The animation and color on the dragon and the 'victory knight' make really good use of the 2600, well done. The knight really looks like his armor is made of parts about to fall off -- reminds me of the knights in Hägar the Horrible.
I love that animated knight at the end! Very impressive game and it shows what the 2600 is capable of given enough memory and savy programming tricks. Great job on the game!
The dragon is made of two sprites, one red, one yellow, eight wide-pixels wide. Between lines they have a varying offset, giving the appearance of a greater resolution and smoother curves. What a beautifully animated beast.
@GaryMcT The Atari 2600 has two sound channels. The 2600 Stella emulator sends one channel to the left audio output and the other to the right. Many people modify their 2600 systems for stereo output as well, which is relatively easy to do as the TIA chip in the 2600 actually has separate outputs for these two audio lines.
@codyc67 These games are hand-built and it's a fairly time consuming process. Old Atari cartridge shells are recycled, and new circuit boards and parts are used with the games. The game author receives a royalty for each copy sold. The game also comes with a manual. Unfortunately boxes are prohibitively expensive to produce in small quantities.
Looks amazing! Waiting for mine in mail now, you guys do such great work with the 2600, got the Pac-Man home brew and it's great! Keep up the amazing work.
@codyc67 Some games have hand-built boxes as an option, but the box is not standard in the case of Dungeon (it's a $30 option). The boxes are probably even more time consuming than the games to produce, but they do look great!
PinMike It's still way more advanced, and much more impressive because of it. Sure there could be things made better etc but still. Not saying I'd enjoy this any less or that this is bad at all. But this is a much simpler concept. :)
Sadly, Medieval Mayhem has way too hard computer-controlled players. That's where Warlords was too easy to beat. But M.M. is best in multiplayer mode and that's where it surpasses Warlords IMHO.
Oooh wow that looks like so much fun!!! I wonder if there's people out there that can put rom files on actually ROMs, stick it in a 2600 cartridge box and you could actually play it on a real Atari 2600 console!
The animation and color on the dragon and the 'victory knight' make really good use of the 2600, well done. The knight really looks like his armor is made of parts about to fall off -- reminds me of the knights in Hägar the Horrible.
I love that animated knight at the end! Very impressive game and it shows what the 2600 is capable of given enough memory and savy programming tricks. Great job on the game!
wow that dragon is awesome, i didnt know you could make sprites like that on a 2600!
The dragon is made of two sprites, one red, one yellow, eight wide-pixels wide. Between lines they have a varying offset, giving the appearance of a greater resolution and smoother curves. What a beautifully animated beast.
@GaryMcT The Atari 2600 has two sound channels. The 2600 Stella emulator sends one channel to the left audio output and the other to the right. Many people modify their 2600 systems for stereo output as well, which is relatively easy to do as the TIA chip in the 2600 actually has separate outputs for these two audio lines.
@codyc67 These games are hand-built and it's a fairly time consuming process. Old Atari cartridge shells are recycled, and new circuit boards and parts are used with the games. The game author receives a royalty for each copy sold. The game also comes with a manual. Unfortunately boxes are prohibitively expensive to produce in small quantities.
Impressive. Great animation and looks challenging as well. I do like playing Warlords sometimes.
Looks amazing! Waiting for mine in mail now, you guys do such great work with the 2600, got the Pac-Man home brew and it's great! Keep up the amazing work.
rbadams97 Glad you're enjoying homebrew games on the 2600! Your copy of Medieval Mayhem should go out tomorrow. :)
The graphics look amazing! And there's even an on-screen menu! I can't believe how well this game was made.
@codyc67 Some games have hand-built boxes as an option, but the box is not standard in the case of Dungeon (it's a $30 option). The boxes are probably even more time consuming than the games to produce, but they do look great!
Yes, in fact, the game only works with the paddle controllers.
The most advanced Atari 2600 homebrew I've seen! Greatly surpasses the original 2600 conversion of Warlords in every way!
So Princess Rescue for the Atari 2600 hasn't been checked out by you then? ;)
I'm quite aware of Princess Rescue; however I think it's kinda overrated as it seems more ambitious on paper than in execution.
PinMike It's still way more advanced, and much more impressive because of it. Sure there could be things made better etc but still. Not saying I'd enjoy this any less or that this is bad at all. But this is a much simpler concept. :)
Sadly, Medieval Mayhem has way too hard computer-controlled players.
That's where Warlords was too easy to beat.
But M.M. is best in multiplayer mode and that's where it surpasses Warlords IMHO.
This. Looks. AWESOME!!!!!
A very clever warlords clone but graphicly and sounds are very good and inpresive from an old console
The audio sounds like it is in stereo in this video? How does that work?
I notice that you've nicked the music from the C64 game Druid..
Oooh wow that looks like so much fun!!! I wonder if there's people out there that can put rom files on actually ROMs, stick it in a 2600 cartridge box and you could actually play it on a real Atari 2600 console!
How in the hell did they do that dragon on a 2600? I've never seen a 2600 game with two colors on the same scanline for a character.
I`m getting nervous from the shot-sound D:
Is this a standard 2600 cart, or is there enhanced hardware/RAM?
It's a standard 32K bankswitched cart.
Very impressive @@AtariAge
In 1980, this game could have made a million bucks. Back when a million bucks could actually buy something