Lost Monkey Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 This afternoon, around 5:00PM, I went down to my basement to get a file off of an old 386 I have and thought I would play a quick game of Demond Attack while I was waiting for it to boot up... Demond Attack is a pirate cart of none other than Demon Attack.. I noticed in the first few levels that the bug that causes the demons not to move down to attack once the first row is destroyed happened on nearly every level... When I got to the 5th level I was paying more attention to how the grafx were done (the white flash when you die, the missile turning black) so I got killed about 3-4 times in succession very quickly. I put the controller down and went to shut off the 2600.. but before I did, I noticed that the lowest pair of demons were firing but not moving over the few pixels they needed to in order to hit me. So I picked up the floppy disc I had gone downstairs for and went up to my office, thinking I would check back and see what the game was doing in a half hour or so... I forgot about it for the last 7 hours... I just went downstairs to do some programming and I found the VCS still sitting there chugging out the Demond Attack sound effects with the vicious demons still spewing their hated seed at me, just far enough away never to touch me. 7 hours and still going... Obviously this would continue ad infinitum, so I am going to shut it down now... Has anyone else encountered this bug or one like it in other Atari games? edit: I guess the biggest bug in this version is the complete lack of any sort of attack by Demond... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pitfall Harry Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 I guess it's not that surprising to find bugs in a pirate cart. The scurvy sea devil who ripped off the Imagic Demon Attack ROM to burn his pirate copies may have gotten a bad dump, which was close enough to the original that it went unnoticed. Ben Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 I went back to check it out and found that on the "Novice" setting, the demons are not too aggressive.. you can start a game and have it last almost indefinitely as long as you do not move or shoot... The demons will just hover off to the right or left of your ship waiting for you to do something. They could have called it "Demond Counter Attack"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tempest Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 I noticed in the first few levels that the bug that causes the demons not to move down to attack once the first row is destroyed happened on nearly every level... This is actually a bug in the original Imagic version of Demon Attack. Shoot the middle demon and then the bottom one. The top one will never come down. Tempest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NovaXpress Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Yes, that's just Demon Attack for you. I considered it to be a pause feature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MegaManFan Posted July 9, 2003 Share Posted July 9, 2003 Like the maze turn in Pac-Man where the ghost monsters will never touch you eh? Time to go get a cheeseburger and a soda, watch my game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted July 9, 2003 Author Share Posted July 9, 2003 Here is a capture of what I am referring to. The "demonatk.bin" rom here on AtariAge does the same thing... Note that the demon which is shooting WILL NEVER move over enough to hit me, as long as I am not moving or firing. Cheeseburger time indeed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godzilla Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 maybe those evil demons aren't really as bad as they are made to be... maybe they are pacificsts, but once you start shooting at them they just start defending themselves.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted July 15, 2003 Author Share Posted July 15, 2003 maybe those evil demons aren't really as bad as they are made to be... maybe they are pacificsts, but once you start shooting at them they just start defending themselves.... Geez, now I feel bad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inky Posted July 15, 2003 Share Posted July 15, 2003 maybe those evil demons aren't really as bad as they are made to be... maybe they are pacificsts, but once you start shooting at them they just start defending themselves.... Geez, now I feel bad... Perhaps YOU'RE the Demon in Demon Attack? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted September 12, 2003 Share Posted September 12, 2003 I went back to check it out and found that on the "Novice" setting' date=' the demons are not too aggressive.. you can start a game and have it last almost indefinitely as long as you do not move or shoot... The demons will just hover off to the right or left of your ship waiting for you to [i']do something[/i]. They could have called it "Demond Counter Attack"... Hmmm.. maybe this isn't a bug but rather the intended behaviour of the novice level? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lost Monkey Posted September 12, 2003 Author Share Posted September 12, 2003 Hmmm.. maybe this isn't a bug but rather the intended behaviour of the novice level? Perhaps' date=' but it seems that the Demons are just too [i']laissez-faire[/i]. Under normal circumstances you would just pick up the controller and start firing away... making it easy not to notice this feature. From personal experience, I have been playing Demon Attack since the early 80's and have had several marathons trying to get the screen to go blank (before I realized that the game only "ends" on certain cartridges - and not on others). The only reason I noticed this "feature" now was because I was studying how RF made the player's ship explosion sequence - so I let go of the controller hoping to see a few explosions in a row... but they didn't happen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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