New game - Driar
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Best practice is to detect the TV system at reset and then configure the music engine and gameplay speed based on that.
Before I played the game, the thing that stood out was the graphics in the screenshots. They looked very professional. When I played it, though (up through level 20, I think) the thing that started to stand out was your level design. It's really some of the best I've seen in a homebrew. I really liked how you use the wrapping of the screen to get to otherwise out-of-reach places. The one level where you had fall through the floor to get to the platform above really made me grin. I basically liked everything except the music. Sorry man, it was just kind of grating to me. Everything else was awesome, though.
Hello there!
Driar is a really great game. Thats why i'm making my ow repro using a Famicom cart (game works perfect) and I wanted to share with you the visuals i'm making for the cart and the boxart:


I don not intend to sell it obviously and it will be presented on my website: CCCProject.fr along with my other repro carts and geeky stuff.
Driar is a really great game. Thats why i'm making my ow repro using a Famicom cart (game works perfect) and I wanted to share with you the visuals i'm making for the cart and the boxart:


I don not intend to sell it obviously and it will be presented on my website: CCCProject.fr along with my other repro carts and geeky stuff.
Your drawing of the enemy from the first level (in the lower left of the cover) looks amusingly/distressingly like Master Shake
edit: of all the stupid brainos to have made
edit: of all the stupid brainos to have made
Last edited by lidnariq on Fri Jul 27, 2012 4:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Well in fact it's based on the other guy from aqua teen hunger force, the one who looks like a cup of soda (sorry, I don't know his name). But if you play Driar, you'll see that there are pink enemies that really resemble a mix of the two (the french fries holder and the cup of soda).
I'm not the author of the drawings, but i've modified them enough so they're not as i got them (ie: the one used for Driar wasn't pink neither did he have a different colored belly and hands). I wanted Driar to have a scared/i-don't-have-a-clue look as i thought it went well with the spirit of the game.
I'm not the author of the drawings, but i've modified them enough so they're not as i got them (ie: the one used for Driar wasn't pink neither did he have a different colored belly and hands). I wanted Driar to have a scared/i-don't-have-a-clue look as i thought it went well with the spirit of the game.
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Apparently I know enough other romance languages to translate it:
"Hello my friends. I'm Driar! Aid me in collecting all the stars strewn around the 38 levels which make this new adventure!
Be careful, however, to not come in direct contact with the enemies, for I am defenseless against them!
Only way to avoid them, I can leave out of one side of the screen and reappear on the other!
"Hello my friends. I'm Driar! Aid me in collecting all the stars strewn around the 38 levels which make this new adventure!
Be careful, however, to not come in direct contact with the enemies, for I am defenseless against them!
Only way to avoid them, I can leave out of one side of the screen and reappear on the other!
You got that rightlidnariq wrote:Apparently I know enough other romance languages to translate it:
"Hello my friends. I'm Driar! Aid me in collecting all the stars strewn around the 38 levels which make this new adventure!
Be careful, however, to not come in direct contact with the enemies, for I am defenseless against them!
Only way to avoid them, I can leave out of one side of the screen and reappear on the other!

That wasn't any original text from the makers, I just made it up. Thought that was appropriate.
Just in case anyone finds this useful: I played through it entirely and made sure it worked. Only difference is I think the original leaves the game in 1scA mirroring the entire time, but the game didn't obviously use it.
The ips file just patches the routine that wrote to $E000 on the MMC1 with a 8-entry lookup table, saving and restoring the X register, and an indirect write.
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$ uuencode -m driar-to-unrom.ips driar-to-unrom.ips
begin-base64 644 driar-to-unrom.ips
UEFUQ0gAAAYAASEBxGgAE4pIpjKKnWPEaKpgAAECAwQFBgdFT0YK
====
$ crc32 Driar.nes DriarUNROM.nes driar\ ntsc*nes
2c31ce23 Driar.nes
fa0f003c DriarUNROM.nes
0805c647 driar ntsc.nes
de3b0858 driar ntscUNROM.nes
The ips file just patches the routine that wrote to $E000 on the MMC1 with a 8-entry lookup table, saving and restoring the X register, and an indirect write.
Re: New game - Driar
Guys, here's my own repro of Driar for Famicom: http://cccproject.fr/2012/08/driar-famicom/
Let me know what you think
Let me know what you think

Re: New game - Driar
I went and sliced-and-diced the original game to make it fit into a 64KiB UNROM board. I know jayminer released it as CC-BY-NC, but I went and double-checked it was OK first. The archive includes both the PAL and the single-byte-changed-for-NTSC version. I haven't bothered to use any automatic region detecting code, that's a more invasive modification. edit: Absolutely nothing except padding was removed (and the MMC1 banking code which was replaced with UNROM banking code)
edit2: You should download the fixed UNROM build here or the NROM build here
edit2: You should download the fixed UNROM build here or the NROM build here
Last edited by lidnariq on Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:00 pm, edited 2 times in total.
Re: New game - Driar
Sliced and diced? What exactly was cut to fit it into 64K? With the cost of memory being so cheap, I don't see the advantage unless absolutely nothing was lost.