Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 (edited) I started a new thread so as to ensure people knew about this game, it's not just a re-working of my original , it's an entirely ground-up rewritten game that closely matches the look and feel of the arcade original. No F18A is needed for this game. After studying and playing the arcade version, I found the guards with spears to be made of character graphics rather than sprites. So I copied this idea. And it worked perfectly. The collision detection between spears and the player is now as good as it was in the arcade! There's also 15 screens of play, each screen more difficult than the last. If you do manage to rescue Esmeralda, the game restarts but with a different colour, faster arrows & fireballs, and each Fire Pit & rope screen also includes a fireball. Features; Top score is kept and displayed in the game Speech Synthesis if you have it connected Bonus score every 4 bonus bells, if no lives are lost in 4 screens Comical deaths A ten-page manual with loading instructions and step-by-step guide to the game. Editor Assembler 5 files included, as well as Extended Basic file. Note: The previous F18A only version should be considered a prototype. This is the real thing. I'm happy with it. HunchBack Standard TI99.zip Edited July 8, 2021 by Retrospect 20 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrhodes Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 As with all your other releases, this game is fun, great, and addicting. Nice! 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859082 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 5 minutes ago, jrhodes said: As with all your other releases, this game is fun, great, and addicting. Nice! Thankyou 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859085 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Made it to 5500! 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859086 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 This is the best I can do at the moment. That screen is very tricky! The projectiles don't come on at the same time, they're randomly timed, but once they're on they just fly across at a set speed - and sometimes you can't just jump to avoid an arrow and avoid the fireball at the same time! However, the arcade machine did this also. 5 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859094 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Neat, though I can't get past the 2nd screen lol. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859161 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 28 minutes ago, InsaneMultitasker said: Neat, though I can't get past the 2nd screen lol. Thanks Insane. Line yourself up right at the edge of the pit .... watch how close the rope gets as it heads to you. You need to be jumping just as the rope is about 32 pixels (2 sprites length) away from you, so long as it's heading towards you and not the other way. Make sure you press fire just as it gets to the edge of the other side. Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859172 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 One thing I did notice whilst playing the arcade version in Mame is that there were various "sets" released, some on different hardware, so you'd have a Galaxian Conversion , and so on .... well in order to emulate that, I've got "Hunchback Set 2" for anyone who wants it ... this one doesn't have speech, the title screen's different, the graphics are different, and there's a twinkling starfield in the game. Also the game runs faster in parts. hunchback set 2.zip <<--- EA5 and XB files. Classic99 QI399.048 2021-07-08 06-13-23.mp4 8 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ti99iuc Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 (edited) Wow! great work! It is really playable and nice graphic! I love the manual too! During the gameplay the Jump moment when there is the rope to take, I love how you managed a sort of slow motion and teh the fast fall down cartoon style... really funny! Edited July 8, 2021 by ti99iuc 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859258 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fabrice montupet Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Funny Game! Thank you ! ? 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneMultitasker Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 8 hours ago, Retrospect said: Thanks Insane. Line yourself up right at the edge of the pit .... watch how close the rope gets as it heads to you. You need to be jumping just as the rope is about 32 pixels (2 sprites length) away from you, so long as it's heading towards you and not the other way. Make sure you press fire just as it gets to the edge of the other side. I will give that a try tonight I was attempting running jumps so that may be my "downfall" grin (I was using the EA version in Classic99). Greta fun. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859328 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 3 hours ago, InsaneMultitasker said: I was attempting running jumps so long as you know you're timing you can do running jumps but never do them from the start of the screen as you will always fall, lol it's best to let the rope come from the centre of the pit, fully to the left, then back to the right, and then judge the jump as it's coming towards you again. 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859444 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 Very nice. ☺️ 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859600 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 10 hours ago, ti99iuc said: Wow! great work! It is really playable and nice graphic! I love the manual too! During the gameplay the Jump moment when there is the rope to take, I love how you managed a sort of slow motion and teh the fast fall down cartoon style... really funny! ha thanks ciro! Yes it did turn out quite funny. I took the idea from the Wile.E.Coyote cartoons 1 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 8 hours ago, fabrice montupet said: Funny Game! Thank you ! ? Hi Fabrice, glad you like it. It's turned out better than I thought it would Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 8, 2021 Author Share Posted July 8, 2021 23 minutes ago, sometimes99er said: Very nice. ☺️ Thanks Sometimes How far did you get? Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859624 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sometimes99er Posted July 8, 2021 Share Posted July 8, 2021 9 minutes ago, Retrospect said: Thanks Sometimes How far did you get? Only 2.550, I think ... ? 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859637 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 (edited) This is nice little demonstration of scrolling. Hunchback in the Arcade used a scroll to bring in the next castle screen. I haven't done this in my game because it uses too much space but I did make this short demo of scrolling for Hunchback. To make it so all the screens could be scrolled, I would have to use an array with 480 elements (32 columns x 15 screens). Here's a demo with just 64 elements used. Here's the source code in XB256. It doesn't need to be compiled to see the results but I did compile mine for the video. The CALL LINK("COLOR2",x,x,x) commands are quick 'n' dirty, I placed them at the end of each CALL LINK("CHAR2") line, but to tidy it up it would be CALL LINK("COLOR2",x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x,x) for example. demo.txt js99er-20210709060957.webm Edited July 9, 2021 by Retrospect 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859894 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asmusr Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 To save space you could have one array with the unique columns, and another with the column numbers to display. The latter could be stored a string to save more space, e.g. A is column 1, B is column 2 and so on. 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4859950 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 4 hours ago, Asmusr said: To save space you could have one array with the unique columns, and another with the column numbers to display. The latter could be stored a string to save more space, e.g. A is column 1, B is column 2 and so on. Yes it's the only way because I tried 15 screens with my method and it killed the stack space in no time, in fact it didn't support 15 screens Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4860020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 Look at this! Ciro made it and I love it! 16 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4860022 Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 hunchbk8.bin 3 2 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4860095 Share on other sites More sharing options...
HOME AUTOMATION Posted July 9, 2021 Share Posted July 9, 2021 For some reason... ...I just can't seem to get this zipper open! 4 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4860097 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrospect Posted July 9, 2021 Author Share Posted July 9, 2021 23 minutes ago, arcadeshopper said: hunchbk8.bin 32 kB · 2 downloads Thanks greg 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4860114 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xahmol Posted August 22, 2021 Share Posted August 22, 2021 Very nice, could only try now (busy and holiday). Made a picture with the TI and C64 version at the same time. 4 1 Quote Link to comment https://forums.atariage.com/topic/322621-hunch-back-no-f-18a/#findComment-4891070 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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