Metal Slug (Mission 1) port for Atari STE - Completed

[chlu600]

Excellent. Impressive work.

Were you able to re-use original logic code or do you had to reimplement it from scratch ?

He says in the first post.

Do not really see where. Is it a problem to repeat something ? The fact the new code in developed in c does not mean there is nothing reused as is somewhere... (in particular as neo geo is 68k based)

In his Youtube channel he answered that question.
It’s a complete rework from scratch.

[masteries]

Excellent. Impressive work.

Were you able to re-use original logic code or do you had to reimplement it from scratch ?

He says in the first post.

Do not really see where. Is it a problem to repeat something ? The fact the new code in developed in c does not mean there is nothing reused as is somewhere... (in particular as neo geo is 68k based)

Nothing is reused,

All game logic code is completely new,

[masteries]

He says in the first post.

Do not really see where. Is it a problem to repeat something ? The fact the new code in developed in c does not mean there is nothing reused as is somewhere... (in particular as neo geo is 68k based)

In his Youtube channel he answered that question.
It’s a complete rework from scratch.

Correct

[farvardin]

I've played it on my MiST, it's amazing! I've used the Mega STE option to reach the 8 mhz speed. I don't understand why the binary has been place into an "auto" folder? If I start it from the HD, it just refuses to load the ressources. I've copied it into the main folder, with all the emx files, and it worked then!

[Marakatti]

Haven't succeeded in loading this yet. Tried on both 4mb STe and MegaSTe with CosmosEx and PP driver taking 41kb of ram. There's absolutely nothing extra than CE boot message and PP driver partition selection. Booting from 511mb partition "J" in this case.
Anyone else with CosmosEx having any success loading this game?

[masteries]

I've played it on my MiST, it's amazing! I've used the Mega STE option to reach the 8 mhz speed. I don't understand why the binary has been place into an "auto" folder? If I start it from the HD, it just refuses to load the ressources. I've copied it into the main folder, with all the emx files, and it worked then!

Its designed to be played on real STE machines;
loading directly from AUTO eliminates the need to load GEM environment.

8 MHz is the normal speed for Atari STE machines, MegaSTE can reach 16 MHz, that is not needed but CPU power is always welcome.


FPGA based solutions and CosmosEx, I do not have any of these; only Steem emulator and 2x real STE machines (TOS 1.06 spanish and TOS 1.62 french)

[masteries]

Haven't succeeded in loading this yet. Tried on both 4mb STe and MegaSTe with CosmosEx and PP driver taking 41kb of ram. There's absolutely nothing extra than CE boot message and PP driver partition selection. Booting from 511mb partition "J" in this case.
Anyone else with CosmosEx having any success loading this game?

CosmosEx appears a pretty advanced device,


However, I only use my own manufactured high performance very low cost hard disk device,
with extremely good results

[Marakatti]

Haven't succeeded in loading this yet. Tried on both 4mb STe and MegaSTe with CosmosEx and PP driver taking 41kb of ram. There's absolutely nothing extra than CE boot message and PP driver partition selection. Booting from 511mb partition "J" in this case.
Anyone else with CosmosEx having any success loading this game?

CosmosEx appears a pretty advanced device,


However, I only use my own manufactured high performance very low cost hard disk device,
with extremely good results

I guess CosmosEx initializing takes some ram before PP driver loads and that's probably why your game won't launch. CE drivers can be bypassed on boot but maybe some precious bytes gets wasted anyway. It's my only hard disk device.

I guess I need to buy one of your devices for memory hungry stuff... How long waiting line you have at the moment?

[metalages]

He says in the first post.

Do not really see where. Is it a problem to repeat something ? The fact the new code in developed in c does not mean there is nothing reused as is somewhere... (in particular as neo geo is 68k based)

Nothing is reused,

All game logic code is completely new,

Thanks
Really cool work. Congrats

[calimero]

Super smooth although you can tell by looking at you tube that gameplay is not from original. It is much harder I would say.

Btw
Can you post at eab forum link to your new video?

[chlu600]

Super smooth although you can tell by looking at you tube that gameplay is not from original. It is much harder I would say.

Btw
Can you post at eab forum link to your new video?

It’s definitive harder than the original Neogeo Arcade. I’ve bought it to our office (along with more classic games). But I havn’t tested the harder options with the arcade.

Better hard when it’s relative short!

Could jagpad be added?

[Chris23235]

This is really unbelievable, I just gave it a quick run on my MiST, but I will try how it runs on my MegaSTE tomorrow. Great work.

[Eero Tamminen]

I've played it on my MiST, it's amazing! I've used the Mega STE option to reach the 8 mhz speed. I don't understand why the binary has been place into an "auto" folder? If I start it from the HD, it just refuses to load the resources. I've copied it into the main folder, with all the emx files, and it worked then!

Its designed to be played on real STE machines;
loading directly from AUTO eliminates the need to load GEM environment.

And the explanation why it works then is that when program is run from AUTO as part of the boot sequence, its working directory is the drive root (not AUTO folder).

[masteries]

I guess CosmosEx initializing takes some ram before PP driver loads and that's probably why your game won't launch. CE drivers can be bypassed on boot but maybe some precious bytes gets wasted anyway. It's my only hard disk device.

I guess I need to buy one of your devices for memory hungry stuff... How long waiting line you have at the moment?

Relatively short at this moment, if I receive additional SD card readers,
I could complete the manufacture of all pending units, plus one for you.

[Marakatti]

I guess CosmosEx initializing takes some ram before PP driver loads and that's probably why your game won't launch. CE drivers can be bypassed on boot but maybe some precious bytes gets wasted anyway. It's my only hard disk device.

I guess I need to buy one of your devices for memory hungry stuff... How long waiting line you have at the moment?

Relatively short at this moment, if I receive additional SD card readers,
I could complete the manufacture of all pending units, plus one for you.

Thanks I've placed order to the correct thread. If only one unit is available then for the Mega STe only please.

[YQN]

Saw it on video before but playing it is
Thx for sharing!

[bear]

Is there anyone else who got an Atari STE with TOS 2.06 , and can't get it running? Autoboot, AGT loads everything, black screen and nothing more.

[Marakatti]

Yes, it runs out of memory. Hard disk driver consumes too much ram.

[masteries]

Is there anyone else who got an Atari STE with TOS 2.06 , and can't get it running? Autoboot, AGT loads everything, black screen and nothing more.

In some days up to 300 KB of RAM could be freed up,

These past days I had many work to do, some Atari stuff would need to be parked for some time...

[bear]

Looking forward to try coming versions! Thanks, Masteries.

[masteries]

Looking forward to try coming versions! Thanks, Masteries.

Here, an optimized version that requires 250 KB RAM less:

https://www.gp32spain.com/foros/attachm ... 1636709689


I think, now there are at least 100 KB free for additional enemies or other sprites.

[TheNameOfTheGame]

Wow, that is a huge optmization! Nice work. I would be interested to hear how that was done. That's a huge amount of memory saved.

[CiH]

Is there a 'like' button anywhere around here?

[bear]

Thank you! Working at last!

[stormy]

I think that we really need some kind of Atari 'community member of the year' award. Masteries has done so much, firstly using dml's A.G.T's (Atari game tools, amazing engine and suite) And then creating a storage solution, providing it to people for a great price. This man is not in it for the money, he is doing it for passion... Well done Masteries!