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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Let's do it all over again, the ultimate Retro Competition

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Witch Bomber
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Thanks NickIgoe. I think world of spectrum is the only place you can getm the rom for ****** ****** from. The chances are none of you have ever heard of it, but it was a big favourite in my family about ten years ago.

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Cras
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Posted: 20th May 2003 19:16 Edited at: 20th May 2003 19:16
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Lets play a game... guess what i might be remaking:



really just a quick tileset for one of the levels all demonstrated in one simple room, i wont use cshop for lighting in the end, just for this picture.

doesnt exactly give much away does it

uk.geocities.com/maniacimagine check it out. ill soon be formally opening it.
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spooky
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Posted: 20th May 2003 20:27
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witchbomber: is ****** ****** = HUNGRY HORACE????

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Posted: 20th May 2003 21:33
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No. Since practically no-one has heard of it I'll give you an anagram.
ACCEILORRSSV

That's all the letters in alphabetical order.

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spooky
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Ahh, SOCCER RIVALS . Never heard of it! Ran it on that java emulator thingy. Seems to be a football management game. Good luck!

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No probs WitchBomber glad I could help, But I think my remake is a little more obscure, Does anyone remember Battle of Britain by K'Soft.I don't think it`s got any chance of winning but the main game is so basic It gives me the chance to really add to it. I have remade the game once before on the Amiga and almost managed to get it published but they pulled out quite late on and I never really finished it as I had planned. Better luck this time.

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Posted: 21st May 2003 16:15
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How did you get that so quickly? I thought it would be a bit harder than that. I just hope no-one steals the idea, or I might end up doing The ********* !

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Don`t post any preview pictures on thier forums or discuss how far you are into your project as they have tried to ban one of our projects cos we posted a preview picture of it and they thought we were well into the project already.

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Posted: 23rd May 2003 05:21 Edited at: 23rd May 2003 05:23
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The controversy was centered around the competition start date not being until June 1st.

After seeing screenshots of my Pacific Islands remake they removed the links to the screenies and banned it because they felt that it was significantly developed already and the quality of it (assuming that it had had major development time) was putting other people off entering.

I appealed and explained that what I had was really very early stages and that although the screen looked complete it was based upon stock code and mostly unfunctional. I gave them a link to the stock code (Terrascape) and answered some misconceptions they had.

The ruling was overturned and Pacific Islands will be admissable to the competition.

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Posted: 23rd May 2003 22:48
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I'm not going to worry about Pacific Islands. Soccer Rivals would never win the competition anyway. The ********* might have a chance but the AI code would be really hard.

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Andy Igoe
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Posted: 24th May 2003 00:25
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The AI for match day isn't that bad...

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Witch Bomber
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match day?
I was talking about my idea for a remake,The *********.

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********* = the sentinal ?

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********* = one of these (hopefully):

THE BARDS TALE
THE BIG SLEAZE
THE COMET GAME
THE ICE TEMPLE
THE OMEGA ZONE
THE RED ARROWS
THE SHAKY GAME
THE TRAIN GAME
THE WILD BUNCH
THE YOUNG ONES

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NickIgoe
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I think its supposed to be one word.

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The top prize on the compo is worth £625

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"Don`t post any preview pictures on thier forums or discuss how far you are into your project as they have tried to ban one of our projects cos we posted a preview picture of it and they thought we were well into the project already."

Nick thats a bit unfair. Pneumatic is right in saying that the entry is admissable but it was NEVER BANNED. We removed the pics while we discussed it (about 8hrs) and then posted a reply asking you not to be so promotional .... just yet. It looks a cool game and I would have hoped you would of been as quick to defend your comments as you were to post them.

Also, and not being pedantic or pendantry or whatever, but the first prize is worth £635.

Thanks for all the promotion you Banshee type guys have done

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Posted: 24th May 2003 11:41
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Sorry

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NickIgoe: len(*********)=9;len(sentinal)=8

I'll give you some more clues.
It is all one word after "The".
It was available on the Amiga and the PC.
It was programmed by non-English-speakers.
It is set on Earth, but not at any point in time over the last 500 years.
The sequel was released last year. (about ten years after the first one)

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Thats easy ... its The Patrician.

Where do I send the prize ?

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Posted: 25th May 2003 04:09 Edited at: 25th May 2003 04:10
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eh? The prize? I take it you're not talking to me then.
I thought that number of clues might give you it. I think I will finish Soccer Rivals and if I have time (aye right!) I will make an attempt at The Patrician.

Edit: Look how much confidence I have in myself!

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*Sweeps up the tumbleweed*

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Just 2 days to go guys. All rules and details of prizes including a £635 first prize will be at www.remakes.org on SATURDAY night from about midnight.

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Shady Simpson
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How do you enter?
I've looked at the website and found it very hard to find out the rules, where to enter, what has already been made or anything.
Any help appreciated.

thanx.

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Posted: 30th May 2003 13:21
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He just said there are 2 days to go until they're posted.

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sorry

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Witch Bomber
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Can you tell us yet when the deadline is?
I have just realised I have my Advanced Higher Computing project and I would be best to get the practical side of that out of the way before the end of the summer holidays, which could be difficult if I'm at NASA for 3 weeks out of 7. So I almost certainly won't have time for the Patrician.

Quote: "No sober man dances unless he happens to be mad"

If that is the case, what happens when a madman gets drunk?
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He just said all the rules would be posted in 2 days. (1 Day now)

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Eric T
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Posted: 31st May 2003 09:39 Edited at: 31st May 2003 09:39
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my remake .......teeheeheeee heres an anogram tmgleaare
^the original nes version might i add

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AsriCE
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Can we use DarkBASIC Classic w/ DarkMatter trial for the compo? I asked this because if I use the DarkMatter trial then people can only play for only up to 30 days until the DarkMatter enhancement pack expires.

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AsriCE how do you export the models form DarkMatter Trial?

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yusuke: How many words?

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2

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EAGLE MART?
What the hell is that? I take it I'm wrong with that.

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NilRem: What do you mean by exporting models from DM? I'm not using any models from DM, just the enhancement commands for DBC.

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METAL RAGE?

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ugh sad Its METAL GEAR , the original NES one, played it and beat it 4 times in the last week taking all the notes i needed too. I'm also gonna remake The NES game BLASTER MASTER, in 3d.

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p.s. Nice try though witch

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Rules posted on http://www.remakes.org/ ... and I am drunk !!!! LOL

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Me too! (hmm where's the loo).

I really like the sound of doing a 'wheelie' remake as it was one of my fave speccy games. Played it other day on speccy emulator and could even remember some of the level codes!! how sad is that!

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my head still hurts from the last retro remake compo

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I just read rules - that Wooden Spoon will be mine
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hey i called the spoon goddamnit

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I just read the rules, Doesn't look like my bag really, I woulda been interested if you could take extreme liberties with the remake but to faithfully remake a game to me seems pointless except as a learning excersize, updating graphics/sounds for an existing game you can do with utilities to rip/replace those from an existing rom, why bother to recode the entire thing? Finally, I already own most of the the prizes, but good luck to those who enter

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AsriCE sorry my bad.

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Yeah, if you already own DB/DBPro, can you get a different prize from DB, or do you just have to try and sell it on?

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I started playing Soccer Rivals today to get screenshots and an idea of how it works, and I ended up playing it for about 6 hours.

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Number 8:

Quote: "Prizes cannot be swapped for alternatives or a cash value. "


Guess that means you can't swap it although DarkBASIC are usually very lenient on those type of things so you never know.

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Can I have Dark Matter instead of DB?

from future review of next game....
'..while the programmer of this game may not be God-like he certainly represents the next step in human evolution. (10/10).'
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Just three weeks to go now and already we have 15 entries, these can be viewed here:

http://www.remakes.org/website/entries.php

Just a timely reminder for those seeking out a first prize worth more than £600 !!

And whats more we wont insist on publishing your game like Idigicon ...

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