{"id":750,"date":"2013-02-17T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matosimi.websupport.sk\/atari\/?p=750"},"modified":"2021-03-14T22:22:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-14T21:22:15","slug":"cracking-dynakillers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/matosimi.websupport.sk\/atari\/2013\/02\/cracking-dynakillers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking Dynakillers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I decided to try cracking some game. Just to know if I can do it and how much effort does it require. Maybe you know my Czech friend Fandal, who is definitely most advanced cracker on our little Atari. He somehow inspired me to try it, so I decided to change one game and add multijoy4<\/a> support into it. Currently is game in working state, but not completely finished.
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Game I chose is called Dynakillers<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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… now I will try to explain why I made such choice in 3 main points:<\/p>\n

1. Game is programmed by Slovak group GMG (Globe, Marco, Goldmaster)<\/h3>\n

Yes, it’s some patriotism that helped me to chose this game. GMG was group that I admired with my Atari friends long time ago (elementary school :D). They created some demos and we were looking forward to see literally anything that they did. I remember time when Dynakillers<\/a> was announced, we cannot wait to play it. If you watch their old megademo called Wanted<\/a>, they also announced dungeon game called R\u00ed\u0161a Zla (demo here<\/a> – i LOVE this demo song<\/a>, it’s one of my favourites) which was like unbelievable and also there is announcement of action game Robot Assault (demo<\/a>) that should use 256color graphics in APAC mode. Unfortunately both of these announcements did not turn into real games or even a playable demoversions.<\/p>\n

2. Game uses sampled sounds during gameplay<\/h3>\n

Yes, you can object that there are many other games that uses samples, but Dynakillers<\/a> is one of very few games, that uses samples during actual gameplay (when there is something happening during playing samples). I’d like to point out some games that uses samples (I discussed this topic with Fandal and he knew some other games with samples I did not know before):<\/p>\n

Games that uses ingame samples (but not during actual gameplay): Space Harrier<\/a>, Berzerk<\/a>, Kernaw<\/a>, Tumblebugs<\/a><\/p>\n

Games that uses samples but not ingame (title screen or so): Nadral<\/a>, Mirax Force<\/a>, Ghostbusters<\/a><\/p>\n

Games that uses ingame samples during actual gameplay: Megablast<\/a>, Tempest Xtreem<\/a>, International Karate<\/a> (it has other controls than World Karate, but Fandal does not have it – press ‘S’ to enable samples), Kennedy Approach<\/a>, Dynakillers<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Game allows to play 3 players simultaneously without additional HW required<\/h3>\n

This is actually something you might not know before, but there is option to turn on 3-player mode in settings. 3rd player is controlled by keyboard using combination of Shift, Function keys and Keyboard keys. This feature made game very good and I played it with my friends very often back in ’90s. Keyboard controls are very well designed, responsive and it does not result in blocking of controls (since Atari does not support more than 1 keyboard button pressed same time – except Shift). Anyway, there are some other Dyna Blaster clones for our 8-bit Atari, but this game is much fun than others like:<\/p>\n