Wrathchild Posted February 14, 2010 Share Posted February 14, 2010 As an exercise in finding out what the raving over 'jQuery' was about, I decided to put together a simple page to summarize the recent A8 to 5200 ports I've worked on. You can find details on this webpage. Here you can download the binary cart images and their labels and also see any works-in-progress. If anyone has questions or ideas to help flesh out the descriptions I've given then please PM me or ask here. Best wishes, Mark p.s. jQuery turned about to pretty neat! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 Hey, I didn't know you'd worked on some of those games! I'll try them out. Bit disappointed Rampage 32K doesn't work, but the 40K won't work in the flash cart, should you finish it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 16, 2010 Author Share Posted February 16, 2010 (edited) I can still produce a 32k version that doesn't contain a title screen. Typically you'd only see it at power-on anyway, so no real loss excluding it. Edited February 16, 2010 by Wrathchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 That would be excellent! I also finally tried Claim Jumper and Capture the Flag on the 5200 flash cart. Both work. Claim Jumper is fine as long as I don't press the "second" fire button, then the game locks up. Capture the Flag is fine, except movement through the maze is tedious and almost impossible with the 5200 joystick. Although it's not that much better in an emulator. Pretty amazing graphics for the 5200 though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 21, 2010 Author Share Posted February 21, 2010 Could it be better then with CTF to use the keypad instead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Not for me, for sure. The keypads, thanks to the controller design, are very soft and not very responsive. Here's something. This is how the game looks, the colors are pretty off. However, I can't say whether this is a problem with my console, because I may have some kind of color issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 22, 2010 Author Share Posted February 22, 2010 Yes that is a bit odd, there was code specially added in the 5200 cart initialization to provide two of the 'default' colours that were not initialized by the game itself. However the game does set the two border sprite colours and these should be green and brown so I'm a bit puzzled by that. Could it be a MaxCart thing? Can anyone else confirm this colour bug on their hardware? But if, Greg, you are not having colour issues in other games then I'll look into it further. Also, with regards to the Claim Jumper 2nd player button locking the game, I tried in emulation and that's OK (but as we know not a sure sign), this would be odd as the adition code setting stick and fire button values is a loop done for the 2 controllers (so same code) and the game code itself was left unchanged. Again, can someone confirm the crash on their hardware? Thanks, Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Mark, my colors were slightly out of adjustment, but overall (not just this game) the picture is kind of dark. Probably a function of the old system + RF connection. The gray coloring on the walls doesn't show up I suppose as a result. Claim Jumper definitely locks up on the second fire button. In any case, you don't have to spend any more time on these if you have other games you're working on. Unfortunately, I have just one 5200 to test on. Wondering where all the other 5200ers are? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 if your looking for more conversion ideas may i suggest tac scan and bruce lee and a tetris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 I've a beat-em-up on the cards, English Software's "Chop-Suey". For a tetris game, how about I port my "Colours" game? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 I've a beat-em-up on the cards, English Software's "Chop-Suey". For a tetris game, how about I port my "Colours" game? how about hard hat mack and conan those look do-able Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 Perhaps I'll do a CamStudio of me doing one of the conversions as a guide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Perhaps I'll do a CamStudio of me doing one of the conversions as a guide I'd love to see that. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MIKE5200 Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 How about Hit and Miss. Also Zookeeper? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctorclu Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Man that is awesome!! Someday I hope they found a creative way to port Encounter and Gauntlet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carmel_andrews Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Neptunes daughter or the lower memory version of encounter And also Colourspace (but as a running demo) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 (edited) I'd love to have roms for... Atlantis Demon Attack E.T. Phone Home! Flip and Flop Pastfinder Pitstop Silicon Warrior Or prototypes (if the A8 rom is even available) of... Sinistar Superman III Unfortunately, I don't know the 8-bit diskette games very well. The library is immense. Wish it was easier to convert the games, or I'd do several myself. Edited February 24, 2010 by Greg2600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 24, 2010 Author Share Posted February 24, 2010 (edited) I'd love to have roms for... Atlantis Demon Attack ... Steve has some of these done already and available at his his shop though I'm not sure there is a definitive list of A8->5200 ports around although there seems enough info spread over this forum to put one together I think? I'd seen Tac-Scan was a 2600 game but AtariMania has this listed under the A8 section but without a dump, what's the history on that title? Edited February 24, 2010 by Wrathchild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted February 24, 2010 Author Share Posted February 24, 2010 Another game I love and would make a nice quick 'arcade' game for the 5200 is 'Kid Grid' ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2600 Posted February 24, 2010 Share Posted February 24, 2010 Steve has some of these done already and available at his his shop though I'm not sure there is a definitive list of A8->5200 ports around although there seems enough info spread over this forum to put one together I think? I'd seen Tac-Scan was a 2600 game but AtariMania has this listed under the A8 section but without a dump, what's the history on that title? I know, I don't want the cartridge, just the game. Don't have any more room. Tac-Scan may have been on SEGA's slate, but was never released. I wish there was a decent Pinball game to convert, but there really isn't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted February 25, 2010 Share Posted February 25, 2010 gee i could have swore there was another tac scan other than the 2600 maybe i'm confusing it up with the texas instruments computer sorry about that babba booey babba booey hard had mack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bohoki Posted March 2, 2010 Share Posted March 2, 2010 gee i could have swore there was another tac scan other than the 2600 maybe i'm confusing it up with the texas instruments computer sorry about that babba booey babba booey hard had mack does anybody have a list of paddle games for the atari 400/800? shouldnt they be extra easy to convert? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted March 6, 2010 Author Share Posted March 6, 2010 I've a beat-em-up on the cards, English Software's "Chop-Suey". With Allan's help in getting to the bottom of the 2nd button crashes (turns out I needed to disable the BREAK-key interrupt), I'm happy to release both the fixed 'Claim Jumper' binary and the new 'Chop Suey' port on the conversions page. Feedback on how a karate game works on real hardware could be interesting? Enjoy, Mark 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Allan Posted March 6, 2010 Share Posted March 6, 2010 I've a beat-em-up on the cards, English Software's "Chop-Suey". With Allan's help in getting to the bottom of the 2nd button crashes (turns out I needed to disable the BREAK-key interrupt), I'm happy to release both the fixed 'Claim Jumper' binary and the new 'Chop Suey' port on the conversions page. Feedback on how a karate game works on real hardware could be interesting? Enjoy, Mark The start button on Claim Jumper still doesn't work. I don't know if you've looked at that yet. Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wrathchild Posted March 6, 2010 Author Share Posted March 6, 2010 Can you check the date of the ROM in your downloaded cj_5200.zip, it should be 5th March? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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