Greg Zumwalt Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 A while back I started looking at Berzerk for a possible hack. I altered the fonts used. I changed the robots into ghosts. I made the guy look a bit different. He always reminded me of a Pez dispencer. Still does too. I toyed with the sounds and mazes some. And finally I changed a few colours. Call it bordem or what you like, but it just didn't seem enough. And then I ran accross the Voice Enhanced version. Having nearly forgotten it existed, I was curious, code wise, what the difference was. Game play, it seemed the same with exception of the obvious added sound and that cool title screen. I quickly popped it into my disassembler and was just as quickly informed, it was too BIG for DiStella (Teach me for spending all my time on 4K games.) Does a disassembler exist, like DiStella, that handles ROMs over 4K? So, I loaded up my HEX editor. I loaded my hack an BVE. The code was very simular, which suggested that rather then being a totally built from the ground up berserk, it too was technically a hack. While Hack-O-Matic is good, it lacks almost any options, such as copy, paste, save (vs save as), flip, etc. Decent HEX editors while they offfer many features, seem to have forgotten what binary really is. Oh, I have found many that claim to be able to edit binary, but in reality, only edit HEX. Does anyone know of a Windows based BINARY editor? BVE proposed an interesting question. How can one take a 4K rom and hack it to add more to the code? A byte by byte comparison pointed out the differances. I then (as I've forgotten most) matched up mnumonics and got a better understading. This may lead to some cool new hacks. Meanwhile, here is PezZerk. pezzerk_pezman_in_ghost_manor.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 Does a disassembler exist, like DiStella, that handles ROMs over 4K? No, but I have explained how you can use DiStella. Search the Programming forum. Does anyone know of a Windows based BINARY editor? Where is the difference between Binary and Hex? Hexcode is just a better readable form of binaray code. I am using HIEW, but that is still DOS based. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Zumwalt Posted April 14, 2003 Author Share Posted April 14, 2003 First, thanks, I'll search the forum... As to the differance...??? The ability to display bits vs bytes and in 8 colum mode not 16 Binary, base 2, vs hex, base 16 It would be really nice to be able to switch between the two bases. This would make for a nice code and graphics editor all in one. (I prefer UltraEdit myself.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARI TROLL Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 Can't get past the title screen. I'm on a mac using Stella and the hack is stuck on the title screen. Any chance you could test on a pc version of stella and see whats up. This one I really want to play. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Zumwalt Posted April 23, 2003 Author Share Posted April 23, 2003 I'm on a mac using Stella and the hack is stuck on the title screen. Hmmm, I'll see what I can do. I do all my work using z26 and it has been fine on that. Always worries me when one emulator works and another doesn't. Anyone else have this problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Zumwalt Posted April 23, 2003 Author Share Posted April 23, 2003 I'm on a mac using Stella and the hack is stuck on the title screen. I do not have available, my computer with my G3 emulator at this time. However, the PC version of Stella is working fine with the game. This suggest either, a design flaw in the Mac version of Stella or, user error. I shall asume you know how to use the emulator and it is a bug with the Mac version, but until someone else can confirm this... PS Make sure you have the latest version 1.3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARI TROLL Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 I do have the most current version, and Ive been messing with emulators for 6 years to answer your question. Must be a damn mac error. Thanks for replying back Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Iacovelli Posted April 23, 2003 Share Posted April 23, 2003 this hack is pretty cool. I see that you actually hacked the special edition of berzerk and not the orignal(it has speech). it works well on pcaewin and Z26. Dan Iacovelli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Zumwalt Posted April 24, 2003 Author Share Posted April 24, 2003 I have contacted John Stiles, the author of the Mac port of Stella, and directed his attention to this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARI TROLL Posted April 24, 2003 Share Posted April 24, 2003 Thanks for doing so! I have never been able to play the special edition at all. thats what the problem was! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg Zumwalt Posted April 24, 2003 Author Share Posted April 24, 2003 Well, sad news for all of you Mac Stella users. I received a reply today: Sorry, I am not going to update Stella just to work with an end-user-hacked ROMs. Thanks for letting me know tho. Maybe someone would be willing to port z26 to the Mac? It is a superior 2600 emulator anyhow, and John is very good at updating it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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