Super Breakout color hacks

[+Pat Brady]

I always hated the colors in the 2600 port. I attached one hack that mimics the arcade, one that mimics the 5200 version, and three I made up.

 

Arcade:

 

5200:

 

Cool:

 

Warm:

 

Mid:

 

sbo_arcade.bin

sbo_5200.bin

sbo_cool.bin

sbo_warm.bin

sbo_mid.bin

 

 

Edited August 1, 2020 by bizarrostormy
Reversed color order in cool, added screenshots

[+Pat Brady]

I added some screenshots.

[+TrekMD]

Cool, thank you!

[Keatah]

Love it! ..and would like to see b/w Noir, or greyscale, or bright neon.

 

And maybe something called sparkly where not only the lines change colors in realtime, but so do the individual bricks. Or change with every hit.

 

[+Pat Brady]

1 hour ago, Keatah said:

Love it! ..and would like to see b/w Noir, or greyscale, or bright neon.

 

And maybe something called sparkly where not only the lines change colors in realtime, but so do the individual bricks. Or change with every hit.

 

I have only been editing the color tables. They were fairly easy to find. I don’t plan to spend the time it would take to learn the actual code well enough to modify it.

 

Changing line colors during gameplay is probably possible but would require modifying the code. I don’t think coloring bricks individually is doable on the 2600.

 

I attached a grayscale version and a noir version. Ideally grayscale would be enabled on any other version via the B&W switch, but that also requires getting into the actual code.

 

There are other things that could be done in the code, such as using M0 instead of BL for the ball to avoid it changing color as it moves vertically (which is severe in the noir version).

sbo_grayscale.bin sbo_noir.bin