Off the Wall prototypes released

[ccovell]

Omar at SMSPower has released prototype dumps of this game for Game Gear and PC-Engine.  The PCE version isn't as complete as the one currently(?) for sale for $1000s, but it'll do.

http://www.smspower.org/forums/16747-OffTheWallForGameGearAndPCEngine

Thanks, Omar.  I know how expensive proto-saving can get!

[Punch]

Always good when someone that cares about preservation more than $$$ or growing an e-dick gets ahold of a prototype. Thanks Omar!

Maybe this will convince that guy Chris to finally release The Super Kung-Fu to the public.

[ccovell]

Last thing I heard was that the ghost of Bruce Lee visited him outside on the parapet, warning of grave consequences should the data be liberated from its cask.

[Black Tiger]

Thanks for the heads up.

Although I'm not a fan of the title, it looked like a decent port during a quick test in Magic Engine. It's cool that they used a wider resolution and I like the color cycling on the title. I haven't tried the Game Gear version yet, but the PCE music sounds like it's based on SMS sound, which is nice.

[esteban]

OK, this is reason to find my TED and finally use it.

Of course, that translates to: if I am not completely exhausted running around after my kids, I might venture to the laptop and try to find an old SD card (my TED only works w/ 2GB? 4GB? 8GB max?)

OFF THE WALL... it will be fun to see if a 3(?) 4(?) player match is fun with the tiny humans. I have been surprised with what they enjoy/dislike.

[SuperPlay]

Hi Chris

Many thanks for the heads on this release

Play time!

Cheers

[Necromancer]

Pretty neato.  Thanks for sharing, chris, and thanks to omar for giving info and sharing the data.

[ParanoiaDragon]

Indeeed, thank you thank you thank you!  I wonder if this might get Jun to go ahead & release the others.  Wasn't there some talk of him possibly doing that down the road??

[RNSpeed]

Omar at SMSPower has released prototype dumps of this game for Game Gear and PC-Engine.  The PCE version isn't as complete as the one currently(?) for sale for $1000s, but it'll do.

http://www.smspower.org/forums/16747-OffTheWallForGameGearAndPCEngine

Thanks, Omar.  I know how expensive proto-saving can get!

Awesome thanks for sharing

[sirhcman]

Indeeed, thank you thank you thank you!  I wonder if this might good Jun to go ahead & release the others.  Wasn't there some talk of him possibly doing that down the road??

Pretty sure he wants 7 grand a piece for his copies. Good luck getting free rips

[lukester]

http://www.savejapan.com/shop/

The only one that's sold so far is Popils. The rest are finished except Peter Packrat

[Punch]

7000 dollars pays you a month's worth of travel to japan and money to buy a lot of PCE games while you're there, you'd be insane to pay that much on any game prototype listed there.

[csgx1]

Cool to see this was released.  Thanks for sharing.

[shubibiman]

I should have shared the info here as I knew it would be released before it actually happened.

The aim was to show f*cktards who would ask 7,000$+ for prototypes that they're not alone in the wild owning unreleased game prototypes.

This one (the PCE version) is actually owned by another French collector and was dump by a French dev.

[Michirin9801]

I had never heard of this game before, tried it a little bit, and yeah, you can pretty easily tell this is unfinished, it's buggy as hell, at one point my paddle went missing and didn't come back, and some other time the ball got stuck on a grey tile and the game just refused to progress until I used the "Skip Stage" button...

Still, it's nice that this was released so that we can see what could have been, but with such lacking graphics and not particularly ear-pleasing music, not to mention the fact that it was a block-breaking game in the early 90s, I'd imagine the genre would have been as good as dead at the time, I don't really think it would have been much of a success, but who knows? I could be wrong...

It could be a bit successful though if it sounded kinda like this:

I don't think moving a small ball and a paddle around the screen would require that much CPU time so the game could easily have used some 16KHz samples...