My first priority is making a replica of the physical arcade game (not the movie arcade game). This video sort of shows what I'm going for. That includes the stump animation at the beginning and the kill screen at the end. One and two player mode, free play mode and credit mode.
After that, I'll add some features that were suggested by the contributors. These features can be enabled in a configuration screen.
One of the things I would like to do at this moment is that I would like to fill the initial hi score table with the initials (3 characters) of the people supporting this build. So if you want your initials in the hi score table, let me know.
While I can see why you would initially want to set out to recreate the arcade-reproduction version (what with it being unobtainable) it seems odd to me that you'd rather target the physical machine rather than merge the best parts of both. When you have the creation control at your own fingertips.
For example, the arcade machine has tons of purposely modified incorrect graphics for no apparent reason beyond protecting the movie assets. Here's an example:
In the first image, they moved the shadow lines in the top of the window frame. Not only does this not make sense anymore, but it looks incredibly ugly.
In the bottom image, they remade the glowing hats using Felix's standard hat, but didn't bother to recolor the lighter shade, leaving a random blue streak in the hat. They also didn't use the different colors for his hat logo.
There's tons of things like these including missing frames of animations, more interesting gameplay etc.
When the physical cabinet was literally a thrown together attempt of making a functional version of the movie game, why not create something that combines the most accurate and detailed elements of both?
Whatever you decide, I wont stand in your way, but I suppose I thought this was a different project in my head. Otherwise I wouldn't have spent all this time freeze framing movie sources to create missing frames of animation or meticulously listening to the musical and sound pieces to recreate them, when the real cabinets have alternate sounds that are completely different, if I had known you had no intention of using them.
Anywho, my thoughts aside for the moment. I suppose technically speaking, recreating the cabinet version is less work in the grand scheme of things. Forgive my being-a-stickler-for-accuracy. I enjoy movie prop replicas, and am a member of The RPF (The Replica Prop Forum). I just find a great thrill in reproducing things and getting it all correct.
It's also nice to hear from you again
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