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. back to Fuel tips 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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 Top |