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Lighting McQueen192 days ago

This game is more random than a dispenser drop in mc

b1ixten276 days ago

How to download v1.5?

Developer01 year ago

Love the low fidelity audio. Super reminiscent of a gba title, awesome work.

freds721 year ago

thanks - audio is *really* stretching platform limits but ended up ok

WanderingShadow2 years ago

Would it be possible to get a compiled/exe version for those of us who are Pico illiterate?

freds722 years ago(+1)

not possible - Pico8 can only produce executables for games with less than 15 data files, this game has 80…

j_tirrell2 years ago(+2)

I posted a full playthrough:

This is an amazing achievement. I think the changes to the video and especially the audio work in the game's favor; they create a truly alien experience. This version is more challenging than most ports (partially because laser beams are occasionally invisible), but I also find it to be one of the most interesting.

freds722 years ago

thanks and sorry to have fixed sound *after* your recoding!

j_tirrell2 years ago

No worries. The updated audio is much closer to the other ports, but I'm keeping both versions. I think the blown out sound really works for it. It's a little like the Apple IIgs version, which has somewhat crispy sound, too.

appak3 years ago (1 edit)

hmm.

for some reason i get stuck on this screen where it states:press z or x to continue. acesess code: ldkd

i clicked x but, nothing. z just restarts the cutscene before it. i am using pico-8 0.2.3.

help.

(i might just be stupid)

freds723 years ago

correct - text says x or c but only c is coded!

I'll fix that

appak3 years ago

oh yay!

Besirk Provisions2 years ago

has it been fixed yet? I'm getting the same issue

\_( :l )_/

fixed in 1.4

Hey I would like to play this game but I encountered a runtime error on line 45, tab 1. Any solutions?

Moga3 years ago(+1)

One of my favorite games! Matsarub

johanneshoff3 years ago (2 edits) (+1)

Hi! Just following up on the bug report I made on twitter. https://twitter.com/johanneshoff/status/1374069056983154690

I just want to preface this with saying you don't have to help me debug here. You've done an amazing job, and don't owe it to me or anybody to spend more time on it.

The issue happens on this line:

local b0=(self[pc\0x0.0004]>><((pc&0x0.0003)<<19))&0xff

When the bug triggers,

pc = 0.1506 (or 0x0.2690)
pc\0x0.0004 = 2468
#self = 2467

So it's looking up a value outside of the range, and getting nil in return.

I should say that I'm using ARM, so maybe there's some discrepancy in the math here? (but at least 0x0.2690\0x0.0004 evaluates the same on intel) Edit: Actually, never mind, I get the same error on my intel mac.

bkumanchik3 years ago

I'm having the same problem on my PC :)

freds723 years ago

more likely pico doesn’t find the bank_xx.p8 files - config files conflicts probably

The Beesh-Spweesh!3 years ago

Why is the audio so noisy? I'm gonna guess that you're poking signed samples to the audio buffer stored in general-purpose RAM, but the PCM channel expects unsigned samples.

John Retroreloader @ Return learn games3 years ago(+1)

Great job on this classic!

vincentgr3 years ago(+2)

I still play and finish this game on my Amiga.

This port is FANTASTIC.

The only issue I have is the sound effects, too loud and noisy.

Thank you for this great port.

freds723 years ago(+2)

Thanks - sound is indeed a bit meh, it uses a recent pico8 feature and I should spend some more time adjusting game original waves.

Paul Nicholas (Liquidream)3 years ago(+1)

Utterly fantastic, Frederic - you did it again! 🤯👌

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