Hard mode?

Question

Hard mode?

michael-heerdegen opened this issue 8 years ago · 17 comments

Hi,

thank you for this - loved to play this game on Amiga.

FWIW, when you won the original game, you got access to a hard mode - the main differences where (1) everything got a light blue color scheme, (2) your car was much faster and (3) difficulty got insane.

Dunno how hard it would be to add that. I can only say that it was very cool to play that.

Oh, and could there be a "race won" message when you win a race? The first times I won a race I thought the game crashed because the game just stopped for no apparent reason.

Thanks, Michael.

Answer 1 · 2018-03-31T07:51:00.000Z

Yes, in career mode, there is the "super league" or something like that (with the blue theme track and super car). I plan to add career mode (for now, this is just training), with that hard mode, but I haven't started working on that yet.

About the message, there should be one, I check (or maybe I'll add the win/loose/break graphics).

Answer 2 · 2018-03-31T08:08:57.000Z

Fine, thanks for your work.

Answer 3 · 2018-04-01T12:58:27.000Z

FWIW, the messages (race won or lost) seems to be there (only) sometimes, most of the time I get none.

Answer 4 · 2018-04-02T11:34:41.000Z

"Hard mode" is implemented (press L durring Track selection to swith SuperLeague / Normal League)

I have worked on Win/Loose screen (but I always have the text written on my side).

Answer 5 · 2018-04-02T15:22:03.000Z

ptitSeb <notifications@github.com> writes:

"Hard mode" is implemented (press L durring Track selection to swith SuperLeague / Normal League)

Wow - great!

I have worked on Win/Loose screen (but I always have the text written on my side).

Could it be that it is dependent on the monitor configuration and/or full-screen mode? Today I played on my Laptop without external monitor on, and I always got the Win/Loose message (played three or four tracks). Oh, maybe the message is just truncated - I have the impression that the whole screen is truncated (at the bottom) when I play full screen on my large VGA monitor. Michael.

Answer 6 · 2018-04-02T15:56:59.000Z

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> "Hard mode" is implemented (press L durring Track selection to swith > SuperLeague / Normal League) Wow - great!

Yip - works great. Little Ramp is unwinnable, as I remember. Only the Tachometer looks a bit strange. I don't care.

Oh, maybe the message is just truncated - I have the impression that the whole screen is truncated (at the bottom) when I play full screen on my large VGA monitor.

Yeah, I really think it's just that what is happening. Michael.

Answer 7 · 2018-04-02T19:16:27.000Z

Tachometer should be fixed.

Also, lap info and other stuff not being shown on large screen should be fixed too.

Answer 8 · 2018-04-03T06:41:01.000Z

ptitSeb <notifications@github.com> writes:

Tachometer should be fixed. Also, lap info and other stuff not being shown on large screen should be fixed too.

Confirmed, that all looks fine now. Many thanks!

Answer 9 · 2018-04-03T06:42:25.000Z

Ok, can I close the ticket?

Answer 10 · 2018-04-03T07:37:35.000Z

ptitSeb <notifications@github.com> writes:

Ok, can I close the ticket?

One question: in the original game, in hard mode, when you start the "little ramp" and accelerate, you can reach speed 240 before the first bend - see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7w_0yP5RwU 1:08:15 for example. In the remake, that speed is far from reachable. Nonetheless, it OTOH seems to take longer to reach the first bend in the original game. Is that expected?

Answer 11 · 2018-04-03T07:56:20.000Z

Mmm, no, strange, I have to check that.

Answer 12 · 2018-04-03T20:47:39.000Z

Ok, speed display should be good now!

Answer 13 · 2018-04-04T06:09:45.000Z

ptitSeb <notifications@github.com> writes:

Ok, speed display should be good now!

Thanks, that looks quite good! Maybe the tachometer shows a bit more than in the original game, but I'm not sure. Anyway ... very happy with your changes. I guess you can close the ticket. Many thanks, Michael.

Answer 14 · 2018-04-04T06:10:54.000Z

Ok, thanks.

Answer 15 · 2018-04-05T06:06:57.000Z

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

Maybe the tachometer shows a bit more than in the original game, but I'm not sure.

FWIW, it shows a lot too much. In normal mode, it is now already quite easy to accelerate and get the tachometer far beyond overflow. That wasn't possible in the original game. Not sure if the car is too fast as well. I think the tachometer shows also too high values in super league mode.

Answer 16 · 2018-04-05T06:25:20.000Z

Yes indeed. I checked again, and fixed it with e076e36. I tried quickly to compare in normal league and super league (LittleRamp, boost and accelerate to the 1st turn) with the video you linked and it seems correct now.

Answer 17 · 2018-04-05T13:20:17.000Z

ptitSeb <notifications@github.com> writes:

Yes indeed. I checked again, and fixed it with e076e36. I tried quickly to compare in normal league and super league (LittleRamp, boost and accelerate to the 1st turn) with the video you linked and it seems correct.

Yeah, feels much more familiar now. Thanks!