Indestructotank?

[bananaman]

lol, you got pwned by random chances. Probability of that happening... 1 in 73569. I guess that it can happen more often than winning the lottery.

[simplethinker]

I think I figured out why this seems to be harder than the original. In the original, since the experience wasn't added to your score until you hit the ground you could get more than you needed. This 'surplus' of exp would give you a sort of safety net for the next level.

[darkstone knight]

[bananaman]

Sweet, I found how to do that in 28-days. Maybe I should have actually read more than the first few days of those tutorials before I started programming. I learned assembly for the MIPS machine and figured that it would be quite similar, and it is (lacking mul, div, rem, and easy to use branching instructios), but there are some quirks like SMC that are slightly different.

I just PM'd DarkerLine with the update. Look for it in the archives soon. I fixed the bug with purchasing enemies and made insane slightly easier, you still will have a hard time beating the first level, but hey, it's insane. I have beaten normal, so it is possible, if you can beat insane, I will be surprised, although it is theoretically possible.

I still don't know how to make it place you back at the homescreen, and I can't get any programs to compile for ion right now. Apparently SPASM finds errors in the ion.inc file and I downloaded ion.inc from the ion website.

[darkstone knight]

you need to output someting on the homescreen, probaly the stuff at (textshadow)

[DigiTan]

I'll try recreating the Game Over thing later today. But yeah, when it happened, "Game Over" string was up just long enough to visualize and then I was back looking an empty X/Y plot. Direct Input (which I'm guessing is the current input tool) tends to oversample like this. Maybe just 1 second of HALTs will be enough to nip it. I'm also wondering if it was partly to do with being on an emulator.

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[bananaman]

Yup, that issue has been addressed in my updated release. I only had about a half-second of halts, I actually updated it so that you have to press clear to exit the game over screen. And it displays a cool high-score table featuring the furthest level you have reached on each difficulty, and the extra fuel you had.

[bananaman]

Phase 2 of IndestructoTank is being implemented. This is to convert the game to ion. I have only done nostub before, but ion can't be too different. I have run into a few snags and solved a few problems. One added bonus is the ability to use fast copy.
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Ok, maybe that isn't an advantage. I will either switch back to using bcall(_grbufcpy) or implement some delay system. It is not very conducive to gameplay to have it operating at 60 fps.

One major issue that I have is that the program crashes upon leaving the shell. I'm guessing that it has something to do with the my SMC. I'm not sure what ion or mirage does when it pulls the program from flash memory, and when I use the bcalls to write to the original storage location, I am probably ruining something. Besides that, I don't see what could possibly be occurring.

Benefits of using ion. Ability to have program archived. Some people are not familiar with how to execute nostub programs. I can remove my putsprite and random routines and call ions routines (I was using ion's code anyways). I don't have to worry about it placing you back at the graph screen.

If anyone has any ideas for what is causing the crash, I would be elated.

[tr1p1ea]

Whoa this looks awesome! I cant believe you pumped it out so rapidly so far! Sensational bananaman! .

As far as the crashes are concerned, have you checked your stack usage? Are you using IY at all? Possibly overwriting memory you shouldnt?

[axcho]

That's looking really nice! Are you going to have the ground scroll so it looks like you're moving?

Good luck with fixing the crash.

[darkstone knight]

woa, wait a second

you used _GRbufCpy in the game?

also, we want highscores... and title screens

[GloryMXE7]

[bananaman]

[DigiTan]

RW2 uses an self-adjustable frame skip. The more objects there are on-screen, the more times the main loop will iterate without actually printing graphics. As a result, having a ton of objects makes it slightly "choppier," but the real-time pace of the game remains fixed

Alternatively, you can devote an adjustable amount of time to an "idle" process made of only HALTs or NOPs. Then, more objects equals less idling.

[bananaman]

Here is the first ion release. I believe that it is finally stable. But make sure to back up your stuff anyways. I want other people to test it out to make sure that it is working properly.

It is now blazing fast, and I think that this makes the game more difficult. I may have to adjust the difficulty levels yet again to make the game a little more fair. I could slow down the game a little bit if you guys think it is too fast. The objects are starting to blur, but I think that it is still understandable what is going on.

I still am looking for good ideas for the homescreen.

[bananaman]

AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I uploaded my file to ti-calc a few days ago and thought that it would be fine to let it sit in the queue for a week while I finished up the Ion port. Big mistake. The new file archiver apparently went through 180 files and archived my outdated version at the same exact time as I just submitted the Ion version. I hope that he goes updates my program before too many people download the outdated file.

If you are looking for the "final" release, I just PM'd DarkerLine with the update, so it should appear in UTI's archives soon.

[SonicBoom95]

Awesome work, BM. It's crazy fun.

Have you considered adding an option for the "Boom Bar" present in Indestruc2Tank? (Not a typo. The sequel.)

[bananaman]

It is currently in it's finished state.

Some time in the future I may make a version 2 which has the boom bar, fuel packs that drop from the sky, a vertically scrolling screen, or other updates that might be cool. But for now, I am content to say that I did a decent job of replicating IndestructoTank. The biggest difference right now is that it adds your experience in mid-air instead of waiting until you hit the ground.

[SonicBoom95]

Personally, I like the change. Good on yeh.

[Galandros]

I think you should preserve the "old" version and release it together with that crazy version 2.