Articles by Retro Ports

Aside from a couple of bugs in my transcode which prevented more than the first line of logs to be displayed, it was trivial to add the other 9 rows of scrolling objects. No scrolling yet… Now to get them scrolling! …

Very quick update; I’ve done some RE on the code to display the scrolling content and transcoded the top row of logs. I’ve transcoded just the top row of logs so far,the rest will be a doddle. In the process I came across what is possibly the worst piece of …

Still plugging away at Frogger as time allows. I’ve been working through the high-level foreground/background (depending on your nomenclature preference) and NMI code, ensuring I’ve transcoded everything that is not in a subroutine. Along the way I’ve managed to name a few more variables, mostly simple flags, but also decided …

Not much time to work on Frogger now that it’s school holidays AND Tour de France time… but I did get the score updated whenever the frog hops forward. Getting a frog to the top of the screenwill earn you 100 pts. Not that I went looking to do this, …

I’ve now got it displaying “GAME OVER” when the last frog dies… It animates the frogs dyingbefore showing the GAME OVER screen However after subsequently clearing the screen, it hangs the Neo Geo. I have done a little more RE and identified some more of the code, specifically the …

Managed to fix the never-ending frogs left display; from memory (I’ve forgotten already) it was a flag/timer that was never updated in what I had transcoded, so it was forever decrementing a frog. I also managed to get the player inputs working, after implementing another cascading execution flow of arbitrary …

I’ve been working towards getting the gameplay to a point where I can control the frog. Given that it hops around in attract mode, I figured the mechanics at least were there. But it has been a bit of a slog to get to the point where it will actually …