Silvio Mogno Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 (edited) Edit: final demo ROMs are here! Game available (along with other new great releases) on store! Hi, I'm making an improved CDFJ version of Q*Bert for the VCS. Here's a small video. ASAP I'll release a demo version. Hope you'll like it! Edit: I added the demo binary as shown on ZPH stream yesterday. It's limited to first two levels, then it loops back to level 1. Much work has to be done. I hope you'll enjoy! Stella_2021-01-04_19-43-50-67.avi Qbert_Demo_06_Jan_2021.bin Edited September 24 by Silvio Mogno changed post name; added link to newest binary 22 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prizrak Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Looks good, look forward to checking it out.Sent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 2 hours ago, Silvio Mogno said: I'm making an improved CDFJ version of Q*Bert for the VCS. This looks amazing! Everything looks updated including the animation of the enemies, the score at the top, 99% of the graphics. The music and sound seems to be the same. Is this a complete rewrite of the game from scratch? - James 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybot67 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Wow, you fixed the pyramid; It's finally symmetrical, looks fantastic! It always bothered me. Great job. Do you think that you will be able to introduce the missing enemies? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 No pictures, using imagination ... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Andrew Davie Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Very nice. Well done! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Oh, that looks nice and symmetrical! Nice work so far. I had a hard time opening the video file. It opened with VLC. Regardless, I did a screen grab, @Cafeman. I hope that's OK with Silvio. 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Mogno Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 8 hours ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said: This looks amazing! Everything looks updated including the animation of the enemies, the score at the top, 99% of the graphics. The music and sound seems to be the same. Is this a complete rewrite of the game from scratch? - James The kernel is totally mine. I started from the Collect 3 demo by Darrel Spice Jr. and added my code. I tried to reproduce the mechanics of the original game adding some improvements and new features. Graphics and music are ripped from the original game because I'm neither a graphics designer nor a musician. ? I slightly changed graphics and music but help to improve would be appreciated! Silvio 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Mogno Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 6 hours ago, xybot67 said: Wow, you fixed the pyramid; It's finally symmetrical, looks fantastic! It always bothered me. Great job. Do you think that you will be able to introduce the missing enemies? I'm working now to add Ugg and Wrong Way. It seems not so hard. Silvio 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Mogno Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 (edited) 3 hours ago, TrekMD said: Oh, that looks nice and symmetrical! Nice work so far. I had a hard time opening the video file. It opened with VLC. Regardless, I did a screen grab, @Cafeman. I hope that's OK with Silvio. Thank you very much! I didn't think it was so difficult opening the video file. I made it with FRAPS after googling on the internet for how to made it. Silvio Edited January 5, 2021 by Silvio Mogno 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Looks really nice already. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomberman94 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Really love Q*Bert - great to see a more (let‘s say) more accurate port ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 4 hours ago, Silvio Mogno said: Thank you very much! I didn't think it was so difficult opening the video file. I made it with FRAPS after googling on the internet for how to made it. Silvio The different media players (Movies, Windows Media Player, and RealPlayer) I used on Windows kept telling me the codec for playing the video was missing. VLC worked fine, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Mogno Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 2021-01-05 13-29-13.mp4 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybot67 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Woohoo! Was that the first appearance of Ugg on the Atari 2600 at 1:28? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Mogno Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 3 hours ago, xybot67 said: Woohoo! Was that the first appearance of Ugg on the Atari 2600 at 1:28? Yes, but by now is a banal ball? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybot67 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 Truly amazing! Are you also introducing new gameplay mechanics? I noticed a light blue Sam that when touched slows you down? Great addition ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Mogno Posted January 5, 2021 Author Share Posted January 5, 2021 25 minutes ago, xybot67 said: Truly amazing! Are you also introducing new gameplay mechanics? I noticed a light blue Sam that when touched slows you down? Great addition ? Thanks! The blue Sam "ice" freezes cubes and when q*bert jumps on he get cool for some time so he goes slower. I also included moving discs and "flashing Sam" from Faster Harder More Challenging Q*Bert. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ZeroPage Homebrew Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 1 hour ago, Silvio Mogno said: Thanks! The blue Sam "ice" freezes cubes and when q*bert jumps on he get cool for some time so he goes slower. I also included moving discs and "flashing Sam" from Faster Harder More Challenging Q*Bert. All these additions you're putting into the game are incredible! I can't wait to stream it on ZeroPage Homebrew, people are going to love it! - James 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 This looks great! Can't wait for a demo/test ROM. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sramirez2008 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 23 minutes ago, ZeroPage Homebrew said: I can't wait to stream it on ZeroPage Homebrew, people are going to love it! I love it? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xybot67 Posted January 5, 2021 Share Posted January 5, 2021 A demo rom will be amazing, cant wait to play it. I will never be able to go back to the Parker Bros version (which was my favourite Parker Bros game). 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 20 hours ago, TrekMD said: I had a hard time opening the video file. It opened with VLC. Same here, with Windows Media Player it just plays the sound with no video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prizrak Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 I had to use mxplayer on my phone to play the videoSent from my SM-N960U using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
legeek Posted January 6, 2021 Share Posted January 6, 2021 This is amazing! Already a HUGE improvement! If I may humbly suggest adding AtariVox support for Bleeped "Cursing"? Cheers, Ben 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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