Ed Fries Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Portland Retro Gaming Expo got me fired up to work on something new so I put this together over the last month or so. Still lots of work to do but I've always liked Rally-X and it seemed like lots of people started working on one but no one had come close to completing it for the 2600 so here's my attempt. This is a little over 2K. The sounds are borrowed from Halo2600 right now... AI needs work. Need more enemy cars. Need score and fuel. Spends too much time in vertical blank occasionally, etc, etc... But even with one enemy car it's pretty playable right now. Can you collect all 8 flags? Shouldn't be a problem to fit the final version in 4K and stick to original hardware limitations. Please check it out and send me any feedback you have. Thanks, -EdF rally.bin 26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Good to see more 4 way scrolling games on the 2600. My KVM sucks here so maneuvering some of the turns is hard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariBrian Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Awesome idea for a game . Rally x is really fun . How many levels do you think you could fit into 4k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted November 7, 2013 Author Share Posted November 7, 2013 Awesome idea for a game . Rally x is really fun . How many levels do you think you could fit into 4k The levels take less than 256 bytes so I should be able to fit in a few more. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted November 7, 2013 Share Posted November 7, 2013 Nice! I've looked a Rally X a couple times in the past, but didn't do very much with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 8, 2013 Share Posted November 8, 2013 Piss everybody off and turn it into Radar Rat Race: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LRkON9XTOk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LRkON9XTOk And remember to add the annoying repetitive off-key Three Blind Mice tune that makes you want to leap into a wood chipper after playing for less than 5 minutes. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBillTX Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 (edited) Pleeze NO Radar Rat Race port! I'm impressed with the speed and playability of this early prototype, keep working on it! Edited November 10, 2013 by WildBillTX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+save2600 Posted November 10, 2013 Share Posted November 10, 2013 Pleeze NO Radar Rat Race port! I second that emotion! Rally looks great! Be great to see this project through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Impaler_26 Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 What's up with all the hate for Radar Rat Race? I like the C64 version and it would be great to have both Rally-X and Radar Rat Race on the 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Awesome game Ed I like the action and the 4-way scrolling, this is already lots of fun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted November 11, 2013 Share Posted November 11, 2013 Since R.T. asked so nicely, here is the batari BASIC Radar Rat Race (pre-alpha) RRatRace.bin RRatRace.bas 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinMos3 Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I can hardly believe this. Rally X is constantly mentioned on these boards as a game people would love to see happen. Finally, Ed comes along and gives us an incredible work in progress that's already better than I thought we'd ever see. Yet, for every day since the initial post, this thread degenerates into a conversation about a stupid clone? I mean no disrespect to anyone here; maybe I'm reading it the wrong way, but it just seems rude to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 Since R.T. asked so nicely, here is the batari BASIC Radar Rat Race (pre-alpha) RRatRace.png RRatRace.bin RRatRace.bas Fantastic scrolling Loon! Can't wait to see this one The pixels break rank in Stella without the Glide wrappers but it looks great on my Vader! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Random Terrain Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I can hardly believe this. Rally X is constantly mentioned on these boards as a game people would love to see happen. Finally, Ed comes along and gives us an incredible work in progress that's already better than I thought we'd ever see. Yet, for every day since the initial post, this thread degenerates into a conversation about a stupid clone? I mean no disrespect to anyone here; maybe I'm reading it the wrong way, but it just seems rude to me. Just about everything is rude on the Internet. If you say that you like someone's hat, they'll be offended that you didn't admire their shoes. Just be glad that AtariAge lets us joke around and be free instead of clamping down on every thread like those web sites out there moderated by fussy little anal-retentive control freaks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr SQL Posted November 12, 2013 Share Posted November 12, 2013 I can hardly believe this. Rally X is constantly mentioned on these boards as a game people would love to see happen. Finally, Ed comes along and gives us an incredible work in progress that's already better than I thought we'd ever see. Yet, for every day since the initial post, this thread degenerates into a conversation about a stupid clone? I mean no disrespect to anyone here; maybe I'm reading it the wrong way, but it just seems rude to me. KevinMos3, Programmers like to talk about programming; as a result this thread now has two 4-way scrolling prototype games for the 2600! Why not add something constructive about programming or a related game idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted November 12, 2013 Author Share Posted November 12, 2013 It's all good. I appreciate the positive comments and I've always enjoyed Random Terrain's sense of humor. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFL Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I haven't tried it out yet but I'm really looking forward to it when I get the chance. Rally X is a great game and it would also be nice to see the scrolling tech hit the 2600. Maybe you could change the setting to Master Chief driving a Warthog... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 ...it would also be nice to see the scrolling tech hit the 2600. What do you mean? There are quite some two way scrolling games already existing for the 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PFL Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Bad wording. I'm typing at work while looking over my shoulder. I meant "nice to see some new scrolling tech..." as in it my inspire others (like loon) that ws all. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I guess it would have already been invented some time ago.. but, I wonder if the start of playfield drawing could be moved horizontally. You could fake smooth scrolling that way I bet. I've already played around with changing wsync to create longer/shorter playfield blocks. Maybe that's a lead? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 Hi Guys, Here's the latest version. I slowed the movement down quite a bit so that it's much closer to the original game. That makes it easier to play but I upped the number of enemy cars to 3 so that's made it pretty tough again. I also tweaked the colors to look better on actual hardware, redid the enemy AI, and fixed numerous bugs including a bad bug that was causing the whole screen to flicker occasionally. Still tons of work to do but hopefully you'll see the progress in this build. As always, any feedback is appreciated. -EdF Rally 131114.bin 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBillTX Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 (edited) Getting better.. The speed is closer to the orginal (I compared it to the original on Mame) The 3 cars were a challenge though it seemed they were trying to drive on top of each other sometimes. Again I'm glad finally someone is working on this classic game. Rally-X was one of my favorites in the arcade and I wondered why Atari or any other company never tried to make a 2600 port. Btw are you planning on keeping this a 4K game or bigger? I'd like to see a port with everything the arcade version had, like the challenge levels, more cars and faster speeds on higher levels.. Edited November 15, 2013 by WildBillTX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crimefighter Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Surprised Rally X hasn't been adapted for the 2600 until now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Gemintronic Posted November 22, 2013 Share Posted November 22, 2013 Already getting some press from our friends in France http://mag.mo5.com/actu/44266/rally-x-adapte-sur-atari-vcs-2600/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Fries Posted November 22, 2013 Author Share Posted November 22, 2013 Here's a small update. A few more bug fixes, plus I use vblank to mask the left and right edges of the map for a cleaner look. In some cases I use INC and DEC to turn vblank on and off. The only reason this works is because the low nibble of CXM1P always seems to be 1. I have no idea if this is guaranteed to be true on every model of the 2600 but it works fine in Stella and on my six switch with a harmony card. Anyone know why this value is 1 and whether I can count on it being 1? Rally 131121.bin 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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