Typically, I can only reach Space Captain or Space Colonel (2nd and 3rd ranks respectively) with the standard allotment of three lives. uh, I always hated that stage.Īs to your question, yes, GORF is a pretty tough nut to crack in arcades.
#Boycott advance sound plus
This and the faster ships make this stage run much more briskly than before, which is a plus because confidentially speaking. I've also reduced the number of enemies in the Space Warp stage, from sixteen in the first rank and twenty in subsequent ranks to the arcade version's twelve and sixteen.
#Boycott advance sound code
There was also a bug in the code that made the CPU lose count of the number of attacking Galaxians, resulting in huge swarms that were nearly impossible to survive. I changed the code a bit to keep the number of attackers low in the first couple of ranks, but that number rises as the game progresses. After some research, I discovered that the Galaxians stage in the arcade version of GORF starts out pretty mellow, with just two Galaxians from the lower ranks attacking at any given time (the Galaxian bosses seem to move independently of the yellow and blue rows and attack whenever they please). I'm glad you mentioned that! I've just made some adjustments to the difficulty. If you can reach Space General with the standard allotment of three lives, I owe you a Coke. I suspect I'll have to create a counter that counts upward, then downward to reproduce the musical scale sound of the laser.īut enough about that! Here's a beta of the game, complete with lives and a sloping progression of difficulty. I may have to use the three crappy sound channels for the player's quark laser, but I haven't figured out a way to do this yet. The Flagship stage in particular is almost completely silent! as you may have already guessed, sound is still extremely early in this game. I've already done this in Astro Battles but have yet to include it in any of the other rounds. That way I could have two distinct sounds going on at once, without one interrupting the other.
What I'm thinking of doing is using PLAYMUSIC for background ambiance and sound effects that lead into background noise, like the laser fire in Laser Attack, then using PLAYSOUND for explosions and such.
They'd also have to be programmed frame by frame to create sounds, while the PLAYSOUND and PLAYMUSIC commands are TSRs which just play any canned WAV file you request. I haven't experimented much with those, but casual use suggests that they're pretty terrible, producing flat, simple, off-key notes that are generally not too pleasant to the ears. That leaves the programmer with three sound channels beyond that. The first is for standard sound effects (voices, explosions, etc.) and the second is for looping music tracks. There are two commands in Dragon BASIC dedicated to digitized sound.
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