Graze Counter GM

[ember lava]

A refreshing and highly re-playable bullet hell style shooter that WANTS you to play dangerously! Ride the razor's edge of life and death in this high-risk high-reward danger oriented arcade style shooting game.

General:

• Title: Graze Counter GM
• Developer: Bikkuri Software
• Engine: Game Maker Studio 2
• Version: 2022.9 (Bytecode Version: 17, no YYC)

Instructions for installing:

• Purchase game via https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486440/Graze_Counter_GM/
• Download the grazecountergm.zip below
• Place all game .dat and .win files in the "/gamedata/" folder.

Controls:

D-Pad    Movement
L-Stick  Movement
A        Graze Counter / Special Attack
B        Shot
X        Break Mode
Y        Slow Movement
Start    Menu

Custom Firmwares:
[x] AmberELEC
[x] ArkOS
[x] ROCKNIX
[x] MuOS

Resolutions:
[x] 480x320 (Optional)
[x] 640x480
[x] Higher resolutions

Notes:

• I have completed about 2/3 of the game on the Anbernic RG40XX H and did not encounter any issues so far.
• I noticed that the game launches in a 16:9 aspect ratio, but I am not sure if this is an issue.
• Changing controls in the game menu works properly.

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Graze Counter GM

OverviewA refreshing and highly re-playable bullet hell style shooter that WANTS you to play dangerously!"Graze" past enemy bullets to charge your "Graze Counter", then unleash it upon your enemies as a highly deadly attack! Ride the razor's edge of life and death in this high-risk high-reward danger oriented arcade style shooting game.StoryIt i...

Price

$7.49

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This is a zip archive containing the game port.

[steel finch]

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uuh nice looking shump

[atomic heron]

I love when people actually use the Testing Chart on their first port

[heavy stirrup]

Tick these boxes

[atomic heron]

Ive noticed one thing, im pretty sure the cover.png needs to be 640x480

[heavy stirrup]

Oh yeah, I suggest https://github.com/JeodC/EmulationStation-ImageMaker to be inline with other ports, or I can make it for you if you're not familiar with using python scripts.

[languid summit]

Got this on switch, it's awesome.

[ember lava]

Thank you for the feedback, I will recreate the cover.

As for the checkboxes, I’m not entirely sure what you mean - I don’t see such a set on my end. I am using UMT v0.6.1.0. Also, I would appreciate it if you could explain why this is necessary?

[heavy stirrup]

It gets rid of the black bars. You don't have a flag dropdown menu? Try this nightly. https://github.com/UnderminersTeam/UndertaleModTool/actions/runs/13353187877

[ember lava]

Thank you, I will use this version of UMT. I have recreated the cover using ImageMaker and attached it to this message. Could you please check if it looks correct?

[ember lava]

In your version, the checkboxes are present - thank you. Am I correct in understanding that I need to create an xdelta patch after making changes and add its application during the first launch of the game?

[heavy stirrup]

Correct.

[fringe rover]

r36s: Works well on ArkOS 2.0 & AmberELEC. It may be a bit slow when there are a lot of bullets.

[ember lava]

I made the fixes and tested them on my device - there are no more black bars. I also updated the screenshot and the cover. I’m attaching the new archive.

[novel maple]

Awesome work for a first port!

[fringe rover]

Thank you. It's much easier to see now that the screen is full.

[noble gust]

1i noticed it starts in Japanese and can be changed in the Configuration portion of the Main Menu to English or whatever is needed

[steel finch]

and does it save that setting? If so, its probably a good idea to include preconfigured file

[ember lava]

Good idea, thank you. I added a empty save file with English selected, here’s the updated archive with the game port.

[heavy stirrup]

You can change the default in the game code as well, it’s a bit cleaner that way.

[noble gust]

Noticed this anomoly

[ember lava]

I moved the default language setup to the patch. Here’s the updated archive with the game port.

[ember lava]

Interesting glitch. I haven’t encountered it on my end, and honestly, I’m not entirely sure how to fix it atm. Perhaps you have some ideas?

[heavy stirrup]

Where’d you come from btw? I see you joined the server yesterday, you know your way around game maker clearly.

[ember lava]

I learned about PortMaster from a YouTube video. Three days ago, I bought an Anbernic RG40XX H, installed muOS, and decided to check what games have already been ported and what hasn’t. Along the way, I familiarized myself with the Portability Chart and decided to try porting a game to my device. That’s how I ended up here :)

[atomic heron]

you are damn good in following instructions, like nearly everything is perfect

[heavy stirrup]

Welcome to the community!

This doesn't warrant a new testing zip but for review, your sh file does not need the following:

# dos2unix in case we need it
dos2unix "$GAMEDIR/tools/gmKtool.py"
dos2unix "$GAMEDIR/tools/Klib/GMblob.py"
dos2unix "$GAMEDIR/patch/patchscript"

That block only exists for testing when people will manually download and install ports, it will manage windows line endings and change them to unix. Also:
pm_platform_helper "$GAMEDIR/gmloadernext.aarch64" -- If you redirect the output of this to >/dev/null you won't get the annoying sway fullscreen blocks in the log when using rocknix.

[ember lava]

Thank you so much. This community is amazing, and you’re doing awesome things :)

If you redirect the output of this to >/dev/null you won't get the annoying sway fullscreen blocks in the log when using rocknix.
Am I correct in understanding that when using redirection to /dev/null, the game log after launch will be empty? I’ve modified the line as follows:

$GPTOKEYB "gmloadernext.aarch64" &
pm_platform_helper "$GAMEDIR/gmloadernext.aarch64" >/dev/null 2>&1

[heavy stirrup]

No it will only remove the output of pm_platform_helper which we don't need to see anyway.

[ember lava]

I removed the dos2unix lines and added >/dev/null to pm_platform_helper. In this case, I won’t attach a new archive; the next archive will include these fixes.

It’s already nighttime here, so I’ll come back tomorrow. Thank you so much for your help and support! :)

[steel finch]

✅ OGA Arkos (480x320), X55 / RP5 Rocknix, RGB10X Amberelec and 35xxSP muOS. On lowend 3326 slowdowns are quite regular and visible, but it is still well enjoyable and I managed to get a full run. Slowdowns can occure on h700/3566 as well, but to much lesser degree. Unsupringly flawless on RP5. Great shmup

[heavy stirrup]

I don't think this one uses NewTextureRepacker atm.

Might help.

Does do audio compression I see.

[steel finch]

quite a hefty audio compression, took some time

[noble gust]

Pretty soon, Portmaster is going to be so advanced, and RP5/Odin² are going to be the reccomended devices. Lol

[steel finch]

not that many people will have Odin 2 devices as at that point you should get a steam deck lol

[heavy stirrup]

But steam won't send me a "dev unit"

[noble gust]

I dunno portal i'd rather have over a steamdeck I think

NOW with Xbox and ps3 on it.

[steel finch]

You have not prayed enough to the Lord Gaben, blessed be His name.

[ember lava]

Hi.

I tried repacking the textures and tested two options:

var pageSizeWidth = 512;
var pageSizeHeight = 512;

and

var pageSizeWidth = 256;
var pageSizeHeight = 256;

On my device, I didn’t notice much of a difference, but perhaps the effect will be more noticeable on weaker devices?

Unfortunately, since the archive size has increased and I don’t have Discord Nitro, I can’t upload the files directly. So, I’m leaving a link to a Google Drive folder - currently, there are two archives for the different variants.

[noble gust]

And these changes do what exactly

[heavy stirrup]

It would take too long to explain.

[atomic heron]

im pretty sure this is to improve performance

[ember lava]

I’m not an expert by any means, but this should positively affect memory usage and texture atlas switching, which could improve optimization (but, again, I didn’t notice any difference on my device). Initially, I planned to repack the atlases only to 512x512, but then I found some useful information [here](#💢｜compile-help message) and decided to try repacking them to 256x256 as well.

[steel finch]

Most of the slowdowns are during large amounts of particles; shots and whatnot. I can check tomorrow, but I dont expect much.

[ember lava]

That’s awesome, I’d really appreciate it 👍

[heavy stirrup]

That'll be cpu math slowdown, not vram slowdown I think

[heavy stirrup]

https://gist.github.com/JeodC/ec64b05191d73c91e7a6a12f55b31af3

[steel finch]

yeah, after playing a bit I dont feel like texture repacking helps here a lot

[novel maple]

Are there shaders in the game?

[steel finch]

some see some kind of collision shader

[heavy stirrup]

Is this waiting on anything or is it ready for pr?

[ember lava]

I noticed that the performance drop occurs during enemy laser beams (it’s most noticeable with the enemy that has three laser beams). At other times, I don’t observe any performance issues. I tried experimenting with the laser code, but it didn’t yield any visible results. If this isn’t a blocker, and if the game behaves stably on all test devices and operating systems from the checklist, I can prepare a PR. If this is a blocker, I’d appreciate your advice on how to address it.

[heavy stirrup]

Depends how bad the drop is.

[steel finch]

its quuite noticeable, but it doesnt take long to recover. Not a deal breaker to me, maybe make a note

[ember lava]

I apologize for the delay - I’ve had a lot of work this week, so I couldn’t work on the port.

I experimented with the number of lasers on the enemies and noticed that several laser "beams" (which are essentially lines of objects) are created one under the other. I tried removing some of the beams, and during the test run, I didn’t notice a visual difference, but the game’s performance improved.

Could you please check if the game’s performance has improved on your end? I’m attaching the archive with the updated port.

[steel finch]

I would say its not dropping as hard, though still noticeable

[ember lava]

Thank you for testing! I experimented a bit more with the laser - on my device, I don’t notice any difference now, but in theory, there should be one. Could you please check if the performance has improved?

[steel finch]

at this point I am not sure if I am seeing any further improvements or just a placebo, so minor at best.

[ember lava]

Got it, thank you.

Is the current level of game performance sufficient for me to submit a PR, or does it require further refinement? If the performance is at an acceptable level, I’ll leave the repository cloning running overnight and start preparing the PR.

[steel finch]

Its good enough

[ember lava]

The PR has been merged. Thank you so much, guys!

[heavy stirrup]

@ember lava Try this with Graze and rumble should work. Add "disable_rumble" : false, to your json to toggle it.

[ember lava]

Thanks, I'll try it on the weekend.

[vocal meadow]

It works well.

[ember lava]

I tested it on my console, the vibration works perfectly. Can I create a PR with this change?

[noble gust]

I'm sure that'd be fine!

Great work adding rumble!