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Confirmed… gee… I guess I have a debugging session ahead of me :-).

 

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Can’t I sneak anything by you guys?

Will fix all of the above… 😉

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And the following is the current todo list:

helmut: pause status: Suggestion: Scrolling could be page wise

helmut: The scroll indicators should be positioned one at the top and one at the bottom

Highscore: “MAL”

add beta tester credits

helmut: Desktop Intros
Suggestion A:
    1.) Octagonal screen is blank
    2.) Transition effect (the same transition effect that is shown right before the descriptions of the power-ups are shown) is shown on the screen and then “Vector blade” and the other stuff appears and scrolls down.
    3.) After a while the astronout appears for a second time.
    4.) Transition effect is shown on the screen and then the description of the power-ups is shown.

sound money drop from mothership

wobble in challanging stage, when bonus are still dropping

SECRET MESSAGED

MH

Last boss from Jacek

in demo mode also do a high score table!

Hardcore mode

level select

Nico: sometime there is a permanent buzzing sound inside the options menu

Nico: Option Menu is "not finished"... There is no "sound" in the options menu (no music) - 
      so probably the buzz of the last not is echoing endlessly... I will look at it while finalizing the options.

vtk beta: sound effects - fading?

Option: Reset
Option: Display Secrets

idea: tell story (diary) as interludes!

think about dec inc VIA port B - should I change?

remove old title (tile set VECTORBLADE) from bank 0

bonus selection as jumptable 256*2

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I can not keep track of all things done – in this post – so I will unstick it, and only on non regular basis update it. Following things were “done” the last two weeks (that I recorded):
(not ordered, not mentioned are bugs I fixed directly when discovered/reported)

done: sm 16 on cranky - looks a bit off
 Calib 16 and text correctly
 calibrationValueString <-> calibrationValue16
 16 = MH and Highscore
 Text = bonus round text perfect text etc

done: SOUNDS
 money collect sound
 bonus collect sound
 malus soudn 
 letter bonus sound?
 rank marker sound?
 downgrade sound

done: is brightness setting to high of vectrex T1 Vectrex ->scrolltext with "/" (also on cranky but really weak)
done: don't care stars -> without move in between star atoms?
done: high score
done: remove sfx sounds not needed from bank 0, since it includes the same sound as bank 1
done: Bug: sound when ship flies in on title screen - VTK on a real vectrex!
done: button calibration
done: least intensity from 1f to 2f...
done: ok -> Test on real vectrex printStringSync2.asm in Pause
done: a bit Also, when the ship comes in, the VectorBlade letters seem to jump forward a bit, and then jump back when the ship leaves. That happens on all consoles
done: I have squeezed italic characters in the pause menu (this vectrex also has a problem displaying the text of the sk
done: vtk: buy laser from blaster -> no laser, no sound, but money reduced
done: vtk: failre i tiny bit easier -> shot restrictions
done: add vectorlist for achievement!
done: extra score for full extra -> 100000
done: Calibration upon leaving hs /achievement
done: fine calibration -> button 2/3
done: boss hit brighter
done: finish help in calibration!
done: Stars in HS to the end of the screen...
done: CALIBRATION + no buzz
done: BUTTON 1 = HELP?
done: oh and if u didnt notice the high score table itself should go up a little as it is not centered between the top row of ships and the bottom row
done: move highscore from bank 2 -> 1
done: Sccopy secret -> jingle playes more than once!
done: first two "frames" from intro screen are to bright!
done: to test bomb is buyable after "normal" -Rate colect!
done: achievements scroll down - must be with a stopper
done: game over bonus + sound
done: calibration finalizing
done: sound collect bonus
done: UFO Sound pleae continuous
done: toTest 3 seconds no fire button on boss intro
done: in intro Man disappears after first bonus!
done: in intro sreen gets darker after first bonus
done: VTK: Armor in shop can be bought more than once?
done: in intro each second of the bonus has a different decresing brightness!
done: quadrtisc sinistar ships "hoppiong" wehen waiting (cranky)
done: Bug boss 2 fires bullets instead of RUN RUN RUN
done: to test hit percent in game over count down > 200?
done: (correct) -S X 3 = Scoop shield in display?
done: (tehre is none) blaster achievement ?
done: ship behind shield not using attack patterns?
done: more bonus on normal!
done: UFO sound
done: Warp failure on easy, when killed does not respawn all enemies
done: noises caused by buttons
done: vtk beta: bugs more difficult
done: vtk beta: stutter on button presses
done: vtk beta: shots brighter
done: vtk beta: EXTRA jingle
done: foreworks sound
done: destroy super enemy - MORE points
done: to test sectret for ranks still not counting correctly?
done: tripple -> triple
done: move perhaps boss intro to bank 1/0
done: to further test money mothership drops TOOOO many money
done: to test rank order achievment ->mfucked
done: less life drop less wrp failure
done: no: test: dying in minestorm > go to extra bonus anyway?
done: High Score bug
done: flying up in dodger -> quiet!
done: cant get outof dodger!
done: bullet 3 can be baught multiple times
done: boss 1 explode -> takes about 40000 cycles!
done: achievement lexikon
done: text after black hole
done: super impossible star wars boss -> darth vader broken?
done: Shield level on super impossible -> shields placed WRONG (53 + 58)
done: super impossible tribble -> CRASH!
done: ok, is checked on end of game! admiral rank cheack??? Achievement -> not gotton
done: rest achievement rewards see -> commonGround.i top -> todo last rank
done: 5, possibly 3+2(WR) more RAM hunt!
done: Bug test for greedy not working?
done: rank, immun1 have no N/A
done: collect!!! life bonus!
done: bug Score corrupt after minestorm? (x times ???) after complete minestorm, the score display is "fucked"
done: status should show current collected rank markers and armor and autofire shown in stats
done: 2 shot right shot is longer (cranky / length)
done: shield center
done: bug, laser in first boss - sometimes "is off" little bugs sometimes off too? (shot 2)
done:
 where is the scoopy lock?
 NOT there!!!
 ldb lockPurchased
 orb #%00110000
 stb lockPurchased
 enables it
 not tested %10000000 collect 3 scoops in a row in correct order -> enable scoopy lock
done: not tested immune 1 can be bouzght multiple times
done: WHY appears a "biggest" loss acchievement always?
done: C in Vectorblade title looks broken
done: not tested aftwr game options does not work?
done: bug spy rank 1 after game
done: bug rank buy inh shop not promoted?
done: bonus in super difficult none?
done: crash ca. level 80 laser just got + 2 scoopies - kamikaze "end"?
done: echo music to title
done: totest autofire is not set back on death???
done: totest secret of GAME must reset when new game starts
done: set D is little endian!
done: do a "common" string size, that has a calibration

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Actually the “size” of the screen changed, when I added the “in arrow” icons. To fit the arrows to the screen I had to change the dimensions. Thats when the content became to small (for the now bigger screen).

There is as yet no new script. What I corrected was, that every time you left HighScore/Acgievements/Options – it would go back to the title…

I like suggestion A better.

The scroll text takes quite a while – and if there are no Icons – I guess people will say “what am I todo – there are no icons” :-).
So switching the icons on later is IMHO not so desireable.

 

Actually the whole “scripting” was done using the storyboard mode of Vecci. Which is still a quite “crude” thing.
I’ll see what I can do to come up with a better “mix”…

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Speed- and Bullet- is -S and -B.

Gee… You know what I really loath… editing vectorlists over and over again.
While what you say makes sense – I’m not sure I will do this… when everything else is in place, and it still bothers you, nag me about it again… 🙂

Thing is – all these “icons” – are more complicated than they look:
– it must be drawn
– it must be rotated
– the “symbol” is a different vectorlist than the icon
– the symbols start point must be matched with the icons start port
– and that for every rotation
– there are restrictions on vector strengths (for weird vectrex)
…
its not just the matter of going into the editor and change one position…

Symbol for power-ups

I tried having different symbols for power up/down/money/rank. I think a triangle Up is quite similar to a triangle down. I think I keep it the way it is…

Highscore: “MAL”

Already on my todo list 🙂
Although what I’ll probably do is to use the initials of the score that is replaced by the new score. So one can confirm the current initials by just pressing 3 times button 3.

Status screen: Linewise scrolling

If it is all the same to you – than I’ll do page wise :-).
The “autoscroll” is again “fiddlesticks” because if I do an autoscroll “every” round – it will moreor less zzzzaap right to the bottom – so I’d would have to insert a slow motion counter … etc etc etc

Status screen: Scroll indicators

Hm. You keep stucking you fingers into the wound… Yes I thought so too – but never came around doing it.
Sometimes I am just to lazy. I have to split up the vectorlist and print it twice. Hope the cycles keep up…

Shop: Speed –

Hehe , I don’t know either if you ever will buy it :-).

Perhapsthis is more idiosyncrasy of mine. In the original Warblade, the speed of the fighter could (for my taste) be too fast – so I was always glad, that I could slow it down if need be. Perhaps I should allow higher player speeds, so this makes more sense 🙂

Shop: Speed -: Position

You are right, I changed it. Hope it works – the code is some of the worst and ugly code I have ever written. I really don’t like to touch it…

“Ready Player One!” – Centered position

Hey, you see everything – don’t you? I saw that too – but always thought “meee – nobody will notice that” – They will be done!

“Game Over!” – Exclamation mark

Removed.

 

Thanks for your reports!

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Perhaps you reached an achievement before:

Officer:
Rank 4 reach rank Lieutenant Reward: start game with armor

If you reached that – all games further on – you will start with an armor…

 

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No problem – will do…

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You are totally right…

Somehow I really missed that 🙂 – will be fixed…

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beta 18 improves the “switching” between desktop icons…

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First time start – it wants a calibration – every other start should be with title screen.

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Vectorblade_Beta18.bin – 7th June 2019

– and another one…
– finalized no buzz calibration (a few bugs remained before)
– added the “help system” anywhere but “in game”, Button 1 displays a help screen
– the “options” font is better now
– collecting a “full” EXTRA while already using a laser rewards now 20000 points
– leaving high score/achievement/options -> now returns to desktop
– fine calibration now with button 2/3
– boss hit is brighter (from $5f to $7f)
– stars in highscore can reach further

Next steps:

• add a trophy for achievments
• probably final boss art from Jacek
• the particles as of now cannot be controlled any longer – since the “help” occupies the button – what to do?

Most of calibrations is done, need there be more?

Next big thing would be MH…

 

 

 

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I completely debugged the minestorm … I could not find anything.

Please look out for this – and possible describe the circumstances this happens.

No other tester as yet found this bug!

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PS

Ilike the idea with the trophy – I see what I can do…

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I can probably light him a bit more – but that will not make it any easier – only more obvious 🙂

 

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