Kiwi Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 (edited) I played the Steam version of Plants Vs Zombies and was glued to the game from 10pm until 8am in the morning, completing the entire 5 worlds and several mini games and challenges. In my mind, I wanted to see if I could get it working on the Colecovision. I'm crazy, I know. So, I decided to start working on the Colecovision version the next day. I was going to release it on Easter, but I couldn't pull a all-nighter, especially when having to go to my sister's for Easter,thus breaking the lock down rules. So I took some time and made some progress until now. This was my break from working on another Colecovision game I was working on. I'm releasing now for free, so other people can play this game while they are on lock down from that deadly virus. It's related to Spring, so why not. Screenshots: ROM of the game:PlantVsZombie.rom No sounds or music. Notes: There are 16 shots(peas, needles, lawnmower) maximum on screen, so you're limited to 30 shooting plants maximum. The plants shoot alternately. However, I thought of unlikely scenario that they'll hit the max if the shooting plants are placed checkerboard faction, so if your 17th plant isn't firing his shot, that means you hit the maximum shots on screen no more shot object can be spawn. There's 10 zombie maximum on screen. If I raise the limit, it'll cause the game to slowdown to half speed. We don't want that. There's 4 types of zombies. 6 levels to go through. 7 different plants with description. I wanted to post a gif, but it won't post. Hope you enjoy. Edited April 25, 2020 by Kiwi 17 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serguei2 Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 (edited) Thanks for sharing this game to us. It was a great game. Are you going to add sound later? Edited April 25, 2020 by Serguei2 added a question 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cimerians Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 This is great thanks for doing this, going to have to try this out, wow you should do some of the other popcap games, peggle or maybe bookworm adventures 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Nelson Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 If this were to come out on a cartridge I would be forced to hand over my money......all of my money. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zinister Posted April 25, 2020 Share Posted April 25, 2020 Fun game. The difficulty definitely picks up quick when you get to level 3. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Doesn't seem to play on the ADAM, but did work inCoolCV. Game looks very good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted April 26, 2020 Author Share Posted April 26, 2020 5 hours ago, rietveld said: Doesn't seem to play on the ADAM, but did work inCoolCV. Game looks very good. I think you have to put it on the Ultimate SD cart and then boot the ADAM in Colecovision mode. ADAM maps out the Colecovision BIOS chip I believe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 1 hour ago, Kiwi said: I think you have to put it on the Ultimate SD cart and then boot the ADAM in Colecovision mode. ADAM maps out the Colecovision BIOS chip I believe. ok, i just put the ROM onto my ADE's SD card and tried to load it that way. I dont have the ultimate sd cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tursi Posted April 26, 2020 Share Posted April 26, 2020 Nice adaptation and I love the animation 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+bhall408 Posted April 27, 2020 Share Posted April 27, 2020 Works well in emulation... Aside from the "Zombies ate my Brains" part... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 Has anyone got this ROM to run from the ADE on the Adam? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaphro72 Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 1 hour ago, rietveld said: Has anyone got this ROM to run from the ADE on the Adam? Do any normal Colecovision ROM's run that way on the Adam? I wouldn't think the ADE would run any "Colecovision" roms as isn't it just replicating the functionality of the Adam tape drives? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted April 28, 2020 Share Posted April 28, 2020 4 hours ago, zaphro72 said: Do any normal Colecovision ROM's run that way on the Adam? I wouldn't think the ADE would run any "Colecovision" roms as isn't it just replicating the functionality of the Adam tape drives? the ADE runs .dsk,.bin, and .rom. I have a hard drive but it only runs disk images, I bought the ADE (drive emulator) because it will launch every file format that the emulator does. Thats why I wonder if the .ROM is just not compatible with the Adam. I dont have a multi cart anymore to try it on my stand alone Colecovision Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted April 29, 2020 Author Share Posted April 29, 2020 Just some stats: Sunflower: 4HP Peashooter: 4HP does 1 damage Walnut: 21HP Mine: 4HP takes 3-7 seconds to arm. Instant kill a zombie. Good to use to gain suns in the early in the level. Cherry: 91HP Kills 3 lanes of zombies in an area Cactus:7HP hurts zombie on touch, and does 2 damages Needie:9HP hurts zombie on touch, and does pierce 1-2 damages On 4/25/2020 at 9:52 AM, Serguei2 said: Thanks for sharing this game to us. It was a great game. Are you going to add sound later? Yup and music too. On 4/25/2020 at 1:23 PM, Bobby Nelson said: If this were to come out on a cartridge I would be forced to hand over my money......all of my money. ? Working on this. Making additional contents to the cartridge version. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Nelson Posted May 1, 2020 Share Posted May 1, 2020 Awesome!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeKryptonite Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 Oh my gosh, this is awesome, thanks so much for sharing, cannot wait for the final version. Amazing work!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artrag Posted May 3, 2020 Share Posted May 3, 2020 (edited) You should consider to add sampled voice and sound effects from the original. You can find my matlab encoder on Tursi's website. In Berzerk for CV it sounds quite good Edited May 3, 2020 by artrag 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwi Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 On 5/3/2020 at 7:18 AM, artrag said: You should consider to add sampled voice and sound effects from the original. You can find my matlab encoder on Tursi's website. I may try this for my next project for speech. Anyway, the game's done and I handed it in to Collectorvision. The cartridge version has 9 levels with 3 game modes, Daybreak, Nightmare, and Pick Your Seeds. There are 18 different seeds. 7 different zombies. It has 4 tracks of music, Title, Pick Your Seeds, Grasswalk, and Rigor Mormist. Have a nicer title screen and different Zombie Ate your Brains animation to divert space towards music and gameplay. It has many different sound effect. It's one action packed 32 KB title. Also contains secrets. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rietveld Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Kiwi said: I may try this for my next project for speech. Anyway, the game's done and I handed it in to Collectorvision. The cartridge version has 9 levels with 3 game modes, Daybreak, Nightmare, and Pick Your Seeds. There are 18 different seeds. 7 different zombies. It has 4 tracks of music, Title, Pick Your Seeds, Grasswalk, and Rigor Mormist. Have a nicer title screen and different Zombie Ate your Brains animation to divert space towards music and gameplay. It has many different sound effect. It's one action packed 32 KB title. Also contains secrets. Do u know if the cart will work with the ADAM ? I tried the ROM on my ADE's SD card and it won't boot up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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