2023 - June - Super Methane Bros. - Ended

Hi,

Welcome to a new contest here on Amigans.net!

For the month of June, we'll be enjoying a platform game called Super Methane Bros.

Some of you might have played this on a classic Amiga in the past. It was originally published by Apache Software and released for OCS/ECS Amiga computers and the Amiga CD32 in 1994.

The game is available for free on OS4Depot. It was ported by Spot back in 2008.

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... form/supermethanebros.lha

There is even an SDL2 version, which is based on Spot's port above, but that one requires you to use gmake.

http://os4depot.net/?function=showfil ... ame/platform/smb_sdl2.lha

It is the same game, so should not have any impact on high-scores.

Super Methane Bros is a one-screen platformer where the aim is to destroy all the bugs on the screen.

To control your character you use the cursors keys to move around and CTRL to fire gas from the gun. To suck baddies into your gun, you must keep holding CTRL, and when you are ready to blast them out, relase the key. Throw them at the walls to destroy them and be sure to pick up the bonuses.

The aim is to get the highest score possible. The winner becomes the Methane Bros. champion of Amigans.net.

Good luck to all participants! Have Fun!


-----( Final Standings )-----

1. Antique - June 30th - 182,781 points
2. VooDoo - June 24th - 155,859 points
3. AmigaOldskooler (Puni) - June 10th - 60,130 points
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Congratulations to Antique for his victory in the Super Methane Bros. competition!

@AmigaOldskooler

My first contribution to get the ball rolling. It is clear one must pay attention to the apx. score one has before game over, as you can not enter your name in the list.

My score: 60,130

I can not get commands work on my system. I am using keyboard, I can go on all sides but I can not find fire button. CTRL does not work here.

Anyone here have this game work on x5000 in combination with keyboard? tnx

@VooDoo

I don't own any real hardware, but I can also confirm that the keyboard input doesn't work. The game starts normally but stays in the intro screen no matter what key I press on the keyboard.

@Maijestro

SDL2 version keys should be: https://github.com/capehill/smb/blob/m ... rce/amigaos4/doc.cpp#L338

That is strange. Both CTRL-keys works fine here. Are you guys using the SDL2 version or the original one from 2008? If you have only tried one of them, maybe the other will work?

I just gave it a go with WinUAE and the CTRL-key worked without any issues.

@AmigaOldskooler


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Tested with the old version not the SDL2 version as I don't know how to use it.

@CapehillQuote:

Ok I see, as mentioned before I have tried all the buttons and stay in the intro screen. When running the SDL2 version I also get the error message:

"Failed to find canonical name for libSDL2-2.0.so".

@AmigaOldskooler

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I tried both version, with SDL I can not jump over Intro, with original version I have game working, but I can not get keyboard to work properly..

@Maijestro

Your system is missing an older version of the shared object, but you probably don't even want it on QEMU. Newer should be compatible, but better, so try to make a link like this:

makelink from=SObjs:libSDL2-2.0.so to=SObjs:libSDL2-2.26.so soft

@CapehillQuote:

Thanks for the help, it works perfectly with their linking.

I have not yet understood the point of this game and I'm pretty bad

@AmigaOldskooler

fun little game!

also fyi, you don't have use gmake to use the SD2 version that lets you use joystick as you only have to run the exe file and it works as long as you have SDL installed.

my issue is the game always crashes my X1k after 10 or so minutes??? will try the non SDL version later to see if same issue

@328gts

Both AmigaOS 4 versions use SDL, the old version uses SDL1 while the newer uses SDL2.

Do you have a crashlog?

SDL version it works for me now! I Input I had to change option to Classic Amiga Keyboard.

Let's play now! :D

My first score:

47,066

@AmigaOldskooler

My score... 74307

@Capehill

no luck as it’s a full system crash each time…..might try to see if Snoopy can show me something

@328gts

Do you have a serial cable?

@Capehill

had one years ago but couldn't find it last time I went looking....will have a look again

update: seems to not be a Super Methane Bros. issue specifically as today after organizing some pics had same system crash ? strange as I haven't updated anything in many months and never had this issue?

Score update : 122, 319