Zanac on 7800 ... possible?

[Synthpopalooza]

This was one of my favorite shooters on the NES.  I saw where the people at opcode have already ported this to the Colecovision. 

 

I was wondering, how difficult would it be to hack Xevious into Zanac?  The game requires lots of sprites ... how possible would it be for MARIA to handle it all if the enemy sprites and background were all rendered 160A?

 

And yes, I have taken the first step and done the Area 1/Area 3 music.  ?  posting it tonight.

[Synthpopalooza]

Found this:  commented Xevious code.  ?  Should be easy to reverse engineer this lot ...

 

 

7800_Xevious_source.zip

[CPUWIZ]

Zanac?  Isn't that some kind of medication?  Best ask your doctor first.

[Synthpopalooza]

Music is up:

 

https://atariage.com/forums/topic/293427-pokey-16-bit-mode-and-other-audctl-settings-a7800-emulation/?do=findComment&comment=4350912

 

I wonder how difficult it would be to insert one of these into the source code ... to at least play Xevious to this soundtrack.

 

 

[Synthpopalooza]

 

This is of course the NES version.  It was also originally coded on the MSX platform in Japan, but NES/Famicom version is better, I believe.  Also, as I mentioned earlier, it was ported to the Colecovision by Opcode.

[gambler172]

Many years ago....i hacked Xevious.....it should not be a problem

to hack Xevious in something like this

[Synthpopalooza]

So then, all we need are sprites, music, and game sound fx ... I can do all the music stuff and sound fx.

 

Going to find a spriters resource for this.

[Synthpopalooza]

https://www.spriters-resource.com/nes/zanac/sheet/89962/

 

Some of the enemies ... still looking for a complete sprite list, and also tiles for levels.