Gravitar - - More fuel anyone?


I posted this message (below) to RGVAC because I was interested in seeing if the game could be altered to allow for more fuel. Mark Spaeth says he figured out a patch to allow unlimited fuel collection. I've emailed Mark and will post the info if he responds.

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From: Dan Coogan (Dan@cooganphoto.com)
Subject: Gravitar -- More fuel anyone?
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Date: 2003-01-02 03:38:58 PST


Since I play Gravitar all the time, one thing I noticed is you can't
collect more than 25,000 fuel units.

-- even if you are at 24,000 fuel units, when you collect another fuel
cell (each is worth 2,500 fuel units) the total will be back up to
25,000 (actually more like 24,950).

So I wish there was a way to store the extra fuel -- of course my car
only holds so much fuel, so maybe that's why they designed the game that
way -- as it's more realistic that you could only carry so much fuel in
your ships fuel tank.

Anyway the game could be amended to allow this? I'm sure one of you
tech guys would know a lot more about if it's possible.

best,
Dan

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From: Commander Dave (cmdr-dave@spamcop.net)
Subject: Re: Gravitar -- More fuel anyone?
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Date: 2003-01-02 12:50:47 PST


While I like goofing around with the code on arcade games, I don't think
that I have ever seen anyone modify a Gravitar yet. If you decide to take on
the project, another option may be to modify how fast you use the fuel. You
may check out MAME as they have "cheats" for various games and perhaps
someone has already figured it out.

In any case, post what you find. I would really be interested.

Regards,
-Commander Dave

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From: Mark C. Spaeth (mspaeth@plancherel.mit.edu)
Subject: Re: Gravitar -- More fuel anyone?
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Date: 2003-01-03 12:46:01 PST


Should be easy enough to raise the max fuel...

--
Mark Spaeth mspaeth@mtl.mit.edu
50 Vassar St., #38.265 mspaeth@mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 452-2354 http://rgvac.978.org/~mspaeth


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From: Mark C. Spaeth (mspaeth@plancherel.mit.edu)
Subject: Re: Gravitar -- More fuel anyone?
Newsgroups: rec.games.video.arcade.collecting
Date: 2003-01-03 13:12:15 PST


Mark C. Spaeth <mspaeth@plancherel.mit.edu> wrote:
: Should be easy enough to raise the max fuel...

I just patched it 2 ways...

One allows unlimited fuel (it's up to you to make sure it doesn't wrap down
to zero fuel!)

The other will just have arbitrarily high fuel. (Pick a number, any number).
I suppose if I just make the number high enough, it'll take the place of
patch #1... heh).

Mail me for details...

--
Mark Spaeth
50 Vassar St., #38.265  mspaeth@mit.edu
Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 452-2354
http://rgvac.978.org/~mspaeth


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