Boxy II version 0.4

**Ghoti** · June 19th, 2006, 15:26

Hi folks,

I have made a new version of boxy ii. THIS IS NOT A LUA GAME !!!! ( alot of sites say it is so hopefully now they know otherwise)

I have added an early version of the chaos game mode for you to play. hopefully you will enjoy it. I also did not change the names of the game directories so that alot of you don't have a problem with this, hope it helps.

Please not however that this is still not the final version of the game so there can and probebly will be errors in it. I have however tested the game alot of times and I have played session for over an hour so it is more stable as the previous release. However there is still one bug that can come whenever wherever and i haven't figured that one out. I you come across it please let me know what exactly was the current state of your level or something so that i can narrow my search for the bug.

Well as ussual some new screenshots of the new themes:

and my change log:

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version 0.4 fourth release
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added
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- Chaos game mode added
- add option to turn on/off musicplaying
- add option to turn the chaos mode to random or classic theme changing
- at pause the music also pauses
- at pause the time also pauses
- new skin (Cards)
- new skin (reptile)
- after quit the game through select first you'll get the gameover screen to fill in the highscore
- Random music mode
- with normal music mode pressing L goes one song back

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Fixes
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- (when music is turned off in the options screen the game won't crash on the account of not being present any mp3 songs.)
- randomly crash on next theme fixed.
- options bug reads correctly now
- premature deletion of blocks when line was not beyond that point is fixed.
- bugfix special block
- fixed the black screen bug

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Still to come
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- Trigame game mode (not sure if it will be implemented)
- Highscores for each game mode
- Animated backgrounds (don't know sure yet)
- wave support for ingame sounds
- ingame menu

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known bugs
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- when you restart a game like 3 times the fourth the game will crash
- After deletion of some blocks (sometimes after 45 minutes of playtime

so debugging is tough) the game crashes

EDIT:: i have only a version 1.5 psp so i can't really test for higer versions, please let me know how it works on higer versions, thanks

**StealthCP** · June 19th, 2006, 15:49

Thank you.

**xiringu** · June 19th, 2006, 16:12

i'll start playing with it inmediately...

for the bugs:

-(i thought of this one, but couldn't replicate it) when it's processing a big amount of blocks (big combo) on the left and suddenly it finds another big amount of blocks to process, while the other is still there.

by the way, i had an idea that might be worth trying about the random crashes

is it possible to build a couple of test versions with things dissabled?

for example:

-eliminate the combo stuff, and make all the blocks just disappear, like normal ones, withouth extra processing

what i mean, is make a minimal version of the game to test, with only the minimum things needed to play (no music, no special effects, no combos, etc) and test it, if it works great, lets add some things and test again

I'll be more than glad to spend hours playing these minimal versions to help you find the problem.

anyway, thanks for your effort

i love this game!

**xiringu** · June 19th, 2006, 16:35

I'd just tried it and it doesn't work.

could anyone else on 2.5 confirm it?

I installed a shell on top of eloader yesterday and it might interfere, but 0.3a works perfectly, so it might be the new Boxy...

**Ghoti** · June 19th, 2006, 16:57

Hi,

I changed the zip to let it run hopefully also on higher firmwares (used some kernelmode code for testing, forgot to remove it)

can someone let me know if it works?

xiringu: Yes, i try something like that, but the biggest problem is that it just happens whenever you don't expect it, last time i played one and a half hours when it occured so it is still a pain in the *** to find it, but i will try your methode when mine just won't work.

ghoti

**Kramer** · June 19th, 2006, 17:12

yeah this works on my 2.6 without a problem

**xiringu** · June 19th, 2006, 17:56

i tried 0.4a and didn't work

i remove the shell, to go back to bare eLoader and ... nothing

how comes it works on 2.6 and not on 2.5?

has anyone else tried it?

is it just my psp or every 2.5?

**frmariam** · June 19th, 2006, 18:51

Looks really great! Will play like crazy once the two nearest finals are done.

W00t I'm in the credits! Thanks mate

**Ghoti** · June 19th, 2006, 20:00

xiringu, i really don't know what the problem is since frmariam also got it to work and he has 2.0, i myself has 1.5 and someone had 2.6 on which it also works. Theproblem is that i don't have money to buy a second psp (find it a bit overkill also) so i can't test it myself, hopefully someone else can help you with this

greets ghoti