Walls & Balls Smartphone, beta version

[Guest Kak]

Hi everybody!

Finally I've got walls & balls (an arkanoid clone previously available for pocket PC) ready for smartphone, however I'm not able to test in a wide range of phones (right now I've only tested it on my MPX200 and SPV E200)

If anybody could test it in other devices (it should work on all unlocked smartphone devices) I'd be really grateful ;)

The file can be downloaded here:

Walls & Balls SMARTPHONE

or if preferred, the ota cab version:

Walls & Balls SMARTPHONE CAB file

of course comments and problems are welcomed, just write us to [email protected]

TIA

Kak

[Guest lighthouse82]

works fine on my E200 - a quality quality game!! cheers :lol::D

[Guest akarno]

Works fine on a non-updated C500. One slight suggestion. The paddle is a little too close to the bottom of the screen to be easily seen.

[Guest Lyle]

feedback:

tested it on my voyager.. works fine.

suggestion:

make the installer place the game shortcut to GAMES folder instead of the start menu folder.

[Guest _Tala_]

suggestion: 

make the installer place the game shortcut to GAMES folder instead of the start menu folder.

The PC installer (this first file linked above) already placed the game into the GAMES folder.

Tala

ps. Runs flawless on my SDA.

edit: its in the start menu too

[Guest agent.m]

sda??? where did you get that from?? Germany?? Nice game. got it to work on my classic spv :lol:

[Guest radiator]

Would not run on my SP3i...hardware/ROM problem no doubt.

(Exactly the same problem I get when trying to run PocketSCUMM! Maybe I should've bought an SDA!!!)

[Guest arman68]

Works fine on my SPV200. Great game!

A few comments:

* I experienced a slow down with a huge multiball; maybe you could limit the number of balls on screen (eg: 6), and not allow any more multiball option to be delivered until it falls below a certain number.

* the shadows seems a bit too dark; imho it would be nicer if they were lighter to give a much more subtle 3d effect

* the left and top walls shadows are confusing; I know it is supposed to make the screen look recessed, but it does not really work. It would be better to remove them altogether.

[Guest lighthouse82]

following arman, here's my 2p:

1. i disagree with the ball limit - the level i just played suddenly threw about 20 balls at me with no slowdown but put a massive grin on my face!

2&3. but i agree that the shadows might be better if lighter. i think if the wall shadow was also lighter, it would work without having to remove it.

one more thing: when entering your name for the hi-scores, i have no way of deleting a character. please fix this!! i am saving games as RAK1@PS@ :shock:

[Guest markgamber]

It plays well on a mitac 8390 with the GAPI patch installed. Nice game, thanks.

[Guest Kak]

ok, lots of thanks to everybody for the testing :)

I think all the bugs/suggestions have been met. I followed the shadows advice, it looks better on smartphone this way.

Also, I haven't limited the balls, instead of that, when I detect a heavy slowdown the particles and fire particles are temporally removed (it doesn't look fine when happens but I think it's more important to keep the framerate high). If you find any huge slowdown despite the fix, please contact me.

Well, nothing more, just to say the game should be on sale tomorrow, and that everybody on this thread will receive a little token of appreciation ;) Just look at the private messages :)

Kind regards,

Kak

[Guest lighthouse82]

On the full version, i still can't delete a character when i'm saving my name for the hi-scores. if i press the back button the game quits. what should i be doing?

[Guest Kak]

On the full version, i still can't delete a character when i'm saving my name for the hi-scores. if i press the back button the game quits. what should i be doing?

mmm... works fine with the latest version on my e200, maybe I uploaded a wrong version to the web site, I'll check this asap.

[Guest Kak]

mmm...  works fine with the latest version on my e200, maybe I uploaded a wrong version to the web site, I'll check this asap.

as presumed it was an error of mine, I uploaded an old version to the website. It should be right now.

http://www.ru0-games.com/files/WnB_SP.zip

however I've had quite some problems downloading it, as the browser thought it was the same file I just downloaded, despite the size changed :?

so it might be better to download it from clickgamer, i.e.

http://www.clickgamer.com/moreinfo.htm?pid...5&section=SMART

I hope it works now :)

p.s. yes, you'll have to enter the code again ;)

[Guest lighthouse82]

ok, i have the new version, but still i think it's only letting me delete one character - so my mates can't set their own names on the table. :lol:

[Guest xerxes]

Tried on an SP3i. The game gets as far as the start up message "You can only play 7 levels" etc, but it never switches into the actual game.

Pressing action makes a sound like a tyre screeching but I cannot start the game.

You should make sure i-mate knows about this. It's supposed to be a game phone!

[Guest radiator]

I emailed i-mate about this problem last night suggesting they look into producing an updated, bug-free ROM.

Like it states on their site, the SP3i is "designed for dynamic 3D gaming"...

So far, I've found that the following games have the same errors (video freezes after a few seconds, but audio and user input continue); Walls & Balls, PocketSCUMM, Slot Car Racer, Jetpack Jim, & Chix.

TBH, I'm not very impressed with i-mate at the moment. Before I bought my SP3i I contacted them with a few questions and was assured that the gapi problems had been solved, and so had the multikeypress issues...turns out that both problems still exist!

Posted from my SmartPhone!

[Guest _Tala_]

Strange is, that everything works on the SDA, which is basically an SP3i (ie. HTC Feelers based).

I would have guessed they have the same ROM, but thats apparently not the case.

Tala

[Guest axe]

grrrrrrrrrrrrrreat work !

I love arkanoid clones ... will let you all know how it runs on my e200.

[Guest justuspr]

Just put it on my I600, so far it looks great, I've missed this game. Thnx

[Guest s0tz]

hi there, juz needed an update... has the inability of deleting char when u enter highscore name been solved yet? i understand that though pressing back button to quit the prog is a fast way of exiting the game but it shouldn't be this way rite? :)

[Guest Tankerom]

It runs on my dutch Orange SPV C500, but crappy. My phone is not updated since the dutch orange windows rom update will be released januari or februari 2005

Same problem a xerxes has

The screens stucks frequently.

when stucked I press my camera button so i enter the photo-button. Pressing my 'back' button gets me back in to the WnB game. Now I can get a little furter in the game, for about 5 till 20 seconds, then i get stuck again, do the photo-menu thing again, so i can play another 10 seconds.

The game keeps running when my screen stucks, so i can hardly complete a level.

It's not worth playing on a SPV C500 in this state.

Keep up the good work though.

[Guest Kak]

hi there, juz needed an update... has the inability of deleting char when u enter highscore name been solved yet? i understand that though pressing back button to quit the prog is a fast way of exiting the game but it shouldn't be this way rite? :)

the weird thing is it's solved in my mpx200 and my e200 :(

And weirder is that it works on some e200, and isn't working on some other e200. I'm trying to figure it out...

btw, when you downloaded the game, and from which site?

Kind regards,

Kak

[Guest Kak]

It runs on my dutch Orange SPV C500, but crappy. My phone is not updated since the dutch orange windows rom update will be released januari or februari 2005

Same problem a xerxes has

The screens stucks frequently.

when stucked I press my camera button so i enter the photo-button. Pressing my 'back' button gets me back in to the WnB game. Now I can get a little furter in the game, for about 5 till 20 seconds, then i get stuck again, do the photo-menu thing again, so i can play another 10 seconds.  

The game keeps running when my screen stucks, so i can hardly complete a level.  

It's not worth playing on a SPV C500 in this state.

Keep up the good work though.

mmm, I will try to test it with an SPV C500, my e200 also stucks from time to time (but not so often and as long as it seems yours do).

I hope to be back soon with good news about this issue :)

[Guest Kak]

omg, I'm terrible sometimes... just noted something, the CAB file was totally stale!

Could you tell me if the ones who had problems with the game downloaded the CAB version or the installable version?

Kind regards

Kak

(btw, it's been updated now)