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| Author | Neobomb |
| Type | Action |
| Version | 1.0 |
| License | Mixed |
| Last Updated | 2011/06/07 |
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xMadbomber is a port of Madbomber by Bill Kendrick to the Xbox. It is an action game based on the Atari 2600 game Kaboom! by Activision.
In August 2007, Mad Bomber was one of first the games included in Red, the touchscreen-and-controller-based in-flight entertainment system found in Virgin America Airlines planes.
Features
- One or two player.
- Joystick support.
- Game screen resize.
- Semi auto save/load.
- 720p resolution.
- All new menu graphics and logo
User guide
The Mad Bomber is on the loose, dropping bombs all across the screen. Use your buckets to catch them.
If they hit the ground, they explode, and you lose one of your buckets. Lose all three, and the game ends.
Controls
D-Pad/Left-Stick - Movement
A - Starts the game/level
Options menu:
D-Pad - Cycle options
R - Screen Resize
Screenshots
Media
[Xbox] xMadbomber (FEU3RSTURM)
Changelog
v1.0
- Joystick support.
- Joystick switches between P1 and P2 in 2 player mode. So no need to share 1 controller.
- In 2 player versus the bombers joystick has a slow and fast area depending how far over you push it, I thought this was better than having 4 buttons for movement.
- Users can enter their name on the high score screen using the Xbox controller now. Cycle through letters with D-Pad, select with A. If in 2 player mode the player with the high score will be the one able to enter their name.
- In game screen resize added, access by going to the options menu and pressing the RIGHT TRIGGER this resize will also pop up the very first time you play the game.
- Semi auto save/load fixed. This was already a feature of the game but it didn't work on Xbox. I set it up so that when you press OK in the options menu it saves your settings, when you load the game next it will load those settings. The same for all names and high scores. If you delete the file for some reason the game will replace it with a default one next time you launch.
- 720p added, makes things a bit more crisp, but in some ways that isn't a good thing. 720 can be turned on in the madbomber.dat
- All new menu graphics and logo too. This is mostly because I was bored, the original graphics were nice too.
Credits
Thanks:
- Hyper_Eye, freakdave, MadMab, Lantus for porting SDL, and Bill Kendrick for making the game.
- C/C++, SDL, his OdameX source for Xbox is really well written and perfect for learning a thing or two in regards to the Xbox, also used his updated SDL in this port. *Freakdave's source for Binax 2 helped me a lot with SDL as well, a lot of nice real world examples in regard to joystick support.
Also thanks to the whole Xbox Scene, EmuXtras and all Xbox1 related sites for keeping the spirit alive. Hopefully I can get some bigger ports done in the future.