DuckTales

starion · 10:44, 01 March 10

Good day.
Seeking a game Duck Tales for the GX4000 and CPC 6128.
Thanks.

arnoldemu · 10:52, 01 March 10

Quote from: starion on 10:44, 01 March 10
Good day.
Seeking a game Duck Tales for the GX4000 and CPC 6128.
Thanks.

If you find it, please dump it for others. I don't know if this game was ever released.

starion · 14:29, 01 March 10

I continue to search...

MacDeath · 16:02, 01 March 10

Vaporware!

Are you serious or are you trolling us ?

ukmarkh · 16:44, 01 March 10

This is a blatant troll... Ducktales indeed

Bryce · 20:17, 01 March 10

I assume it's a troll too. Capcom owned the rights to the Ducktales Game and they only developed it for NES and Gameboy as far as I know. I've never heard mention of a CPC version. In fact I don't think Capcom have ever written anything for the CPC. Being a Japanese company it's unlikely that they would have given the CPC platform any kind of priority.

Bryce.

Devilmarkus · 20:57, 01 March 10

It was released for C63+1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNz_l9Yq8kw

Nich · 21:03, 01 March 10

Quote from: Bryce on 20:17, 01 March 10Capcom owned the rights to the Ducktales Game and they only developed it for NES and Gameboy as far as I know. I've never heard mention of a CPC version.

A CPC and GX4000 version of Duck Tales was advertised in 1991, but I'm certain that it was never released.

QuoteIn fact I don't think Capcom have ever written anything for the CPC.

They didn't write anything directly, but US Gold released a number of CPC conversions of Capcom games. However, it was actually Titus who were planning to release Duck Tales for the CPC.

MacDeath · 21:38, 01 March 10

http://www.grimware.org/doku.php/documentations/hardware/amstrad.cartridge.released

Other sources state that Titus was to release this one.

But i really don't know how they managed : titus only released shitty games or lazy almost disk-to-cartridge ports.

Dick tracy was quite well realised especially for GX4000...et was shitty nonetheless.

They just couldn't figure how to use the ASIC.

And when they did, it was too late : Prehistorik 2 was nice (a bit sluggish...though)

They should have done the Blues Brother indeed of bad cars games...

it was a great game on 16bit.

Back to ducktale : this is a disney franchise you know ?
Not a Capcom.

So it would have make sence anyone could get the license depending the countries or machine..

QuoteIt was released for C63+1

Do you mean the "CPC464minusPC4" ?

Bryce · 21:50, 01 March 10

C63-1 ? Is that like a CommoBore ?

Bryce.

MacDeath · 21:53, 01 March 10

Commodork ?

redbox · 21:54, 01 March 10

Quote from: MacDeath on 21:38, 01 March 10
And when they did, it was too late : Prehistorik 2 was nice (a bit sluggish...though)

A bit? I think it's to the point it's almost unplayable... it looks nice but it's crap to play

ukmarkh · 22:06, 01 March 10

I've always thought that about PH2, all graphics, with sluggish play and poor level design. Super Cauldron was better, but only just. As for Ducktails, never happened on the CPC or Plus, was advertised loads though.

redbox · 22:35, 01 March 10

Quote from: ukmarkh on 22:06, 01 March 10
Super Cauldron was better, but only just.

Hadn't played it before, but just tried it and it is better.

Is there a Plus version or was it only released for the classic CPC?

ukmarkh · 23:37, 01 March 10

Stock CPC, but it is compatible with the Plus.

arnoldemu · 10:48, 02 March 10

this doesn't proove anything. from gtw64 website:

http://gtw64.retro-net.de/Scans/t/titus.pdf

Gryzor · 11:25, 02 March 10

Wow, that's a great doc!

ukmarkh · 13:05, 02 March 10

So basically Duck Tales would have been impossible on the GX4000 unless majorly reduced in size/quality.

Cholo · 15:51, 02 March 10

I recall playing Ducktales one the Amiga (at least i think it was called Ducktales). Anyways even if it did feature 2 discs, the first disc was pretty much just the intro. It was quite oldstyle gameplay with no fansy 3D stuff at all so it would be quite easy to make a amstrad version. A still screen menu in Uncle Scrooch's moneybin, then a world a bit like north&south (but less detailed). Moving around was done by a basic short planeride, like Biggles but to duck clowds and balloons. The main game was a short climbing game like Batman the movie. A lot of the game was audio i recall (sampled speech). If you forget about the audio, then all that should fit nicely on a single side of a 3" i think.

MacDeath · 16:18, 02 March 10

This document prouve only one thing :

When starting developpment, it is easy to tell it will be released on all format. It just costs a few words in a list.

Yet when comes the real production/dev. phase, things are not that easily.

Crossdev issues, or simply the fact that the format/console/machine is not marketable enough considered the development involved for such a port.

I'm reading it.

he tells about megs...megabit ? not Megabyte/octet I suppose..?

So his 4 megs are 512Ko ?
Or is it like on some Disks, (2MB disks) ?

We know the GX4000 carts were limited to 128Ko.

4x128 = 512...
But theorically the GX could get 512Ko (And will perhaps one day

), yet we know Amstrad denied this so he must talks about 128ko limitation on GX carts.

QuotePang : easiest of all the games to code

Fun, those comments on possible Arcade's ports...

QuoteSo basically Duck Tales would have been impossible on the GX4000 unless majorly reduced in size/quality.

Or unless 512k cartridges were actually available ...

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