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Impossible Mission
« on: March 10, 2005, 07:58:47 am »
Impossible Mission on the C-64 is one of my all-time favorites. I've tried it with several different emulators and a couple different game images and I keep running into one problem: in some of the rooms, one of the robot's energy blasts will be invisible. You can hear the zap sound, so you know they're blasting, but you can't see it until it hits you. Anyone found a way around this?

Oh, tried a couple different systems / monitors as well.

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Re: Impossible Mission
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2005, 12:14:00 pm »
Impossible Mission on the C-64 is one of my all-time favorites. I've tried it with several different emulators and a couple different game images and I keep running into one problem: in some of the rooms, one of the robot's energy blasts will be invisible. You can hear the zap sound, so you know they're blasting, but you can't see it until it hits you. Anyone found a way around this?

Oh, tried a couple different systems / monitors as well.

Haven't noticed this.  I have been playing it, on all things, my C64-DTV thingie I got for xmas.  I'll have to keep my eye out for the bug.  It could just be that the emulators don't support whatever trick Epyx used to do what they are doing.

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Re: Impossible Mission
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2005, 01:13:52 pm »
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I'll keep an eye out for it to see if it happenes in the c-63 30in1 DTV I have.
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Re: Impossible Mission
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2005, 07:59:40 am »
JCKnife -

Went home and tested my setup last night, could not reproduce this. Only went into about 20 rooms or so, at random... do you see it that early on? Tell me how to get to a room with the problem... what terminal number too... and I'll test it.

BTW, I'm using VICE 1.15, with a floppy dump of Impossible Mission (NTSC/PAL cracked by Jack Alien). The md5 on my Impossible Mission is 32fe183f8e32fc30386c2364bf590cb1

Hope it helps.

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Re: Impossible Mission
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2005, 08:04:50 am »
The problem is not hard to find, but seems to be somewhat random. It happens early and often every time I play, though. I'll check out the setup you're using. Thanks!


While we're on the subject, who's got the WAV file of the opening? I used to but my notebook died this week.
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Re: Impossible Mission
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2005, 12:52:31 pm »
WinVICE solved the problem, even with my existing disk image. THANKS!