Beta Testing

Bryan Thomas · Posted: 07 Nov 2004 08:35:04 pm Post subject:

The emails have been sent guys.

Look out for them and begin testing. Use this open forum to post comments or bugs that you may encounter so I can see how much you guys enjoy It.

I made this topic public so everyone can see how the process is going on Contra and can see the testers reaction to the game.

I hope to hear some feedback from the testers very soon...

Just so you know the testers are:

MadSkillz
Jedd
DarthAndroid
Alex Snyder
ISUCK
BlueFire

ISUCK · Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 41

you'll be happy to know that I'm transfering to my calc right now :D

EDIT: After playing some few minutes, I noticed a bug.. and it is reproducable:

I started out playing and died on the second screen, so being the life monger i am, I go back to the main menu to restart my game on easy, but instead of starting out on the 2nd screen instead of the first... this is with every frame.. able to reproduce that is.

EDIT EDIT: btw when you exit and restart, you can start a new game correctly

Bryan Thomas · Posted: 07 Nov 2004 10:29:54 pm Post subject:

* Bug Fixed

GJ ISUCK!!

Lol cant believe I missed that Smile

ISUCK · Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 41

also, i was wondering if you could do anything about the pauses, because pressing enter when your in a gameboy position is somewhat weird, but it's only a very minor thing in my opinion...

man this game rules!

EDIT: also i have a question, when i save and reload, my score is reset, was this intentional or a bug?

EDIT EDIT: ok, i was at the second to last screen on the first level, and I get killed by a rocket launcher dude...now being what i am I reload, going back to the previouscreen (i saved there) and as the screen was finishsed being drawn, it gave me a error: nonreal ans... when i look at the graphscreen the player has not been drawn yet... so... wait... my predicitions wer correct, the problem i think is already in the save file... boo hoo Sad

so something must have gone wrong in the saving of the file..

EDIT EDIT EDIT: oh yea, do you want me to send you the save file too see what got put in incorreclty and caused the glitch?

also, is it also intentional that you must restart the screen even if you saved and had no enemies beforehand?

sorry if i'm asking too many questions Very Happy

Bryan Thomas · Posted: 08 Nov 2004 07:52:56 am Post subject:

ISUCK · Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 41

Uh... I recall it being on land, with all enemies killed on the 2nd to last frame (boss being the last)

Everything was drawn except the character, I'm having trouble getting this to work again, and my save file is somehow gone Neutral

Sorry about that, I'll get back to testing Smile

Madskillz · Active Member Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 608

Ok...if you press down are you suppose to fall down through the floor? Also you can go through the walls an enter inside of the walls...(occured in frame 3)Once you blow up the mines, are they supposed to reappear? Those are the only things I could find wrong so far! Good work though! The menu and installing work beautiful!

ISUCK · Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 41

the floor/wall thing has been present in a previous build too, i think it's just how the engine is set up.

and also now that the installation is brought up, since there rae 2 install f iles could you make it so that when you finish one file of the install, it fills up the whole bar, as to not confuzzle people?

also, the 1st level boss seems harder than before... i lost like 2 continues...

Bryan Thomas · Posted: 09 Nov 2004 07:46:23 am Post subject:

axcho · Active Member Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 555

So, besides for the spelling errors in the readme story, I've found one bug so far. It is reproducible. I started by loading the game in slot 2 right after I installed contra, before playing a new game or anything. Then if I shoot the first enemy (leftmost on second screen), the bullets are drawn and then I get an ERR: NONREAL ANS. Everything else happens as it should. This error only happens in slot 2, not slot 3. I have not tried slot 1, since I had saved a game on that before I could test out that slot. I think the bug has to do with the pre-existing level data for slot 2 that is created when you first install the game. I haven't seen any other bugs on slot 2 (or slot 3 or 1), but I didn't go past the second screen so I'm not sure if there are any more.

Arcane Wizard · Posted: 09 Nov 2004 02:03:54 pm Post subject:

Wouldn't help if you told where the error is, you know, by selecting goto?

Madskillz · Active Member Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 608

Bryan Thomas · Posted: 09 Nov 2004 10:39:01 pm Post subject:

Ok

It seems that the NON-REAL ANSWER error is happening to more then one person so it is a glitch. I will reproduce it the way Alex told me and hope to fix it. It is most likely a missed or incorrect number in the premade save file.

ISUCK · Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 41

i though t i posted this but maybe axcho's and mine errors are related Neutral

anyway, since i'm leaving conquer online alone (letting people train me, mighty fun game) I'm gonna test contra... I'm going to save on other slots, to see if nething happens

btw, those scores seem a bit low, you need only to beat a few screens to get number 1 rank, maybe raise highscores?

axcho · Active Member Joined: 09 Nov 2004 Posts: 555

So the bug I found only happens if you load the pre-existing slot 2 game. But I also ran into the problem with saving the game when I'm in the second-to-last screen on level 1. If I try to load, then before it draws my character, I get an error. I don't know if this is with all slots or just slot 1.

shadowing · Posted: 10 Nov 2004 05:35:48 pm Post subject:

sorry if this is off topic, but can i beta test?

it looks good so far.

Madskillz · Active Member Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 608

No the mines aren't reappearing! What you say makes perfect sense Bryan, in real life do mines reappear after you blow them up? No...I asked kinda a dumb question! Smile

Also, like you said, run into a mine, blow it up, than continue on through the level...ah another strategy! Smile

Bryan Thomas · Posted: 10 Nov 2004 10:06:23 pm Post subject:

Designated problem. And it has to do with the difficulty code I edited right before the beta release. What happened was before I had easy medium and hard. And each difficulty was seperated by two loops (dont ask). For example: easy = 6 medium = 4 and hard = 2 Very Happy

But when I changed it just recently I realized that easy was well easy but too easy for my opinion. So I changed it to easy = 4 medium = 3 and hard = 2. So in the end I forgot to upgrade the save files so the difficulty when loaded was 6. So when you shot an enemy; and the code for adding a score based on which difficulty your on was run; it tried to run this code:

R+1225+750(4-J
90-4ipart(log(Ans+1

But since I changed it and the 4 for easy was a 6. It tried to log() a negative number. Therefore returning an ERR: NON REAL ANSWER Very Happy

yey!

GJ if I released Contra with that bug it woulda sucked :)

so without further adue....

***NON REAL ANS BUG FIxED***

ISUCK · Newbie Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 41

Hey, I noticed another bug... i'll try to draw diagrams... or post pictures... ok, here we go:

I'm at this level,

and I first save.

and you see near the end of teh level,? I labeled that as here... well i jumped from the platform previous to that one, got the weapon, but missed the platform and got to the next screen anyways, but since the next screen doesn't have any platforms there, i die.

I then reload, and i get a domain error, which is odd, since i leveled before this.

Bryan Thomas · Posted: 13 Nov 2004 04:30:24 pm Post subject:

I cant seem to get the error to come up ISUCK...Any other specifics you could tell me?

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