Halo Zero - great platform game to play on your cab

[vibez]

Just found this metal slug styled version of halo. i'm afraid it needs a mouse for the aiming, but if you have a trackball on your cab, this would be a really cool game to add to it.

check it out here

http://www.halozero.new.fr/

[brophog]

Not bad. Too bad it needs a mouse though. Quite unnecessary considering the huge portion of games in arcade past that did the same thing with just a joystick.

[Howard_Casto]

Actually.... an optical rotary would also work.... the "cursor" doesn't actually change the distance of the shot, rather it just positions the gun.

[brophog]

I'm not sure it even needs that though. Unless there is a segment in the game that I didn't get to, I thought it felt very much like a Metal Slug or Contra, both of which work very well with an 8 way joystick.

[Howard_Casto]

That's what I thought....  so I wrote an ahk script that made the gun point in the direction you are going. 

The problem is the (bad) game design.  Some of the aliens are shorter than your character and thus you have to aim down, yet only slightly down.  Now you can aim the gun down while running with this script similar to Contra but since the enemies take multiple hits to kill, you end up running into them and killing yourself. 

[brophog]

 

[Howard_Casto]

Tweaked the script a little more and now that game is pretty playable.  Once I put in code to automatically start the game I'll post it. 

[M3talhead]

That's what I thought....  so I wrote an ahk script that made the gun point in the direction you are going. 

The problem is the (bad) game design.  Some of the aliens are shorter than your character and thus you have to aim down, yet only slightly down.  Now you can aim the gun down while running with this script similar to Contra but since the enemies take multiple hits to kill, you end up running into them and killing yourself. 

Thats what the "smack" button is for.