Arenafoot Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 It has been since last May that DINTAR816 released the last update (v4) to the best Pac-Man port ever to the Atari VCS/2600. And now, he has uploaded the latest verison (v5), where he as updated the following: I have now completed the routines of the "monsters" in the "home", in the video you can see this behavior (at 0:53 see "Clyde"). The "fright sound" now stops (deactivates the "fright mode") when Pacman eats 4 "ghost/monster" before the end of the "fright time". I improved a little routine flicker (just a little), I tried to make the "inteligent flicker", although the kernel is already prepared for that, the problem is in the routine of "flicker sort" that has to be fast, just 500 cycles are available to do so (in a version "pal50" would have sufficient cycles for that). Some changes in sound routine: The intermission music now uses the two channels of sound, although not as arcade (I'll try later). I changed a bit the tone and speed of sound "extralife" to make it more like the arcade. If you haven't tried any past versions of this homebrew, this one is a must! pacman2600_8k_v5.bin Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroX Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Imagine this being the official Pac Man released in 1982...This version is awesome and the control is super smooth.Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StormSurge Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Thanks Arenafoot!Now I just need a Harmony cart... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 I downloaded this and the latest version of Star Castle. I'll be playing both of these tonight. ⚠️ THIS MEMBER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT: http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/475-theretrocade/?p=7683 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroX Posted August 13, 2015 Report Share Posted August 13, 2015 Technically this version of Pac Man was awesome but the programmer did more then that, he managed to make it a blast to play as well. That's usually the hardest part of them all. This is probably the most fun version of Pac Man i have played, on any system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted August 14, 2015 Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 Add turbo option and it's the best 2600 game of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYNgl8sCUw ⚠️ THIS MEMBER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT: http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/475-theretrocade/?p=7683 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted August 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Add turbo option and it's the best 2600 game of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYNgl8sCUw I shared this video with the actual programmer on the AA forum......we'll see what he says about the "turbo" option. Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted August 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Add turbo option and it's the best 2600 game of all time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXYNgl8sCUw here's his response...... "Nice. Maybe the "turbo" option could be added in with the right difficulty switch and activated by hitting the fire button? Always glad to see kids playing the 2600... " Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
correagonzalez Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Sorry to ask is this game can only be played on a pc or the 2600 as well, game looks great but wouldn't play on pc I'm assuming this is played with emulator Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VectorGamer Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 I'm hoping that you could do turbo full time so I don't have to constantly keep my finger on the fire button. I'm guessing that thru the difficulty switches you could set full time turbo and an option to enable turbo via fire button. I just downloaded the ROM onto my Harmony cart and played it on my 2600. Homie don't do emulation. ⚠️ THIS MEMBER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT: http://forums.atari.io/index.php/topic/475-theretrocade/?p=7683 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted August 16, 2015 Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Sorry to ask is this game can only be played on a pc or the 2600 as well, game looks great but wouldn't play on pc I'm assuming this is played with emulator Yes, you need to play using an emulator on your computer (Stella is a good one), or on a Harmony cart on a real 2600. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arenafoot Posted August 16, 2015 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2015 Sorry to ask is this game can only be played on a pc or the 2600 as well, game looks great but wouldn't play on pc I'm assuming this is played with emulator Yes, you need to play using an emulator on your computer (Stella is a good one), or on a Harmony cart on a real 2600. Or order a custom cart from the "other" site to play on a real 2600. Brian Matherne - owner/curator of "The MOST comprehensive list of Atari VCS/2600 homebrews ever compiled." http://tiny.cc/Atari2600Homebrew author of "The Atari 2600 Homebrew Companion" book series available on Amazon! www.amazon.com/author/brianmatherne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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