MSXdev'06 #09: Night city

Germán Gómez Herrera, developer of Skate Air, has submitted another entry to the MSXdev'06 competition, which - with 9 games released and 10 days to go until the deadline - is currently reaching its apotheosis. In his new game, Night City, you have to search for various objects in the city and return home in time. During your quest you will have to fight with several enemies, such as ghosts, rats and policemen.

With only 10 days left, it's safe to assume that more brand new MSX1 games are to be released in the upcoming days. In total, nine entries for the MSXdev'06 competition have been released by now. Thanks to MSXdev, the year 2006 will end in style!

Relevant Link: MSXDev website

Comments (38)

By Edwin

Paladin (826)

22-12-2006, 00:02

In the interest of disclosure of source material: linky.

By hap

Paragon (1101)

22-12-2006, 00:37

I didn't know Usas had a side story, Wit feels left out though

Good music, is it original?

By Edwin

Paladin (826)

22-12-2006, 00:59

He has one extra line compared to Cles

By snout

Ambassador (5382)

22-12-2006, 01:43

hey... it's been 19 years since Usas... so the guy grew a little.... ^_^

By SLotman

Paladin (880)

22-12-2006, 03:28

Hmmm... graphics seems to be ripped straight out from other games from the screenshot on MSXDev page...

Is it ok to do that? I think it's kind of unfair to the other games/developers, who took the time to draw everything from scratch...

Not that I'm complaining, just wanted to know if that is ok by the contest rules - I read them at MSXDev's site and couldnt figure if it was allowed or not

By Vampier

Paragon (1211)

22-12-2006, 03:56

Usas meets death wish 3?

with Goody sprites?

a well, missed opportunity.

By ro

Prophet (2695)

22-12-2006, 08:07

Damn, again ripped gfx. oh well, it's the fun that counts.
too bad it don't run on my the blue emu.. . . . (but thaz prob me)

By dvik

Paragon (1517)

22-12-2006, 08:27

(but thaz prob me)
Yeah it is

It took a while for me to get it to run too. You need to open the rom using the 'Cartridge->Insert' dialog and select the rom mapper: 'Konami Generic'. Then it will run. This rom mapper is like konami but without fixed page 0. Not sure what real cart to use to run it.

By viejo_archivero

Hero (566)

22-12-2006, 08:39

I guess the jury will take straight-ripping in account when judging the entries

By dvik

Paragon (1517)

22-12-2006, 08:44

I hope the jury take that into concideration. The game is good though and I enjoyed playing it so the game somewhat compensates for the ripped gfx with good gameplay

I liked both this game and the skateboard game

By Manuel

Enlighted (5675)

22-12-2006, 09:50

Weird, using a mapper that doesn't exist in reality. Is this allowed?

By SaebaMSX

Champion (416)

22-12-2006, 09:59

Manuel, other MSX carts have their own mappers... and this one follows Konami standard afaik (I didn't check it myself). Of course, standard mappers are welcome.

By ARTRAG

Prophet (3033)

22-12-2006, 10:04

The change of prospective each time you cross the street is very disappointing.
I get lost very soon...

By Huey

Paragon (1436)

22-12-2006, 11:06

I hope Germán Gómez Herrera finds someone who will help with creating graphics (and music) for his next releases. Two entries in one competition!

By AuroraMSX

Paragon (1475)

22-12-2006, 12:02

Yeah it is It took a while for me to get it to run too. You need to open the rom using the 'Cartridge->Insert' dialog and select the rom mapper: 'Konami Generic'. Then it will run.And for openMSX this reads:

openmsx NIGHTE.ROM -romtype Konami

"The obtained punctuation is in function of enemy's type and like it is eliminated. There is also extra punctuation when finding the objects."

right...

By Manuel

Enlighted (5675)

22-12-2006, 19:18

Ah, it's a 64kB ROM with a Konami mapper (they don't exist). That confuses the romtype-guesser of openMSX which means you have to use explicit romtype specification, as AuroraMSX said.

By [WYZ]

Master (135)

22-12-2006, 20:33

About the impressive in-game music, it was composed by Gasman from AY-Riders, Six miles high (2005)[PT3]

By only_69

Champion (414)

22-12-2006, 21:33

Do not forget the sprites from Ninja Jaja Maru
http://www.generation-msx.nl/msxdb/softwareinfo/818

By dvik

Paragon (1517)

22-12-2006, 21:38

I actually like these games. Its pretty fun to learn from what games the gfx is taken. Its a pretty fun idea

By Manuel

Enlighted (5675)

22-12-2006, 22:40

Anyway, great to see yet another entry!

By pitpan

Paragon (2037)

23-12-2006, 00:23

64 KB MegaROM means a megaROM that handles 0.5 megabits

Actually, by megaROM it supposedly means cartridge with mapper.

By ro

Prophet (2695)

24-12-2006, 09:54

Still won't run in BlueMSX (using Konami Generetic cart)

By spl

Paladin (856)

24-12-2006, 14:11

ro, I can perfectly play on BLUEMSX

By msd

Paladin (744)

24-12-2006, 17:12

I also don't get it working in blueMSX.

By dvik

Paragon (1517)

25-12-2006, 10:51

Weird. It must be something with the rom selection. I made a little database file you can try. Just unzip and place the file in the Databases directory (same directory where softwaredb.xml is located).

http://www.bluemsx.com/msxdevdb.zip

By ro

Prophet (2695)

25-12-2006, 12:03

still not worky worky

By dvik

Paragon (1517)

25-12-2006, 19:08

@ro, what MSX machine are you running in the emulator?

By dvik

Paragon (1517)

25-12-2006, 19:30

I have three rom files of the game for some reason. Here is how they work (only the first is in that little database):

NIGHTE.ROM: Konami Generic
NIGHT.ROM: ASCII8 (downloaded today from msxdev)
EN-NIGHT: ASCII8 (downloaded today from msxdev)

By ro

Prophet (2695)

25-12-2006, 20:21

Just standard MSX2 or MSX1 (both don't work). The ROM files are them DLed from the dev website: EN-NIGHT.ROM, NIGHT.ROM

By dvik

Paragon (1517)

25-12-2006, 20:24

I added the missing roms and uploaded a new version to: http://www.bluemsx.com/msxdevdb2.zip

By ro

Prophet (2695)

25-12-2006, 23:31

that works, so it's NOT Konami but ASCII 8 ROM....

By msd

Paladin (744)

26-12-2006, 11:14

Yes with ascii 8k it works fine

By Manuel

Enlighted (5675)

26-12-2006, 11:39

Um, how can it be that there are both ASCII8 and Konami mapped ROMs around???

By hap

Paragon (1101)

26-12-2006, 18:30

that's not very mysterious

"Germán Gómez Herrera has just updates his two entries, Skate Air and Night City. Now both games uses an Ascii8KB mapper. Download those new versions now!."

By dvik

Paragon (1517)

27-12-2006, 06:18

he he, I missed that but it certainly explains the confusion. Great that the game is updated to use a standard mapper

Maybe also update the comment on the msxdev status page: This game uses "Konami Generic" mapper

By mars2000you

Paragon (1848)

27-12-2006, 13:21

Status page has been edited

By hap

Paragon (1101)

27-12-2006, 14:47

Welcome back mars, forget last week's drama. As an MSXDEV team member, could you say if ripped graphics+music is allowed?

By mars2000you

Paragon (1848)

27-12-2006, 15:13

Read the rules and take your conclusions, I won't say here nor my personal opinion, nor the MSXDEV team opinion on this matter. The jury will also make his work in january. All official MSXDEV infos and decisions will appear on the MSXDEV website at the appropriate moment.

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