YANDMAN Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 In all seriousness i think the Legend of Bentley would be absolutely fantastic it would just make sense. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Usotsuki Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Well, there was Fanwor: The Legend of Gemda, though I'm not sure how well that really imitated Zelda. It was an ST game, though I believe a PC port exists which was written for FreeGEM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 (edited) bentleydone.jpg In all seriousness i think the Legend of Bentley would be absolutely fantastic it would just make sense. Missed a spot. Doesn't Curt or someone else own the Zyzygy trademark? Edited June 28, 2014 by stardust4ever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YANDMAN Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Missed a spot. Doesn't Curt or someone else own the Zyzygy trademark? Bently Missed a Spot.jpg I have no idea, The original company was spelt with an 'S' Syzygy i just put in the Z for obvious reasons and to pay homage to the atari history, Whether Curt has trademarked it also using a Z i wouldnt know, i just thought i was being clever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I have no idea, The original company was spelt with an 'S' Syzygy i just put in the Z for obvious reasons and to pay homage to the atari history, Whether Curt has trademarked it also using a Z i wouldnt know, i just thought i was being clever Oh yeah, the intentional misspelling with "Z" alluding to "Zelda." Lulz... I loved your "Ledgend of Zyzygy" box artwork; it's awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YANDMAN Posted July 4, 2014 Share Posted July 4, 2014 Thanks man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atarius Maximus Posted December 30, 2014 Author Share Posted December 30, 2014 There's not really been any work done on this in the past 6 months but I wanted to release the map demo as I promised back in June. I was waiting to make it "perfect" (which it's still not), but it's pretty close. There are a few map screens with incorrect colors and may also be bugs I never found. With that said, this demo accurately replicates the original map from Zelda. This is only a map demo and there's nothing to do but walk around the overworld and look around. There are no enemies, no dungeons, no weapons, nothing else. You can press the fire button to see a sample inventory/status screen. As I mentioned back in June, due to Nintendo's copyrights I won't be releasing an actual game with Zelda graphics and I won't be posting the code, graphics, or screen maps for this version. This is just a binary release to show what "could" be done. Adventure_Map_Demo.a78 Adventure_Map_Demo.bin 14 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cybearg Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Do these maps actually take up the whole of those 256kb, or did you pick 256kb just as an arbitrary choice? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) Edited December 31, 2014 by gambler172 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 We need an Adventure game for the 7800 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 As I mentioned back in June, due to Nintendo's copyrights I won't be releasing an actual game with Zelda graphics and I won't be posting the code, graphics, or screen maps for this version. This is just a binary release to show what "could" be done. That didn't stop Princess Rescue from being made... And sorry Atari fans, LoZ is infinitely better game than Adventure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I agree, Zelda wipes the floor with Adventure. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Hi Guys i said an Adventure game....not ADVENTURE 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atarius Maximus Posted December 31, 2014 Author Share Posted December 31, 2014 Do these maps actually take up the whole of those 256kb, or did you pick 256kb just as an arbitrary choice? The maps are 240 bytes each, so with 127 map screens thats around 30k of ROM. 256Kb is just the format I picked originally to give myself room to grow. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Not sure where all the Adventure hate is coming from, but a game with a sole developer that invented a genre near the dawn of home gaming is being compared to a game that a team built 7 years later. If Zelda wasn't richer for all of the hindsight, technology progress, development budget, and manpower I'd be concerned. Personally, I'd welcome seeing a homebrew with complexity between the two. Adventure excels at pick-up and play. Zelda excels at rich story telling and puzzles. I think there's a sweet spot between the two that's been rarely explored, and can be better tackled by a dev team of one. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Trebor Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Not sure where all the Adventure hate is coming from, but a game with a sole developer that invented a genre near the dawn of home gaming is being compared to a game that a team built 7 years later. If Zelda wasn't richer for all of the hindsight, technology progress, development budget, and manpower I'd be concerned. More (surprising) information and insight...NES Baseball is superior to Atari 2600 Home Run... Getting back to the awesome work and great demo from Maximus... Fantastic effort, thank you, sir! Really appreciate you continuing to take a stab and crack at this kind of game. An adventure title on the 7800 would be wonderful and fill a nearly empty space in its game library; especially when you have the graphic power to handle it, minus the flicker. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 The 7800 has too much power. I am gunna cut my maria chip in half to give the NES an advantage. After checking out and playing the homebrews and later titles without any extra mapper logic and chips on the carts the 7800 is by far the superior system. Its funny how flickerness fanboys see otherwise. I played a game of bad dudes and whatnot and after 5 seconds decided that 2600 missle command or yars revenge is a more playable and easier on the eyes and more fun game to play Wow did nintendo ever go backwards with the horrid sprite capabilities of the flicker machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Trebor Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 Maximus, A couple of things, at least one I'm hoping may help: 1. 62 --> 94 (Believe would work better ) 2. The "specks" in the water, under the NES, take on the color of the surrounding environment rocks or shrubs. A unique value/color is not being utilized. If surrounded by brown rocks/shrubs, the color of the specks are the brown of the rocks/shrubs. When surrounded by green shrubs, the color of the specks are the green of the shrubs. A "tricky" part (but still not requiring an additional unique color) may be when there's two different sets of rock/shrub colors; then, a part of the water specks will match one of the rock/shrubs colors and the other part of the water specks will match the second set of rock/shrub colors. Hoping the above may help with freeing up some color usage, if/when you decide to pursue this further, and is beneficial one way or another. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+frankodragon Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 AM, before you go off the radar, Ive been wanting to ask for your permission, along with RevEng's to use your Zelda engine code for my game, Draker Quest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RevEng Posted January 1, 2015 Share Posted January 1, 2015 You have mine. Whenever I share source, it's always no strings attached. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atarius Maximus Posted January 1, 2015 Author Share Posted January 1, 2015 AM, before you go off the radar, Ive been wanting to ask for your permission, along with RevEng's to use your Zelda engine code for my game, Draker Quest. Same from me as RevEng. Anyone is free to use any code I post. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Trebor Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Relatively short video of the demo covering many areas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWLHwAH-9GE 12 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Nothing short of amazing! Bravo!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andromeda Stardust Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 Relatively short video of the demo covering many areas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWLHwAH-9GE That's sweet. Pity this game will never get finished. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Trebor Posted January 2, 2015 Share Posted January 2, 2015 That's sweet. Pity this game will never get finished. Personally, I'm glad it will not be an exact clone of NES Zelda. Maximus has already demonstrated here, a brilliant and excellent take on the Overworld Map of the NES original. Looking forward to whatever he incorporates and what hybrid ideas come together to form a final 7800 game, if/when it reaches that point. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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