Frontier Force - New Sega Master System game!

[O Ilusionista]

If you're looking for a challenge, you've just found it! And if I didn't tell you it's a Master System game, it would be hard to believe.Frontier Force is a game I've been following on Twitter for a while now and when I first saw it, I simply couldn't believe it was a Master System game! It's even better, graphically, than many early Mega Drive games, for sure.

Full video and review

 

[DCurrent]

If you're looking for a challenge, you've just found it! And if I didn't tell you it's a Master System game, it would be hard to believe.Frontier Force is a game I've been following on Twitter for a while now and when I first saw it, I simply couldn't believe it was a Master System game! It's even better, graphically, than many early Mega Drive games, for sure.

Full video and review

Graphics are very nice, and it looks like a really fun take on the Space Invaders theme. The Master System has a lot of potential - other than the lack of sprite flipping (WTF Sega?!), and its crappy sound chip.

DC

 

[kimono]

I also really like the color palette: it's really well used and it's dynamic. It's a bit of a shame that it's based on a well-known Space Invader style. Other than that, it looks good on screen

I like the level's palette change, highlighting the passage of time. I wonder if it's possible to share a script on OpenBor that does this dynamically or using alternate palettes?

 

[O Ilusionista]

. I wonder if it's possible to share a script on OpenBor that does this dynamically or using alternate palettes?

its a simple "setpalette" setting on your stage. I did it on this stage, take a look:

While you can control it using scripts, on this case, I made it using only the native command.

other than the lack of sprite flipping (WTF Sega?!),

Yeah. Funny enough, you can flip bg tiles, but not sprite tiles...

 

[kimono]

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge; I really appreciate the effort .
This command will be very useful for simulating variations in indoor and outdoor environments

 

[O Ilusionista]

@kimono this is how I did:

1 - You need to setup the stage palettes, like this:

# Palette    filepath                                alpha1    alpha2    alpha3    alpha4    alpha5    alpha6
palette     data/bgs/greece/greececorridor.act      0         0         0         0         0         0
palette     data/bgs/greece/greececorridore.act     0         0         0         0         0         0
palette     data/bgs/greece/greececorridorf.act     0         0         0         0         0         0
palette     data/bgs/greece/greececorridori.act     0         0         0         0         0         0
palette     data/bgs/greece/greececorridorp.act     0         0         0         0         0         0
palette     data/bgs/greece/greececorridors.act     0         0         0         0         0         0

and set the first palette to be active:

setpalette 1
at 0

2 - Then you just call the palette at the specific stage position:

#--------------------------------- WAVE 1 - E
wait
at 480

group 4 4
at 480

setpalette 2
at 480