RW still on track

DigiTan · Posted: 14 Sep 2005 02:45:32 pm Post subject:

Okay, I guess RW has taken a back seat to the Sonic project for a while, but bare with me; the project is still active.

As I mentioned in the last update, a lot of battle rules have been modified to make the game a little more intuitive. Debugging is mostly complete, so the main idea this month will be balancing. For starters, the HP of enemies is being greatly reduced. Before, enemy stats matched your own almost point-for-point, so this led to insane micro-managment and item use between battles. The new adjustments let you explore the game faster without spending hours battling low-level toadies.

Also, thanks to the Sonic project, I'm looking into replacing the current compression system with Apack. This will be done after the game released to avoid more delays. The new code should let me reduce prog size and use more elaborate levels and backdrops.

bananaman · Posted: 14 Sep 2005 03:07:09 pm Post subject:

Keep up your hard work. I never finish my programs I start.

DJ Omnimaga · Posted: 14 Sep 2005 04:08:39 pm Post subject:

i will not play this game until you move your site from Geocities to your UTI account

j/k

I cant wait to play it Very Happy

0oruneo0 · Member Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 112

Whew, not dead. I've been waiting for this a while now, hope it's released soon!

DigiTan · Posted: 15 Sep 2005 11:16:46 am Post subject:

Yep, I'm hoping to get it done no later than Christmas of this year. Hopefully much, much sooner. Since Apack works so well at reducing code size, I'm not under quite as much pressure to make the game unreasonably optimized, so this will move much quicker.

Here's sort of an update on the Expert Mode topic. I'm going to simplify this mode to use the original enemy difficulty rules. That's about as difficult as the game can get and still be reasonably playable. There will also be a secret unlockable reward; which will obviously not be announced. Cool

aforsy · Posted: 15 Sep 2005 12:49:48 pm Post subject:

what!! not announced...but...i thought...secrets were...announced...

sounds pretty cool, though. i can't remember if you were going to have this for the 83+, too, or just for the 82. i would certainly download it if you do!

DigiTan · Posted: 15 Sep 2005 05:23:11 pm Post subject:

Its definatley going to 83+. What's holding it back is the 26,000 byte prog size. Which fit 82's RAM, but not 83+. If it is possible to read tile & graphics data directly from Flash, this will no longer be a problem. Otherwise, I will have to Apack the full version first, or only port the Lite Edition. And since 83+'s shells actually make the VAT _balls work this might reduce the prog size even further.

DarkerLine · Posted: 15 Sep 2005 08:02:35 pm Post subject:

_balls... that is so great...

DigiTan · Posted: 15 Sep 2005 08:44:46 pm Post subject:

Or maybe that's not the right name for them. They call 'em ROM_CALLs in 82, and appearantly the VAT-related ones don't work unless you run a relocation routine and update all the VAT tables from your own game. On top of that, the 82 ones are bugged to where if you search for a prog with a lower adderss than your own, you get a bogus return address. Since RW always sends its savegames to higher addresses, I almost didn't catch this. I think CoBB encountered a similar problem.

CoBB · Active Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 720

The only right way is using SNG. It keeps the memory layout consistent even during program execution.

DigiTan · Posted: 16 Sep 2005 12:52:57 pm Post subject:

Hopefully I can figure out how to port to that one. I heard some good stuff about it, but I can't find many SNG docs or tutorials. Cool

CoBB · Active Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 720

Just look at the Acelgoyobis source, especially models.inc and the beginning of pinball.asm (both the entry and exit codes are there in the section called Entry point). As you can see, SNG programs have a big header that contains the launcher code. I explicitly put it in my include file, so I could use my generic 8*p maker (bincalc, also provided in the source) instead of the one coming with SNG.

DigiTan · Posted: 16 Sep 2005 01:26:56 pm Post subject:

Ah, that's good news. Is ACE easy to port to also?

CoBB · Active Member Joined: 30 Jun 2003 Posts: 720

I never tried. Only CrASH and SNG.

DigiTan · Posted: 17 Sep 2005 02:51:26 pm Post subject:

Pat Davidson does a lot of ACE projects. Maybe I can convince him to help with the port. He told me it doesn't take quite as long as I had thought. It's just as well because I don't have 19.006 ROM.

Solitaire710 · Advanced Newbie Joined: 14 Mar 2005 Posts: 55

http://calcwebzine.com/index.php?option=co...ask=view&id=168

:ninja:

leofox · Posted: 18 Sep 2005 12:47:45 pm Post subject:

I like the UTI intro.. Can you post the code for that somewhere so that other members can put in in their projects?

DigiTan · Posted: 18 Sep 2005 05:53:41 pm Post subject:

Okay, I'll post up the icon and the fade code sometime before tuesday. I hope the calcwebzine guys aren't too mad at me for delaying the game again. I'm really going all-out to correct anything that might make the program look buggy.

elfprince13 · Posted: 18 Sep 2005 08:11:33 pm Post subject:

so wh does the 82 have more RAM than 83+? wierd anyway I would play it if I had an 82, maybe I can borrow my friends....<off topic> any word on when Sonic is due to come out?</off topic>

Weregoose · Posted: 18 Sep 2005 08:40:59 pm Post subject:

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