dr. kwack Posted July 28, 2004 Share Posted July 28, 2004 Once again, I've attempted to put right what once was wrong... Here is a quickie hack of Gorf made to look more like the arcade. Basically, all I changed were the first two levels. The last two were about as good as they could get. Now if someone could stick in the Galaxians wave and some voices... Enjoy! gorfarcade.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ATARI TROLL Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 Awesome Hack Dr Quack!! Love the changes....looks closer to a better play and look. Thanks again for posting this one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fellow Atari Man Posted July 29, 2004 Share Posted July 29, 2004 As usual...pics! I don't think a Hacks thread is complete without 'em! Did a great job in making the first two waves resemble the arcade a bit more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr. kwack Posted July 29, 2004 Author Share Posted July 29, 2004 Thanks for the positive reviews! I've gotten hooked on trying to make arcade conversions closer to the originals. Only problem is, I'm starting to run out of titles. Most of the best have already been done by others (Space Invaders, Galaxians, Mario Bros, etc.) and many I'd like to do are "un-hackable" (Wizard of Wor, River Patrol, etc.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lauren Tyler Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 Do you know where I can find the sprite for the player's ship? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pacfan97 Posted March 13, 2010 Share Posted March 13, 2010 Do you know where I can find the sprite for the player's ship? Here's what the Arcade version of the ship looks like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GideonsDad Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 Nice hack Doc. I had never played Gorf until downloading your hack, I played the original first, then your hack. Your hack looks better than the original. This is a very cool "invader"-type game, I really like the variety of attack waves. Anyway, again - nice work. Always enjoy your hacks. GideonsDad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted March 15, 2010 Share Posted March 15, 2010 I'm of the minority that always liked Gorf on the 2600. I think this version is more challenging than the ColecoVision version and the 5200 port is just downright terrible. Another fix is to get the ship to move up and down like the arcade version. Also, is there enough ROM to add the Galaxians level? Can the code from Galaxian be copied (to an extent) into Gorf? Looks good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raindog Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Hmm, could have sworn I posted to this thread yesterday but can't see my post now. I think that it would be possible to incorporate Galaxian into Gorf, reducing the number of attackers and making them more aggressive than Atari's version, adding Atarivox support, and making the whole thing a 16k game. But I also think that doing so would take almost as much effort as just writing a new Gorf from scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GideonsDad Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 Had to go try out the arcade version of Gorf and thought I would share. Gorf arcade ROM for MAME. Enjoy. GideonsDad gorf.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted March 16, 2010 Share Posted March 16, 2010 I've always liked the second stage "Laser Attack" best. I like how the enemy ships are aggressive and really take a fast swoop at you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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