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- Mayhem
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As per an earlier post here... there are six modes, three each for romanji and katakana. The three being normal, shifted and with C= key. The 1001 boots up in romanji as standard, you hold Shift and C= whilst turning on power to boot in katakana mode.
(so a bit like holding C= on a 128 to boot in 64 mode)
(so a bit like holding C= on a 128 to boot in 64 mode)
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I don't believe I could switch between the two whilst the power was on, but I'd have to recheck if I boot the machine up again. I only briefly tested it when I got it and tried out a few things in the manual. Using shift or C= in katakana mode opened up more of the kata symbols. Not sure you could do POKEs and CHR$ in kata mode.
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Hey I posted that on Zimmer's months ago!Mayhem wrote:Btw Ral-Clan, any chance of slinging these dumps of Rally-X/Car Race along to me (email in the profile) so I can look at them?
See: http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/ ... X-NTSC.prg
Unfortunately, the other Rally-X in the same directory is NOT Rally-X...
I suppose since Commodore only had rights to that game in Japan, they only made an NTSC version.
wow
From hex dump:
"THIS PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN BY - HIROAKI SUGA - APR. 9, 1981 HAL LABORATORY TOKYO, JAPAN "
This guy has been at HAL for a LONG time!
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/shee ... Id,128027/
From other web sites, he seems like the producer there nowadays.
I guess hes my hero, Radar RatRace being the first ever video game i remembered playing.
On a side note, is there anyone who has screenshots of Box art of any 1001 HAL-made games?
From hex dump:
"THIS PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN BY - HIROAKI SUGA - APR. 9, 1981 HAL LABORATORY TOKYO, JAPAN "
This guy has been at HAL for a LONG time!
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/shee ... Id,128027/
From other web sites, he seems like the producer there nowadays.
I guess hes my hero, Radar RatRace being the first ever video game i remembered playing.
On a side note, is there anyone who has screenshots of Box art of any 1001 HAL-made games?
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Ok, a quick comparison:
Rally-X.prg vs Radar Rat Race.prg
Different title screen at c:a $A2B0, a few bytes different at $B6E2. At $B768, one version loads $00 into zeropage $E8 (decimal 232, part of screen link table?) while the other loads $20 into the same position. Another few data differences at $BB5B-$BC9E. I'd say these two are almost identical, with a modified title screen.
Rally-X-NTSC.prg vs Radar Rat Race.prg
At first overview too many differences to mention. At $A34B we have these two messages, notice the exact same position and same spacing:
I believe Rally-X was written by Hiroaki Suga, and then modified with different graphics and perhaps some gameplay by Bill Hindorff, who for some reason took full credit, maybe to confuse Namco who had the rights to Rally-X.
Rally-X.prg vs Radar Rat Race.prg
Different title screen at c:a $A2B0, a few bytes different at $B6E2. At $B768, one version loads $00 into zeropage $E8 (decimal 232, part of screen link table?) while the other loads $20 into the same position. Another few data differences at $BB5B-$BC9E. I'd say these two are almost identical, with a modified title screen.
Rally-X-NTSC.prg vs Radar Rat Race.prg
At first overview too many differences to mention. At $A34B we have these two messages, notice the exact same position and same spacing:
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THIS PROGRAM WAS CREATED BY -BILL HINDORFF- NOV. 5, 1981 VIC COMMANDOS K. OF P., USA
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THIS PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN BY - HIROAKI SUGA - APR. 9, 1981 HAL LABORATORY TOKYO, JAPAN
Anders Carlsson
The music is very accurate to the arcade, but playability is the same as Ratrace. Ratrace still has the Rally-X highscore music, very accurate.carlsson wrote:Rally-X-NTSC.prg vs Radar Rat Race.prg
At first overview too many differences to mention. At $A34B we have these two messages, notice the exact same position and same spacing:.