Given the fact that it's been shown (and quite well) that every other Pac-family game can run on the 7800, would there really be anything preventing this game from also being made to work on the 7800?
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Just Curious about Pac & Pal. . .
Started by DocEss, Jul 26 2011 10:15 AM
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:22 AM
Besides lack of demand?
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:23 AM
I doubt it. I would love to see Pac'n'Pal on 7800.
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:26 AM
Rex Dart, on Tue Jul 26, 2011 10:22 AM, said:
Besides lack of demand?
Oh? I've never really looked to see if there was demand or lack thereof. Did someone do a poll or something to that effect to see?
I was just curious from a hardware perspective if it could be fairly easily done.
I wasn't aware if anyone wanted or didn't want it, or whatnot.
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:11 PM
It's prolly doable. Almost certainly.
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:30 PM
I was thinking that'd be the case. However, like Rex there says, I don't know that there's any real demand (I mean, sure, I'd love it, to have a complete pac-ollection), and, I would have no idea how to program such a beast. Which, even if I did, might be a lot of work to please, you know, 2 people. 
Edited by DocEss, Tue Jul 26, 2011 12:31 PM.
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 2:38 PM
One could hack the Ms.Pac program. The actual source code files exist for that game. Beats reinventing the wheel, IMO.
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 3:15 PM
Very true. I know that in the arcades it ran on the same hardware as Super Pac-man, and Bob's shown that can easily run on the 7800, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch, I figure, to do Pac & Pal.
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:38 PM
Yep - I thought about it at one time, but I'm not sure about how to do the 'Smoke' thing. We'd also have to add another sprite (Pal) and the AI for it (shouldn't be that difficult though - just follow whatever fruit is 'visible') I may attempt it at some point... using 'Super Pac' as a starting point.
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:45 PM
That would be cool. I bought one of those self-contained joysticks with games that has this game. Having it for the 7800 would be nice.
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 4:54 PM
Have you ever heard of Putting Pac&Pal to 320 mode with arcade graphics?
i got the idea from the thread "Testing 320 mode with pacman"
i got the idea from the thread "Testing 320 mode with pacman"
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Posted Tue Jul 26, 2011 8:32 PM
This really makes me wish I knew more about programming for the 7800. As it stands, the most useful thing I can do is make sprites, which, really, isn't all that useful. By the time I could learn enough to be effective, Bob could have made the game three times over, I'd think.
Definitely wouldn't mind having a complete Pac-collection, though.
Definitely wouldn't mind having a complete Pac-collection, though.
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