Hey I was wondering if this was something that you missed to add. Normally this guy should sell 2 items, a shield and a candle but it doesn't seem like he does? I tried talking with him and checked the area multiple times but nothing worked so now I wanted to reach out to you and ask you about this
I found the issue, whenever you buy the Calm Spell the items disappear. I played around with the memory and whenever I flipped the bit for the Calm Spell to 1 they disappeared. I would assume the shop keeper is checking for Calm Spell instead of the shield and the candle
Amazing work! Thanks for finding the issue. Which tools do you use to debug the ROM and how did you find bit associated with the Calm spell? That’s a really deep dive.
I've been using the RetroAchievements debugger. All I did was: Search a Bitcount address before collecting the Calm Spell, buy the Spell and then look for an increase of 1 Repeat multiple times then try out the different addresses by changing the values and you can narrow it down
Is there any way you can post a .pocket version of this? I'd love to put it on my Analogue Pocket to run using its GB Studio feature. Thanks for all of the amazing work on this!
Are you open to constructive criticism? I don't want to make you feel bad about your work because what you have is very impressive, especially for solo dev but I have some, notes.
I've never played the Cdi version, so I can't comment on a comparison to that, only as a game in it's own right.
The sprite work overall looks pretty great and the music is very nice. I feel like the wand should appear to be part of the character sprite.
Combat is problematic. Items seem to spawn at the finish of the monster movement cycle, rather than where they were vanquished. This leads to items being dropped in inaccessible places, and in walls. It would be nice if monsters reacted to being hit somehow, like flashing, or being knocked back. Pushing a button to pick up items is a little strange to me.
I also had an error when trying to load a saved game. Was in temple, just a few screens after collecting the boots. I saved on a screen that had the lightning blocking the doorway.
I can tell this is still in development, but I think this will turn out great with some polish. Good luck, and I hope Nintendo lawyers stay away!
Hi. Great to see this project. It combines two things I really enjoy, Zelda's Adventure, and the Game Boy! I do have 2 questions regarding things that have deviated from the original. First is picking up items off the ground. In the original, you just walk over them to collect rather than interacting. What is the reason for this change? Second, and probably more important, is deaths. In the original, upon dying, you restart either at the start point in the overworld, start of the shrine, or room before the shrine boss. In this version, it is a full game over and progress is lost. Is there a reason for this, and is there any change of having it mirror the original at some point?
Great work, really looking forward to playing around more with this.
Any chance you can upload the cia version somewhere so I can stick it on my 3ds. I'm not sure how to convert it, been years since I booted 3ds up on custom firmware. Thanks.
Hiya, this looks pretty awesome! I've never played the original CDi version but playing through this felt like a standalone game or romhack, loved the overworld exploration.
I did run into a few bugs (v1.3.0) that would be good to look into:
1) game crash on selecting Continue on the title screen after a death. Seems to only happen after save and continue was selected? Reproducable on emulator (bgb 1.5.9 and gambatte-speedrun r717) and browser version by: starting game -> select new game -> open menu, save, save and continue -> lose all health to get back to title screen -> select continue. Brings up an undefined opcode error in bgb, and a kernel panic in browser.
2) halfway through the game your location indicator on the map started disappearing (or moving far off the location), and shortly after all text of the game disappeared (was playing on gambatte-speedrun r717 emulator at the time, haven't tried browser or other emu to reproduce). Map indicator disappeared after entering Vendoss from the top right (somewhere in the top sides of the town area it seems), text was still ok at the time. After exploring to Great Dry Canyon I encountered the Ambi sprite which did not have text shown, at which point my save file also seemed to be corrupted enough: I run into a game crash on loading (on game reset), or not recognizing the save file at all (with a save & quit, no text on title screen. Selecting 2nd option opens up a text box with no text and then returns to the new game / continue selection). Video with timestamp entering Vendoss where the map indicator was still there 2:09:15 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1807262319?t=2h9m15s and 2:11:10 it is gone. Text is gone at 2:15:31.
some minor things that didnt seem game breaking, is that I did notice the location indicator in dungeons was sometimes not entirely accurate, and sometimes enemies dropped invisible items that I could pick up?
Can't wait to get back into it, even though I lost some progress I love to explore more!
I have the EXACT same issue on bgb and sameboy! I talked to Ambi, who had text, then the text on signs vanished, items began to disappear from shops, and when I tried to load my game, I got the exact same crash in the exact same place via the bgb debugger.
Thanks for playing the game, sorry it crashed on you.
I’ve been hunting down bugs over the last few months, but as a solo dev it’s hard to catch them all. The screen you sent is part of the crash report in GB Studio and unfortunately, I can’t do much with it.
Could let me know which emulator you were using or perhaps you were playing in a browser or original hardware? If you could also let me know approximately where you were in the game, both pieces of information would help to fix the bug.
Playing on a Miyoo Mini Plus hardware running Gambatte (on OnionOS)
Near start of game. Got the wand and went down to the candle salesman. Tried to purchase without enough money then one screen down from that attempting to fight a mob. 3 mobs existed on screen. I killed one and the second one was clipping into me while fighting and I got this error.
Also killing a mob then entering menu seems to respawn that mob not sure if this is intended behaviour.
Amazing work in any case I'll be following this one closely.
Edit:
On that exact same screen again just went straight there after starting a new game.
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Any chance for a .pocket file export? I wanna play it with filters and all on my Analogue Pocket! Would gladly pay for it.
Any chance on getting a .pocket file export? Great work! It's been a lot of fun so far!
Would you be ok if I shared the link to this on tumblr? I dont have a twitter or facebook and I wanna let more people know about this.
Please do.
Nice project! Great to bring history to a modern era.
Panic! At the Kernal
Happened as I was loading a save in the Earth Shrine after gaming over.
Thanks so much for creating this!
I converted to a .cia file for those wanting to install it on 3DS.
Here is the link if anyone wants to download:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/110v0rokyhd61vu/Zelda%2527s_Adventure.cia/file
Happened when I was attacking one of the moblin-looking enemies at the start of the game
Hey I was wondering if this was something that you missed to add. Normally this guy should sell 2 items, a shield and a candle but it doesn't seem like he does? I tried talking with him and checked the area multiple times but nothing worked so now I wanted to reach out to you and ask you about this
I’ve seen it before, but it’s hard to reproduce. I haven’t determined what causes it unfortunately.
I found the issue, whenever you buy the Calm Spell the items disappear. I played around with the memory and whenever I flipped the bit for the Calm Spell to 1 they disappeared. I would assume the shop keeper is checking for Calm Spell instead of the shield and the candle
Amazing work! Thanks for finding the issue. Which tools do you use to debug the ROM and how did you find bit associated with the Calm spell? That’s a really deep dive.
I've been using the RetroAchievements debugger. All I did was: Search a Bitcount address before collecting the Calm Spell, buy the Spell and then look for an increase of 1
Repeat multiple times then try out the different addresses by changing the values and you can narrow it down
Cool, thanks for sharing. I hadn’t heard of it before.
Anyone get this to work on an everdrive gb x5? white screen when attempting to load up on my GBC
Is there any way you can post a .pocket version of this? I'd love to put it on my Analogue Pocket to run using its GB Studio feature. Thanks for all of the amazing work on this!
This bug usually happens when you try to restore a screen from an empty stack.
Are you open to constructive criticism? I don't want to make you feel bad about your work because what you have is very impressive, especially for solo dev but I have some, notes.
I've never played the Cdi version, so I can't comment on a comparison to that, only as a game in it's own right.
The sprite work overall looks pretty great and the music is very nice. I feel like the wand should appear to be part of the character sprite.
Combat is problematic. Items seem to spawn at the finish of the monster movement cycle, rather than where they were vanquished. This leads to items being dropped in inaccessible places, and in walls. It would be nice if monsters reacted to being hit somehow, like flashing, or being knocked back. Pushing a button to pick up items is a little strange to me.
I also had an error when trying to load a saved game. Was in temple, just a few screens after collecting the boots. I saved on a screen that had the lightning blocking the doorway.
I can tell this is still in development, but I think this will turn out great with some polish. Good luck, and I hope Nintendo lawyers stay away!
Hi. Great to see this project. It combines two things I really enjoy, Zelda's Adventure, and the Game Boy! I do have 2 questions regarding things that have deviated from the original. First is picking up items off the ground. In the original, you just walk over them to collect rather than interacting. What is the reason for this change? Second, and probably more important, is deaths. In the original, upon dying, you restart either at the start point in the overworld, start of the shrine, or room before the shrine boss. In this version, it is a full game over and progress is lost. Is there a reason for this, and is there any change of having it mirror the original at some point?
Great work, really looking forward to playing around more with this.
This is awesome. I converted it into a CIA to run on the 3DS and it seems to work, for now.
Any chance you can upload the cia version somewhere so I can stick it on my 3ds. I'm not sure how to convert it, been years since I booted 3ds up on custom firmware. Thanks.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/110v0rokyhd61vu/Zelda%2527s_Adventure.cia/file
I made one as well, feel free to download.
Thanks dude, much appreciated
This project is so neat! Hope this helps. :)
I have to say, very clever idea to include this debug crash screen!
Hiya, this looks pretty awesome! I've never played the original CDi version but playing through this felt like a standalone game or romhack, loved the overworld exploration.
I did run into a few bugs (v1.3.0) that would be good to look into:
1) game crash on selecting Continue on the title screen after a death. Seems to only happen after save and continue was selected? Reproducable on emulator (bgb 1.5.9 and gambatte-speedrun r717) and browser version by: starting game -> select new game -> open menu, save, save and continue -> lose all health to get back to title screen -> select continue. Brings up an undefined opcode error in bgb, and a kernel panic in browser.
2) halfway through the game your location indicator on the map started disappearing (or moving far off the location), and shortly after all text of the game disappeared (was playing on gambatte-speedrun r717 emulator at the time, haven't tried browser or other emu to reproduce). Map indicator disappeared after entering Vendoss from the top right (somewhere in the top sides of the town area it seems), text was still ok at the time. After exploring to Great Dry Canyon I encountered the Ambi sprite which did not have text shown, at which point my save file also seemed to be corrupted enough: I run into a game crash on loading (on game reset), or not recognizing the save file at all (with a save & quit, no text on title screen. Selecting 2nd option opens up a text box with no text and then returns to the new game / continue selection). Video with timestamp entering Vendoss where the map indicator was still there 2:09:15 https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1807262319?t=2h9m15s and 2:11:10 it is gone. Text is gone at 2:15:31.
some minor things that didnt seem game breaking, is that I did notice the location indicator in dungeons was sometimes not entirely accurate, and sometimes enemies dropped invisible items that I could pick up?
Can't wait to get back into it, even though I lost some progress I love to explore more!
Thank you for the detailed bug report. I haven’t used the emulator you mentioned, but will look into it.
I have the EXACT same issue on bgb and sameboy! I talked to Ambi, who had text, then the text on signs vanished, items began to disappear from shops, and when I tried to load my game, I got the exact same crash in the exact same place via the bgb debugger.
Thanks for playing the game, sorry it crashed on you.
I’ve been hunting down bugs over the last few months, but as a solo dev it’s hard to catch them all. The screen you sent is part of the crash report in GB Studio and unfortunately, I can’t do much with it.
Could let me know which emulator you were using or perhaps you were playing in a browser or original hardware? If you could also let me know approximately where you were in the game, both pieces of information would help to fix the bug.
Playing on a Miyoo Mini Plus hardware running Gambatte (on OnionOS)
Near start of game. Got the wand and went down to the candle salesman. Tried to purchase without enough money then one screen down from that attempting to fight a mob. 3 mobs existed on screen. I killed one and the second one was clipping into me while fighting and I got this error.
Also killing a mob then entering menu seems to respawn that mob not sure if this is intended behaviour.
Amazing work in any case I'll be following this one closely.
Edit:
On that exact same screen again just went straight there after starting a new game.
Sure I was using Gameboy core on Mister fpga. I was at the really beginning of the game, first screens, but I kept the game on hold, doing nothing.
I hope it helps
by the way thank you for your work!
Thanks for the detail. It helps a lot.
I like it. Nice setting and ideas!