MSXdev'14 entry "World Rally" sources released

Ouch, what a pity!, the game looks & plays fantastic. Love the physics!

Can we hope a complete game one day ? This game deserves better than a demo. Very good work.

How did you guys run it? Tried here with openMSX and BlueMSX, no luck. Do I need to configure anything to make it work?

Never mind, I got a corrupted file. It is working now.

RuMsx emulator is working . RuMSX

Wow!!! Excellent conversion from original Arcade! It will be a must-have in the 80's. It's very fast and playable! MSX1 awesome game!! Probably you don't need to do so much works to fix the steer (you have almost finished!).

Very good job!!! Congratulations! Force to finish it!!

I really liked to play that! And VERY VERY impressive MSX1 graphics! Large stuff!

Hi everyone!

It's a 48KB ROM (page 0 data, pages 1-2 ROM header and code); maybe it needs more padding at the beginning of page 0? Always worked for me (meisei, BlueMSX, openMSX and real HW) except for some graphical glitches with C-BIOS, IIRC...

Gameplay was designed to as close as possible to the original arcade by Gaelco: no realism/simulation, very arcade-ish, lots of skidding.
Playing the original arcade in MAME without accelerating reveals how the original game works, and how the car "goes on rails" while turning. I though I got very close to that but, unfortunately, it only worked in theory, as you can feel playing the demo. What's wrong, then? Maybe my turns are too narrow, or too close, or the car goes too fast, or maybe it is any other thing.
- The car speed is selected to scroll the screen exactly each two frames to avoid jerking, so there is no simple way to change this.
- To fix the track issues, the tileset and the tracks must be redone. This can be done with Tiled! and no programming skills are needed (except for some data about the tiles), but can be a tedious work.
- And, of course, the car control routines can be rewritten... but I really don't know what to do this time or where to start.
The other missing parts ("sugar" for the intermissions, some cutscenes, music, ending, etc.) should be easier.

Although I was very motivated to do this game and I really wanted to finish it, it took me more time and energy than expected. I really don't want to go (again) through another tileset redesign and/or another car control rewrite But if anyone is willing to try, I'll be more than happy to provide source code explanations or whatever he may need.

I've played the original arcade cabinet with steering wheel as well as joystick version and I think you have managed to capture the feeling of the game very well including both game-play and graphics. Well done!

Rest of the game does not get any better, so I don't think we have missed that much although this version has only one level. This is one of those games that are fun to watch and maybe even try few times, but that feeling is gone in 15 minutes... This version lasts just as long, but you get to repeat one level instead of 2/3 before you want to move on... but it is still 15 minutes of fun! For comparison I think I just have to try this version some day next to the arcade cabinet.

Ps. For people, who think this is too difficult: Just stop counter steering!

PPs. 39.1

The graphics look really incredible for msx1. Congratulatons for Tony and theNestruo. I would have loved to see this game in the 80s!!

If someone compiles such a version, I would appreciate a copy. Unfortunately I don't have the needed skills.

Cool game!

Thanks to share your job.

"Demo Over"

Congratulations to developer and the team.