Denial

Awesome - looking good

* Hiscore doesn't get erased.
* 4x8 charset
* No more pre-shifted sprites – speeding them up isn't required even anymore.
* Caught ball is released when a bonus is hit.

Is there btw any resource where someone already figured out a couple of undocumented rules, like when exactly the ball is supposed to become to flipping fast?

* Laser doesn't sometimes kill whole columns anymore.

I kinda liked that 'feature"

Start up sound seems to have got cocked up on the last release playing half an explosion sound too...

beamrider wrote:I kinda liked that 'featue"

Start up sound seems to have got cocked up on the last release playing half an explosion sound too...

True. Can't get far with a joystick anymore. That sound issue is odd. Am cleaning things up a bit.

So… still missing:

* Bat enlargement m) Will mess up some collision detection once more and add 2(?) more sprites. Really hate this part.
* Caught ball's direction changing with horizontal position of the bat.
* Floating objects that distract the ball. Will add three double sprites. At that point not only the NTSC version will flicker more.
* Round intro animation. Hurt me plenty with a converted sequence of the original. :p
* Round 33… THAT one must be looking rather ugly when combined with sprites. Needs extra sprite code.
* Title screen like the original (black with logos and text).

Plus a myriad of bugs and details.

The cyan-pipe-border has two bugs in them since a few builds. See two pipes from the bottom left and right.

Extra-lifes should be awarded at 20.000 and then every 60.000 if I understand the documentation online correct.

Laser still goes through gold-bricks while it shouldn't.

Waiting for the E-extra

Thanks! .oO( This will never make into less than +24K )

For you techies there's now also a version where you can see the CPU usage in the border. Only makes sense on PAL since the NTSC version also uses a 50Hz IRQ.

https://github.com/SvenMichaelKlose/aru ... g?raw=true

* cyan: The IRQ playing the music and doing the controls.
* purple: Sprite updates
* red: Spare CPU time

EDIT: Lasers don't make it through golden bricks anymore.
EDIT: Vaus' colour does not clash with caught balls anymore.

All bonuses are there. (Bonus E made it in.) Instead of the DOH you get a regular round 33 which was left in the original ROM.

Not perfect but good enough to play through all rounds with a joystick.

Very nice! I noticed with the latest build that the startup-music of each level and when missing a ball seems to be missing a note at the beginning.

Also see here for the areas where the pipe-outline has errors:

tokra wrote:Very nice! I noticed with the latest build that the startup-music of each level and when missing a ball seems to be missing a note at the beginning.

This is driving me nuts. No clue yet.

tokra wrote:Also see here for the areas where the pipe-outline has errors:

Thanks! Must be the 4x8 char rendering thingy. Will go away with the proper title screens when all that it being reviewed.

Will now also bring on a complete package with TAP and WAV files here: http://hugbox.org/pixel/external/denial/arukanoido.zip

Cool...!

One observation. The zeros look like 8s with the new font. Perhaps remove the pixels in the middle?

I like the 4x8 font Mike uses best:

http://sleepingelephant.com/ipw-web/bul ... 560#p81381

You two are absolutely right. AFAIR I even promised Mike to adapt his version. Well, I changed a couple of chars. (Will update the one in G when I see real text in there again.)

EDIT: Guess I'll get back to the round '0' (without dot in its centre) just for this game. I find them boxes irritating and not very reminiscent of the original.

I just managed on level 03 to get the ball through the 1st level of bricks on the left hand side of the screen. ie. between the brick and the pipe. I guess there is a collision detection issue here ?