Caverns of Titan (MSXdev'05 game)

José Luis Tur (jltursan), the developer of Viking has released his second entry to the MSXdev'05 competition. Caverns of Titan is an addictive and challenging platform game. The 16kB ROM comes with an English and Spanish manual and a cartridge label.

Relevant link: MSXdev'05 - Status page

Comments (15)

By pitpan

Prophet (2559)

21-12-2005, 17:35

I really love this game: it is MANIC MINER on steroids!

Lovely oldskool concept with colourful SD graphics, impressive movement, high quality sound and DIFFICULT! For a platform games lover, as I am, this is heaven.

Congratulations to JLTursan for his entry!

By Google

By jltursan

Paragon (1340)

21-12-2005, 19:14

Thanks Pitpan!, maybe you're ready to try to find the cheats, after all you know the way used to implement such feature.

By Maggoo

Paladin (834)

21-12-2005, 19:44

Very cool game, excellent gameplay and great music ! A true classic

By Grauw

Paragon (1797)

21-12-2005, 19:57

Great!

By viejo_archivero

Paragon (1295)

21-12-2005, 19:57

Good platform one, and a hard one!. Well done, jl!

By Edwin

Paragon (1116)

21-12-2005, 21:21

Extremely difficult for a platform game. Having trouble in level 1! But that could be just me

By BiFi

Enlighted (4348)

22-12-2005, 19:50

you're not alone I'm sure... it's a tough one... but still, a very nice Manic Miner clone

By jltursan

Paragon (1340)

22-12-2005, 21:24

Oh, it's not so hard, believe me!, you only need to get the jump timing...

By MäSäXi

Paragon (1616)

23-12-2005, 15:43

YEAH!!!

This is surely the best game in this year´s msxdev!!!!!!!
(in my opinion at least!!!!)

I am really sucker for old and old-style platform games, I can´t help it!!

Grafx are really cool!! (temperature of the caves may be really cool too, considering the colours used)

Difficulty level is just right!!! It is actually very easy, when compared to many Manic Miner clones!

in game tune is.... well... CooL too!!
title theme sounds too techno-like to me...

Can we have more like this in next msxdev, PLEASE!!!!!!!?

By Manuel

Enlighted (7229)

27-12-2005, 14:39

There seems to be a bug in the game:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=421861&aid=1390211&group_id=38274

By jltursan

Paragon (1340)

27-12-2005, 16:02

I've corrected the PSG dump routine in PT2 (the same as PT3) player I'm using. Now I'm masking the Mixer register with 10xxxxxxb, this must take care of illegal datas generated by the tracker. I'll prolly release a fixed version today (with a new great sfx playing routine thanks to Wyz! ).

Btw, how can I test all the joystick ports in OpenMSX?

By Manuel

Enlighted (7229)

27-12-2005, 16:53

Just plug in a joystick

Easiest is to use Catapult: check the "Misc Controls" tab, at the Connectors box.

For pure openMSX, see: http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/manual/user.html#joystick

(This is for the current CVS version, if you still use openMSX 0.5.2, check out that section in the manual that came with your openMSX version.)

By jltursan

Paragon (1340)

27-12-2005, 16:57

I don't have a joystick!

I've managed to fake an alternative keyboard control (O,P,Q,A) onto both joyports editing settings.xml. The game works fine now!

By Manuel

Enlighted (7229)

27-12-2005, 17:52

Yeah, this has been drastically improved in the upcoming openMSX 0.6.0: two keyjoysticks (fake keyboard driven joysticks), which can be configured from openMSX, without editing an XML file.

By jltursan

Paragon (1340)

28-12-2005, 23:28

You can download an updated version with a new sound system and the late bug fixed here :

www.telefonica.net/web2/msxpage/caverns.rom

Enjoy!