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Yawackhary · 10-29-2022, 08:46 PM

Thanks ever so much.

Yeah my health hasn't been 100% for a while. My eyes aren't going to get any better due to a diagnosis from the hospital so yeah, they're getting worse and it's going to take years to get sorted. For now, being using eye spray and drops as a recommended stop gap.

So not much I'm afraid due to sorting out my gaming collection and taking it easy which is less said than done...

Power Golf (TurboGrafx-16)

There's just the course objects, the ball, title screen, name entry and a few misc things left. Weirdly the "background" that's used for behind the golfer view? That's actually completely done with sprites since the console can only support 1 background layer that's already used for the course. Thank goodness for modern tools otherwise this would have been impossible for both that and the player back in the day.

Batman

Gotham City Stage 1

Gotham City Stage 2

The vaguely closest thing to a Halloween rip... This is it so far due to Stages 3 and 5 change the layout once you've collected the pieces while Stage 4 uses animation for the acid. Oh and the game loads garbage tiles on the maps, proving that this game was a rush job when the planned side scroller got cancelled.

Amstrad

Rock'n Roller

Rocky Driver

Enemies

Track & Field

Athlete

Konami found out about Daley Thompson's Decathlon and Ocean had to make an official version (wonder whether this caused Konami to split up with Ocean briefly and when their arcade porting venture failed went back to them for a few games). Yet Ocean were crafty and only released this as a compilation for the Spectrum/CPC as Atari already brought out a C64 port in the US. I'm actually surprised that Konami didn't push Ocean to port 88 Games instead considering that it came out in 1988, AFAIK that doesn't have any ports... Then again Ocean decided to make another Daley Thompson game instead with the gimmicks of training and choosing the right ADIDAS TM branded trainers.

It is still debatable on who actually made this game whether it was done by Ali Davidson who went to Gremlin (was not part of Ocean) or outsourcing this to Microids who had done the Track & Field clone Athlete (also uses the background as part of the sprite and a similar font).

Spectrum

Track & Field

Athlete

At first had problems with the boundaries however... the Amstrad version helped with this. Also did a bit of math.

This version was actually released unfinished as it crashes after the final event, all down to a bug with the numbers (it attempts to load Event 7 that doesn't exist as there are only 6 events in the game, think it is the old 0 is 1 rather than 1 is 1 or vice versa.)

Since it's a bit light even with fonts and loading screens, some WIP and progress:

Spoiler

As posted in the comments section, have been working on the backgrounds on Top Gear since May. Still some work to be done, mainly palettes and ripping the last backgrounds.

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Crazy Cars (Spectrum) - Ugh... Soooooooo close... I just don't know how to categorise the cars. In other versions, there are 4 playable cars that are also used for the traffic. In the Spectrum version however, the Mercedes is not playable and you can tell by no big sprites of it unlike the other cars (big sprites = player, smaller sprites = CPU). Also the shadow of the car as well.
Crazy Cars 2 (Spectrum) - 1 sprite ripped so far, that's all!
Lethal Crash Race (Arcade) - Started work on this obscure Video System arcade game (I think it uses the same engine as one of the F-1 Grand Prix games). This is going to take a good while and probably months/ a year once it's done but already made progress on the police car since it's the easiest to rip.
Pitstop (C64) - The rival car is more or less done but I need to find the tires for the player car, they change color when they get worn down. Pretty advanced for 1983 actually...
Pole Position (Spectrum) - Ripped the signs, started work on the car.
Rodeo (Amstrad) - Ripped the cheerleader, working on the bull and the cowboy.

In the meantime looked into that GBA RoboCop game, the ROM appears to be "compressed" in terms of the sprites but not the usual way. As in that for RoboCop and the enemies, each sprite seems to be made of pieces mixed with garbage and unless the format gets reverse engineered, it would literally be ripping one tile/a few tiles at a time and that will take a long time (it would be faster to capture). The bosses, tilesets and some misc stuff however aren't like that.

Also found a few Sharp X68000 games that I can rip but... they seem to be fan games and what would be considered indie due to the nature of the computer having more "doujin" than officially released games. While the X68K was known for its really good to close to arcade perfect arcade ports, it's not the only thing that the computer was known for. I'm just not sure whether to rip Arururu (platformer starring Arle from Puyo Puyo) or Gedou Densetsu (Fatal Fury parody)... I try to avoid fan games though but they are tempting...

All other sheets are more or less the same progress wise.

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