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Title: Jawbreaker II
Developer: Maggoo
Music: Makinavaja / Toni Cano-Caballero
Cover artwork: Ericb59 / Eric Boez
Year: 2014
Game size/Req: 16KB ROM/8KB RAM
Game genre: Pacman clone
Download: http://abyssmsx.com/JawbreakerII.zip (http://abyssmsx.com/JawbreakerII.zip)
Video: http://youtu.be/7agOaNPANyg
About: This game is a port of the TI99 game of the same name. It's a fast paced arcade game heavily inspired by Pacman and released in 1983 by Sierra On-Line for the Apple II/Atari 8bits/TI99.  The MSX version includes some enhancements but remains true to the spirit of the original game (meaning fun but slightly primitive ;D).

Grrrrreat, Maggoo!!  :laugh:

Is there anyone around here who can help making/porting music for this in PT3 format? I'm currently using placeholder music coming from some Speccy games but it's not meant to be used in the final version.

I can help you if you want with the music.
Send me a pvt message (english or spanish are ok)

Cheers

Makinavaja

Just sent you a message, thanks a lot for offering your help.

Game is almost complete now, I'm only missing the music and some fine tuning.

Here is a quick preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXgbC97_yTU

It looks pretty good! :)

Great news!! Must say enemies now look a bit weird, as I have been used to looks of TI-99/4A game which I used to play a lot on emulator :) but I don´t mind that! ;) Thank you! This is one of the "wish that early MSX games were like this..."

I hope my wish is not too late, I hope you could use same music which was used on TI-99/4A. :)

Well the only difference with the original TI99 sprite is the second layer. But if time permits I may include the "original" mode sprites as well :-)

BTW, someone pointed out the oddest thing to me today. Apparently Bytebusters made some sort of port to the MSX before. It plays differently than the original Jawbreaker II but the "inspiration" is quite obvious : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMJmGsH_z54. The sprites are identical too.

I just haven´t been used to see too many MSX games with colourful "multi-colour" sprites, in the eighties, I mean. :) "Original" mode is nice too, if you are able to add that. :)

original first Jawbreaker on Apple II

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmxyMjwwavk

Smack Wacker, it seems to be a variation of Jawbreaker II, not a clone of first Jawbreaker.

http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/the-bytebusters/smack-wacker/release/2405/

Mr. Jaws - seems like you didn´t knew this game either. :) But please don´t let that put you down, I wan´t to play your conversion. :)

http://www.generation-msx.nl/software/the-bytebusters/mr-jaws/release/2831/


One more wish, I hope you could add similar colour changing letters of TI-99/4A version, or some similar effect, I just like too much that kind of flashing letters in old games. :) It was nearly totally unused thing in MSX games.  :'(

Color effect add :)

Thank you!!  ;D 

Entry completed and available for download  :)

Congrats Maggoo!! ;-)

Congrats !! Congrats !  ;D ;D
I will play this evenning.

Some "packed friend" tell me something about the sound of this game ;)

I had a quick glance, I will test it tonight, BTW it looks very polished, a little gem.
congratulations, really !
 :D

It looks like an arcade game! :) Cool! Congrats!

Nice one!  :)

I tried to find Maggoo's email address but I didn't find it... so I'll report this here:

I think I found a bug... I was playing my last life and then I ate the last dot of the current stage and got caught by an enemy at the same time. It seems I cleared the stage without dying (the toothbrush came too) but at the beginning of the next stage, it showed I had no lives left... so it switched to game over.

The same spirit, but far superior to the original ones.
Nice work!
Congratulations and thank you.
Really (after I played)... It looks like an arcade game!(2). Fantastic!!!

*L* that is not an easy one to reproduce  :D

I'll look at the code and see find what might have happened.

what an excellent surprise this game is! i loved it! :)

Nice conversion and very fast and addictive ;)

Here's my little review (Spanish): http://www.msxblog.es/msxdev14-finalizado-jaw-breaker-ii/

Thanks for the review Konamito, much appreciated  :D