/galaxian500

port of Galaxian arcade to Amiga

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Galaxian (68K)

This is a transcode from the original arcade game Z80 to 68K assembly.

PROGRESS:

TRANSCODE

AMIGA

  • fully playable with sound

NEO GEO

  • tested & playable w/sound on MVS,NGCDZ (MAME only)
  • TBD: display masking top/bottom
  • WIP: sound (partial, glitches)
  • TBD: non-tate mode?

FEATURES:

CREDITS:

  • Jean-Francois Fabre (aka jotd): Z80 to 68k transcode, Amiga code and assets
  • Mark McDougall (aka tcdev): Neo Geo code and assets (conversion)
  • Scott Tunstall: Galaxian Z80 reverse engineering
  • phx: ptplayer sound/music replay Amiga code
  • mrv2k: Amiga icons
  • blastar: NGFX SoundBuilder (Neo Geo sound tool)
  • Namco: original game :)

SPECIAL THANKS:

  • paraj for invaluable help on the amiga version (scrolling stars issue)
  • Toni Wilen for WinUAE

CONTROLS (Amiga: joystick required):

  • fire/5 key: insert coin (from menu)
  • up/1 key: start game
  • down/1 key: start 2P game
  • P key: pause

REBUILDING FROM SOURCES:

AMIGA:

Prerequesites:

Build process:

  • install above tools & adjust python paths
  • make -f makefile.am

When changing asset-related data (since dependencies aren't good):

  • To update the "graphics.68k" & "palette*.68k" files from "assets/amiga" subdir, just run the "convert_graphics.py" python script,
  • To update sounds, use "convert_sounds.py" python script (audio) to create sound*.68k files.

NEO GEO:

Prerequesites:

Build process:

  • install NeoDev and set path accordingly
  • clone repository
  • make -f makefile.ng OUTPUT={cart|cd}
    • (OUTPUT defaults to cart)

Install process (MAME):

  • make -f makefile.ng OUTPUT={cart|cd} MAMEDIR={mamedir} install
    • (mamedir defaults to '.')
  • paste galaxian.xml into MAME's hash/neogeo.xml file

To run in MAME:

  • cart : 'mame neogeo galaxian'
  • cd : 'mame neocdz -cdrom roms/neocdz/galaxian.iso'