Tracker Hero AGA Beta released

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Tracker Hero is a free musical game for the Amiga that uses MOD song files.

It can be downloaded from Aminet: http://aminet.net/package/game/misc/TrackerHeroAGA

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Nice one

Is there a way to add extra modules to it?

(apologies if that's explained in the download, I haven't checked)

Yes, you need to copy the mod to the game and create a "dat" file with the supplied dat editor.

But even easier: there are actually more dats in the datas folders than songs, so you can search the mods on the net and add MODs of songs like We're the Devils, Monkey Island, Lotus 2, Big in Japan and more...

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Does this game work with an CD32 controller so the four coloured buttons works as the "guitar" buttons? Hopefully someone understands what I'm trying to ask .

And where do you find the mod's that have the dat files already in the "datas" drawer? Especially the turrican2_intro.mod.dat file confuses me, since the turrican2 soundtrack is not originally in .mod format.

Thanks

Turrican 2 intro mod can be found on Classic WB installation:)

http://classicwb.abime.net/

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Hi everybody,

New Tracker Hero version 0.92 is available to download:

    http://aminet.net/package/game/misc/TrackerHeroAGA

And extra songs to play in this package:

    http://aminet.net/package/game/data/TrackerHero_STH-01

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The controls supported in this version are:

-Keyboard
-CD32 pad
-PS2 adapter + PS2 guitar
-PS2 adapter + PS2 dance mat

The PS2 adapter tested is the one made by Paul Willingham. I'm not sure how other adapter will work, maybe the mapping is not the same or they don't support CD32 buttons.

Is anybody knows how PSX64 maps the PSX pad buttons to the Amiga please let me know!

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Thanks Cammy and Megaboz for all the useful info!

In theory PSX64 will work fine with Tracker Hero when using the PS2 guitar if in the game you turn on the Dance Mat Mode (Not the Guitar Mode). This is because PSX64 maps guitar buttons to directions and in the Dance Mat Mode directions are mapped to the game actions.

The real problem could be that the directions are not matched in the same order, making it difficult to play. But this issue is easy to fix in the code adding another control option.

Megaboz or anybody, if you know the exact mapping of the guitar buttons to the pad directions please write it down

Thanks!

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Excellent!! Great thanks!

I will make another build today supporting the PSX64. The only info left is what signal is sent to the Amiga when strumming, is it Fire 2? or what?

Cool!  Basically, I just went in order of the buttons with UDLRFire, so its:

Green = Up
Red = Down
Yellow = Left
Blue = Right
Orange = Fire 1

(And then strumming/whammy/lift on the pot lines)

Hopefully that order works out of the box!

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Didn't e already cover that?

Right, but I'm unsure if this is an Amiga button. I think it's just the value when reading the port.

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Hi Dave, you have the new Tracker Hero release with PSX64 support in your email

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Let me know too if I can help test it with a PSX64, I can try it out on my A4000 when I get home in a few hours

Check your private messages

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I tried it out - first off, game looks great, nice job!  The PSX64 support looks like its almost there - in keyboard mode it works fine (e.g. button ordering is correct), but in guitar mode the strum isn't working.  I verified the adapter was putting out the expected pot values and it was.  Let me know if I can do anything else.

Thanks a lot for trying! I made a new build, please download and try it. I hope the strum works now

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Has anyone tested trackerhero AGA on an 060 machine? i'm getting corrupted graphics in the track selection screens etc but the game runs just fine. will post more details when i'm home if this is an uknown problem

Yes, I'm using a blizzard 060 to play it. What graphics are affected? Is corruption always present or there are flashes of it?

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Wow, I've seen this issue before. At first sight it looks like a problem setting the display in the menus, I have to take a loot at the code. Seems fixable

The good news is that the strum with PSX64 is already working. It works fine ingame but not on the menus yet.

And more stuff, some videos of the game being played with the PS2 Dance Mat (Paul Willingham adapter)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgunJQDjQMg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jrupq8h7F2Q

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Good to know :-)  let me know if i can help you somehow

Is this glitch happening in the last release?

http://aminet.net/package/game/misc/TrackerHeroAGA

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Hi,

a new Tracker Hero version has been released. The glitches should be gone now, please try it out:

http://aminet.net/package/game/misc/TrackerHeroAGA