Post by: CashCrazed on July 27, 2005, 11:16:44 PM
You can find the download(only the first link works) and a ton of screenshots here:
http://www.geocities.com/synnethrelmn/download.html
Since I finally got a game server running, I can run this online myself now! I'm planning a time frame where I'll run the game server, and people will join and play me. I already played this online yesterday with my cousin who lives on the other side of the state, and it wasn't too bad. I need people from farther away than that to test how it handles lag, though. I already posted this on another forum, so if you're lucky, you may meet up with one of the people from there.
I've already planned the times. On Friday I'll be running the game server from 3:00 to 5:00 PM central time. For those of you too lazy to convert, it is:
Pacific: 1-3 PM
Mountain: 2-4 PM
Central: 3-5 PM
Eastern: 4-6 PM
INSTRUCTIONS: During this time period, open the game and if you'd like to continue to read the info here, hit Space at the main menu to take it off of fullscreen mode. Then click "Network/Internet Play", and then click "Internet TCP/IP Connection for DirectPlay" on the next menu. Enter your nickname when it asks you, then hit "J" for join. My IP address is 216.74.210.242, so type that in when it asks you, and (hopefully) you'll see my game once it connects. Hit "1" and enter to join it if it's there, otherwise, well, either the server's full with 4 people or you can't connect(hopefully it'll be the former). Once you do that, you'll be in the chatroom with me! I'd suggest reading the readme before you play so you don't complain about other people using manuevers you didn't know were there.
Post by: kurtvegita on July 28, 2005, 05:44:09 AM
Also I found a weakness to the Boss battle, an experienced player can just stay on his head the whole time
Post by: CashCrazed on July 28, 2005, 11:45:07 AM
Yes, if you're good enough, you CAN get 20 consecutive jumps on the *normal* last boss's head. But he's not really meant to be that hard anyway. The last *secret* boss, however, it is nearly impossible to stay on his head the whole time, what with the falling blocks.
Post by: kurtvegita on July 28, 2005, 03:04:56 PM
Post by: kurtvegita on July 28, 2005, 03:12:18 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on July 28, 2005, 03:28:22 PM
The reason it didn't work is because I'm not the running game server yet! Try doing it again tomorrow between the times listed above.
Edited by - CashCrazed on 7/28/2005 2:34:59 PM
Post by: kurtvegita on July 28, 2005, 04:00:41 PM
Do the hammers and fireballs do anything?
If you want I can make this game a forums
Edited by - kurtvegita on 7/28/2005 3:01:25 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on July 28, 2005, 04:27:56 PM
If you meant soldiers as in the spinies, you're supposed to die when you land on them. If you meant "shoulders", you'll usually die if you clip him on the side like that. The game may let you have a hit here and there while doing that because of the engine's screwy collision detection, but don't base your strategy on doing that.
The falling through the floor while grabbing some items is one of the two known bugs I left in the game. It's also a product of the bad collision system, but since I have no control over how DarkBASIC does things like that, I'm having trouble fixing it.
In battle mode, shooting other people with fireballs will make them jump, or if they're in the middle of a jump, immediately fall, just like they did in SMBDX's VS mode. The hammers are better though. Hit somebody with one of them to reverse their controls and prevent jumping for a few seconds.
I don't think my game is popular enough yet to deserve its own forums. I made some a long time ago, but they never got any more than 10 posts.
Edited by - CashCrazed on 7/28/2005 3:43:56 PM
Post by: kurtvegita on July 29, 2005, 07:17:33 AM
Post by: kurtvegita on July 29, 2005, 11:29:24 AM
Post by: CashCrazed on July 29, 2005, 11:52:08 AM
As for the POW blocks, the green ones only flip enemies, and the rest also do something to all people on the ground at the time. Blue stuns people, red makes everyone jump, and yellow shakes everyone up(same effect as getting hit with a hammer).
Post by: kurtvegita on July 30, 2005, 12:08:37 PM
Post by: Glorb on July 30, 2005, 01:13:39 PM
Well, this is where the signature goes...
Post by: kurtvegita on July 30, 2005, 02:42:24 PM
Post by: kurtvegita on July 30, 2005, 04:39:17 PM
My record for pounding Shadow Mario is 11 can anyone beat it?
Post by: Glorb on July 30, 2005, 05:13:51 PM
Well, this is where the signature goes...
Post by: kurtvegita on July 30, 2005, 05:40:26 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on July 30, 2005, 09:10:22 PM
Post by: kurtvegita on July 30, 2005, 09:59:23 PM
Post by: KevTastic on July 31, 2005, 01:45:16 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on August 01, 2005, 11:20:20 PM
About the game, I'll bring it back online after I release the new version. The biggest change is that the game's limitation of 2 enemies at once has been lifted. Now it works like the real Mario Bros. with the number of enemies on-screen at once going up with the phase number. Makes the game harder overall, but hey, it was pretty much a cakewalk before! There's also one more level in Adventure Mode now, which you learn how to access by beating Parallel Mario. I wrote the music to it because I couldn't find anything good for my "final challenge". Hope it doesn't make your ears bleed too much!
Edited by - CashCrazed on 8/1/2005 10:27:11 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on August 05, 2005, 12:49:35 AM
If anyone's having any trouble beating the bosses, there's a tip sheet here. I also need input on what people think of my final challenge. Too easy? Too hard? Keep in mind that it's supposed to be the optional super-battle, comparable to the Pit of 100 Trials in PM2.
Edited by - CashCrazed on 8/4/2005 11:49:41 PM
Post by: Kuroneko on August 05, 2005, 10:34:38 PM
One pet peeve though: The pipes are set up wrong. In the original Mario Bros., when the enemies would go into a pipe at the bottom, they would go to the pipe directly above them, making it so that they could alternate directions. In this, though, the enemies come out the pipe they started at. I don't know if this is intentional, but it annoyed the heck out of me in the first few levels. Also, I noticed that when you jump fairly close to a ledge, you hit an invisible block. You can also stand on this invisible block sometimes.
That aside, I love this game, though I think it would be even more awesome with unlockable characters for multiplayer mode, like Luigi, etc. XD
Post by: kurtvegita on August 06, 2005, 10:11:19 AM
Post by: kurtvegita on August 06, 2005, 10:46:31 AM
Post by: CashCrazed on August 06, 2005, 12:26:49 PM
About the extra characters, I honestly had thought about making a skin feature for multiplayer. You could make your own character, and even use him in internet play!
Post by: Kuroneko on August 06, 2005, 12:47:46 PM
Oh yeah I got the new version and I like how 500 enemies come out at you at once XD. Also, it seems like a lot of throwing bugs were fixed in the latest version.
BTW when is the server going to be on next?
Post by: kurtvegita on August 06, 2005, 12:59:45 PM
Post by: kurtvegita on August 06, 2005, 03:03:23 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on August 06, 2005, 04:21:50 PM
Edited by - CashCrazed on 8/6/2005 3:22:27 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on August 07, 2005, 02:34:16 AM
This is the template for a skin. It's 144x112, enlarged here so you can see it. It's separated into 16x16 blocks, so it would be a good idea to use a grid in your paint program so you don't overwrite the boundaries. Other than that, just write your own graphics frames over Mario's matching frames in the template. Pure black(RGB 0,0,0) is considered transparent in the image reader, so if you do need black to show up, do as I've done with Mario's outline there and make it very very dark, but not completely black.
Keep in mind that no matter what you design the skin to be, it will still handle exactly like Mario. That means you can pretty much play as anyone or anything you want. Also, it has to be in BMP format for it to work in the game. Not the PNG format that Imageshack converted this to.
Edited by - CashCrazed on 8/7/2005 1:49:13 AM
Post by: CashCrazed on August 13, 2005, 10:50:42 PM
Some people here are holding a tournament, so you can try out the game with them. Unfortunately, I'm leaving until Thursday to my grandparents, so I won't be able to join you. Have fun, and don't hesitate to report any new bugs!
Post by: Ultima Shadow on August 15, 2005, 01:12:49 AM
Post by: Suffix on August 15, 2005, 10:03:40 AM
Post by: CashCrazed on August 18, 2005, 05:17:33 PM
Anyway, this isn't working. The people holding that tournament couldn't connect, and you need special ports open to even host a game! Not to mention the severe lag we got while playing the game online for the first time. So here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna make a dedicated server program. And then, once I get my second computer back, I'll reopen the ports and run it on that full-time. This means no more server-side connection problems, hopefully. The host will no longer have a special advantage because his game runs perfectly while the rest lag, since the host will not be playing. Finally, I'll try out a special measure that should reduce lag a little.
Also, if anyone has designed any working skins by the time I get the next version, I can include them in the package.
Post by: Kuroneko on August 18, 2005, 09:43:50 PM
I plan on doing a Super Mario World skin sometime, though.
Post by: CashCrazed on August 18, 2005, 10:40:56 PM
The problem with using the SMW Mario is that small Mario is taller than 16x16 pixels. That seems to be a limitation for a lot of skins, and it's a pretty bad one. So now, the skin template is reformed. Add an extra row of 16 pixels to the top of my current template. You can draw small Mario to be up to 32x32 pixels now.
I'll be doing an SMA Mario skin now, with the new template. I'll also try to squash the last major bug; one that's been plaguing the game since the very first version, and that is the strange throwing behavior. If you throw a guy in the right spot, he'll go up half the screen. It doesn't work right in some other areas too.
Post by: kurtvegita on August 19, 2005, 08:20:47 AM
Post by: Kuroneko on August 19, 2005, 10:41:33 AM
BTW I am working on SMW Mario right now :)
Post by: CashCrazed on August 20, 2005, 10:38:24 PM
EDIT: Well, enemies can be thrown different ways after a hit from below now, like the original. This modification coincidentally fixed a bug that caused the Fighterflies to get stuck in "up" mode after being flipped over right before taking off again.
Edited by - CashCrazed on 8/20/2005 10:27:29 PM
Post by: MEGAߥTE on August 20, 2005, 10:47:49 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on August 20, 2005, 11:30:57 PM
EDIT: Yep, it's impossible. Took me 30 seconds to find an article that said:
"The other major stumbling block for Linux porting is networking. Microsoft has done a good job making DirectPlay very easy fro the Windows developers, and utterly useless on Linux. As a closed API that uses encrypted data streams, there is little or no chance that Windows games ported to Linux will ever be network compatible with their Windows counterparts."
Edited by - CashCrazed on 8/20/2005 11:29:08 PM
Post by: kurtvegita on August 22, 2005, 01:52:31 PM
Ultimate Mario Brothers Forums
Edited by - kurtvegita on 8/22/2005 12:59:43 PM
Post by: CashCrazed on September 20, 2005, 02:22:47 PM
That page is hosted directly on my machine, and if you can see it, then that means you can connect directly to me, and you should be able to access a DirectPlay game server as well after I unblock the corresponding ports.