WIP - Shinobi MD port

[tryphon]

It's looking and playing great, my congrats for taking the huge effort of recreating a game like this from scratch.

However, I'm getting some fatal errors in real hardware through Mega Everdrive sometimes when the game boots or restarts after dying. I'll see if I can get them reproduced in emulator (which doesn't give those problems so far) so I can post a clean screenshot, or else I'll take a picture from my TV showing it.

That's really weird. I died several hundredth of times yesterday with no bug, and the game was played on real hardware by some persons today w/o someone reporting this.

Can you reproduce it and isolate some pattern (iccurs only when dying at a precise location for example) ?

Also, just in case, do you know the precise model of your ED and your Megadrive ?

I'd say after a good minute, in the video I show pushing the B button (to no result) but being able to kick an enemy at the end.
You can see the video here https://1drv.ms/v/s!AnYW1mPiiWP6koBJ0Jzut-whpTJGig
Sorry for the abysmal quality, but I was playing with a single hand

Strange too.

Do you remember if something special happened the last time you could draw shuriken ? Did you launch them at some special place ?

Can you reproduce it ?

[Tor Landeel]

I got it. For some reason, from time to time you'll be able to throw more than 4 shurikens. It happens mostly randomly, but generally while killing enemies jumping.
The easiest way to reproduce it is to tap B right after being killed. When I respawn I'll always throw at least 5 shurikens.
See video: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AnYW1mPiiWP6koBLOXdv8zG8ZI5NXg
Hope this helps.

[tryphon]

I got it. For some reason, from time to time you'll be able to throw more than 4 shurikens. It happens mostly randomly, but generally while killing enemies jumping.
The easiest way to reproduce it is to tap B right after being killed. When I respawn I'll always throw at least 5 shurikens.
See video: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AnYW1mPiiWP6koBLOXdv8zG8ZI5NXg
Hope this helps.

If I can reproduce it, it will help A LOT !!!

But I still can't. Currently I'm trying with gens (real hw is innaccessible at this time ), and I never get 5 shurikens.

Can you reproduce it on emu ? Or is it hardware-dependant ?

Also, I see you have a Mega-CD and a 32X (lucky guy). Did you try without ?

EDIT : yes, it's possible ! I got it !

I'll study it...

[mix256]

Awesome work!

[tryphon]

I got it. For some reason, from time to time you'll be able to throw more than 4 shurikens. It happens mostly randomly, but generally while killing enemies jumping.
The easiest way to reproduce it is to tap B right after being killed. When I respawn I'll always throw at least 5 shurikens.
See video: https://1drv.ms/v/s!AnYW1mPiiWP6koBLOXdv8zG8ZI5NXg
Hope this helps.

Bug spotted. In fact, it happens when you keep B pushed with autofire at the beginning of a stage (which requires dying before, since the 1st time you play, autofire is disabled).

I think I fixed it (a bug remains though : your 1st and 2nd shuriken overlaps, giving the impression of only 3 shurikens, but it only happens at the very beginning) (I think I know what causes it and will fix it later if it has other side effects).

Thanks a lot : the bug was caused by something nasty that could have had bad consequences later (and quite difficult to spot).

[Tor Landeel]

That's great to hear, happy to have helped
Keep up!
Edit: By the way, would that happen using hardware autofire? I didn't test it..

[tryphon]

It's looking and playing great, my congrats for taking the huge effort of recreating a game like this from scratch.

However, I'm getting some fatal errors in real hardware through Mega Everdrive sometimes when the game boots or restarts after dying. I'll see if I can get them reproduced in emulator (which doesn't give those problems so far) so I can post a clean screenshot, or else I'll take a picture from my TV showing it.

Hello,

were you able to reproduce it ?

Just in case, do you have a MegaCD or a 32X plugged ? Can you try without it ? Can you try with another Everdrive ? on another MD ?

[Wesker]

I don't think it's related to the console itself because I'm having the issue both in a PAL Mega Drive (but it's modded to NTSC/60hz) and a Sega Nomad. The Mega Drive has a Mega CD II plugged but not a 32X. More like it's related to the Mega Everdrive actually. It's the first batch of Mega Everdrive, the one which isn't supported any longer. I don't have another Everdrive to try, sorry.

It's difficult to isolate it because it seems more like a random boot bug. Sometimes I get it when booting the game first time. And sometimes I get it when the game reboots after dying. And it doesn't seem to be because of dying at a precise location but more because it fails to boot the game data for some reason, since the game restarts completely after dying.

Since I'm not able to reproduce the fatal error message in emulator, you'll have to do with a pic I just took from the TV screen. In fact, I took two, since it seems the values are slightly different.

[LinkueiBR]

OMG
DREAMS COME TRUE!!!

The first time that a Shinobi port with controls that really feels like Shinobi!!!
Can't wait to hear the music!

GREAT JOB!!!

[Gentlegamer]

OMG
DREAMS COME TRUE!!!

The first time that a Shinobi port with controls that really feels like Shinobi!!!
Can't wait to hear the music!

GREAT JOB!!!

ahem

[Tor Landeel]

ahem

Too bad the sword/kick attack is missing and this severely impacts playability.
The missing levels don't help, too.

[Moirai]

Any videos of this? Screenshots? Anything? All i have is an iphone to work with at the moment

[Pyron]

Any videos of this? Screenshots? Anything? All i have is an iphone to work with at the moment

i posted some screenshots from CRT playing on RGB direct from real hardware sometime ago on my instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BnhvNzsl...on_share_sheet

[LinkueiBR]

Any videos of this? Screenshots? Anything? All i have is an iphone to work with at the moment

[Moirai]

Ahh sweet.. arcade shinobi on megadrive... what shouldve been made in 1988