chavert Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Thank you Merry Christmas. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmervine Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Thanks...even though it is a 2 player game, I just tried it on my Flashback portable and it seems to work fine with 1 player! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Th0rn Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Cool game my friend! Thanks for sharing it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Thank you and Merry Christmas! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gambler172 Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Hi Sijmen merry Christmas and next a 7800 game 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Alexander Posted December 24, 2016 Share Posted December 24, 2016 Thanks so much 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLe Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 Great game - thanks for sharing - happy new year! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted December 25, 2016 Share Posted December 25, 2016 Awesome! Gonna throw this on the Portable soon! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-atari Posted December 26, 2016 Author Share Posted December 26, 2016 ! 100 downloads in 48 hours ! Thank you very much. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schitti Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 +1 Many thanks for the great game Sijmen. It is a nice Christmas gift for the community. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+GoldLeader Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Thanks so much! I changed the ROM to BIN and it played fine on the ol' Flashback Portable! And it's quite fun!~ YAY!! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
accousticguitar Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 It's very nice to have another simultaneous 2 player game. There are not enough of those, thanks! I have not decided which speed I like best yet. I do know which angle I prefer though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4Ks Posted December 28, 2016 Share Posted December 28, 2016 For a first timer, you really have the Atari house style down pat. This looks exactly like something they would have released in the late 70s/early 80s. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinMos3 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 You did a great job with this! The only other thing I would note, is to convert the color palette for NTSC. A good conversion for your use of $3x ($30-3C) for the ground would be $Dx ($D0-DC) for NTSC. For the castle colors, your use of $40, $42, and $46 should be $20, $22, and $24. That is, if you want to most closely match your PAL palette. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Any chance of posting the bin here? For some reason the link in the first post won't load for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tremoloman2006 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Thank you for this release! Looks awesome! \m/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Level42 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I had the pleasure of previewing this at the Schiedam retrofair and it was great fun !!! Sijmen explained me all the stuff he had to program to just create that great looking castle on the intro screen. Although I understand a bit about programming and also about the 2600's "features' I didn't understand everything completely but I always love to listen to Sijmen as he explains it so well Awesome job....received my Harmony cart yesterday so I can now try it at home playing it agains my son 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-atari Posted December 30, 2016 Author Share Posted December 30, 2016 (edited) Any chance of posting the bin here? For some reason the link in the first post won't load for me. Here you are :-) ZIP-file includes: 4k ROM-files gif, box-art jpg, face-label jpg, top-label pdf, manual Edited December 30, 2016 by mr-atari 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Level42 Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 You did a great job with this! The only other thing I would note, is to convert the color palette for NTSC. A good conversion for your use of $3x ($30-3C) for the ground would be $Dx ($D0-DC) for NTSC. For the castle colors, your use of $40, $42, and $46 should be $20, $22, and $24. That is, if you want to most closely match your PAL palette. Yes I think that would be very nice....I just ran it on my NTSC 2600 (which I have calibrated using the Test pattern cartridge) and the colors are kinda muddy looking now which is a shame since they are nice and vivid on PAL. I'll upload some pics I made... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinMos3 Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 (edited) I did a color hack a few days ago, but didn't upload it because it's not my game and at that point, the ROM hadn't even been posted here at AA. However, here are some pics of what the game looks like with the color conversions I suggested. NTSC Colors: $Dx ($D0-DC) for ground $20, $22, and $24 for castle The sky colors don't need converted between PAL & NTSC Here are NTSC, PAL, and SECAM color charts on Random Terrain's website: http://www.randomterrain.com/atari-2600-memories-batari-basic-commands.html#colorchart Here is what the NTSC version currently looks like with the PAL colors: Edited December 30, 2016 by KevinMos3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 Just tried this out. Fun little game that looks great. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-atari Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 I can do a modified version for NTSC, sure. For my first game, I did not bother to setup the colors in RAM and use them as color-values. I do setup a PAL-flag depending on the Color/BW-switch Neither did I match-up 50/60fps gameplay/timers. But I did look at NTSC/PAL variants to have some colors that or not odd. So green grass for PAL and brown soil for NTSC. So what I can do is using the modified colors in ROM, giving NTSC the PAL-colors, ending up with a changed PAL-version. Just drop me a reply here and I get to it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-atari Posted January 2, 2017 Author Share Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) ...May the force be with us... Edited January 2, 2017 by mr-atari 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Level42 Posted January 5, 2017 Share Posted January 5, 2017 (edited) I can do a modified version for NTSC, sure. For my first game, I did not bother to setup the colors in RAM and use them as color-values. I do setup a PAL-flag depending on the Color/BW-switch Neither did I match-up 50/60fps gameplay/timers. But I did look at NTSC/PAL variants to have some colors that or not odd. So green grass for PAL and brown soil for NTSC. So what I can do is using the modified colors in ROM, giving NTSC the PAL-colors, ending up with a changed PAL-version. Just drop me a reply here and I get to it. Yes please Sijmen ! I prefer the fresh vibrant PAL colors IMHO.... Here's the pic how it looks in NTSC on my B&O MX4000 TV..... this pretty much matches what KevinMos3 posted. Edited January 5, 2017 by Level42 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr-atari Posted January 6, 2017 Author Share Posted January 6, 2017 (edited) I have uploaded the NTSC-version with PAL-colors on my homepage. here: http://www.mr-atari.com/defyocas See screen-shots: This is how it now looks like on a NTSC console and if you try it on PAL...... Edited January 6, 2017 by mr-atari 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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