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SpiceWare · October 4, 2012

Had a friend over last night for our weekly Red Dwarf¹ session and we did some 2 player stress test runs of Space Rocks before watching the show. That's when I noticed:

All the large style A asteroids rotate clockwise.
All the large style B asteroids rotate counter-clockwise.

I took a look at the source this morning and figured out what's wrong and fixed it, so there will be a new release candidate posted tonight.

¹Cant wait to see series X! It starts airing today in UK, but I've not seen anything about US air dates so will probaby have to wait for the blu ray.

LS_Dracon · October 5, 2012

Hi Darrell,

Tested the Stress_Test rom on my harmony. No problem on screen here, but I have a PAL-M tv an this tv is more tolerant for different scanline count (On my tests, I can set up to 285 scanlines before screen roll).

BTW I'm reporting the master system controller didn't work. I think you don't need to fix it, the controller works fine if set as atari controller.

The problem is the "action button" (shield, hyperspace) is like always set, and the other button don't shoots (perhaps because action button persistency).

Have you tested with a six button sega genesis controller? I can do it if you want.

SpiceWare · October 5, 2012

Thanks! I have a C= 1084S that's quite tolerant of the scanline counts as well (I frequently play PAL Amiga CD32 games on it). It will still roll or jitter though if the line count is not consistent over the frames. I've not experienced any rolling/jitter since Release Candidate 1 so I'm hoping that it's been taken care of.

Yeah, the SMS controller doesn't work - Cybergoth ran a gamepad test in the past. I've got a third party six button Genesis gamepad (only the one because my Genesis is the Nomad, which has a built in gamepad) and Amiga CD32 joypads. I've tested Space Rocks with both of those.