Quote:
Originally Posted by zeekat
Great psych trip to the 80s. Killer editing too, did you actually damage those games with hex editor or something? And those eyes appearing for split second look distinctly Commodore 64.
|
Hahaha ... well-spotted on both counts. + thanks.
MAME has a pretty powerful memory editor and debugger for setting up cheat codes and debugging drivers. You can make use of that to corrupt sprite registers and change random text (useless trivia: the font is off-by-one from ASCII for the number glyphs). Took a ton of study to get it to that point without crashing the ROM though.
And yeah, some of the eye graphics are from C64 title screens zoomed right in. That palette is so distinctive.
The intense red/green/grey parts are from public domain NASA photos.
I wanted to get it increasingly damaged as it progressed - just something so it wasn't just a "Let's Play Altered Beast!". When I was a kid, my dad serviced those machines so we always had a few of them around the house, and I wanted to try and get a hyperrealistic capture of the vibe of those big machines.