#Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest 'Revamped' 🧟

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junior scaffold
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A dear friend showed me to this beautiful revamp of a classic, and I immediately knew I wanted it to be my first actual port attempt, and just in time for Halloween 🎃, my fav holiday! This is a fanmade revamp of a game from one of the most iconic chronicles in videogame history..
Programmed by: MetroidQuest
Castlevania 2
Simon's Quest Revamped
https://youtu.be/1cZ2hWb19Fw

https://metroidquest.angelfire.com/cv2revamped/index.html

Download the .exe from above link and place data.win, audiogroup1.dat, & .ogg's into the /gamedata/
folder.
Main folder and .sh included in download below. #1167972016121454682 message

More features. Fewer Bugs. The improved edition of CV2 Revamped is on it's way. Stay subscribed to get more updates.

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rugged gyro
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<@&1123159718874058882>

twin coral
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interesting

rugged gyro
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my my how the tables have turned

junior scaffold
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Nice revamp

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The text is in horrid shape so there's that to get fixed😂

twin coral
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you can use undertale mod tool

rugged gyro
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haha just launched it, wasn't sure if it was even english

twin coral
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if you need some help feel free to ask

junior scaffold
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Indeed.. will be a group thing. Lol.. I'm new😁

junior scaffold
junior scaffold
rugged gyro
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rg353p/jelos, playing a bit now. Seems to be working well minus the text

junior scaffold
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I'd like to see it fill the screen if possible

junior scaffold
twin coral
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probably by modifying a bit the bitmap

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that said, can i have a photo of the problem?

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that i can only try later

junior scaffold
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All screwy😂

twin coral
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oh wait, literrally random letter lol

junior scaffold
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Madness

twin coral
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maybe it will be a bit more hard lol

junior scaffold
twin coral
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np

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really weird lol

junior scaffold
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Castlevania 2Simon's Quest 'Revamped' 🧟

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Castlevania 2 Simon's Quest 'Revamped' 🧟

heavy bison
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Oh exciting, my bro will love this. 😄

junior scaffold
heavy bison
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43 😄

twin coral
heavy bison
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what does he need a sushi recipe for? f_TurtleThink

junior scaffold
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Bust'n my balls, you guys.😂🤣

heavy bison
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Out of love mate ❤️

junior scaffold
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I know1051081619856957503

junior scaffold
scenic glacier
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Jelos x55. Stuck at this screen

heavy bison
junior scaffold
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Hmm..darn. I'm not knowledgeable on jelos and I'm guessing it's something to do with that firmware, just by guess but idk

scenic glacier
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Do you want me to check for a log file?

junior scaffold
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Please do

scenic glacier
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I'll go look for one

junior scaffold
heavy bison
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I can 🙂

junior scaffold
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X55

heavy bison
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Alright, i dont have an x55, but will test on my 353v jelos

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@junior scaffold first off the lib directory should be libs 😄 thats as far as i have gotten as jelos is updating

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Yup broken here 😄

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**********************************.
Entering main loop.
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Could not look up method getPackageManager, NULL class.
Class RunnerJNILib does not have field ms_context.
Could not look up method hasSystemFeature, NULL class.
LOG[yoyo]: android.software.leanback = 0
LOG[yoyo]: MANUFACTURER = JohnnyonFlame
Depth disable hack requested but surface_depth_disable unusable.
Controller 'retrogame_joypad' assigned to player 0.
Texture size: 4096x4096
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looks like an issue with the libzip included?

junior scaffold
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Sorry.. very new still

heavy bison
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@buoyant nimbus @twin coral do you know the fix for the broken libzip MadShmupper has included?

junior scaffold
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Did you copy that in?

buoyant nimbus
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Is libzip the real error? There are multiple spots with what look like errors but it kept going

heavy bison
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Download the .exe from above link and place data.win & .ogg's into the /gamedata/ folder.

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i copied your instructions

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😛

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that works 😄

junior scaffold
heavy bison
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now i can read the jibberish 😄

junior scaffold
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I took mine out and sure thing...screen stuck

heavy bison
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easy fix 🙂

junior scaffold
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I changed it, should be in the instructions now

junior scaffold
junior scaffold
heavy bison
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no stress 😄

junior scaffold
junior scaffold
heavy bison
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text is garbage

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plays alright 🙂

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i dunno what i am doing

junior scaffold
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I'm hoping for a text issue fix. As I said, I'm new and haven't exactly earned my Nerd badge yet, so bare with me😅🍻

trail quiver
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i bet you're doing fine, everyone has to start somewhere

twin coral
heavy bison
twin coral
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The First real shmup

junior scaffold
junior scaffold
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It's the Glitch Gremlin

heavy bison
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I'm not familiar with gmloader stuff.

junior scaffold
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I'm learning.🙂

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Trying to soak in as much as I can from whomever I can😁

scenic glacier
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Here is what I have encountered:
Jelos x55
The game looks and sounds great.
The text is messed up. As noted before.
Also the controlls are all over the place. B (south) attacks.. that's fine. A (east) nothing. Y (west) attacks AND jumps. X (north) jumps. Not ideal controller scheme
D pad is as you would expect. The right analog moves, fine but weird.
LEFT analog tho,... Right does attacks and movement right. Left does jump and left movement. Down attacks and not down. Start does nothing. Select pauses.
The screen seems to dim while walking.
The music is badass. Hopefully everything can be ironed out.

junior scaffold
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The controls should be an easy fix I'd imagine..so I'll try n do that tomorrow. It's nearing 1 am here 🙂

scenic glacier
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It's almost playable. I really like the looks and sound of this one.
Great pick.
I hope someday I can learn

junior scaffold
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You definitely will if you want to🙂

junior scaffold
austere wharf
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oo this looks awesome, can't wait to get home and try it 😄

torpid pine
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I am repeating after others, so again, the game works with broken texts :). rg353vs arkos

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I have played this couple months ago, very nice improvement over the flawed original

austere wharf
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Ah that's unfortunate 😦 Hope it can be fixed somehow

junior scaffold
twin coral
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yeah, but seems also that the bitmap fucked up a bit

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that said, not impossible that more layer overlap with a poor scaling

twin coral
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who know

junior scaffold
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Or is it a junker? Lol

twin coral
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depends

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maybe we can force a overall resolution that is good for all devices

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or at least the majority

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depends as i said

junior scaffold
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Okay😐

twin coral
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good news

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640x480 full screen works

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but the text remain fuckeup

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btw, now that is not cut it's just broken from what i can see

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so guess it's a bug or something

junior scaffold
twin coral
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@buoyant sedge did you ever encountered a problem like this?

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@junior scaffold like this, but not cut on the lower part

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it's not scaling related then

buoyant sedge
twin coral
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yeah

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lol

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seems that the bitmaps broke the order they are or something like this

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literrally random charachters

buoyant sedge
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if this is GMS2023, check different versions, since they change small things consistently

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bbl

twin coral
buoyant sedge
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...oh.

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1.4.9999 is a nightmare

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there's no such thing as 1.4.9999 really, it's just 2.x disguised as 1.x

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and it can be anything from 2.0 to 2.2

twin coral
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uh ok

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so need to try lot of shit

buoyant sedge
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you can try the am2r 1.6 experimental wrapper, one sec

twin coral
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thx

junior scaffold
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🤞

buoyant sedge
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you might need to tinker around with UTMT to make it boot

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hopefully not

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ill be back later, cya

twin coral
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bye

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it works

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btw

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we have text now

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a bit fucked up in the intro, but at least is real text

junior scaffold
twin coral
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@junior scaffold just change the wrapper and we are good then

junior scaffold
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Awesome

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Thank you guys tons

twin coral
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and eventually we can make the patch if a 640x480 resolution si detected

junior scaffold
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I'll get on it in just a few moments after breakfast 😃🎃

twin coral
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Sure

spiral kraken
twin coral
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if you open a not modified apk (with original data.win) you can see which version the wrapper use

spiral kraken
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Because I haveno idea where to even start xD

twin coral
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for 1.4.9999 is literrally use shit and pray god

twin coral
junior scaffold
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Is it okay to use the Am2r wrapper still? I'm confused

twin coral
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better ask johnny if next is something that will be released in a month or so btw

twin coral
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why not

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am2r is not nintendo or anything

junior scaffold
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Only wondering and double checking

twin coral
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technically a fan game

junior scaffold
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As is Simon's Quest 'Revamped'

twin coral
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also, the wrapper up here just use the same version or similar

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yap, just rename the file from johnny

junior scaffold
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Rad n a half!

twin coral
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if you want it already renamed

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That said, probably the readibility suffer a bit on little screen imho, but at least we have text

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the cut text btw is fixable when present, just very long to do lol

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personally probably not worth the effort

junior scaffold
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Nope.. fix runner not working on 353m or 351p

twin coral
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probably the problem is somewhere else on arkos

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as usual lol

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on jelos i've done like 10 boot atm

junior scaffold
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Amberelec too. No boot

twin coral
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the different one is always jelos, so all ok xD

junior scaffold
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🤔

twin coral
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let me flash arkos

junior scaffold
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Sure. No problem

twin coral
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if you copy the older one works ?

junior scaffold
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I'll hold off on adding the wrapper for now I guess

junior scaffold
twin coral
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the original wrapper from your zip

junior scaffold
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Oh. Hang on

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I'll try

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Yes. My wrapper works once copied back in

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..used apoc runner wrapper btw

twin coral
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technically also the one from chip n dale works btw

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if you wanna try

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btw, i finish in 10 minutes to configure arkos

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and i try

junior scaffold
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Will try chip

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Okay.. sorry, my bad, johnnys wrap file is working. It was my good as I renamed it .apk🤣

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Woopsie

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! Thank you @buoyant sedge & @twin coral

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We are really rock'n now!

junior scaffold
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It went from me thinking it can't be fixed to you guys finding a easy fix❤️

twin coral
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No problem

junior scaffold
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I'll add file now

twin coral
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Usually shit like this is super easy or super complex

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Never "okay"

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Lol

junior scaffold
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You guys are 🧙‍♂️'s

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Wizardry n witchcraft

twin coral
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Nah, more a bard-druid kek

junior scaffold
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Please, lemme know if it works for ya❤️

austere wharf
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link is down

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might wanna rename it to something random and password it

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google being strict

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can u reupload? maybe in mega.up

junior scaffold
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Hang on

austere wharf
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i was just about to test it first time

twin coral
austere wharf
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doesn't include the .sh file

junior scaffold
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Ugh..I'm a mess. Hang on

twin coral
junior scaffold
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My man! Thank ya!

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Got kids running all over the place here. I appreciate you helping with link

austere wharf
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When you go to options, if you try to exit the options screen it just quits the game

junior scaffold
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Mmm. Sure does.

junior scaffold
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Not huge deal as I have mine but log always always helps

austere wharf
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Aha.. i forgot about the revamp

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Actually there is a boxart for it

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Remaking 😄

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2 Variants

junior scaffold
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Ooh that first'n looks rad n a half!

junior scaffold
twin coral
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Agree

junior scaffold
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Btw.. what device are you using to test?

twin coral
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First one is definitely hot

twin coral
junior scaffold
twin coral
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Usually with the keyboard/controller menu lol

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In case of controller/keyboard you just use a gptk

austere wharf
buoyant sedge
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it's the next step before alpha 0.1 is pushed to github

twin coral
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Definitely need to update some ports then ahahah

buoyant sedge
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it'll be interesting to slowly update gmloader stuff to arm64 where applicable

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so we can slowly ditch armhf whenever possible

twin coral
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Yap

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Indeed that was the plan

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Eventually i can update yours one too while doing it xD

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I have like 14 ports with gm

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So not a problem update them

buoyant sedge
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there are some that I absolutely know will be annoying

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thankfully am2r is being pushed in-house since they are attempting to keep up with arm64 too

twin coral
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Almost 1:1 port if compared to other gm games lol

buoyant sedge
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I mean, am2r is 1.4.0.7063 or something

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arm64 only exists in 2.1.5+

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conversion to 2.1.5 can either be a breeze or a total nightmare depending on how complicated the game is

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there are some incredibly funny bugs that resulted from it

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at least 1.4.0.9999 games should be relatively easier since it's like, just gms 2.x with disabled features

acoustic sierra
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Game's working great on X55. Except the font seems low res or in the wrong resolution, not sure how to explain.

buoyant sedge
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explain with a screenshot I guess?

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:p

acoustic sierra
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What to press for screenshot on X55? lol sorry , me noob.

buoyant sedge
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a phone picture is fine

twin coral
buoyant sedge
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I guess a "screenshot" and a "shot of the screen" aren't the same thing, but eh, it's good enough

twin coral
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Need to redefine a bit the bitmaps probably

rugged gyro
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rg353p/jelos text is vastly improved, but has occasional bits cut off here and there. Music is goood.

junior scaffold
rugged gyro
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get em

junior scaffold
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I'm wondering if it works on oga @torpid pine

torpid pine
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I will try tomorrow when I get home 🙂

torpid pine
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yeah text is readable, though some letters have really funny look

junior scaffold
junior scaffold
torpid pine
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y

junior scaffold
twin coral
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with patch for 640x480

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just rename the data.win in data640.win

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tested on rg353v both arkos and jelos

junior scaffold
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Rock'n! Thank you!

austere wharf
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The bug of option menu fixable?

twin coral
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Probably will be with gmloader next

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When released and integrated with this port

twin coral
junior scaffold
junior scaffold
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Exiting that menu and crashing is a tad crucial

twin coral
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For your actual knowledge if you have a few months totally free you can maybe fix it

austere wharf
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It's not that game breaking but it's there 😄

twin coral
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Maybe could work with a different wrapper in some specific cases

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But also not worth it

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You are literally playing changing everything until it works, maybe lol

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And game maker 1.4.9999 is like saying "we have 200 versions with little changes but named the same" xD

junior scaffold
twin coral
junior scaffold
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Changing wraps can break a lot more stuff while fixing others, correct?

twin coral
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Yap

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That's the other problem I hadn't said

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Maybe you found one that works for everything but the characters are naked

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Jk, but maybe it can't load texture in one, in another one another thing etc..

junior scaffold
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We're about ready to launch🎃🎃🎃

twin coral
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already packed

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time to prepare screenshoot etc.. and is online on my repo

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and soon merged i guess

junior scaffold
buoyant sedge
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by that time GMS1.x was already dead

twin coral
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@lapis wyvern PR done for this and other two ports btw

junior scaffold
austere wharf
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I saw you released castlevania officially, was the options bug fixed?

twin coral
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Nope

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What I said last time is still valid

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If it will work it will probably be in an update with a new Launcher

austere wharf
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Hmm ok

twin coral
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It's all written up here btw

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Lol

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Nothing shady or never said this problem will be fixed soon

scenic glacier
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I need help. I want to like this game but the left analog stick does all sorts of weird things with this game. Its weird because the right stick will do movement correctly. But I don't move around with my right hand...
Jelos x55.
I was able to remap some buttons the way I like in game. But the left stick is broken control.

twin coral
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we can eventually add a gptk to force remap the left analog

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i'll test and do it tomorrow

junior scaffold
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Thought we tried to fix with gptk?🤔

twin coral
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nup, probably we forgot in the process. kinda funny that no one nocited lol

crisp osprey
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hm...

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Download the .exe from above link and place data.win, audiogroup1.dat, & .ogg's into the /gamedata/
folder.

there's nothing but the exe in the archive.

crisp osprey
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i suspect i missed something somewhere?

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after extracting stuff from the exe, and putting the APK into assets/ and renaming to game.droid - crash.

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Setting video mode 640x480.
Initializing OpenGL funcs...
Opening simons_quest_revamped.apk...
ports/gmloader/main.c:58: Unable to open apk file 'simons_quest_revamped.apk': Error

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finally. so after having both simons_quest_revamped.apk in root and the same file as assets/game.droid - the game starts.

now the question is - why does the file need to be duplicated? can't one copy do it?

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text is readable btw 🙂

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right analog works great for movement, but left one also jumps or attacks.

twin coral
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It's a copy paste (?)

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If you make it more complex than an extraction and a copy paste that's not my problem xD

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That's literally the structure of ALL gmloader games 4539godotthink

twin coral
twin coral
heavy bison
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We could embed 7z like i did with Death Rally 😄

twin coral
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That's the last of the problems.
In this case the problem was reading, so definitely not a problem of mine, but we can update it eventually to evade "bugs" by people doing random things

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Also, I forgot a "folder", without context in the description, so I'm gonna fix it later lol

scenic glacier
twin coral
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Probably cause it's the setting of the game btw

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Kinda weird as setup, but I guess we can rework it a bit

junior scaffold
twin coral
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Super weird idea but whatever

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Probably we can force different commands from UTMT or a file

junior scaffold
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Awesome

twin coral
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If not, gptk.
If nothing works btw, we can create a save from PC with a different control scheme and include it

junior scaffold
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Yep. That sounds rad!

twin coral
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Sadly the control scheme is not something that most of the devs think lol

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So sometimes you find a very weird control scheme for games

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See Zelda's fan game lol

junior scaffold
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Highly understand

twin coral
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Probably the weirdest control I found lol

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Anyway, I got people at home, so probably I'll look at it tomorrow or Monday

scenic glacier
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Sweet guys. Thanks for looking into this. Just let us know when it's all good and set up. Can't wait ! 👍

twin coral
twin coral
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That said, the game is definitely made for dpad, so I suggest playing it with it beside the possible "fixing" ahaha

twin coral
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got some little problem with the pc during the day, tomorrow i check with the other things

twin coral
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Check in a few hrs

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That I take a nap, after 7 hrs of call lol

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My brain is fried ahaha

twin coral
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control side problem, super weird

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for some reason took both jump and movement from our controllers

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i can build gmloader without controller support or try to create a control scheme with all r2 in order to make the controller useless

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nice, the pc version too is kinda weird on controller configuration xD

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found the joystick code inside the game

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let's try remove it

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kinda work

twin coral
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So, if i disable the controller the controller works lol

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kinda messy and i guess is a nice base to create a full functional thing

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with some black magic fuckery

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like half broken controller support half gptk

junior scaffold
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💥

twin coral
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need more investigations btw

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that i guess i need to see the better way to broken it without causing crashes

junior scaffold
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Yep. This one may need taken down from PM if unable to fix I guess🤔🤷‍♂️

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I shouldn't have rushed so.

twin coral
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we just add a note. the game is totally fine, beside device bug related to our devices

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That said, for now seems kinda possible to do it without much hassles

twin coral
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now i try the weird shit ever

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if it works nice

junior scaffold
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Hello all, I just received permission to distribute the latest most up to date version of this game. So I will be reopening this thread shortly to test the all new and improved build

halcyon sparrow
hallow sphinx
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When?

lilac tulip
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Hey I am playing this on a rg35xx H and when I try to play the game with a data640.win it will only boot to the splash screen and then quit anyway to fix this?

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Muos is the os btw

junior scaffold
# hallow sphinx When?

Soon. I now have permission to distribute it. The creator was making changes to it. Bug fixes and improvements. I need to catch up to it, soon.

junior scaffold
lilac tulip
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Oh ok thanks

junior scaffold
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hey all, thanks to MetroidQuest, we have distribution permission. Heres a ready to run build to test. its not scaled to 640x480 as the previous one was. Love to get feedback on controls as im still trying to get my head properly around gptk work. lol.

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..plenty has changed since last build. To keep up with future changes and other things closer, please check out MetroidQuest discord..its a cool place😎

junior scaffold
flat breach
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gml_Room_intro0_room_Create:
window_set_size(852, 480)
if instance_exists(obj_computer)
obj_computer.roomtype = "int"
if instance_exists(HUD)
{
with (HUD)
instance_destroy()
}

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could try to change the value to 640, 480

flat breach
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I see gamepad support in the options though?

junior scaffold
flat breach
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As in I dunno how to patch to 4:3 :/

junior scaffold
junior scaffold
junior scaffold
flat breach
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It’s gonna be midnight here

junior scaffold
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No rush. Thank you and enjoy your night.😁

junior scaffold
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@lilac tulip hi. This will be a full screen build. It's working on the H. 😌

junior scaffold
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640x480

crimson pollen
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I've been waiting for it!

junior scaffold
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Attention:The controls will get better. I'm not great at gptk and without one, I had some funky stuff going on. Currently, I can't figure how to wire it properly😅 and going into the settings to change sound, lives etc.. I get stuck inside it and have to reset.

halcyon sparrow
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Maybe its possible to remove all the gamepad inputs and use gtpk for everything?

junior scaffold
halcyon sparrow
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Utmt and screwing around haha

junior scaffold
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Ah

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I'm good at one of those😅

halcyon sparrow
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This is something you can test on pc and run with utmt, so that makes the process a little nicer

junior scaffold
crimson pollen
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Hey, there's some kind of setting to adjust the text size? It's kinda of cutted on the RG35XX H

junior scaffold
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I'd love to try n get a emulation handheld out to the dev of this game❤🎩this game looks fantastic on pc but takes a hit on handheld.

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I need to try n fix the trees..how they kinda tear. Looks bad

crimson pollen
crimson pollen
halcyon sparrow
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This would also be a cool project @junior scaffold

junior scaffold
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Have ya looked at it?

halcyon sparrow
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Seems like a completely new game

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Needs to be exported in the latest gms

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And gmloader-next probably

junior scaffold
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Awesome! I wanna finish this one first. Not familiar much with gml next yet. May be for someone else.

junior scaffold
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Not gonna lie nor falsify..this looks pretty darn cool on the 40xx!

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..screen tearing in the trees etc. subsides big time when the night falls.

lilac tulip
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Just tried it out controls way better and feels better

junior scaffold
drifting sonnet
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Does this work on Knulli?

junior scaffold
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Let us know if you try n succeed😀

hallow sphinx
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It’s a gmloader port, so no

junior scaffold
junior scaffold
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I want to take a moment n thank the person who created this Revamped Gem! Thank you @placid raptor ! Without your awesome work and kindness in sharing it, as well as the hard working testers in your discord community, this port isn't possible. Thank You! Below is the link to the MetroidQuest discord. MetroidQuest

scenic glacier
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Tested for a short minute this morning. I forgot to check the controlls sceme. But I noticed it wasn't in full screen for me on my x55 rocknix

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It launched with the provided files tho. So that was good

crimson pollen
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Hello, there's a new version 2.3.13 for this game! The port is compatible with it?

junior scaffold
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Looks like a bug was fixed at the final boss

crimson pollen
rose nexus
junior scaffold
junior scaffold
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here is latest port build of the latest updated game version. The creator fixed a bug at the final boss.

rose nexus
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Thanks

junior scaffold
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..been meaning to update things but fell behind😌

junior scaffold
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just pr'd. Should any more updates happen to the game, I'll surely update this port.

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thanks all, for testing!❤️🎩