+atari2600land Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 I would like to see a huge more complex Donkey Kong with platforms so long that you are scrolling into other screens before you get to jump on the next platform. Have the barrels and hammers but some other goodies. Make the platforms randomly generated mazes where you can come up to walls if you go up the wrong ladder. Someone could turn it into an adventure. Sounds like you need to play Donkey Kong for the Game Boy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC-MAN-RED Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 I will say this: I am surprised that we haven't seen an SMB homebrew port yet. My guess is that doing so is extremely difficult. Not only that, we haven't seen ports on ANY platform except the PC, and I would think that INTV, CV, 5200 etc might have the chops. But damn I would pay good money to get my hands on one with a nice colorful manual and box. I'd like to see one of our own create that product. I have made some Mario sprites, and there is a link to some progress that has been made here. Illya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 I would like to see a huge more complex Donkey Kong with platforms so long that you are scrolling into other screens before you get to jump on the next platform. Have the barrels and hammers but some other goodies. Make the platforms randomly generated mazes where you can come up to walls if you go up the wrong ladder. Someone could turn it into an adventure. Sounds like you need to play Donkey Kong for the Game Boy... I own it and I played it when it came out on my Super Game Boy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Besides Jr. Pacman another example is Pitfall 2. When you go up a ladder it scrolls up and when you walk to the edge of the screen it changes screens like flipping a page in a book. If it was designed for a TV to be on it's side then it would be the opposite. If they did it like that and didn't show the platforms above and below then everything would scroll more smoothly and make more sense. You can run across a platform with no page flipping but there would be page flipping when you come out of a hole from a ladder. It would scroll where Harry can see and flip when he is going through a hole into a platform he can't see(just like on Super Mario Bros.). Now put Mario in place of Harry and pipes and vines in the place of ladders. You'll have Super Mario Bros. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
high voltage Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 since Activision done excellent jobs with horizontal scrolling with Grand Prix and Barnstorming and Cosmic Commuter, a SMB game would have been surely next for them if they would have had the time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 On all three of those games you can only move vertically and the background does all the horizontal movements. It would work like that but Mario wouldn't be able to move the same way as on the NES. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted June 6, 2011 Share Posted June 6, 2011 Stargate is an excellent example of horizontal scrolling. I don't see any limitations on movement. Can a programmer explain why some games are more or less limited than others? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amstari Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Is there a device that could take the video output from the console and rotate it 90 degrees then send it to the TV? If a device doesnt exist then would it be difficult to make one? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted June 7, 2011 Share Posted June 7, 2011 Does Private Eye have horizontal scrolling? It has been a long time since I have played that game. No, it draws a new screen every time you leave the previous screen (like Adventure.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frostbite76 Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 what about Kung Fu? Wasn't that a side scroller? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schizophretard Posted June 10, 2011 Share Posted June 10, 2011 what about Kung Fu? Wasn't that a side scroller? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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