Nukey Shay Posted March 12, 2008 Author Share Posted March 12, 2008 Cat Trax prototype: Just a quick dirty one here, since the game is doing something odd with BIT instructions (using static ROM addresses for arguments) that I haven't figured out Originally @264 (attract) and 265 (ingame). I bumped attract mode by 1 scanline (to make both screens match), and then robbed 3 scanlines to run @262. Ignore the "always taken?/never taken?" comments...those were my guesses that didn't pan out when tracing the program. Cat_Trax.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 12, 2008 Author Share Posted March 12, 2008 (edited) Cosmic Ark: Still picking at this...might be fun to add some more abductee types 66 bytes currently free EDIT: see this thread for additional beasties Cosmic_Ark.zip Edited March 13, 2008 by Nukey Shay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 15, 2008 Author Share Posted March 15, 2008 No Escape: Original game had an added scanline at the end of the game (when Pegasus is displayed), and a 2-byte graphic glitch on top of the columns (visible when the columns collapse). These have been fixed. A PAL60 conversion also made...but I had to fudge some of the colors that are not available (all of the $1x, $Ex, and $Fx values). No_Escape.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari8man2004 Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 No Escape:Original game had an added scanline at the end of the game (when Pegasus is displayed), and a 2-byte graphic glitch on top of the columns (visible when the columns collapse). These have been fixed. A PAL60 conversion also made...but I had to fudge some of the colors that are not available (all of the $1x, $Ex, and $Fx values). Hi I have a Mod'ed Supercharger and wondering can Hack'em and Asteroids DC be made to run? My only other only option is burning a rom Atari8man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted March 22, 2008 Share Posted March 22, 2008 I have a Mod'ed Supercharger and wondering can Hack'em and Asteroids DC be made to run? My only other only option is burning a rom Atari8man No. Both of those games are 8k and the Supercharger contains only 6k of RAM. I too would love to play Hack 'Em on a real 2600. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 23, 2008 Author Share Posted March 23, 2008 The current version of Hack'Em is 16k. The added space handles a seperate boot screen and attract mode demo game, seperate fruit objects for the "plus" variations, point gfx for collected fruit objects, etc. Added to this thread... Bridge Beany Bopper: -Todo : make the pause switch compatable with 7800 Demolition Herby: -HMOVE lines hidden (border masked) NTSC and PAL60 versions created of each. Bridge.zip Beany_Bopper.zip Demolition_Herby.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Player Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 The current version of Hack'Em is 16k. Looks like I need to download the latest version. The one I have on my hard drive is 8k. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 24, 2008 Author Share Posted March 24, 2008 Could be from the Hacks pages...there's been a lot of changes since that version was made (and it was still "broken", too). The list of corrections and changes is too long to go into here (starting at page 14 of that thread, or reading from the changelog)...but click here for the last 8k build made before I changed it to 16k. The last 16k build can be downloaded by clicking here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted March 24, 2008 Share Posted March 24, 2008 Is there a list of games that don't work on the Supercharger already that you are making your way through, Nukey? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 (edited) Not exactly (I dunno if anyone ever made such a list). I just pick a title and run an automated Distella disassembly. It's usually pretty obvious by looking at the last few lines of the resulting text file if a game will crash an unmodded SC (if Distella labelled any of the last 8 bytes, it most definately will). Takes just a moment to do that...slightly longer to discover if the nearest label will indirectly reach any of them. If so, I run a more detailed raw disassembly, and edit it to correct the issue. EDIT: It appears that Oesii was making up a list in his spare time (as he was playing the games through his unmodded SC)...but I dunno if he ever finished it. Edited March 25, 2008 by Nukey Shay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ovalbugmann Posted March 25, 2008 Share Posted March 25, 2008 Thanks again Nukey for all your work! I follow this thread regularly now , the Supercharger is easily the coolest vintage accessory for the VCS. I don't have a Kroko cart, any CuddleCarts, or Chimera - Or an eeprom burner or a VCS dev. system. I haven't heard anything recently from MOS6507 on Chimera. I never had a Supercharger back in the eighties, but I did hear about it back then,... and it sounded totally cool. I'm glad I finally got one, even twenty years later! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 25, 2008 Author Share Posted March 25, 2008 (edited) 2 more... Planet Patrol: Some corrections done in this (the original game had HMOVE's hitting at the wrong times...leading to erratic scrolling). A few other tweaks. Air-Sea battle: While the game is only 2k, it was reported in another thread that the collision detection didn't work w/Superchargers. 1st attempt. Palette-selection added via the color/B&W switch (compatable w/7800's). I also masked out the HMOVE lines, and fixed some minor color shade glitches. NOTE: rom must be doubled in size for Superchargers. Planet_Patrol.zip Edited March 29, 2008 by Nukey Shay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 2 more... Planet Patrol: Some corrections done in this (the original game had HMOVE's hitting at the wrong times...leading to erratic scrolling). A few other tweaks. Air-Sea battle: While the game is only 2k, it was reported in another thread that the collision detection didn't work w/Superchargers. 1st attempt. Palette-selection added via the color/B&W switch (compatable w/7800's). I also masked out the HMOVE lines, and fixed some minor color shade glitches. NOTE: rom must be doubled in size for Superchargers. The collision detection still does not work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmosiss Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 How hard would doing the opposite be? That is, hacking a supercharger game binary so it can be put on an 8K chip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supercat Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 How hard would doing the opposite be? That is, hacking a supercharger game binary so it can be put on an 8K chip. Generally not possible. Many SuperCharger games require that significant amounts of the cartridge RAM be writable. That just plain isn't going to happen on an EPROM-based cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmosiss Posted March 26, 2008 Share Posted March 26, 2008 I see. So we would need a supercharger-in-a-cart then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 29, 2008 Author Share Posted March 29, 2008 The collision detection still does not work. 2nd attempt... Unused bits from player 2's collisions (which is where the problem originated...thx Thomas) are trimmed off before merging with player 1's. As far as I can tell, this should work. The downside is that the change causes 1 scanline to overrun for each of the color bands. As a result, the spacing between objects is slightly different than the original game. The lower area has been reduced by 8 scanlines to compensate. Air_Sea_Battle.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted March 31, 2008 Author Share Posted March 31, 2008 Crackpots: A bunch of space made available (plus a little bit of ram, too). This game is already a great one, so I didn't have much to add but a bit of animation to the flowerpots (as well as a small "game over" message...accomplished by reusing the text display subroutine for the "bonus bug" display area). Down to zero free romspace, so I'm posting it before it ends up broken Again, yellow and other non-PAL hues are being used in the NTSC version. The PAL60 version turned out more brown than I'd like (but still better than the "official" PAL version...which is still using the NTSC color palette). Change them to whatever you want if it makes you sick Crackpots.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmosiss Posted March 31, 2008 Share Posted March 31, 2008 Great work here. There's a few of these that I don't own on cart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Cade Posted April 2, 2008 Share Posted April 2, 2008 The collision detection still does not work. 2nd attempt... Unused bits from player 2's collisions (which is where the problem originated...thx Thomas) are trimmed off before merging with player 1's. As far as I can tell, this should work. The downside is that the change causes 1 scanline to overrun for each of the color bands. As a result, the spacing between objects is slightly different than the original game. The lower area has been reduced by 8 scanlines to compensate. Just out of curiosity- what is it about the SC hardware that causes collision detection to fail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nukey Shay Posted April 2, 2008 Author Share Posted April 2, 2008 I dunno if that has ever been fully researched. This program (for example) assumed that unused bits would be zero. The design of the SC might be interfering with this assumption as far as I know (it seems that emulation does as well). Gorf: Palette select hack made. The colors should be correct for every wave except the Warp Zone enemies (I don't know how to adjust this...since it's adding a static value instead of reading from a table - and NTSC colors don't follow the same pattern as PAL). Anyway, the switch is 7800 compatable. I also had enough free space to add a small explosion sprite, and the # of enemies still in the warp zone too. Either joystick can be used. Doesn't appear to be enough free ram to do a 2-player mode at the moment, tho Gorf.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Wolfe Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I just wanted to stop in and say, thank you Nukey for the work. It's been fun for this new Supercharger owner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mos6507 Posted April 11, 2008 Share Posted April 11, 2008 I haven't heard anything recently from MOS6507 on Chimera. Stay tuned on that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ovalbugmann Posted April 12, 2008 Share Posted April 12, 2008 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anny84 Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 (edited) Hi from a new Supercharger user! My uncle bought one for me and I think it's a wonderful add-on for a before-my-generation videogame console. Anny Edited April 16, 2008 by anny84 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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