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| One of many Carlos glitches @iamironclaw | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
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One of many Carlos glitches @iamironclaw
![Amiga Longplay [264] Beast Busters](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/hlTaRZXMNAA/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [264] Beast Busters
Yeah, bad arcade port I guess. Runs very slow on a stock Amiga 500 (I played on a 1200).
Insanely difficult. Its impossible to not die a bunch of times. Some encounters can just take all your health in seconds. Sure, would have helped a bit running it on a standard slow Amiga 500 where things runs slooow, but even then you would 100% have died several times anyway before beating the game.
The girl you kinda rescue at 12:44 can be killed, was just 1-2 more shots on her and she would have fallen to the ground. So, even if you only kill the guy and not her, she would still die on the next screen. Normally as I wanna show as much of a game as possible, I would have killed her to show her lying down, but skipped it as I would feel bad about it :P, even though she is alive and then dies on the next screen. So, whether I kill her or not, the outcome is the same.
Whats weird is the game has a lot of different tunes, but only one is played - the title music. I checked the music file (yes, all tunes are in one file) and theres a bunch. No matter the emulated system and settings, heck even disk version (tried cracked adf, ipf and WHDLoad versions... longplayed the ipf version ofc), it still only played the title music. I checked clips of this game on YouTube from both Atari ST and Amiga versions, and none of the 5 or so Amiga clips had music (just wanted to see in case someone else managed to get it working), BUT, the ST version has music during the parts between the stages (the one with a picture and text underneath).
Ive run into a case like this before - The Coin-Op version of Turtles. Only title music there as well, none elsewhere, yet the music file has a bunch of different ones. If the different tunes were different files, I could have guessed maybe they didnt play them during game as they didnt have enough memory for both gfx+sfx and music, but then at least they could have added code to check if the user has more than 512kb/1mb of memory and used the music.
Also, the game only requires 512kb of memory, and its weird it refuses to work with expanded memory, like 512kb in FAST mem. So, would only run with CHIP memory, but could be any size apparently. Normally when a game is advertised to need 512kb, it would still work with that in both CHIP and FAST.")
![Amiga Longplay [278] Christmas Classics](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ihkcM2e6GyQ/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [278] Christmas Classics
Gathered a bunch of Amiga titles with Christmas words in them. Turns out this one wasnt a game, but longplayed it anyway :)")
![Amiga Longplay [273] Gremlins 2: The New Batch](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ivGZe2gnoAM/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [273] Gremlins 2: The New Batch
Crazy hard! Died many times on each screen. Some took me like 15 deaths before I could pass them, urgh.
Couldnt find a proper longplay of the Amiga version, so had to do this game.
One mistake I did was accidentally starting the game 3 secs before the title music finished (it loops, was 3 more sec of the tune before loop). I usually include the entire tune of stuff if they are not too bad, dunno why I pressed fire too soon this time, oh well. To most this is no big deal, but I feel like mention it anyway as it bothers me and would be easy to record that part again, but Im also lazy :)
Couldnt be bothered to collect enough bubbles (which are credits) to buy the 2 way megatorch (only collected enough to show the shop, as it wont show if you dont have at least 10 credits), so memory hacked so I could try it. Its just like a normal flashlight weapon, but it shoots 2 shots on each side, one of them is a straight/horizontal normal shot, and the second is vertical, so nothing special. BTW, they laugh if you try to buy something you cant afford :), as you can hear when I tried to buy something too expensive.
Couldnt get closer at 8:40.
13:20 - This is the game over part, which only shows when you die, not when you complete the game. Some games do show the game over part when a game is completed, not this one.")
![Amiga Longplay [324] Who Shot Johnny Rock? (American Laser Games)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/j133G2bS-kA/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [324] Who Shot Johnny Rock? (American Laser Games)
American Laser Games are arcade games where you use a gun and shoot stuff on a big screen. These games happen to run on my favorite Commodore Amiga, the Amiga 500. It uses Amigas genlock to display the video.
This game was crazy hard. Would have cost me a million dollars to get to the end if I played it on the real thing.
Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro
02:18 - Thingy
02:28 - Credits
03:36 - Time to play
16:26 - Ending
Extras (only picked what I thought was worth showing):
17:14 - The doctor and his nurse
18:12 - Funerals for the dead innocent people
18:58 - Youre getting shot
As with all my Amiga videos, I record them using WinUAE (an emulator) with its built-in avi recorder. But couldnt this time as it doesnt capture the audio for genlock stuff (or I just dont know how to make it happen), so had to resort to using a third party recording tool instead, which caused a bunch of problems.
Couldnt use the typical savestates method I normally do as I cant use WinUAEs own avi recorder, so had to come up with a new way. I re-encoded the video with a frame counter outside the game-display area, so I could more easily cut out unwanted mistakes and match the different parts together as I was constantly saving and loading states while recording one big video file.
The video needed to be re-encoded anyway as those I found online that were recommended for use with WinUAE had the wrong aspect ratio (you can tick the keep aspect ratio box on the Genlock tab in the emulator, but it only makes it a little bit more accurate, not fully). They also have interlace line stuff (and the seeking took too long for my taste, so made them seek instantly instead). I found on YouTube a higher res version of some of these ALG games without interlace + they were in 60fps instead of 29.970/30. So was thinking of using them for my longplays instead, but... fuck it, couldnt be bothered, and the ones I used were the recommended ones anyway, even though I myself could make better looking/running ones. Even with any scanline/interlace stuff turned off (afaik) in WinUAE, the emulator still added some of its own lines for some reason. You can see them in the white flash when shooting for example. These lines are not part of the video. Maybe the flash is an image by itself, dunno.
Another problem I had was getting a smooth video playback, like I get with real media players. In WinUAE via genlock its random. Sometimes smooth, sometimes laggy (has nothing to do with how fast my computer is etc). Turning on Standard Vsync in the emulator helped a bit as it made the video frame rate more stable more of the time, but still stutter at least once per minute. So, I constantly quick saved and quick loaded, so whenever there was a stutter, I loaded and replayed the part until it ran smooth (I left some stutter in maybe here and there, but they are super minor). So yeah, LOADS of editing needed (https://i.imgur.com/TkJJn06.png).
Turning on the Vsync made the the sounds not part of the genlock video (like shooting, inserting coin, reloading...) play too fast. I solved this by setting my desktop refresh rate to 60 to match WinUAEs frame rate it was using for the game.
Then theres the accuracy problem of where you shoot as well. In the service menu of the game you can calibrate the aim, but that only seem to make the red dot match where the crosshair is, which is not enough to accurately be able to hit stuff. The accuracy is a lot about how wide/tall the video is and where its positioned on the screen (yes, I even played around with the genlock_offset_x/y in the .uae). Seems the default non-correct aspect ratio that makes the video way too wide (IMO) makes it more accurate, but I wanted 1:1 aspect ratio. Wish we could change the width of this flash area, as it seems the hitboxes are based on this white area, so if we dont have the genlock video properly sized and positioned this white area is made for, shooting things will not be accurate. I made an example of what I mean: https://i.imgur.com/bfMRqEX.jpeg (this example is for Mad Dog McCree, but same goes for most/all these ALG games in WinUAE)
So, anyway, with the video aspect ratio I chose to use, I often have to shoot far to the left or right of the things to hit them, and I sometimes try to mask this by randomly spraying the bullets on and around the target. IRL I would just hit them in the center with one bullet :) as Ive played these games in the arcades before.
Oooor, maybe I just do something wrong and there was an easy solution to everything and I didnt have to go through all this trouble/effort to get a smooth video playback, or bad shooting accuracy because of things not lining up properly, and heck maybe I could even record with sound with WinUAEs avi output and use the standard way of saving/loading states. Well, so far I couldnt come up with anything better than what Ive been doing after hours of research/testing.
Meh, text cap reached, had more to say.")
![Amiga Longplay [307] Katies Farm](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jBO2vljZQNQ/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [307] Katies Farm
After my pretty hard Blocky Skies longplay where I had to use my poor brain to remember stuff, I felt like doing something a bit easier, so did this McGee series :P
Anyway, heres a quote from MobyGames of what this game is about:
Katies Farm is a sequel to McGee. Like that game it is an educational game for young children that is entirely wordless so that it can be played independently without assistance from an adult. The gameplay is identical to the first game but this time it takes place at a farm and McGee is joined by a second character, his cousin Katie. The farm consists of a few different locations (barn, paddock, hen house etc.) and for each there are four icons to click on which cause the two characters to interact with the environment in different ways. This include meeting different animals (cows, horses, chickens etc.), playing with a scarecrow and jumping in a haystack. Theres no end to the game so the player can explore the farm freely.
I sat it as Made for kids, which this game is, but it disables the comments section.")
![Amiga Longplay [340] MegaBlast](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/jCGaLGiutes/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [340] MegaBlast
A nice little Polish Bomberman clone. Good music too.
Taking the ? can be a huge risk. They can do good things, but also bad things like reversing the controls, spam your bombs against your will, making you walk slower, think I had the screen turn upside down at one point too (wasnt recorded, happened during testing). And if you get one that makes you walk through walls, be careful to not be inside a wall when the effect stops working, or you get stuck.
This game uses a bigger screen-size than normal for an Amiga game (overscan), so using the default settings (which I never do for anything anyway, always my own custom configurations) in WinUAE (emulator) doesnt seem to show all the four corners of the border (its usually one side missing). This is shown in all the screenshots on Hall of Light (Amiga game database), on the Lemon Amiga site, and also in videos on YouTube as no one used the correct settings. I did tho, yay for me *pats himself on the back*.")
![Amiga Longplay [283] Magica](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/joFYJ9lAcF0/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [283] Magica
Originally an Amstrad-only game (I think), but now also available on the Amiga as well.
When I saw the fairies and how they seem to pose no threat, I did think there might be something special about them, and when I completed the game it said to try and not kill any of them next time. Being curious what might happen if I didnt kill any, I checked the files for the message and found the same message about gratz, all potions collected... twice, and only one of them had the fairies message, so I assume if I did replay it and kill none of the fairies, the end message would be the same, but without the dont kill the fairies part.
For more info about the game and a download link, go here:
https://www.indieretronews.com/2020/09/magica-rather-lovely-amstrad-game-is.html")
![Amiga Longplay [336] Wrong Way Back](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kJzLrKqqnJg/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [336] Wrong Way Back
A free escape-room type of game for the AMIGA CD32 about a woman trapped in a strange room trying to find her way home. How did she get there? How can she escape? And most importantly, why was she brought there?
I was a bit disappointed when I noticed there was only two rooms to solve. All the other ones had the exit to the next room already opened. The end boss fight was too easy, kinda hard to even lose (I never did, not even close on my first try, nor after when I goofed around to test the abilities). *Edit* - OK, went back to fight the boss to try to lose. Man, its hard to lose, took forever before he killed me (I would have killed him several times by now), but nothing happens, just a black screen.
I randomly found out about this game when I checked YouTube for recent Amiga game videos. For some reason none of all the recordings of this game got past room 2, which tickled my interest in trying the game. I didnt pay attention to how they solved the first room, but on my first try it took like 1-2 minutes to figure out what to do. The second room however had me stuck for like 15 minutes, lol. I knew I again of course had to figure out the right combination of numbers/words to press, and had several ideas of what they were and in which order. Like: the words I needed to press was obvious from the info I got from each place, like the bloods Pierce Your Soul, which obviously must be the knife, the tomb is of course rope, and the pipe is wrench. But the order to press them in was harder to figure out.
At first I thought it maybe was 2, 1, 3, 1 (knife, wrench, rope, wrench), as thats the order the lights go. But that didnt work. Then I thought theres something about the red light and how it lights twice. Maybe I needed to do something with the pipe twice? Maybe something with the blood twice? Nothing worked. Then I thought MAYBE I dont need to push anything this time, its just a distraction, and I needed to interact with the different items in the lights order, like interact with blood, then pipe, then tomb and then pipe again? If course that wasnt it :), I just wanted to try everything I could think of. So, I checked the game files, the different images... and BAM! I noticed these lights are in THREE DIFFERENT COLORS. On my screen when I played it I pretty much only saw red and two dark colored ones. My monitor is of course perfectly calibrated, perfect RGB and all that, and Im not color blind, but thanks to the bright area around the lights, they appear darker than they are (typical visual illusion effect thingy our eyes have in certain lighting conditions). The game window was small compared to the rest of my desktop, and the background of my desktop was pretty bright, so what only really popped to me was the red color. But of course, looking again now in the same conditions if I look closer, I see they are green and blue. I just assumed they were the same shade of dark colors due to the small window, bright background around the lights in the game and my desktop background, and Im sitting casually too far away from my monitor lounging back in my couch. But yeah, when I viewed the picture of these lights in my image program (black background around them) I saw the colors immediately.
So, now the solution was obvious to me, it was of course: green, red, blue, red... which of course means: pipe, blood, tomb, pipe... and thus: wrench, knife, rope, wrench. So, if it wasnt for the color problem, this room would have taken me about 2 minutes instead :)
More info about the game and download link can be found here: https://lockeddoorpuzzle.itch.io/wrong-way-home")
![Amiga Longplay [305] Blocky Skies](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/l_gL_BP-Bes/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [305] Blocky Skies
Cute, simple, and fun, but not easy.
Tutorial levels + normal levels + secret bonus level (press left 7 times and right 3 times on the main menu). I did the secret level without music, as it started to get a bit too repetitive.
The game is free and can be downloaded here: https://blockyskies.com/")
