Jackal

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#21

Now it works ingame (with the second url) but the logo has a little “bug”

#22

Thanks for helping me test this. The logo is also stored as tiles. I’ll have to pad everything.

#23

The alternate version works fine for me.

#24

Thanks for testing. I’ll post a new version this weekend with all tiles properly padded.

#25

I like it, but I don’t get how to control the “normal” shot, sometimes it works shooting in another direction but most of the time it just shoot north.

#26

Although the grenades and missiles fire in the direction that the player faces, the machine gun shoots upwards exclusively. This may seem like a limitation, but it provides a tactical advantage by enabling you to fire at enemies while retreating.

#27

For AZERTY, it would be W. I could make Z/Y/W machine gun. Or, I could just shift over one key and make X machine gun and C grenade/missile. The X-C combination is universal across all 3 keyboard layouts. I’ll think about this.

#28

yes but that doesn’t work during the boss-wave, you can’t drive on the bottom because the enemies sometimes leave your screen on the bottom -> get shot. In addition I died because a random tank spawn out of my viewport and moved up into my field of view -> collision.

maybe you could add a “attach machine-gun to velocity-direction button”
best regards

#29

This is a remake of the NES version of Jackal. The fixed machine gun direction was conceived by Konami. Actually, they kind of ripped it off of Capcom’s Commando, though in that game it’s the reverse: you can fire your machine gun in any direction, but you can only throw grenades north.

#30

I posted a new version here: http://meatfighter.com/jackal/

Now, all tiles are padded. Hopefully that fixes the graphical glitches that some people experienced.

Grenade/missile and machine gun are still the 2 lower-left keys on the keyboard; however, the game now supports these mappings by default:

X-Z [QWERTY]

X-Y [QWERTZ]

X-W [AZERTY]

X-K [Dvorak]

And of course, you can remap these or setup your gamepad via Options | Input.

For those who had problems launching the applet under OS X, I provided a link to a self-executable jar and a web start link.

Thanks for testing.

#31

Ok man, I had to get off my lazy butt and register so I could come here and post this 1 thing.

“Thank you!”

What a trip down memory lane. :slight_smile:

#32

Nice game! It would be great if you add an independent control for the gun cause you would have a lot of tactical options.

#33

Nice game! It would be great if you add an independent control for the gun cause you would have a lot of tactical options.

#34

Unfortunately, that feature was not in the original game and it would make the game way too easy.

#35

Unfortunately, that feature was not in the original game and it would make the game way too easy.