R-Type

[Gryzor]

Wish it went on a proper release, disk and all...

[TotO]

No game yet, but... 2012 will be the 25th R-Type Anniversary.
To know more about our incoming version, you may visit the official R-Type CPC Website at:
 
http://cpc.rtype.fr/

Happy New Year Bob, Keith and everybody here!!!

[SyX]

GREAT NEWS!!!

COUNTER MORE FASTTTTERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!! 

Nice Music!!! 

[Metr]

Dis' iz the Typo thread??? Merri Christzmax !!! 

[TotO]

Yes, it is!
Started and supported by guest stars, so we can't change place!!!

[TFM]

2011 !

Ok, here we still have 50 minutes of 2011 ... Hurry up guys!!!

[Metr]

If you need a sports almanac from the future, we can get you one !
15 minutes left?

[TotO]

2011 days! 
We hope to finish it before FutureOS.

http://cpc.rtype.fr/

[Gryzor]

The site is really nice, a great teaser for things to come Do offer some wallpapers and stuff!

[jbaudrand]

33 days

[TFM]

2011 days! 
We hope to finish it before FutureOS.

http://cpc.rtype.fr/

Oh you will? Thanks for the help then   I didn't even know that it was unfinished

Good luck then with R-Type!

BTW: The site is really a good idea.

BTW2: The counter will reach Zero in a bit more than 32 days *ggg*

[TotO]

Oh you will? Thanks for the help then

Hehe!

[viddi]

The screenshots are gorgeous!

Is this a Plus palette?? 


http://www.rtype.fr/Screenshots.html

[SyX]

The screenshots are gorgeous!

Is this a Plus palette?? 

No, it's only a CPC... with an AMAZING artist pixelating 

[Gryzor]

Ooh a wallpaper! Thank you, sir!

[tastefulmrship]

I'm sorry, but the waiting is simply killing me... so, here are the CPC and C64 loading screens as well as a retouched C64 screen in CPC palette.

(click on thumbnail to view full image)
                                       
   Amstrad CPC Normal             Commodore 64 Normal                          The screen we could have had!


EDIT: It turns out the C64 screen above is an "already re-done" version of the C64 screen (see below). Still, it's a lot better than the loading screen we had.

[mr_lou]

tastefulmrship, you seriously need to team up with someone and start working on a CPC production very soon. Your creativity is unstoppable!

[TotO]

I'll not said "retouched", but "recolored".
And, it's not the C64 original picture screen, but an already recolored one using a near CPC palette.

Here the real picture:



And the retouched "mock-up" made by a fan like you:



The C64 palette:

[tastefulmrship]

I'll not said "retouched", but "recolored".
And, it's not the C64 original picture screen, but an already recolored one using a near CPC palette.

Here's where I got that picture from;
http://spong.com/asset/4073/1/11014442/entity
I removed a number of erroneous pixels around the tail and head region.



EDIT: Huh! A re-colour of a re-colour! How about that? Maybe I should do a CPC+ re-colour to complete the set! ^_^

[TotO]

The screenshots are gorgeous!

Is this a Plus palette?? 

http://www.rtype.fr/Screenshots.html

Sorry, but the program used to update the website content convert PNG to JPEG, so colors may have been altered a bit.

[TFM]

Now our new R-Type will be better than the Arcade!

[MacDeath]

I can't wait for Ninja Spirit, another great IREM arcade, to follow this...

[TotO]

Funny, I often think to this game.

[fano]

Great game too 

[Capper]

What a small world

I was offered (as to be honest many were) the chance to code Ninja Spirit for the Spectrum by Activision but I was working on something else at the time. I was sent a video of the complete arcade game being played that I still have here somewhere. A few years later the option to code the game on the Gameboy came up and Mark Jones and I put together a simplified first level of the game for BITS showing off the parallax scrolling etc. BITS had coded R-Type for the GB so had an in with IREM but nothing came of it and I think they went with a Japanese developer. I don't know who wrote the Spectrum and Amstrad versions of the game so perhaps you can tell me.

What goes around comes around.