Saboteur 2 mod

thealfest · 17:08, 21 October 24

Hi there!
Earlier this year I released Saboteur 2 mod for ZX Spectrum and now I'm working on porting it to Amstrad CPC.
It is already playable but there's still a lot of work to be done.

about the mod: Show

Gryzor · 17:11, 21 October 24

Look at that sprite run!

HAL6128 · 18:52, 21 October 24

Impressive. What has changed because of the mod?

thealfest · 18:57, 21 October 24

@HAL6128 Whad do you mean? Changelist is under the spoiler.

HAL6128 · 19:06, 21 October 24

Oh man, thanks.

I was so impressed by the demo that I didn't realize it.

abalore · 20:24, 21 October 24

Great work, I'm looking forward to play it. Is the countdown timer speed related to the selected game speed or it is real-time?

thealfest · 20:32, 21 October 24

Time unit = 20 game frames. The faster the game - the faster the time. And it's fine.

jesusdelmas · 21:15, 21 October 24

Quote from: thealfest on 17:08, 21 October 24Hi there!
Earlier this year I released Saboteur 2 mod for ZX Spectrum and now I'm working on porting it to Amstrad CPC.
It is already playable but there's still a lot of work to be done.

about the mod: Show Hide

Changes:
-Bugfixes
-Performance optimizations and adjustable game speed
-Double buffering with vsync (with limitations)
-Added some visual elements from 2019 remake
-Added new sound effects
-Added game pause
-Improved game balance
-And more...

Fixed bugs:
-Android or puma receives damage when ninja hits the flame of his flamethrower
-Ninja receives damage when flame covers a projectile(even one shot\thrown by enemy)
-The lift bug
-Slow climbing up \ lifting up
-The fall damage bug
-No 'bike arrived' message when using teleport
-The flame clipping bug
-The Infinite tape pieces bug - now this stash has 2 pieces of tape
-The walking underwater bug
-The throwing objects trough the wall bug
-The glitchy android bug - now he looks different and is stronger
-Fence terminal no longer controls lifts in missions without the fence
-Single fire key press on the terminal could cause several activations
-Throwing projectile at electric fence could kill ninja
-Puma on the left side of the screen could damage ninja at the right side of the screen.
-Lift position now resets when starting new game
-Enemy status \ position now resets when starting new game
-'Health' is now properly stored for each enemy and is not reset when the ninja leaves the room
-The androids misalignment bug
-The android remote attack bug
-Redundant screen updates when the flame is clipped
-Flame rendering bug caused by android being on layer #2

Game balance changes:
-Ninja's kicks and throwables deal more damage:
Throwables and kick make 2 damage points, flying kick - 2-3
-Remaining HPs are now properly stored for each enemy. Also enemy 'health' now slowly regenerates.
-Reduced bat damage by 1 damage point
-Ninja takes less damage when falling from a small height:
no damage if height is less than 15 tiles, half damage if less than 2 floors (36 tiles)
-Android sits longer after shooting the ninja

Really cool, but maybe IS a little bit too fast?

thealfest · 21:16, 21 October 24

Game speed is adjustable.

poulette73 · 06:01, 22 October 24

Wow amazing !!

And the changelog list with new features and bugfixes is impressive !

Great work...

Looking forward to discovering a playable version.

dodogildo · 06:20, 22 October 24

Amazing. Hope the controls are now more responsive, less laggy.

thealfest · 18:23, 22 October 24

@dodogildo i don't see any problems with the controls in the original, just a general slowness.

roudoudou · 19:04, 22 October 24

Quote from: thealfest on 18:23, 22 October 24@dodogildo i don't see any problems with the controls in the original, just a general slowness.

the slowness results in missing keys (keyDown+keyUp between 2 keyboard scans). It's ... ...clearly a bug from a user point of view

thealfest · 19:11, 22 October 24

Quote from: roudoudou on 19:04, 22 October 24
Quote from: thealfest on 18:23, 22 October 24@dodogildo i don't see any problems with the controls in the original, just a general slowness.
the slowness results in missing keys (keyDown+keyUp between 2 keyboard scans). It's ... ...clearly a bug from a user point of view

I prefer this way over input buffering.

thealfest · 16:53, 23 October 24

Added palette swapping, fixed some bugs.

HAL6128 · 17:57, 23 October 24

Extremely cool!
A high-speed walkthrough in real-time and might be also a high programming and analysing effort behind.

Nich · 21:08, 23 October 24

Does anyone know if Clive Townsend is aware of this effort to improve Saboteur II? I'm sure he would approve of it.

thealfest · 21:13, 23 October 24

@Nich When I announced my mod for the Spectrum in March, Clive got in touch with me.

cwpab · 21:59, 23 October 24

If this had been available to me in 1988-1992 when I was 8-12 and playing the original, I would have shifted my pants.

Holy Moly, the girl runs like forking Flash!

Indeed, I would rename the game Flash Girl Mutant Ninja Avenger (heroine in a hand gilder).

dodogildo · 22:18, 23 October 24

This is so cool.

lmimmfn · 02:15, 24 October 24

This looks great, honestly I dismissed the game back in the day as I considered it a crappy speccy port and awfully slow(no offense to fans it was just my kid impression), bit this is lovely and fast, great work.

thealfest · 20:08, 27 October 24

Added double buffering, made some minor changes.
Currently the mod runs ~3.9 times faster than the original.

cwpab · 17:34, 28 October 24

Noob question... Could these results have been achieved somehow back in the day?

thealfest · 17:40, 28 October 24

@cwpab I think so, if the developers spent enough time optimizing the code.

thealfest · 19:47, 29 October 24

Fixed speed control

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