So I read on a couple of different websites that if you put in ?PB or ?DL as your name in the high score entry in Hydro Thunder, it unlocks all the tracks and boats. THIS IS WRONG. It doesn't unlock anything. I tried multiple times to do this in the Dreamcast version but it won't work. Why would they print this if it wasn't true? It just makes me angry.
You know what else makes me angry? Ants. They've discovered my bathroom. And they won't leave. It's stupid. Why be in there if there
So I decided to attempt to change the background color of the score in MidSpace. You'd think it would be somewhat easy to do, but instead it took hours of moving code around and trying different things. I gave up a couple of times. But something made me come back to it. I think it was boredom. Well, anyway, I finally did it. When I was finished, I went to test it on a real Atari 2600. This can be game-breaking. It may look fine in Stella but the screen may still jitter on a real Atari 2600.
e5frog is putting the finishing touches on "Killer Heads of Lettuce." I am working on a manual. This will come with a full-color 8-page manual. Although I'm not sure what to put on page 2 and the back. I actually printed some full color manuals for "Kevin Vs. Tomatoes" but I didn't include them with the game for some reason. So if you have the game and want one, just PM me and I'll send you one. I guess it's because I didn't think it was worthy of a manual. But I think certainly Trimerous is, so
There was always just one thing bothering me about the password screen in Frank the Fruit Fly: I never put in an option to exit it and go back to the title screen. Yesterday I did just that so now you can.
Looking at this just now, it could benefit more if I moved Frank a few pixels further down. Then it would be perfect. Which luckily is a very easy thing to do. I also made a version of Frank the Fruit Fly that begins at the beginning rather than where I just left off. I just put it
Something made me replay level 2. I came to a part where the game froze. I tried several things to try to make Frank move again until I did the right thing that pleased the computer. I redrew the whale because I wasn't happy with what I had come up with on my first attempt. After redrawing and looking at pictures of whales, I figured it was pretty good for guessing what a whale face looks like. Or perhaps it's a shark. But whales need teeth too to eat stuff, so it could also be a whale. So now I
I was thinking about how in level 1 of Frank the Fruit Fly you fly into a cat's mouth and out its ear. At the time I programmed it, I wanted to do more but I feared I wouldn't have enough room for it. But now since I figured I have more room to do what I want, I might as well do it. Not with a cat, but since Frank is underwater, I figure he might as well swim inside a whale. Hey, after all, fruit flies can't even swim. So to get the heck out of the whale, touch its uvula. I plan to have Frank be
So I got to thinking when I was playing "Skiing" by Activision, how did they put in a hundredth of a second timer when I assume the game is only 60 fps. In order for it to keep track of it, wouldn't it need to be 100 fps? Sooo, I went to Stella's debugger and found the answer. When programming the timer in, they skip some numbers! For example, it is impossible to have a time ending in .49 seconds because the game skips that number and goes from .48 to .50. I find that odd, but it needs to be don
I thought that the new/password letters were too big so I decided to change it and make it smaller. I also made the title words go up so it didn't interfere with Frank flying in the words' way. So this is what it looks like now.
Yes, if you press down, you can move the arrow down and enter a password and pressing up moves the arrow up if it's not already there. Pressing A starts the game with the choice you made. When something like this is implemented, it's much easier than if there
So I decided to attempt to make the screen I last worked on in Frank the Fruit Fly to be faster since Frank moves really slowly in it. I think it came out a lot better. I also went back and thought of that RNG posted in the "Elevator Events" thread to see if it could be used in Ftff. So someone was nice enough to convert the code snippet so it could be used with Pokemon Mini programming. It worked out so well that I changed the snow falling code I had from what I had before (which was a bunch of
So I got inspired by King Crimson's "Lizard" to make the best MIDI I could possibly make that was my own composition. I began composing this grand symphony. But it didn't have a name. So I decided to name it "a walnut." And for the cover, I decided to put on a picture of a walnut. Rather than stealing one, I decided to buy a walnut and take a picture of it. But I went to the store. I couldn't find a walnut. I mean, how could you not find a walnut at the grocery store? I guess it's not walnut sea
So there was an urge to plug in my ol' game.com to see if it still worked or not. The cable was a little wonky and it took a few tries, but I got it working. I tried to play the Lost World, but I couldn't figure it out. So I switched to HENrY. This game consists of matching tiles to try to match. It shows you a tile, and then you have to try to guess where the tile (called "clue") is on a board of 16 tiles. It's you vs. the computer (like you have a friend who's interested in playing the game.co
After getting that throat medicine, I have been choking a lot less. But there's still one thing I always choke on no matter how many times I try (or chew): Frosted Flakes. I don't know why. I can eat ham sandwiches, I can eat onion rings, but no frosted flakes.
I have diverted my attention to the Intellivision. I'll still work on my Jaguar game, but a little less than I had been earlier. My eye hurt yesterday, yet I still like a trooper went to the used video game store. A lot of new
Well, it's January time again. The time where it's supposed to snow but it doesn't here. And lately I've been waking up at about 11pm and going to sleep at around noon, so I was awake when it changed from 2019 to 2020. Yesterday and most of today (It is after all 2am as I write this) I've been working on Zyx for the Jaguar again. This time around I've been fooling around with the sound effects and music, trying to cram them into the allotted 2 MB, which is hard, but I think I did it. Now all I h
...or rather FOR my ears. I've been listening to MIDIs of long songs. It alleviates the boredom. So does MAKING them. So does collecting them. I just finished my MIDI I had been working on of "Macho City" by the Steve Miller Band on the thirteenth. Really surprised it hadn't been done before given how old the song is. And if it has, well, I made my own interpretation of it. When it came out, I was not yet alive. So I'm always looking for a new long song to make a MIDI out of, the older and not y
I decided to quit working on Goshzilla. I decided it was too similar to Death Race. So I picked Frank back up and put him on the front burner, so to speak, on my projects stove. I had a hard time with this screen.
Since the Pokemon Mini has no object collision detection, I had to code that by hand on not only the two fish, but on the three walls as well. But it seems done for the most part, so I'm moving on. My stomach has been hurting since Christmas night and I don't know why. I nee
I couldn't get to sleep last night. I finally did at 4 or so this morning and had to wake up at 8:30 so I only got 4.5 hours of sleep. While I was laying in bed, I thought about what I could do to make Goshzilla an actual game. At 2 a.m. I had enough and went back to work on it. A few hours later I had a working 6 digit score. I also figured out something: The only time the high score needs to be updated is if someone beats it. Therefore, it can remain on there without me having to constantly up
Worked on this a little more today. I had to attempt a lot to try it on real hardware because it wasn't working right a lot. But I finally got it to. The problem was I added a sound effect for the fire and it wasn't playing on the title screen. What fixed it was I added a command to play a noise, a keyclick, before setting up stuff. While the result works, you can hear a slight buzz noise for like a few hundredths of a second. Which, while it doesn't seem like you wouldn't be able to notice it,
I wanted to work on Frank the Fruit Fly but having no ideas for it caused me to skip that today. So I worked on "Giant Reptile Monster." I named him: Goshzila. There's a reason for one L instead of 2, but it's due to the Odyssey 2, so we'll skip it.
I added a title screen with Goshzila running in place. I also changed the fire sprite so it is random, much like the colorful shield in Yars Revenge, only it's red, 3 pixels tall and not very wide. But that's okay since Goshzila isn't very
I took one look at that code that that compiler spewed out and it was like I was reading Greek. There was just no way I could learn all that stuff. What I did learn though was about stacks, and what pushing and popping them actually did. And I got the program that made the converted my code into Epson code. But to run it I had to install Python. So I googled Python and got version 3.8.1 on my computer. Installed it and ran the program. Success on the second try. Out came a 859 KB asm file instea
So now with a whole bunch of code written, I now get to learn a new way of compiling Frank the Fruit Fly. Even though it's called "assembly," it looks like a whole new language. So I'm going to put Frank the Fruit Fly on hold and begin learning this new "Epson" assembly. And MSYS as well. And all the other stuff I learned today. It will be hard, but it might get rid of the weird bugs I have been experiencing with Frank the Fruit Fly in the emulator (even though they don't show up on a real Pokem
I don't know if I should continue working on anything because nobody seems to care about some various projects I was working on. I changed the Vut's color from yellow to blue. But I don't know if I should continue working on this if there's no interest in my Jaguar game. I had to give up Colecovision programming because it's just too hard. One of the things that I was going to do in Zyx Classic was make a lime fall down like a banana to jump over and avoid and after a while it disappears. But if
Time to unearth my Colecovision from its frosty position in the garage. Cleaned the power switch to get rid of the lines, moved the wire that hooks it up to the TV, it needs to be in the perfect position for sound. After all that, it decided to work. Which is good because this is the only Colecovision I've ever seen in the wild. I have about two dozen games for it, mostly they're common titles. The rarest one I have is Grog's Revenge.
I've been busy programming the Zyx game for the J
How did this orange end up in the ocean? I don't know but it's there.
I added the white dots to signify (maybe) that it's an orange instead of, say, a grape or something. When I put grapes in the game, it will be a bunch of them. I enjoy working on this project. I don't know how or why, but it's the easiest assembly I've ever worked with. But sometimes the first letter of the password doesn't show up when I force it to begin to level 4. I'm hoping this is not a thing to worry about si
I put a giant squid in Frank the Fruit Fly yesterday. His tentacles move up and down and you must avoid them while moving to the right. This was also a test to see if I could put 5 sprites on the screen at the same time (yes I can. The squid is part of the background and his tentacles are sprites.) It took about two hours or so to get things the way I wanted. There were a couple of times I felt like an idiot though. Like the time I discovered the tentacles not showing up was because I didn't inc
The result of a dream I had and about 7 hours of trying to get it on to the Atari 2600. I don't know what to do with this, so I am putting it here. What do you think?
George has just crash-landed on the planet Xarksljfjsdhgjhd. You know the planet, the one where the toxic grass grows. And the ones with incredibly winding paths.
This is by far the most trouble I've ever had with anything 2600 Basic related. And I need to make all the future playfields in a really awkward way (but
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