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[VicViper]

Does anyone think a port of Wonderboy/Adventure Island would be possible on the 7800? Side scrolling platformers are sorely lacking on the system, and this one is pretty simple yet alot of fun. I'm not too terrible well acquainted with the the technical abilities of the 7800, but it does seem like side scrolling wasn't one of it's strong points. thoughts?

[Austin]

Yes.

[GroovyBee]

Looking at the SMS version I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. There aren't that many sprites on screen at once. It also seems that the level design would lend itself to some programmer tricks to increase the colours on the screen by good use of DLIs.

[PAC-MAN-RED]

Sprite conversion is quite possible I'd say:



illya

[GroovyBee]

PAC-MAN-RED, on Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:20 PM, said:

Sprite conversion is quite possible I'd say:

Looks good and you are using 6 colours (5 in the body/head + common background) which makes him 160B. In which case his pupils can be black too .

[PAC-MAN-RED]

GroovyBee, on Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:34 AM, said:

PAC-MAN-RED, on Thu Nov 10, 2011 11:20 PM, said:

Sprite conversion is quite possible I'd say:

Looks good and you are using 6 colours (5 in the body/head + common background) which makes him 160B. In which case his pupils can be black too .

Well... if I were to redo WonderBoy in 6 colours then the comparison would look something like this:



illya

[GroovyBee]

PAC-MAN-RED, on Fri Nov 11, 2011 7:36 AM, said:

Well... if I were to redo WonderBoy in 6 colours then the comparison would look something like this:

[VicViper]

Well if anyone WERE to make a 7800 version, they would certainly have MY money .

[bennybingo]

VicViper, on Fri Nov 11, 2011 8:09 AM, said:

Well if anyone WERE to make a 7800 version, they would certainly have MY money .

I second that!!!

[The Usotsuki]

He looks an awful lot like Mônica... guess that's why in Brazil they hacked his games into Mônica games, lol

[PAC-MAN-RED]

Just a few Updates to the Wonderboy sprites, colour corrections, touch-ups, etc. These are the first 6 sprites for WonderBoy. The first 2 are him running on the spot, and the last 4 compose his walk/run cycle:



WonderBoy Animated:



illya

[TrekMD]

Looks good to me! Would be great if someone could make this game.

[frankodragon]

I like the idea of the entire Wonderboy series on the 7800.

[PAC-MAN-RED]

UPDATE

Just a minor sprite fix in Wonder Boys' walk/run cycle, and added some of the other game sprites to the mix:



It's good practice. The only down side is that I'm having to rip the sprites from the arcade version myself. I've looked in the usual Sprite Databases and scoured the internet looking for Sprite Sheets that contain ALL of the Wonder Boy sprites, but the ones that exist only contain a handful of sprites...Bummer.

Illya

[Bakasama]

Ah, I do know how tedious and boring sprite ripping can be. Still, it's much easier to sprite rip this game than say, Mortal Kombat.

[DracIsBack]

What sprite databases do you like?

[PAC-MAN-RED]

DracIsBack, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:04 PM, said:

What sprite databases do you like?

here's the general list:

http://www.spriters-resource.com/
http://www.vgmuseum.com/
http://sdb.drshnaps.com/
http://www.nes-snes-sprites.com/

Illya

[DracIsBack]

PAC-MAN-RED, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:50 PM, said:

DracIsBack, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:04 PM, said:

What sprite databases do you like?

here's the general list:

http://www.spriters-resource.com/
http://www.vgmuseum.com/
http://sdb.drshnaps.com/
http://www.nes-snes-sprites.com/

Illya

Thanks! I always wondered how people make these ... seemed like a pain to recreate from scratch! Didn't know there were such sites.

Maybe someone could try a 1 level demo as a proof of concept with your sprites! :-)

[Bakasama]

Sprite ripping has became something of an artform since MUGEN was introduced. That led in turn to demands for sprite sheets for homemade fighting games.

The great thing nowadays is that all you need to sprite rip graphics games, is the ROM, an emulator that has screen shot feature, and a basic paint program.

Edited by Bakasama, Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:03 PM.

[DracIsBack]

Bakasama, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:02 PM, said:

Sprite ripping has became something of an artform since MUGEN was introduced. That led in turn to demands for sprite sheets for homemade fighting games.

The great thing nowadays is that all you need to sprite rip graphics games, is the ROM, an emulator that has screen shot feature, and a basic paint program.

nice! Maybe some one can do better sprites on the accursed 7800 Double Dragon. :-)

[PAC-MAN-RED]

DracIsBack, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 5:41 PM, said:

PAC-MAN-RED, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 2:50 PM, said:

DracIsBack, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 12:04 PM, said:

What sprite databases do you like?

here's the general list:

http://www.spriters-resource.com/
http://www.vgmuseum.com/
http://sdb.drshnaps.com/
http://www.nes-snes-sprites.com/

Illya

Thanks! I always wondered how people make these ... seemed like a pain to recreate from scratch! Didn't know there were such sites.

Maybe someone could try a 1 level demo as a proof of concept with your sprites! :-)

That'd be sweet... I'll add a few more sprites and enemies to the finished pile first.

Bakasama, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 8:02 PM, said:

Sprite ripping has became something of an artform since MUGEN was introduced. That led in turn to demands for sprite sheets for homemade fighting games.

The great thing nowadays is that all you need to sprite rip graphics games, is the ROM, an emulator that has screen shot feature, and a basic paint program.

M.A.M.E... which I'm sure stands for My Arse My Elbow Has a neat feature of displaying Tiles from an arcade ROM... BUT sometimes it can't display all of them (Wonder Boy is one). And I found a version of it that a guy modified to allow saving of Tiles, Palettes, etc. to BMP(s) over here: http://eab.abime.net...ead.php?t=41610 This will make arcade conversions, I think, a little easier.

Illya

[Bakasama]

PAC-MAN-RED, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:56 PM, said:

M.A.M.E... which I'm sure stands for My Arse My Elbow Has a neat feature of displaying Tiles from an arcade ROM... BUT sometimes it can't display all of them (Wonder Boy is one). And I found a version of it that a guy modified to allow saving of Tiles, Palettes, etc. to BMP(s) over here: http://eab.abime.net...ead.php?t=41610 This will make arcade conversions, I think, a little easier.

Wow, I've been looking for something like for a while.

oh, I forgot to mention cheats are also important. In God mode, you don have to worry about dying when you get to an annoying boss to take screen shots.

[thegamezmaster]

frankodragon, on Sat Nov 12, 2011 2:19 AM, said:

I like the idea of the entire Wonderboy series on the 7800.

I totally agree! That would be awesome!

[PAC-MAN-RED]

DracIsBack, on Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:07 PM, said:

nice! Maybe some one can do better sprites on the accursed 7800 Double Dragon. :-)

That's for the hypothetical "Double Dragon for the 7800 XM?" thread.

Illya

[FireStar]

On a side note, there was also a port of Wonder Boy to the SG-1000, which was weaker than the SMS, though I'm not sure how it compares to the 7800

Edited by FireStar, Wed Nov 16, 2011 3:55 PM.