espire8

I wanted to try my hand at sprucing up the graphics for this 2600 galaxian hack. It's my attempt to work around the flagship issue Nukey Shay described in his Galaxian-Expanded thread (which I bumped up after missing it for almost a year!). I've redrawn all the aliens including all the in-flight attacking positions and altered the player's ship to better match the arcade.
The left pic is how the graphics looked before worked on. The middle show my alterations. The right is the arcade version to compare.

 Galaxian-Expanded(PAL60).bin.png   7.33K   266 downloads  Galaxian enchanced gfx hack.gif   5.31K   299 downloads  118124211022.png   15.15K   208 downloads

This is as close as to arcade perfect the alien graphics can be as far as this goes. I've yet to see how the colors look on real hardware connected to a standard TV, so the bottom row of aliens may be too dark, in which case I'll brighten it up if need be. I want to make sure the colors are bright enough to show up clearly even thru an RF signal.

I don't have the binary ready to post yet. I'm presently waiting on a hack request to this game from Nukey so I can include it in the binary with the new graphics before I post it here later.

Update: Here's a binary with just the flagship fix and alternative alien graphic changes.  Galaxian-Expanded_gfx-hack_espire8(NTSC).bin   8K   82 downloads

The double-size ship for "A" difficulty is not in this tho. Nukey may post an update if this feature is ever added later.