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The Great Gatsby - For NES!
- Thread starter Big One
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Lionel Mandrake
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Just came to post this. Amazingly well done.
TheLegendary
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Blablurn said:
My favorite book ever.
cooljeanius
Member
Reminds me of Ninja Gaiden. Which reminds me, I should probably finish that Virtual Console copy I received sometime...
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
That is awesome on the basis of that cover alone. Its going to be a long time until I see something as awesome as Gatsby throwing a hat at the giant spectacles which are shooting laser beams.
Stabby McSter
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GET THE FUCK OUTTA HEERRRREEEE!Blablurn said:
Pinko Marx
Banned
Yeah the book is damn boring.
I AM JOHN!
Banned
Blablurn said:
TheSeks said:
All of my rage.Pinko Marx said:
http://www.shinegame.com/games/great-gatsby/ this game sounds better!
RadioHeadAche
Member
He won't throw his hat in full screen mode.
POWERSPHERE
Banned
Blablurn said:
Wait till Baz Lurhmann rapes it, then you'll know what sucks means.
I AM JOHN!
Banned
For some reason, tab throws the hat in fullscreen mode instead.RadioHeadAche said:
hey_it's_that_dog
benevolent sexism
Cool game. The train boss was better than the one in Uncharted 2. Heh.
Freshmaker
I am Korean.
I am crying because this game is so beautiful.Lionel Mandrake said:
RadioHeadAche
Member
I AM JOHN! said:
I didn't see that bit in the directions at the bottom.
I AM JOHN!
Banned
Dude, the filter makes it PERFECT! It's so authentic in its bootleg look of seeming like someone just took a picture of the game playing on a TV and made that the screenshot, like so many manual creators and game magazines did in the NES era.cabel said:
Seriously, this entire thing is incredible. Who ever made this has my undying love and respect (also my hatred, but a loving hatred).
Jive Turkey
Unconfirmed Member
Oh that was awesome. I was disappointed that I didn't get to control the car when it hits Myrtle though.
captmcblack
Member
One of my favorite books of all time...and a stunningly competent retro-style game. Awesome shit, OP.
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that Ive been turning over in my mind ever since.
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world havent had the advantages that youve had.
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Edit: On topic, awesome game. Well done old sport!
Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, he told me, just remember that all the people in this world havent had the advantages that youve had.
Blablurn said:
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Edit: On topic, awesome game. Well done old sport!
UncleSporky
Member
It's most likely not possible because this game wasn't programmed to NES specifications.Tempy said:
The second level alone would be really tricky to do, it takes very precisely timed code to split the screen and make layers scroll independently like that. At best you'd probably just have the part above the train scrolling and then the train itself, and not the ground at the bottom.
You can only have 3 colors per sprite, not including transparency, but Nick alone has white, black, brown, skin tone, and red for his tie. It might be possible using overlaid sprites but this would be very wasteful and contribute to a lot of flickering.
Similarly, you can only have 4 simultaneous palettes worth of those 3 sprite colors. If we say there's red/black/skin and white/black/skin for the enemies, yellow/gold/pulsating white for coins and hats, grey/green/pulsating white for martini glasses, blue/dark blue/white for the fountain outside, light yellow/yellow/black for the chandeliers inside, and include Nick himself with the palette that can be brown or yellow unique to him...it goes way over.
There would also be a ton of sprite flickering. You can only have 8 sprites (of 8x8 size) per horizontal line. Each waiter is three sprites wide, including their trays. Nick is two sprites wide (three when jumping), but due to using extra colors, his tie at least would require an extra sprite and probably his face as well. Nick and two waiters standing in a line put you over the limit and start the flickering, and any other enemies/projectiles/coins/point numbers/moving objects would make it worse.
I haven't really looked at the title screen or backgrounds yet to see if they'd work.
Oh, would you look at that. A retro-style game that doesn't completely suck/fail at reproducing the style of the time. Well, apart from the use of colours, which would be impossible on an actual NES as UncleSporky said. Nice little platformers, with a combo mechanic to boot!
I actually died once (fell into the water). The game's credit told me to try a no-death run. Does anything special happen? The last lever was the beach stage in my one-death run.
I actually died once (fell into the water). The game's credit told me to try a no-death run. Does anything special happen? The last lever was the beach stage in my one-death run.
SpacePirate Ridley
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This is incredible!
Well done, old sport!
Its even fun to play
Well done, old sport!
Its even fun to play
SpacePirate Ridley
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UncleSporky
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I never died so I don't know how the ending might be different.Kilrogg said:
Nick looks at a mansion and watches it crumble Castlevania-style. There's a text crawl presumably quoting the end of the book, followed by fake credits and "Congratulations! Thank you for play." if you wait a bit after the credits, you see Nick getting off a train in a snowy area and it says "the end."
SpacePirate Ridley
Member
UncleSporky said:
Thats the secret ending, only the
snowing train scene.
The toughest part are maybe the Mafia guys and the 2nd boss (the baseball team). Baseball team is easy when you go with full life and start shooting your hat like crazy, if you try to think in that one, you are dead.