Preview - Jungle Strike conversions

[Straczynski]

Some of you may remember the old Sega Genesis game called Jungle Strike (as well as its prequel Desert Strike, and sequel Urban Strike). Arab terrorist and South American drug lord are threatening the US with nuclear weapons and its your job to pilot a Comanche helicopter and save the free world as you blow up everyone else on your way.

Anyway, I downloaded the game, played it a bit, and this vehicle apperead in front of me:

The first thing I tought was "Hm, I don't remember seeing a wheeled mechanized cavalry in Civ..."

After a few minutes of taking pictures of the vehicle ingame, pasting everything in Paint, drawing a civcoloured pennant, reducing to 80% size, blurring and sharpening on Irfanview, I had this:

Yeah, it looks crappy, but hey, it's as far as I can improve a pixelated vehicle. You guys can use it as a placeholder until someone makes a better one.

And, in case anyone cares, there are also some other vehicles in the game that can be used in Civ, including a Limo... "Capture the President", anyone?

So, any thoughts on that?

 

[A Viking Yeti]

Looks pretty good for cut&paste, have you finished the attack animation yet?

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Great game! Good luck.

 

[Straczynski]

Looks pretty good for cut&paste, have you finished the attack animation yet?

In Jungle Strike, the attack animation is just a bunch of white dots leaving the barrel which were supposed to be machinegun fire.

I'm trying to make a better one, with some fire and smoke on the barrel... Probably will have it done later today.

 

[A Viking Yeti]

K, if you need any help, I'll try...

 

[Goldflash]

Straz, use the SNES version of Jungle Strike! The Grpahics were better quality.

And BTW, I own an orignial copy of this game.

 

[A Viking Yeti]

TO Goldflash: Hmm... How do you extract graphics from an SNES game? Sounds interesting though (and almost illegal )...

 

[Straczynski]

Pressing "print scrn" and pasting it in MS Paint isn't illegal.

Also, it isn't illegal to have a Genesis/SNES game file on your computer, as long as...
a. You have the original game.
b. You delete it in 24 hours.

So... I'll look for the SNES version... If they're better, I'll redo the unit with them. Thanks for the tip, Goldflash!

 

[A Viking Yeti]

Ooo, cool. I thought you guys meant straight from the SNES cartridge ... Yeah, that was stupid.