48 Hour Pong (3D) Revision D

New features:

• Music format changed from OGG to MP3
• Loads random music from /PSP/MUSIC/ (and sub directories if present) - If no music is found default music is played
• New game mode 'Survival' - keep the ball in play for as long as possible (score upload and database upgraded to cater for changes)
• 'Arcade' mode to replace previous Vs. CPU mode

I've started to label the versions.

The static background image can be changed by replacing the background.png file with a different one (480x272).

New screenshots (still has old menu):

Menu screen (also demo playing is in the top down view with 'lines' background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...reenshot_2.png

Playing game in 3rd person view (with static image background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...reenshot_5.png

Playing game in 1st person view (with visualizer background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...eenshot_22.png

Menu (with no background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...reenshot_0.png

Menu (with static image background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...reenshot_3.png

Menu (with visualizer background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...eenshot_15.png

The screenshots of the visualizer do not do it justice. In gameplay it looks excellent.

Survival (with visualizer background effect)
http://insomniac.0x89.org/assets/ima...eenshot_28.png

dude this game just gets better and better, keep up the good work bro :)

great job bro

I really enjoy this game. its such a simple idea but a superb game. I really hope you continue to work on this game. You have my eternal support.

ya i havn't actually tried this game yet but since it sounds so good i guess i am.

wicked cool thanx dude I love this game.

BTW can I still use my same playerfile or do have to create a new one.

What an incredible homebrew game. I usually just use homebrew EMULATORS but this game changes that.

I love that you can play back your own music stored in the MUSIC folder.

Great job on this and you have my support.

what a great game
more like 72 hour pong but w/e

anyway where do the scores go when you update
and finally

great job

Pretty good, but the 1.0 FW files don't work, I get an error saying "Game could not be started". However, the 1.5 files work fine :)

btw haha if you get the ball just right in survival mode itll lock in the same motion
i just got a couple hundred points

No need to change the PlayerFile - older versions will be updated automatically.

djk21008: You were lucky, the X movement of the ball is sometimes very small. I'll remove that luck in the next version ;)

SnoopKatt: How were you trying it? I tried it with the nokxploit patched and it worked fine (that is my only method of testing however for firmware 1.0)

very nice this game is so cool and this thing made me fite my sis coz she usually doesnt touch my psp

Sorry, should have mentioned - the scores go to my site http://insomniac.0x89.org/

They are all viewable there.

At the time of posting, Kramer is in the lead :)

Niiice

awesomeness.

This is an awesome game. Is there any chance that you could make it 3D like the online game curveball?

It is rendered in 3D, but I get what you're asking.

I doubt it - the game already has it's theme.

I might consider it for a future release, but again, I don't think I'd take this game to that level.

Umm I'm using Dark Alex's 2.71 hacked firmware, put it in the PSP folder, and then I just told it to run. Isn't it already patched?

I would like to see a two-player version of this game, in which one player would use the Up/Down arrows to control his paddle, and the other player would use the Triangle/X buttons to move his.

nice man i been lookin at this game never downloaded it tho but now that i want to download it i cant cuase i canr download anythig from DCemu here latly it just starts the download and shortly it stops not finishing the download (im on dial up lmao) so wraggy might wanna check into this :p :p :p :p

Edit;; i finally was able to download this off another website and play it and omg this game is so cool one of my favorie homebrew games ever and will stay on my psp and i was just wonder man if you could make this game skinable like so you can change the levels apperance, change ball, and blocker color guess you could call it blocker lol but hey this game is great either way and cant wait till your next release man i love this game oo ye almost forgot i love being able to listen to my music while playin this great job

and one other thing you know what sounds cool 3d tetris :p ;)

I really like this game, its simple but fun. :) That fact that it now plays my MP3's is a great addition. I've also tried changing the Wav sound effects ("gameover man, game over" from the aliens film) but altering this seems to crash the game when it boots up?

Top homebrew!

wana know wut would kik ash? ball speed sync to music :) :) :) :) :) :) :)

Yet another fantastic update! :p A fine example of what homebrew can be ;)

trying it out right now :) looks good

Now this is really developing to be a fantastic homebrew game (even more than it is now).

I love the new MP3 feature which allows you to play own music and also the survival mode. I've always wanted to see more modes for this game.

The only things I think would be great now are multiplayer gaming (either on one console, or through wifi) and a few more modes.

Great work, Insomniac! Really, really great. :)

Wow I just thought of an idea that would kind of be like my other one in that it might be too much for just 48 gour pong. If you implement multiplayer, you could do it for 4 players and do a square. Then you could have more than one ball. I thought of that because of Crach Bash so that's where the credit goes. You probably wouldn't want to do this because it would be a completely different game but it would be awesome.

I'll be looking at 2 player mode as I think this game is really suited for it.

2 player mode may or may not include adhoc, wifi and single-console.

Any ideas for other game modes are welcomed.

Well this isn't really game modes but for features that you could have, I haven't played the game enough to notice if you can put vurve on the balls but if you haven't then you might want to think about it. Also, you could allow each player to move their piece vertically a little bit so they can get slams. Just a thought.

Edit: Also, this would probably be easy to implement, you could add options for what size the court is. This way you could have it like a long hallway like it is right now or you could have a tennis court shape. You could even add different options for what goes on the ball like a tennis ball, other sports balls, or just different colors.