Green Beret - possible MSX2 remake

ARTRAG and Paulbrk have been busy little bees. They were toying with the idea to create a decent MSX2 version of Konami's Green Beret for MSX, which was a decent game concept but ended up as a failed English affair. In their initial demonstration you'll see MSX2 graphics (taken from the original Arcade), a full screen scroll and improved sprites. They strive to have the resulting game look better than the original, with all new graphics.

ARTRAG and Paulbrk won't finish this new development on their own though, and invite an enthusiastic programmer (and eventually a composer) to join their forces. If you are the Rambo of bits 'n bytes, do contact them! Green Beret for MSX2.. it's about time that happened!

Relevant link: Green Beret MSX2 demo

Reacties (18)

Van SolidEric

Champion (332)

06-02-2011, 22:14

looks nice guys, good horizontal scrolling too.

Van ro

Scribe (5059)

07-02-2011, 07:39

the link appears to be broken

Van ARTRAG

Enlighted (6976)

07-02-2011, 08:33

this should work
https://sites.google.com/site/testmsx/Home/smooth-horizontal-scrolling

Van Paulbrk

Hero (611)

07-02-2011, 08:50

I am gonna make all the graphics for the entire game if someone wants to code the entire game.
Artrag gives the base code of the demo to the person that will be the coder of the full game.

It is possible to do a very close pixel perfect conversion

Van Paulbrk

Hero (611)

07-02-2011, 12:11

Please wolf, change the link, is broken, use this link:

https://sites.google.com/site/testmsx/Home/smooth-horizontal-scrolling

Van wolf_

Ambassador_ (10135)

07-02-2011, 12:14

already changed it to that Karoshi forum.. but I could also change it to that google link if you wish.. it doesn't contain the .dsk though..

Van Paulbrk

Hero (611)

07-02-2011, 13:03

Thanks Wolf

Van ray2day

Paladin (752)

07-02-2011, 17:45

Very cool demo. A MSX2 version of Green Beret wow! Ofcourse there are some little problems to fix, anyhow keep up the good work! I hope there is someone who wants to help Artrag and Paulbrk to finish this project.

regards,
ray2day

Van kuuno

Master (231)

07-02-2011, 20:39

What about 2+ adoption for super smooth scrolling?
Kinda bored with all the msx 1 stuff.... Too bad I'm not a coder nor a musician.

Van Hrothgar

Champion (479)

07-02-2011, 21:09

Looks very good!

@Kuuno: what do you think an MSX2+ can do better here? Only thing I can think of is very fast scrolling (3px per frame or more), which is hardly needed in this game.

Van wolf_

Ambassador_ (10135)

07-02-2011, 21:21

Well, when using 4 bits for the Y values (in YJK, resulting in 16 gradient steps) one can layer sc5 on top of it.. that could add some extra smooth sky 'n shades here and there..

Van kuuno

Master (231)

07-02-2011, 21:31

Now that would be nice . And an extra screen 12 image would be über retro.

Van wolf_

Ambassador_ (10135)

07-02-2011, 21:41

"über retro"

I somehow fail to see the link between what mankind condiders 'retro' and a photo quality screen mode. ^_^

Van JohnHassink

Ambassador (5684)

07-02-2011, 22:49

What about 2+ adoption for super smooth scrolling?
Kinda bored with all the msx 1 stuff....
Ehm, sorry I ask, but what's the difference between this scrolling and "super smooth scrolling"?
Have you noticed this project isn't MSX1 at all and scrolls smoothly using 'just' the MSX2 abilities? Did you look at it?