MSXdev'06 #14: Word invaders

It's the last day of the MSXdev'06 competition and the final entries have started to drop in. The 14th entry to the competition comes from Sapphire, Makinavaja and WYZ. Their entry is called Word Invaders ; a game to test your typing skills in an 8kB ROM file.You can check it - and all other entries - out on the MSXdev'06 status page. Be sure to keep an eye out on more brand new MSX1 games today!

Relevant link: MSXdev website

Comments (14)

By NYYRIKKI

Prophet (2771)

01-01-2007, 02:11

Hmm... Feels like stupid game... I've tried to press all the keys and I can't get any of the letters to dissappear. Maybe it is because of MSX tR. Nice music though...

By Google

By jltursan

Paragon (1340)

01-01-2007, 02:34

um, you must type the letters sequentially...

By NYYRIKKI

Prophet (2771)

01-01-2007, 02:49

Yeah, I tried it on MSX2 setup on BlueMSX and managed to play it... Problem seems to be MSX tR only... Actually it is not so bad game that I thought...

By spl

Paragon (1230)

01-01-2007, 05:41

Simple... but great! I can't stop playing!

By Edwin

Paragon (1116)

01-01-2007, 13:26

A good way to improve my typing because it includes some special characters. It would have been perfect with some other characters and numbers as well. Maybe lines from a basic listing

By [WYZ]

Master (213)

01-01-2007, 16:20

At the main screen it's possible to select different word sets with alphanumerical characters by pressing 'select' key.

By Edwin

Paragon (1116)

01-01-2007, 16:29

Hmmm, let me guess, rtfm?

By [WYZ]

Master (213)

01-01-2007, 16:54

yep, that means you also can increase your reading skill . Thanks for playing it.

By DamageX

Master (211)

01-01-2007, 21:26

Cool. I got 454 (on PC keyboard...)

By SapphiRe

Master (253)

02-01-2007, 13:37

Ok, I've found what's the problem on TR machines. I set CAPST (FCABH) to a value different from zero to enable caps lock. According to MSX2THB it should works (and it works on MSX1, MSX2). But it seems than in MSX2+ and TR BIOS keyboard reading is different from other BIOS.

To play the game in a MSX2+ or TR just press CAPS LOCK and kill words

By SapphiRe

Master (253)

02-01-2007, 13:53

Ok, it's not an MSX model problem... it's a Locale BIOS problem. Japanese, Arabic and Korean BIOS need to manually press CAPS LOCK. On C-BIOS seems to not work properly.

By jltursan

Paragon (1340)

02-01-2007, 16:45

ROM -> Hexeditor -> byte index $25 -> change from $0F to $FF -> enjoy!