Deep Dungeon Adventure Shockware

the matra page has the test youtube link

hap you posted the link to the page too early

will it be 14.50 euros at bitwise? and will bitwise sell it @ nijmegen?

Indeed price will be 14,50.
There is a shipment on its way to Bitwise. So expect it to be there at Nijmegen (if all goes well).

BTW this will probably be the very first MSX game to come in a pink package

And the Easter egg? There is a great bonus for those who complete the game at difficult level
IIRC just enter the seed you get in the end demo at the seed input screen and you will unlock the easter egg (or not? not sure anymore actually)

How many of you have bought a DDA chart at Nijmegen2010 ?
Please post a feedback!

i bought one too

That is sad to hear.
You can count on it that we tested the game until our fingers crumbled and our eyeballs fell out.
Ofcourse there was some pressure to deliver the 'original' in time before the MSXdev deadline.
What kind of MSX are you playing it on, and (roughly) how many times did you encounter this?
Most importantly, thanks for letting us know - I'll forward this to the other guys, and hopefully we can provide you with a ROM (image) which doesn't have this problem, to make up for it.

Thanks for your response! First I played it with Philips VG-8235 and now with Turbo R A1-GT and the same hanging bug was present in both cases. With Philips I didn't have any other cartridges or extensions plugged but now I have all the goodies in slot expander (but still the result remains the same). I could try to boot it with shift pressed, but it takes some time to test because it isn't always so easy to get into stair 30 at hard level.

But anyway this game has some magic as I keep coming back to it time to time just for this this charmy, easy kind of fun and nostalgia.

Just tried it again, but died on level 23.
I'll try it still once today and if I don't make it, then after the Easter holidays.

Btw. I've played the game through in easy and normal mode without problems, but it's the hard mode only which isn't working.

Ok, now I finally got to level 30 again (with shift pressed at startup) and also got stucked again.
(damn it was going so well!)

Here's a picture for the exact spot (downstairs) where it always hangs the game - only the music keeps playing.

Earlier I tried few different seed numbers at the start, but it didn't have any effect on the problem. It takes a bit too much work to try all of them if some might work, heh.

But anyways, I hope you could find and resolve the problem. Maybe I could then in the future see this hard mode through the end. Because I'd really like to - very much!

I reduced the defense of enemies and tested the rom under debugger.
The bug is in the way the code manages the seeds for the random number generator while building level 31.
I'm not sure about where exactly the bug is, but I see a seed of 0xFF that shouldn't be there each time I enter level 31 in hard mode. Investigating....

No sorry, not yet.
Anyway the end of the game does not differ from normal and easy mode: only you have 5 additional levels (to descend and return), less chests (3 instead of 5) and small differences in armors classes for enemies
these are the data ruling the difficulties

EASY:   db 0x20,0x15,1,2,3,1,2,3,4,2,2,3,4,2, 5,64,128,180
DEFAULT:
NORMAL: db 0x30,0x20,1,2,3,1, 1,2,3,1, 1,2,3,1, 4,64,150,170
HARD:   db 0x35,0x20,1,2,3,1,1,2,3,1,1,2,3,1, 3,96,145,165

where the numbers mean in the order:

;
; _lastlevel = 0x30 ; last dungeon level (bcd)
; _dragonlevel = 0x20 ; dungeon level (bcd) where dragons are
;
; _heal0 = 0x01 ; healing effect of a potion (bcd)
; _heal1 = 0x02 ; healing effect of a potion (bcd)
; _heal2 = 0x03 ; healing effect of a potion (bcd)
; _heal3 = 0x01 ; healing effect of a potion (bcd)
; ;
; _weap0 = 0x01 ; attack bonus
; _weap1 = 0x02 ; attack bonus
; _weap2 = 0x03 ; attack bonus
; _weap3 = 0x01 ; attack bonus
; ;
; _shld0 = 0x01 ; shield bonus
; _shld1 = 0x02 ; shield bonus
; _shld2 = 0x03 ; shield bonus
; _shld3 = 0x01 ; shield bonus
;
; _chests = 0x04 ; number of chests per level
;
; _batgobac = 64; higher value = harder to kill
; _dragonac = 150
; _ghostac = 170

[edit]
BTW try to boot while ESC is pressed, you will give a new meaning to the text in the last page of the end demo, after the greetings.

PS
the Easter Egg is only in the DDA not in the DD game