[release] [psp-hacks compo] BOXHEAD: PSP STYLE *PATCHED VERSION AVAILABLE!*

[Natey]

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nta7nn

Mirror By Nathanias(Natey)

[Physicist]

Thank you.

[SG57]

Thanks natey - Sorry about my bandwidth guys... googlepages is bleh lately...

And ya - this game is a real resource hog unfortunatly (i might be able to reduce it a bit). This is best ran from the XMB. Also, if you have a slim it should run better (cant say for sure but it should).

And ya put the mirror link up there

[Natey]

Hopefully we can get a Bugfix build out before we start adding features. If anything the most important things to fix are:

SYSTEM:
-Random Crashing while going to menu
-PSP Phat Random Crash

GAME:
-AI config to avoid walls
-Collision improvement

[785274]

Originally Posted by Natey

http://www.sendspace.com/file/nta7nn

Mirror By Nathanias(Natey)

thank you very much

[Natey]

Originally Posted by 785274

thank you very much

No Problem, if helping is all I can do let it be done to the fullest extent of my capabilities.

[SG57]

I'm not going to work on this for like 1 week so i can settle back down lol. It's finals week too (not like highschool sophmore year is hard) so..

And yeah all crashes that i know of i've traced back and the 2 are that one deals with the audiot0 thread (audio thread channel 0) meaning the background music. I traced that and it has to do with unloading it. The other is a memory allocation crash meaning it's out of RAM. I am unloading all resources going from game->menu however I think this crash ties in with the other one (mp3 not freeing entirely).

In anycase, they are inconveniences that I'm willing to let live for hte time being (for a week anyway, i gotta focus on my finals :S)

[Natey]

I've got finals coming up too, I feel your pain. Although I'm 1 year behind you, so it probalby won't be as bad

[Physicist]

At the minute this game is too easy. It was great fun air striking about 50 of them before it crashed. Definitely needs some sort of AI improvement. I'll keep a space on my MS for the next release.

[Natey]

I think Beginner is pretty easy, and Nightmare is very hard... all depends if Devils are on or off

Anyway, SG57 gave us what we wanted, we should be happy.

We should be happier that this will actually be updated. There are many "half-releases" of homebrew that gets dropped.

[SG57]

Physicist - Crashed on an airstrike? The worse that could happen is it gets slower frames per second due to the increasing amounts of blood and explosion marks.

And so far i've gotten to 13 million, on double trouble (the biggest map) before dieing by a long range fireball lol.

And ya enemies would've been much better had i not procrastinated waiting for hte spritesheets :S

[Physicist]

No the airstrike didn't cause the crash, I haven't had any framerate problems it just randomly crashed about 30 seconds after.

[Natey]

What was your CPU speed setting? I doubt it was an overload but idk...

The RAM usage for the in-game should stay constant unless you are switching songs.

I believe the majority of the problems can be linked to the Audio playing.

[Physicist]

It's set to 333 in both xmb and game.

It crashed when I died once too, the memory stick LED keeps flashing when I die maybe that's why? IDK

BTW I don't have any mp3s so it's nothing to do with music.

[Natey]

Ok, even on slims there is that random crash when you die or go to the main menu.

It's not exactly the Music, but the Handler... this is all speculation from what I've heard from SG57

[Physicist]

Hmm well still pretty good. I'll have to give it a go with some music. It'll probably be amazing haha.

[Natey]

yea heavy metal while killing zombies is awesome

[SG57]

Well hey once the contest is finished/decided, i'll start fixing the bugs and tweaking the values so they are all good. And ya it takes 2 rockets to kill a zombie at first, as you level up though and get the quad damage upgrade it becomes one. Probably should fix that. Same goes for barrels (weak at first). Those all will be changed after the contest is over (i dont think releasing another version while an old one is being judged is such a good idea)

[Physicist]

Yeah, the game's pretty professional looking as it is.
Omg I just got 1548 ft. on Kitten Cannon.

[Odd_Sam]

Originally Posted by SG57

i dont think releasing another version while an old one is being judged is such a good idea

Meh, shouldn't keep you from continuing to work on it though

Originally Posted by Physicist

Yeah, the game's pretty professional looking as it is.
Omg I just got 1548 ft. on Kitten Cannon.

I've gotten much higher btw...

[Natey]

My kitten cannon highscore is 4800 xD
-= Double Post =-
UPDATE:

After listening to what you have had to say, and speaking with other people, I may have found a temporary Solution to the crashing on Phats.

IF YOU WISH TO TEST THIS THEORY PLEASE INSTALL THE 3.71 FATSMOD.PRX Onto your Series1000 PSP.

If it works better/worse please report ^_^

[SG57]

Ok there ya go guys.

I updated it to fix all the inconveniences.
Check the first post for an updated list of things fixed in the patch

Odd sam & Physicist - lol Kitten Cannon... *fires it up to procrastinate from doing english homework* dam you two

[FaT3oYCG]

lol think ill put my 2d lua version on hold then

id mirror this because i like it so much but if i did you would probably kill my computer with the ammount of downloads lol

EDIT:

omg noooooooooooooooooooooooo ooo

Originally Posted by SG57

Bugs:
I procrastinated for 3 weeks while waiting for some spritesheets so i really rushed the enemy implementation so it may be buggy. For instance an enemy might get stuck on a wall, not saying any will, just that there might be a possibility.

EDIT 2:

omg yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees







EDIT 3:

SG what is the next weapon after the airstrike ???

becuase i had over 1000 kills atleast 5 times and no new weapon, how many kills do you need to get the next weapon ?

EDIT 4:

oh and my score translates into three hundred and fifty eight million five hundred and twenty five thousand two hundred points

roflol

[SG57]

WOW! You've earned my respect lolol

Look at all the blood lolololol.

Yeah i told you it might happen :S

And after airstrike there isn't a new weapon ,there's 8 weapons, 90 upgrades (give or take lol)

pistol
uzi
shotgun
barrels
barricades
minigun
rockets
airstrike

My highest is 127 million. And hey want me to make it take a screenshot when you get a highscore and save it, like i did with kitten cannon (to make screenshots easier).

I make a vow right here and now to beat that score! (btw, what music do you listen to whilst surviving hordes of zombies and devils? I prefer the alternative brand, maybe some techno )
Btw, what difficulty did you start on? I see you were on level 19. Intermediate? I find beginner best for when you're dedicated and want to get a new highscore

[FaT3oYCG]

Originally Posted by SG57

WOW! You've earned my respect lolol

Look at all the blood lolololol.

Yeah i told you it might happen :S

And after airstrike there isn't a new weapon ,there's 8 weapons, 90 upgrades (give or take lol)

pistol
uzi
shotgun
barrels
barricades
minigun
rockets
airstrike

My highest is 127 million. And hey want me to make it take a screenshot when you get a highscore and save it, like i did with kitten cannon (to make screenshots easier).

I make a vow right here and now to beat that score! (btw, what music do you listen to whilst surviving hordes of zombies and devils? I prefer the alternative brand, maybe some techno )

i was listening to plug in baby by muse it seemed to suit the tone of blowing the s|-|it out of thousands of zombies. i got raped by about 7 devils in the end lol

and yeah can you make it save a screenie when you get a new high score, also can you add a screenshot function in to the actual game ? so say if you press select it takes a screenie because that would be most excelent.

i actually managed to kill that zombie i found a box that had some rockets in but it took all of them to kill it lol, i found it quite hilarious that with my upgraded uzi i could get one shot kills on zombies

coupple of bugs, the zombie who got stuck on the wall obv, but you see the tree it has two boxes stuck on it you cant get the boxes, it seems that the zombies can go onto the tree slightly but you cant so i coulnt get them, not a biggie tho.

thanks for making this SG i actually only downloaded it when i made my first post but i put i love it because i have played the online version, i got that score on my fourth go, the first three times i died at like level 2, but i got to level 20 to get that score.

i hope you do beat my score because then i have something to beat lol, could you try and add a high score online system ? that would rock.

as you can see by my post times it took about an hour to get that score so good luck lol

Thanks

F@T3oYCG

p.s. ill mirror it when there is less traffic

[SG57]

Argh i got a somewhat highscore lol

120,779,800 on close combat nightmare without devils though lol. Devils are great fun though, ill try it again with devils I just got completely surrounded by zombies and.... well you know... I just ran out of ammunition and got over run, as expected lol. I had a few close calls but i managed

Also yeah i should probably set a limit for the blood and burnt marks because once theres atleast 1000 of them it starts to get a little slow (tons of loops and drawing per main loop lol).

Also ya i gotta fix the dam upgrades lol Now that ive changed the damages and whatnot i need ot go back through and fix the upgrades.

I personally love Double Trouble with devils The long range fireballs are funny lol

[FaT3oYCG]

Originally Posted by SG57

Argh i got a somewhat highscore lol

120,779,800 on close combat nightmare without devils though lol. Devils are great fun though, ill try it again with devils I just got completely surrounded by zombies and.... well you know... I just ran out of ammunition and got over run, as expected lol. I had a few close calls but i managed

Also yeah i should probably set a limit for the blood and burnt marks because once theres atleast 1000 of them it starts to get a little slow (tons of loops and drawing per main loop lol).

Also ya i gotta fix the dam upgrades lol Now that ive changed the damages and whatnot i need ot go back through and fix the upgrades.

I personally love Double Trouble with devils The long range fireballs are funny lol

woot nightmare mode is sick i only just tested it i just thought it would be harder but you get all the weapons lol i was on beginner mode when i got that score now i can kick ass on nightmare mode, new super high score coming right up lol

[SG57]

You dont start with all the weapons on nightmare lol but you do start with a huge arsenal (after all there TONS of zombies and devils lol)

So do you think ad hoc co-op would be fun?

[FaT3oYCG]

Originally Posted by SG57

You dont start with all the weapons on nightmare lol but you do start with a huge arsenal (after all there TONS of zombies and devils lol)

So do you think ad hoc co-op would be fun?

yes i think adhoc co-op would be amazing , as i said i started making a 2d lua version i was going to add co-op into that but in two different modes, but just having normal 2 psp player would be amazin, but i would limit the players distance away from each other so they have to be so close might make it a little harder otherwise you could easily take all of the zombies out

[Mraellis]

Wow well done f@t3oy Uber score.

Adhoc would be Brilliant!!