Worked on "An Elephant Stomping on Grapefruit" again. I got the Grapefruit Monster in. He jumps. He can now jump on the platforms as well as fall off them. The Grapefruit Monster's purpose is to be avoided by Eli (the elephant). If Eli touches the Grapefruit Monster, he'll lose a life. I don't know how many Grapefruit Monsters I can put on the screen at the same time. I don't even know if this latest version will work on hardware because I lost my Genesis everdrive.
Well, at least I go
Grab your tweeter and channel your inner pirate radio broadcaster as the gang covers What Remains, a walkie-talkie* adventure game for the NES. Conor digs the 1980s vibes, Bart gets duped by a false ending, and Nick brings back the beeps... or, at least, one big one.
*Copyright 2023, Homebrew Game Club (yes we are owning this)
Still need to play the game? Get it here: https://iodinedynamics.itch.io/whatremains
Our next game will be The Cursed Knight for Mega Drive / Genesis. Get t
I thought "I have some unused background tiles, so why not try to make the title screen a bit nicer?" So that's what I did. I replaced the text with the title spelled out using background tiles. I think it looks better. Especially since it wasn't centered with the text. Well, this isn't exactly centered either, since the title I wrote couldn't be, it's off by 1 pixel, but it still looks centered enough.
I made contact with a guy who released my Virtual Boy game who says he may be able
Introduction
On October 1, 2020, Nintendo released a version of Super Mario Bros. for the Nintendo Switch to celebrate the 35th Anniversary of the original game for the NES. It was a battle royale game similar to Tetris 99, and allowed groups of up to 35 players from all over the world to compete.
As the game was intended to be a limited release celebrating the 35th Anniversary of the original game, Super Mario Bros. 35 was playable until March 31, 2021, and its online features we
The gnome thing for the celery game was not going to work. The speed of the gnomes got slower whenever the celery was moving and sped up again when he wasn't. I think that was a sign of me trying to put too much code into the game.
I was really bored yesterday. I decided to see if I could make a box for my Game Boy game. I got a template for a GB box. Yesterday I worked on the front and today I worked on the back. This is the front I designed:
I debated a long time against myself
Introduction
For my next blog in the "talking about a specific game" category, I'd like to talk about the only Kirby game released for the GameCube: Kirby Air Ride.
Much like the GameCube itself, Kirby Air Ride is pretty good but unfortunately is also underrated and has been subject to lots of criticism. The main reason for it being criticized is because it is different: it is mostly a racing game (though there is one mode in the game that has more than that), not a traditional si
Genre: Soccer
Publisher: Tecmo
Total Time Played: 20 Hours
Short Review: The most unique sports game on the console plays more like a role playing game. Luckily, you don’t need to know much about soccer to get a lot of enjoyment out of this game.
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Soundtrack
Playthrough (4 hours 4 minutes)
Instruction Manual
Not What I Expected
When I was 5 years old my mom signed me up to play soccer, my first team sport. When we
So I went back to Channel F programming. What's unique about it is its palette. And the fact that moving an image does NOT erase the previous image so you have to do it yourself if you're moving, say, a "sprite."
Working on the sixth and final game. I made it so you can select a game instead of needing to beat the others to get to the one you like the most. So you can choose the final game from the menu I made. This is what I do to test my final game.
The stalk of Celery needs to move
I spent most of last night finishing up my Robot Ron game. It's come to the point where I think it's finished. Now comes the testing/feedback part. I have a few testers to test the game for me and tell me how I did. The changes I made:
each enemy is introduced in each wave until all four enemies are in. Then the game becomes a fight for survival as (with most Odyssey 2 games) you only have one life.
added a game over screen.
changed the numbered box enemies to more alien-look
Conor seizes control of the host mic to send the Game Club on a long, rambling, lightly edited conversation about several titles we played in 2022 that deserve more attention. Old games, new games, indie games, mobile games, AAA games – everything is up for discussion. (We even throw some homebrew games in there.) Other topics include game preservation, preorders, a debate about Patreon, online gaming with kids, and... lots of other stuff we'd usually cut.
Mentioned in this episode:
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So work resumes on Robot Ron. People said I should drop the "in 2084" part of the title. So I did. It's now just called Robot Ron. But it was hard today. I may fear I will run out of room trying to put a Game over message. I only have about 300 bytes left in the bank where I would put it and about 900 bytes left in the other. But an odd thing happened while I was trying to put more code in. The game got slower. I have no idea why it would do such a thing, so I had to backtrack and rework it a co
First off, I managed to put in the wanderer enemy in Robot Ron in 2084. But I've decided to take a small break from that.
I moved on to the Game Boy. While having an insomnia bout, I managed to get in a Super Game Boy border to Frank the Fruit Fly. Then I slept about all day Saturday. I made some more changes to that game after I woke up. I changed the title screen after realizing there was no copyright date on the game. I also changed the music in level 2 because it sounded quite weird wit
Introduction
Since buying the Switch in 2017, I've gotten a large amount of both physical and digital games. While not my favorite Nintendo system, it is definitely a step up from the Wii and Wii U. The console/handheld hybrid has the largest library of any Nintendo console, with plenty of its own games as well as past favorites from other Nintendo consoles and handhelds, both updated as well in their original form (Game Boy games were added recently). The GameCube era was the last tim
I decided to change the characters to sprites. The characters looked really lame, so I decided since I had two available why not use one? Since I don't have any awesome ship sprites designed (that's where you come in), I used boxes as place holders. Unfortunately, I had to change my really cool border to a plain one since my game was showing signs that it was thinking too much. When there's too much code, the top of the screen goes crazy and blinks a lot. So this is what the game looks like now:
A Homebrew Draws Near!
A blog series by @Scrobins
Episode 30: Jessie Jaeger in Cleopatra’s Curse
Introduction:
Franchise opportunities in Hollywood may make us cynical, but when they appear in gaming, we fans still get excited. Maybe it’s a reflection of video games as a younger medium that audiences aren’t yet turned off by the notion of a creator tapping into a winning formula with a new character or gaming mechanic that is immediately fun and which teases hope for mor
So the game is beginning to take a better shape.
I added a new type of enemy which goes really fast (pictured.) This enemy moves straight and when it reaches the other side, a new enemy comes. The enemy that chases you will not disappear until you shoot it. I changed Ron's missile to be more of a ring shape.
My plan:
four enemy types total.
each wave between waves 1-4 will be introducing the enemies (with the zoomer being in wave 4 because it's really hard to hit.)
So someone made a controller "coupler" for the Odyssey 2. What this does is puts both controllers together with a piece of plastic. I guess so you can hold both of them like you would, say, an NES controller. So now a game like, say, Robotron 2084 would be a cinch for games that would benefit from such a thing. And that's what I'm doing. I'm making one of my "semi-ports".
This won't be like the original Robotron 2084 because my plan is needing to shoot a certain number of enemies that pop u
So I discovered that when the music loops when the volume is low, it clicks when it loops again. How to get around that? Careful start and stop routines between each song part will do it, along with keeping the music parts below 9 lines, and keeping the volume at 5C (as opposed to full blast, which is 7F.) I was able to get an IMO decent song with this in just four parts. It's on the title screen right now.
Since each part only has 8 notes, I had to get the tempo really low. It's at 25 BPM
So I got everything working on my Genesis game. You can download what I have so far here. I added a few things.
Like a grapefruit. I thought grapefruits were green. I guess I was thinking of a honeydew melon. This particular grapefruit is teetering on the brink, but it won't fall. I thought a good thing to do is press B to stomp. So I will work that in now that I have grapefruit in the game. Right now the grapefruit does nothing. Another thing I will add in are some grapefruit monsters
What originally brought you to NA/VGS?
I didn't own a NES as a kid, but I always wanted one. Emulators started become popular when I was in college, so I was finally able to replay all the games I had experienced at my friend's houses growing up, along with many unfamiliar ones. I would often think about which games I would have wanted to own, if I'd had a console back in the day. In 2014, I had just read Console Wars by Blake Harris and my interest in retro gaming was at an all time peak,
Introduction
On YouTube, I have a video series called "A Look at Imports." Starting with this blog, I'd like to expand on that series by talking about games that I didn't include and games that I do have videos of but would like to talk about things I never mentioned in the videos. As I've acquired numerous imported items over the years, this series could include peripherals and other gaming-related items in the future.
I'd like to start off by talking about a scarce promotional
So I discovered a problem with the way the blocks were set up. If the elephant moved off the blocks and quickly got back on them, he'd be standing in the middle of the blocks. Not good. I had to fix this. I made it so if the elephant moved off and quickly got back on, he'd move up enough pixels so he'd be back on top of the blocks again. But in doing so, I lost the ability to not have the elephant not jump when holding A after completing a jump. So now if you hold A, he continually jumps over an
So I put in some blocks for the elephant to jump on to test if he falls off them or not after jumping on them and also to test if he actually jumps on them. It works really well.
The blocks can be jumped on from under them. So now what I'm going to do is wait for my Everdrive to come. It apparently went from the U.S. up to Canada but I'm in the U.S. so I don't know what's going on there. So after using SecondBasic I really like it so far since I could never in a million years learn Gen
