(03-24-2023, 10:41 PM)RokCoder Wrote:(03-24-2023, 06:32 PM)madscijr Wrote: a version where the graphics look like the art on the packaging / flyers / arcade cabinet.
Totally in the realms of needing an artist or at least someone with time and some artistic flair. There's a reason I tend to use the original sprite sheets
Over the weekend just for fun I googled Scramble and started playing with the graphics from the arcade cabinet and various flyers and manuals, with the idea of modding the game with those (see attached).
Obviously the resolution of these is much higher than the 1981 game. For example, in the game, the ship's sprite is 32x16 pixels, while the one from the manual is 340x117, and the really nice one from the cabinet is 436x159. The fuel tank is 16x16, while the one from the cabinet is 46x38.
I think it would be pretty cool to mod the game to hi-res graphics (for a 1080p display or similar) and use the images from the cabinet, etc. I can edit the new images in paint.net fairly easily, to get the right aspect ratio, and create a new sprite sheet with the same layout as yours, just larger by some multiple.
So as long as the code isn't too hard to tweak to work with larger images, it should be doable in an hour or two. Could you offer any info on what values in the game code would have to be changed, to get it to work with these larger graphics? Any guidance appreciated!