ROOMS and Cur Manor

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JonnyManjiro
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ROOMS and Cur Manor

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]Hey everyone, first post on this forum.

If I'm being honest, I was a little reluctant to post these because there is so much amazing homebrew in here, but I just wanted to share a couple games I've made, mainly to see if I can get some feedback.

Download links and playthrough videos:

ROOMS
https://www.romhacking.net/homebrew/153/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6rXpCFG-Jg&t=22s

Cur Manor
https://www.romhacking.net/homebrew/154/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTXyI3pPgxU
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There is nothing wrong to post a project of any scope. We all have to start somewhere ;)
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Banshaku wrote: Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:15 pm There is nothing wrong to post a project of any scope. We all have to start somewhere ;)
Thanks for saying so :beer:
I'll probably stick to simple games like these for a while before I attempt more daunting challenges like scrolling 😅
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I really like the mechanic in Cur Manor of having to search the enemies instead of them just dropping stuff.

I think the weakes point of the games is the graphics, but you could easily add a little variety by just changin the palette or the tiles every floor, or every few levels in the case of rooms.
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Mazin wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 10:52 am I really like the mechanic in Cur Manor of having to search the enemies instead of them just dropping stuff.

I think the weakes point of the games is the graphics, but you could easily add a little variety by just changin the palette or the tiles every floor, or every few levels in the case of rooms.
Thanks for the feedback Mazin! I agree about the graphics - I think I'll try and create a stock of graphics before starting my next project.
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There's plenty on opengameart.
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Cut Manor is stuck on the start screen on MESEN (with setting: Default power on state for RAM: Random Values) - so it can be the same on a real cart.
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sdm wrote: Sat Feb 05, 2022 12:25 pm Cut Manor is stuck on the start screen on MESEN (with setting: Default power on state for RAM: Random Values) - so it can be the same on a real cart.
Thank you for pointing this out!

I think I've resolved the issue by adding code to assign zero to the WRAM values starting from $6000.

I actually was wondering if I needed to alter my clear memory routines since I'm using MMC1. Right now I'm just clearing $0000~$07FF and $6000~$6FFF. I suppose I could clear out through $7FFF just to be safe, but my assigned variables only go up to $6326.
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In my experience, it's a good idea to initialize all RAM, even if you don't intend to use it, because you may have a bug that uses that uninitialized RAM and thus may produce different behavior on different systems or power cycles. "Keroppi to Keroriinu no Splash Bomb!" on Famicom has such a bug, and the particular values determine whether the game will crash on the final boss or not. If it had initialized all RAM to 0, the crash would not happen (or if a crashy value had been chosen, would have always happened and likely been caught in development)
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Fiskbit wrote: Sat Feb 05, 2022 3:45 pm In my experience, it's a good idea to initialize all RAM, even if you don't intend to use it, because you may have a bug that uses that uninitialized RAM and thus may produce different behavior on different systems or power cycles. "Keroppi to Keroriinu no Splash Bomb!" on Famicom has such a bug, and the particular values determine whether the game will crash on the final boss or not. If it had initialized all RAM to 0, the crash would not happen (or if a crashy value had been chosen, would have always happened and likely been caught in development)
While this is true, I think it's even more important to make sure you have your emulator set to randomize ram. (and if using an emulator that supports it, randomize the mapper state as well). It might help you DISCOVER the bugs that reference unexpected ram locations.
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