
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