GeoAnas
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I understand. I had just switched it on. Vectrex was still cool (5 to 10 min max). Crash is exactly like you said, an unintended endless loop.
While screen remains black, a hiss, garbled sound keeps playing with some flashy graphics instantly appear and vanish over and over like being in a loop…
Oops! Mine just crashed too. I am using “Vectorblade_b47_normal.bin ” on a “buzz” machine together with Malban’s special test cart. Crash happened during demo, right after “Kamikaze” demoing level. Symptoms are black screen and garbled noise on background.
Hi guys!
Lots of very interesting stuff happened here lately! Between COVID and real life problems, I have to run to catch up with the latest news.
About voting…
I have to 100% agree with @Peer. “Major” is a very nice game characterized by some unique gameplay back in the day, combining both adventure and shooting features and you, Chistopher,you’ve done a terrific job on it… but better to go for a standalone release. I love Vectorblade the way it is, as a pure 100% old school shooter.
..and again…Excellent work so far Chris!
Looks really fantastic! This spaceship down to the corner reminds me EXERION flyer, my alltime favorite arcade game! Excellent job!
Lots and I mean…LOTS of wonderful things happen now but I am (still) on holidays (damn!) I’ll be back in 3 days. My hands are itchy to test those on real thing!
Best regards to all of U!
Hey Christopher
You misunderstood me 🙂 Don’t forget I am on the dark side here…I LOOOOOOOOOOOVE its massive destruction -absolut- POWER! He!he!he! Please take my advise and -please- keep it the way it is right now! 🙂 Thanks to this I managed to move forward on the game and teach an unforgettable lesson to all these little annoying bandits, buzzing around me! 🙂
Yet a comment about the laser…
Loved this solid lined laser lethal effect but I also felt it may be too powerful, especially for levels <25.
Maybe you could add an ‘overheating’ timed indication somewhere so the player shall avoid constantly pressing the fire button? Just a thought…
Hi there!
I’ve being playing beta 27. Autofire and (especially) laser at their best! Really enjoyed shooting. This is my fav beta!
…but I have noticed a weird behavior when in shop @ level 5. I don’t know if this is already mentioned before but sometimes a bar pointing upside down appears underneath the ‘B’ indication. Here is a proof of the “glitch” (?)
I have also to confirm some other mis calibration tiny bits and pieces but they are all reported already by fellow testers.
There is also some wired noise on later levels, like a sound effect’s getting stuck or something. It comes and goes when the level moves forward. This happened just once and I am still not being able to reproduce it. I can neither remember the exact number of level. Nevertheless I felt I should also report that.
Beta 27 ROX! Did I already mention that? LOL!
Great work Christopher!
I am also in favor of keeping voice support (if it doesn’t take too much of memory space of course). I always thought that synthetic voice feature (especially in old arcades) is something quite fascinate.
I have also noticed some kind of annoying “letter shifting” when trying to insert my initials. After playing some rounds, I got used to this.
What do you think about not being able to move the letter as long as a shot is in the air?
Also highlighting the selected letter might be a good idea…
Fine by me! Certainly both your ideas will help a lot.
Perhaps the shop sign should say something like “WARES” or “GOODS” or …. This way the label/sign adds to the trader graphic plus it makes clear that the user is in a shop.
I like this idea! Actually “The Shop” can get another name, perhaps after its owner name like: “Phinea’s Junk Yard” … or “Cando’s Upgrades” or “<i>…put the name of your choice…</i>” here 🙂
