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**alatnet** · 12-13-2005, 08:24 PM

This is a beta of the game "acno's energizer" for the psp.
The graphics may suck, but this is for my programing class.

You can get it here and test it out for me.
Im still working on it (implamenting some stuff).
All it has is 3 playable lvl's and 1 lvl under construction.
It can run using Lua Player 1.5 (maybe lower) or File Assistant++.
Check the readme.txt for more info.

**PSPHax0r9** · 12-13-2005, 09:39 PM

Screenshots?
Details?
Explanation?
Add these then you will have much more respect here.

**alatnet** · 12-14-2005, 04:20 AM

screen shots might be a bit hard since i dont have a digital camrea.
but if you check out the miniclip.com version, you will notice that my beta version has almost the same game dynamics as the miniclip.com one.

**alatnet** · 12-14-2005, 06:36 AM

Had a problem with the server not being able to let people download the beta, cus it was a .zip file, so i added .jpg to the end of the extention name.

You can now get it here.

**Jake** · 12-14-2005, 12:19 PM

It's still not working, bud. If you email it to MalumEnSe@gmail.com I'll post it up for you.

**alatnet** · 12-14-2005, 03:41 PM

Hmmm. I have found another file hosting site (filefactory.com) and ive uploaded the file to it.

Here's the link:
http://www.filefactory.com/get/f.php...22aac20b4c7446

It has a 15 day limit of staying on the server if the file has not been accessed.

**InhumanElmo** · 12-14-2005, 03:49 PM

If you add this line of code for a certain button you can take screenshots since you say its written in lua. for this example its select.

if pad:select() then
screen:save("screenshot.p ng")
end

this is all assuming that its written in lua.

**FrozenIpaq** · 12-14-2005, 03:53 PM

I won't be able to have the liberty of checking this out as I need to finish a term paper, but I've uploaded the file via the attachements in my post.

If you would like, you can now link to the attachement link (direct download), which is this: http://forums.qj.net/attachments/psp-development-forum/2100-acnos-energizer-acnos_energizer_beta.zip

**Jake** · 12-14-2005, 03:56 PM

I get an error trying to run this from FileAssistant++, it says:

error: core/time.lua:1: attempt to index global 'Timer' (a nil value)
Error: No script file found.
Press start to restart

**FrozenIpaq** · 12-14-2005, 04:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MalumEnSe

I get an error trying to run this from FileAssistant++, it says:

error: core/time.lua:1: attempt to index global 'Timer' (a nil value)
Error: No script file found.
Press start to restart

Did you try just using Lua Player to run it/Lowser? Maybe the program still needs working on. Any of our talented Lua programmers wish to hand out a hand?

**Jake** · 12-14-2005, 04:09 PM

Got it working in Lua .15

**FrozenIpaq** · 12-14-2005, 04:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MalumEnSe

Got it working in Lua .15

Ah see big boy, it works :P So..how is it?

**theman69** · 12-14-2005, 04:14 PM

lol its funny how you guys talk to eachother

By the way download Bleach 61!!!!!!!!!!

**FrozenIpaq** · 12-14-2005, 04:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theman69

lol its funny how you guys talk to eachother

Nah, I don't get to chat with Malum much and I'm very loose and talk openly, never have. I've only had a chances to chat with Giga, but I haven't seen him in a while....now back on topic!!!!

So, what type of game is this? I know there are levels, but um...any more description of it :O Hopefully you won't just throw this project down after you get an A+ in programming class :P

**alatnet** · 12-14-2005, 04:44 PM

Its a puzzle game.

I might still work on it.
mabye create a vb program that lets you create lvls.

I have been modifying the code a bit more.
the core files has been modified a bit.
the gfx are a bit better.
made an icon for the program.
maybe add a high score file, with IrDA compare.
maybe some more stuff.

Once i make the game dynamics a bit better i'll release beta2.

also the original web (demo) version is at:
http://www.miniclip.com/acno/acno.htm

**alatnet** · 12-14-2005, 07:59 PM

oh yea, another thing, i said that this game can run on fileassistant++, turns out that it cant cus of the timer function ive implamented in the code.

**alatnet** · 12-14-2005, 08:30 PM

get it at:
http://www.filefactory.com/get/f.php...8acc3d28e0625c

Major improvements.

check the readme for more info.

BlueViper · 12-16-2005, 09:50 AM

This is a great game! Perfect for psp. But, it doesn't work very well on my psp, game over after just a few seconds=/ Hope you fix this, looked good the little I saw of it.

**alatnet** · 12-16-2005, 12:14 PM

I might have not re-edit the time.lua code in the folder "core", when i release it as (i think) beta2. If you get the game over screen after around 5 second then your going to have to edit the time.lua code.

To fix this, open the time.lua file in any text editing program (don't use notepad cus it mostly puts the code on one line with squares as spaces), i recomend wordpad that comes with windows.
Next where it says, "tls=5" (this should be in the 3rd line), add a 4 after the "=", but before the "5".

This should fix that slight problem.

Another thing, i've been working really hard on the game.
Its comming along great and i might add in a few more lvls when i get the enemy ai fix up to have more that just going up/down. I'll try to add in lives and a few more things. I'm also working on a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) map editor in VB for this game, but first i'm going to have to get it to create lvl files. I might have a beta for it soon.

BlueViper · 12-17-2005, 01:13 PM

That wasn't the problem, hope you find it. Could it be that I am using fw 2.0 maybe? LUA isn't very stable on 2.0...
I hope you continue work on the level editor and the game. Fix bugs, add enemys, etc. Then this game could be the best homebrew out there, even beating attack of the mutants!

**alatnet** · 12-17-2005, 07:41 PM

I have only tested it out on fw 1.5, with the latest luaplayer.

**alatnet** · 12-29-2005, 12:05 PM

small update that implaments lives in the game.
I guess i got my muse back.

**thedan** · 12-29-2005, 01:55 PM

Heya alatnet,

I get this error after completing the second level:

error: cannot read levels/lvl5/lvl.x: No such file or directory
Error: No script file found.

Press start to restart

=(

BlueViper · 12-29-2005, 02:55 PM

Great alatnet! Hope your muse will be with you a long time! I think more and more people will discover this game if you keep developing it.

**alatnet** · 12-29-2005, 04:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by thedan

Heya alatnet,

I get this error after completing the second level:

error: cannot read levels/lvl5/lvl.x: No such file or directory
Error: No script file found.

Press start to restart

=(

lvl5 is a custom level that you can create using AELC.
im still trying to figure out how to implament custom level selections.
Its normal.

**alatnet** · 12-29-2005, 04:08 PM

w8 second level?

**alatnet** · 01-24-2006, 06:41 AM

Update:

I've added a main menu and a sub menu.
Im going to add an Continue sub menu.
Im going to add an Instructions sub menu.
Im going to add a High Scores sub menu.
Im going to add a Play Custom Level sub sub menu in the Extra sub menu.
Im going to add a Create a Level sub sub menu in the Extra sub menu.
Im going to add a Mods sub sub menu in the Extra sub menu.
Im going to add ir high score transfer & comparison.
More to come...

12-13-2005, 08:24 PM	#1
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	acno's energizer This is a beta of the game "acno's energizer" for the psp. The graphics may suck, but this is for my programing class. You can get it here and test it out for me. Im still working on it (implamenting some stuff). All it has is 3 playable lvl's and 1 lvl under construction. It can run using Lua Player 1.5 (maybe lower) or File Assistant++. Check the readme.txt for more info. __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

12-14-2005, 04:20 AM	#3
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	screen shots might be a bit hard since i dont have a digital camrea. but if you check out the miniclip.com version, you will notice that my beta version has almost the same game dynamics as the miniclip.com one. __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

12-14-2005, 06:36 AM	#4
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	Had a problem with the server not being able to let people download the beta, cus it was a .zip file, so i added .jpg to the end of the extention name. You can now get it here. __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

12-14-2005, 12:19 PM	#5
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12-14-2005, 03:41 PM	#6
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	Hmmm. I have found another file hosting site (filefactory.com) and ive uploaded the file to it. Here's the link: http://www.filefactory.com/get/f.php...22aac20b4c7446 It has a 15 day limit of staying on the server if the file has not been accessed. __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

12-13-2005, 09:39 PM	#2
PSPHax0r9 Quality Haxing Since 1991 Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Fi Posts: 6,206 Trader Feedback: 0	Screenshots? Details? Explanation? Add these then you will have much more respect here.

12-14-2005, 03:49 PM	#7
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12-14-2005, 03:56 PM	#9
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12-14-2005, 04:09 PM	#11
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12-14-2005, 04:14 PM	#13
theman69 Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Box Posts: 130 Trader Feedback: 0	lol its funny how you guys talk to eachother By the way download Bleach 61!!!!!!!!!!

12-14-2005, 04:44 PM	#15
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	Its a puzzle game. I might still work on it. mabye create a vb program that lets you create lvls. I have been modifying the code a bit more. the core files has been modified a bit. the gfx are a bit better. made an icon for the program. maybe add a high score file, with IrDA compare. maybe some more stuff. Once i make the game dynamics a bit better i'll release beta2. also the original web (demo) version is at: http://www.miniclip.com/acno/acno.htm __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP - Last edited by alatnet; 12-14-2005 at 04:47 PM..

12-14-2005, 07:59 PM	#16
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	oh yea, another thing, i said that this game can run on fileassistant++, turns out that it cant cus of the timer function ive implamented in the code. __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

12-14-2005, 08:30 PM	#17
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	acno's energizer beta2 get it at: http://www.filefactory.com/get/f.php...8acc3d28e0625c Major improvements. check the readme for more info. __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

12-16-2005, 09:50 AM	#18
BlueViper Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 27 Trader Feedback: 0	This is a great game! Perfect for psp. But, it doesn't work very well on my psp, game over after just a few seconds=/ Hope you fix this, looked good the little I saw of it.

12-16-2005, 12:14 PM	#19
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	I might have not re-edit the time.lua code in the folder "core", when i release it as (i think) beta2. If you get the game over screen after around 5 second then your going to have to edit the time.lua code. To fix this, open the time.lua file in any text editing program (don't use notepad cus it mostly puts the code on one line with squares as spaces), i recomend wordpad that comes with windows. Next where it says, "tls=5" (this should be in the 3rd line), add a 4 after the "=", but before the "5". This should fix that slight problem. Another thing, i've been working really hard on the game. Its comming along great and i might add in a few more lvls when i get the enemy ai fix up to have more that just going up/down. I'll try to add in lives and a few more things. I'm also working on a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) map editor in VB for this game, but first i'm going to have to get it to create lvl files. I might have a beta for it soon. __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

12-29-2005, 01:55 PM	#23
thedan Site Admin Join Date: May 2005 Location: Internet Posts: 355 Trader Feedback: 0	Heya alatnet, I get this error after completing the second level: error: cannot read levels/lvl5/lvl.x: No such file or directory Error: No script file found. Press start to restart =( __________________ [FONT=Fixedsys]"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."[/FONT] [I][SIZE=1]- Oliver Wendell Holmes[/SIZE][/I] --- [B]source[/B]: [I][SIZE=2][U][URL=http://forums.qj.net/member.php?u=1604]FrozenIpaq's Signature[/URL][/U][/SIZE][/I] [center][size=1][size=1][color=black][url="http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=19678"] [/url] [url="http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=19678"][Thank You Members!!][/url] --- [url="http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=16876"]Ultimate Newbie Guide[/url]--- [url="http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?p=13162#post13162"]Posting Guidelines[/url] [url="http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=4394"]Piracy Policy[/url] --- [url="http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=2189&highlight=Ultimate"]Ultimate Guide[/url] --- [url="http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?goto=newpost&t=18205"]Downgrader Topic[/url] [url="http://forums.qj.net/showthread.php?t=9708"]Operation PSPositive Posting[/url] [/color][/size] [/size][/center]

12-17-2005, 01:13 PM	#20
BlueViper Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 27 Trader Feedback: 0	That wasn't the problem, hope you find it. Could it be that I am using fw 2.0 maybe? LUA isn't very stable on 2.0... I hope you continue work on the level editor and the game. Fix bugs, add enemys, etc. Then this game could be the best homebrew out there, even beating attack of the mutants!

12-17-2005, 07:41 PM	#21
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	I have only tested it out on fw 1.5, with the latest luaplayer. __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

12-29-2005, 02:55 PM	#24
BlueViper Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Sweden Posts: 27 Trader Feedback: 0	Great alatnet! Hope your muse will be with you a long time! I think more and more people will discover this game if you keep developing it.

12-29-2005, 04:08 PM	#26
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	w8 second level? __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -

01-24-2006, 06:41 AM	#27
alatnet PSP Developer Join Date: Oct 2005 Real First Name: Alex Location: ~* Confidential ~ Just Played: N/A* Posts: 839 Trader Feedback: 0	Update: I've added a main menu and a sub menu. Im going to add an Continue sub menu. Im going to add an Instructions sub menu. Im going to add a High Scores sub menu. Im going to add a Play Custom Level sub sub menu in the Extra sub menu. Im going to add a Create a Level sub sub menu in the Extra sub menu. Im going to add a Mods sub sub menu in the Extra sub menu. Im going to add ir high score transfer & comparison. More to come... __________________ "Every team needs an idealistic person (whether they are a noob or a pro), my team doesn't have one cus im the idealistic founder."-me Anime/Manga and Fanfiction is my inspiration! Creator of: - PSPSDK makefile creator - Lua Prompt - Animated Sprite Class\Library for Lua - Gmax2PSP -