hizzy Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 This is awesome! I hope you do this for more games! Thanks! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted January 12, 2020 Share Posted January 12, 2020 22 hours ago, GoldLeader said: Cool! And it works on my Harmony cart!! Can also confirm that they work with the UnoCart. @Omegamatrix Thank you! These are awesome and a good choice to start out with. Can’t wait for Asteroids! Btw, that Breakout menu looks beautiful on my CRT.? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigO Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Thanks for all of your work on this. If you get bored and want to add a menu to another classic, I vote for Circus Atari. It doesn't have a zillion variants. It's just a game I like. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4ever2600 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Dude! This is a really cool and helpful idea you've implemented. Thank you for all your hard work! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Machine Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Great idea! Thank you! Indy 500 might be a good game to look at. From what I remember, it had several dozen game options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasperAK Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Awesome work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jstick Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 21 hours ago, Omegamatrix said: only do one toggle on items that only have two choices. Yes that sounds like it would work better. The great thing about these menus is that they make the games much more accessible, without modifying the actual gameplay. It's already led me to try out a bunch of variations I don't think I've ever played before Would love to see the same treatment given to Combat and Asteroids some day! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Kaboomer Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 Wow! I agree with all of these! Circus Atari, Combat, Asteroids, Indy 500...they all are great recommends. Wonder if AA would even consider a new "line" of homebrew physical carts (like the trackball game line) for these? 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Do we have a list of games with many variations without a menu? It seems that mostly the first games (until ~1981) have as many variations as possible (marketing reasons?). 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keithbk Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 This is INCREDIBLE!!!! And I'm excited you are doing Asteroids next. I like to play one specific version of Asteroids, and that is the "Flip" version, where you do a 180 with the backwards pull on the joystick. The only problem? I can NEVER remember the number without referencing the manual. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Omegamatrix Posted January 16, 2020 Author Share Posted January 16, 2020 Hello all, I've added an updated rom pack to the first post which has the visible game number suggestion from Thomas, and reworked controls from the suggestions of Jstick. Please report any bugs or give feedback, and otherwise enjoy. ? 7 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyK Posted January 16, 2020 Share Posted January 16, 2020 (edited) I think this is an excellent idea - especially for those games that have a large number of variations. Video Olympics and Space Invaders in particular benefit from it greatly. You should do Asteroids next - it has 66 variations. Maze Craze would be another good one to tackle. Love the Super Breakout one - it's one of the best games ever in my book and deserves this treatment even though the number of variations is small. I'll be loading these onto my Harmony cart.....any chance of PAL60 versions????? Edited January 16, 2020 by davyK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Omegamatrix Posted January 17, 2020 Author Share Posted January 17, 2020 14 hours ago, davyK said: I'll be loading these onto my Harmony cart.....any chance of PAL60 versions????? Well, try downloading the zip file in the first post and you will find that NTSC, PAL, and PAL60 versions are all already there partner. ? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davyK Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 Excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Atari Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Great stuff ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TrekMD Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 This is really cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegad Posted January 19, 2020 Share Posted January 19, 2020 Excellent idea. Missile command, asteroids, defender would be my requests off the top of my head.... I could never remember which game number was the one I preferred. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bfstats Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Yet another extraordinary and UNIQUE contribution from Omegamatrix! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5x7 Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 This is so awesome, space invaders variations didn’t get tried often because of the huge number of presses. Imagine going for 100 and going past it! 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 Thank you, and please consider Breakout, Surround 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewy Posted January 21, 2020 Share Posted January 21, 2020 the latest trend in vcs gaming! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Omegamatrix Posted February 6, 2020 Author Share Posted February 6, 2020 Asteroids Menu Screen. Asteroids Menu (rev1).zip Combat next.... 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TrekMD Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 Awesome! Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Karl G Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 These are amazing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spspspsp Posted February 6, 2020 Share Posted February 6, 2020 I have been playing Space Invaders with my kids a lot since you first released this pack. I never bothered to look up all the combinations because there were so many! We have so much fun with the two player options. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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