I've just found out via the Amiga community, that after finishing his Arcade to Amiga conversion of a 1981 game called 'Lock n Chase' by Data East, he's now released an AGA and ECS Amiga final version of Technōs Japan volley ball game called ''U.S. Championship V'Ball'. A 1988 beach volleyball sports game that was released for the arcades by Technōs Japan Corporation and later ports to the NES and X68000. To coincide with this news, provided below is the latest gameplay video.
If you've never played the game before, here's what the wikipedia page says about US Championship V'ball. "The player takes control of a pair of self-described beach bums named George and Michael who make their living playing beach volleyball against locals. One day, they find a flyer for a nationwide beach volleyball tournament offering the winning team a $2,500,000 cash prize. In single-player mode, one person controls both characters on a team. In two-player mode, the players either cooperate by playing on the same team or compete against each other by controlling opposing teams".
Features:
- - 25 FPS for ECS and AGA amigas
- - 3 versions: ECS, AGA 64 colors, and AGA 128 colors.
Note:
- You need a hard drive, whdload and some fast memory to run this game.
Credits:
- jotd: reverse-engineering, 68000 transcode, graphics conversion, sound conversion for the Amiga.
- no9: music (huge work on that one)
Links :1) Website
Thank you for making the ECS version. Goes to show that not every arcade conversion has to be AGA only!
ReplyDeleteyou're welcome. The game doesn't use HW sprites at all or 16+16 dual playfield, so reducing to 32 colors was possible and the result is pretty correct. The current version still needs 2MB of chip AFAIR but next version will need only 1MB so all folks with ECS and fastmem can enjoy it. I'm well aware that there are a lot more ECS machines out there than AGA. Trying to do my best to satisfy everyone.
DeleteLooks so good! The only thing that could make it better would be girl players ;)
ReplyDeleteyeah! If someone does all the sprite rework (that is huge work), I'll do a girl version.
ReplyDeleteChallenge accepted, could you send me the dudes sprite so I can use as a base?
ReplyDeletegreat! let's avoid spam. Can you create an issue? https://github.com/jotd666/us_champ_vball (note: this repository contains the sprite sheets, but it's not easy to rework as-is)? Then we'll talk directly.
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