Some ROMS...

I had some Star Castle, Version 3, ROMs sent to me by John DeGroof and Al
Kossow about a week ago. It seems John noticed the his ROMs that were
labeled with a V3 did not match those on the net.

I had never heard of a Version 3 of Star Castle, of course all I had to do
was ask Steve O. He'd heard of them, even had a little history of when and
why there were released. I guess operators were complaining that people
were playing for too long. So they beefed it up a little.

This confirms what I found out before talking to Steve. The version 3 is
definitely more aggressive. Check out the speed of the fireball that gets
launched when you knock down enough castle walls!

Funny thing is that this is the way I remembered Star Castle. All this time
I was thinking "Gee my reaction time must have speeded up as I got older!
This game used to completely kick my ass, now it only kinda kicks my ass!"
Delusions come pretty easy to me.

Oh well, thanks a lot John for making me feel old again!

Since I don't know how to publish the ROMs (I can't put them on my homepage
because of the emulator), I'll just send them out here. I'm sure they'll
get around.

I've also included the proto-type version of Armor Attack. I can't find any
playing differences, we did find the morse code sounds to be different than
the released version, I'll let you guys play with that.

Both ROM sets run fine on the emulator, though this won't help with decoding
the Armor Attack sounds, since I haven't got around to adding sound to the
emulator yet.

-Zonn

Received on Tue Sep 2 12:20:31 1997