Should I continue working on this flash game?

[Coolboyman]

I worked on this for a couple of days six or so months ago.  It's glitchy and stuff so all the glitches you see I'm well aware of.  Should I keep working on it and turn it into something cool?

http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1341793132

Enter: Start
Z: A
X: B

[rtil]

what were you planning for it to be? all you can do is move around really (afaik)

[Coolboyman]

what were you planning for it to be? all you can do is move around really (afaik)

You can press enter to bring up the main menu and choose options with Z. 

I was planning on remaking the Pokemon Gameboy engine where it would execute the data in the same way the official game does (for example the map is stored as a binary array in the exact same way as Pokemon Red) because, I don't know I felt like it.  I'm thinking of taking it even further by embedding the ROM into the flash file and having the flash file read the data directly from the ROM.

Edit: Now with the ROM embedded in the SWF like I said I would do.  Took me about an hour and half and reads maps straight from the ROM: http://www.swfcabin.com/open/1341818739

[rtil]

swfcabin is not loading for me

[Coolboyman]

swfcabin is not loading for me

Why didn't I just upload it here.  Still needs a lot of work.

[swf]http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/2563/848mK4_pokemon.swf[/swf]

[SHADOWFOX2]

I see I've chosen the fire type....excellent.
Of course you should finish whatever you start

[Kooh]

Woah nelly, after messing around in the pokedex the game suddenly just started lagging a lot.

[Coolboyman]

Woah nelly, after messing around in the pokedex the game suddenly just started lagging a lot.

It's glitchy and stuff so all the glitches you see I'm well aware of.

lol.  I'm just asking if I should continue programming and finish this. 

A couple of people elsewhere were telling me that it's a good idea but "Flash is dying" and I should do it in html5 or something.

[rtil]

until youtube fully transitions to its html5 player and 99% of IE users are using IE9, flash isn't dead

[Coolboyman]

until youtube fully transitions to its html5 player and 99% of IE users are using IE9, flash isn't dead

Yeah I think so too... even though he thinks flash is on the way out extremely soon. 

I might as well make flash and html5 versions if I decide to go with this.  I'm interested in html5 anyway... also Javascript and Actionscript 3 are similar.

Think of this at the moment, as a Pokemon Red and Blue emulator.  I embedded my hack's ROM (Pokemon Brown) into the swf but if you embed Red or Blue instead it'll display Red/Blue maps instead.  It'd be the same... just with Actionscript 3 controlling the engine instead of Zilog Z80.  Programming for the game would be a lot easier. 

But of course, a LOT of work needs to be done before it gets to that point.  I might just do it for fun on my free time. 

[dilly]

it'd be nice to know what all you are creating this for. is it just r/b/y in flash or an entirely new game?

as far as continuing it, i would at least change the fonts in the menus to a font similar to the game (which i'm sure you would do anyway)

[Blordow]

hintz and tipz: charizard evolves into squirtle using a moon stone

[Coolboyman]

it'd be nice to know what all you are creating this for. is it just r/b/y in flash or an entirely new game?

as far as continuing it, i would at least change the fonts in the menus to a font similar to the game (which i'm sure you would do anyway)

It's still up in the air.  I was just doing this for fun really, and was considering taking this engine and changing it into either an original game, or a Pokemon game with the look and feel of the first Generation for flash.  If I were to do the latter, it wouldn't just be a remake, it would be a new Pokemon game running off of this engine. 

This weekend I was able to emulate the 8-bit sound engine that Red uses.  It's not a wav or an mp3 file, it reads the bytes from a song in the Pokemon ROM uses that information to produce a song generated by a square wave.  I still need to implement the triangle and sawtooth wave support. 

And yeah the flash should use PC Senior fonts, I just forgot to embed it for certain parts because I forgot not everyone has that font. 

hintz and tipz: charizard evolves into squirtle using a moon stone

Yep, testing evolutions with items at the time.

[Philip K Dick]

so wait is this you http://www.rijon.com/

[Coolboyman]

so wait is this you http://www.rijon.com/

yep.

[Philip K Dick]

i knew it!!

[Kooh]

I say yes continue this fine game.

[Coolboyman]

Then I shall work on it from time to time and decide what to do with it later if I want to make a finalized game. 

I made some progress since last time resulting in an almost empty library.  I'll upload it when it's playable.

Flash is leaking memory on map reloads for some reason.  "Automatic garbage collection" my ass.

[Coolboyman]

An update! I've made A LOT of progress with this engine.  Check it out.  Also read below before playing.

Make sure your mouse isn't over the flash.  It lags it for some reason.

The NPCs are missing and you can't leave the city.  It has a lot of stuff built in though.  This reads from binary files in order to draw the maps and absolutely everything, even the new dynamic music engine which I also wrote myself (It produces sound without library sound files). 

If it lags for you then I'm sorry I'm still trying to optimize the memory because flash refuses to do it automatically like it claims it does. 

DO NOT access the menus at the moment.  I haven't fixed them since last time and they might fuck up again.

So I'm thinking of getting the overworld engine completed then move onto the rest of the menus then battles.  After that I'll have a kick ass RPG engine with an 8-bit feel I can use to transform into other games.

Please let me know what you think!

[swf]http://www.thebackalleys.com/dump/files/2563/452c2B_pokemon.swf[/swf]

[Crabarms]

I think not having an npc block the stairs in the poke center is an improvement over the original.


Still lags a bit unfortunately sometimes exiting/entering will screw the sound over for a few seconds.