I have to admit that my favourite Dizzy game is the console one - the energy bar is present, some of the arcadey spin-off titles have been rolled in to break up the gameplay and there's quite a limited amount of required travelling to the other side of the world just to pick up an object and travel back. Oh, and as far as I recall only a couple of the coins are of the secret 'press action here to reveal it' type, and they're in places where you might press action anyway like behind doors. None of the guessing the loose bit of handrail malarkey. Or, at least, very little. My memory is imperfect.
I wonder how many unique screens you could fit into the Sam's memory (with compression) without resorting to a tile map. One of the things that's obvious after Big Red took over is that they switched quite a lot to a more vector style - not sure if it's actual vectors or just really big tiles, but it does make the world look less vanilla somehow. I guess something like PNG (ie, a standard binary compressor + per scanline switching of how graphics are encoded before compression) with a brute force optimiser (ala optipng/etc) would be the smart thing. And it'll likely always be worse than real PNG, so I guess that's a way to get an upper bound... On Sunday, July 18, 2010, the_wub ! <the...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm more than happy to write a Sam version of the Pooyan music if >> someone wants to do the easy bit and write the rest of the conversion >> ;-) > > ouch! though I guess I deserve that in hindsight! > > I honestly hadn't considered what would be involved with a port and I > had presumed that starting from a spectrum version would be the > easiest way to port anything to the Sam. I had the ST graphics from > Strider ready and everything! ;) > >> Dizzy... Arrggh!! I loathe those games! :-)) > > He's like Morrissey or Marmite it seems, people love him or hate him! >
