Universe: Unknown (MSXdev'05 game)

it's on the todo, amongst more stuff

Nice game. Good graphics and sound and definately not too easy. Good that there are emulators with save states. Otherwise it would have been hard to finish. Plans for an end demo too?

And again a very surprising and high quality game! Didn't have the time yet to play too far, but I'm impressed (again). Please don't stop making games like these now MSXDev is closed!

Just AMAZING!!!

Intelligent graphics, COOL musics and excellent gameplay. A game on the top!. Congrats, Infinite guys

We might add some balancing here and there.. maybe a turret less here and there, an extra nrg-pod here and there.. this and that enemy at a different coordinate etc. etc. Things might become less difficult then .. tho, the advantage of this game is that it's easy to pick-up your old condition after you die, just by collecting nrg pods ..

The weapon-system is a bit of a mix of nemesis and aleste

Ahwell, iirc Nemesis 2 had a beta as well ^_^

ROM loaders are not prepared to deal with 48 KB ROMs and no mapper.

It's a pity it only works with DOS1... now i have to make a giant leap back in time! But it sure looks good

robert> your comment pretty much describes why we want to do another release. It turned out to be extremely difficult it is to balance a game like this. Especially when you're doing it based on your own playing experience. Funny that you thought level 3 was the most difficult because that's the one that we spent the most time playing around in.

P.S. don't try the intro when starting from DOS. It was a quick hack I made after I read about the feature in The Cure thread. But I didn't adjust it to fit the changes I made later. The game should be fine though.

And, ehm, what about MSX2 detection to make that scroll smoother with R#18 ?

That wouldn't be so bad if the v9938 could just put 8 'msx1' sprites on a row (you know, the color thing).
By the way a great game! Way too difficult for me, but hey don't let something like that spoil the fun.
It would help if you could fire backwards a little...

That wouldn't be so bad if the v9938 could just put 8 'msx1' sprites on a row

Just use screen4 iso screen2. Then you get the msx2 sprites which would probably be enough for both masking borders and make the few cases where there are more than four sprites in a row look better).

So when can we expect the MSX2 port with a smooth scroll?

What's with the Gradius reference btw?

Isn't the word 'Nemesis' more common on MSX?

the name Nemesis might be more common on MSX outside of Japan, in Japan it's still Gradius.

And thus you have to write 16 bytes, to a different adress,
to change a color instead of one directly in the Spat.

Isn't screen4 identical to screen2 except that it has MSX2 sprites and support palettes?

Btw... when do you plan to release the new version of Universe: Unknown ??

Great!

Great looking game, but was let down because of strange weapon select, which gives weapons totally randomly, or then you get nothing.

That was because the instructions said about using keys N M or U and then select weapons movin up and down.

If you do like instructions says, the weapon select is totally random.

It took me many games until I discovered that you must HOLD DOWN those keys, not just press them once, like in Nemesis.

So, little correction to instructions would be nice.

After I found out the correct way to select weapons, game started to feel really good!! Congratulations.

There are background effects?