I noticed that with the announcement of a new Saboteur 2 mod from thealfest there was some confusion, because since 2015 there is another Saboteur II modding project in development. It is led by Alexey Semizarov (Alex Rider), and thealfest, I understand, also participated in it and actively helped. And now he just develops his own project, which is great!
But you can already play the speed-up version of Saboteur II, which is free of a lot of bugs. It works faster than the original by about 2.3 times on Spectrum 128K and 1.5-2 times on 48K.
At the same time Alexey fixed a bunch of bugs in Saboteur II Remake:
* if you hit a flamethrower jet, the flamethrower took damage;
* the punch cards in one of the crates were infinite;
* sometimes some of the guards would get very buggy;
* it was possible to take an elevator down through a wall and "miss" the shaft;
* the main character couldn't swim properly;
* when using the teleporter, the message about the arrival of the motorcycle was not written;
* when colliding with an obstacle while kicking in flight, the energy decreased incorrectly (as in the last fall).
And here are a few other changes made along the way:
* 100 timer units were thrown on in level 8 due to the canceling of infinite punchcards;
* Protek joystick replaced with Sinclair 2;
* in 128K-version music sounds only in the menu and is not disabled.
You can follow the development on the zx-pk.ru forum, and here I wrote a small article about this remake, although most of it is already retold in the post (can be translated by Google Translate).
And here's files:
* 128K, TAP
* 128K, TRD
* 48K, TAP
* 48K, TAP
Saboteur II Remake/Mod by Alex Rider
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Re: Saboteur II Remake/Mod by Alex Rider
My participation in Alex Rider's mod is limited to reporting him some bugs while working on my own mod.
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Re: Saboteur II Remake/Mod by Alex Rider
Could both mods be added to our archive?
Re: Saboteur II Remake/Mod by Alex Rider
As soon as my mod is released and if Clive Townsend is ok with it.
By the way, Einar, in my mod I actively use your zx0 decompressor, even in realtime. Great technology!
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Re: Saboteur II Remake/Mod by Alex Rider
I don't see why not. Alexei himself is okay with this (I asked him) and he was given permission to release the mod by Clive himself.
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Re: Saboteur II Remake/Mod by Alex Rider
Alex Rider's codebase also contains means for other video and sound drivers. For example, an ATM-Turbo 2 version, but it needs testing. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/ ... b420c5c9b9&
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Re: Saboteur II Remake/Mod by Alex Rider
Confirm, please publish it )michellekg wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 10:02 pm I don't see why not. Alexei himself is okay with this (I asked him) and he was given permission to release the mod by Clive himself.
Re: Saboteur II Remake/Mod by Alex Rider
Hi @Alex Rider
There's another bug in your mod:
There's another bug in your mod: