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| [SH09] Garbage Quest |
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Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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Garbage QuestThis speedhack entry is a puzzle-platformer type. It's got 14 levels, 6 unlockable themes, and a surprise for those persistent enough to complete all the levels. Oh, and it's fun, too! Download Windows binary (fixed fixed version) - this one was fixed after the competition - it includes fixes to jump physics and some bugfixes. {"name":"598987","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/d\/5\/d56e5e84a8d24a2bc8a6e69cec68d539.png","w":797,"h":600,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/d\/5\/d56e5e84a8d24a2bc8a6e69cec68d539"} Post your comment! EDIT: Fixed binary... --------------------------- |
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kenmasters1976
Member #8,794
July 2007
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Nice game. It's simple but very complete. Jumping is a bit tricky. I've only cleared Level 6 until now.
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torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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Uh, anyone got a non-SSE build? |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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SSE or SSE2? |
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torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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non-any-SSE |
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Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva
Member #4,212
January 2004
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All that I got was a black screen with the music playing. Looks like some sort of portability issue. [The attack of the space bugs - Speedhack 2005] [Rambananas - Speedhack 2006] [Make clean - Speedhack 2009] [The source god - TINS 2010] |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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torhu, want kind of chip do you have that doesn't support SSE ... a Dorito®? |
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torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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An Athlon Thunderbird. Guess I'll have the same issue with all 4.9-based games if SSE is on by default... |
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Jeff Bernard
Member #6,698
December 2005
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Crashes immediately for me. I posted something similar in SiegeLord's thread--anyway, anything special I need for running Allegro 5 games? -- |
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Fishcake
Member #8,704
June 2007
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I really love your game! The music, the gameplay, the graphics, everything is just too good.
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Jeff & torhu, does this version work any better? |
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torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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Thanks, that works. I think these were the offending files. Could use your non-SSE files to run other 4.9-based games too.
And nice game, I'll play a bit more tomorrow. |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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It is extremely irritating to get A5 binaries to play nicely on Windows. It's basically a black art. |
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Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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Fishcake: You could always build yourself a native Linux version. The game compiles cleanly under Linux, and under Ubuntu you can get away with sudo apt-getting all the dependencies except for Allegro 4.9.12 itself. Glad you like it, though! Anyway, not to ruin your game or anything, but the ?? level is basically a victory screen - the text only encourages you to beat all the time attack challenges on the levels.
Fishcake said: Studying your source code.
Oh my Matthew: What special trick did you do with your binary? Anyway, maybe I should link to your version instead in the OP, because it works on my system too. --------------------------- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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I'm still experimenting... I wouldn't link to it yet. The reason it worked for Torhu is that I disabled SSE (-DWANT_ALLOW_SSE=off) when compiling Allegro. One annoying aspect with Allegro 4.9 is that if I build a monster version that includes everything, then every game is likely to have fake DLL dependencies. For instance, your game uses Ogg, but even though mine doesn't, as soon as my game links to acodec.lib, then it requires the Ogg DLLs to run... even though it doesn't use them. If I don't do that, then I have to compile a new version of Allegro for every game. But then all the DLLs and LIBs have the same names, so that is even a worse mess. Edit: There's something minor that causes MSVC to break: 1std::string SPrintF::format(const std::string &fmt, ...) 2{
3 if (!buffer)
4 buffer = new char[bufSize];
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6 va_list varArg;
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8 va_start(varArg, fmt);
10 va_end(varArg);
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12 if (charCount > bufSize)
13 {
14 if (buffer)
15 delete buffer;
16 bufSize = charCount;
17 buffer = new char[bufSize];
18 }
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20 return buffer;
21}
Passing by reference invalidates the address passed to vsnprintf, causing the string to be corrupted. Removing the pass-by-reference fixes the problem. Latest Binary I think the above binary is as compact as I can make it. It requires the MSVC 2008 SP1 Runtime. |
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Jakub Wasilewski
Member #3,653
June 2003
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Matthew Leverton said: For instance, your game uses Ogg
No it doesn't --------------------------- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Erhm, I meant the other way around. Mine used ogg, but yours didn't. |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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Matthew Leverton said: If I don't do that, then I have to compile a new version of Allegro for every game. But then all the DLLs and LIBs have the same names, so that is even a worse mess. And thats why you don't attempt to make a monster dll. That said, it might be better to have acodec dlopen its dependencies. But then you couldn't static link them... -- |
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Victor Williams Stafusa da Silva
Member #4,212
January 2004
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I tried the last version posted by Matthew. I still get just a black screen with music. [The attack of the space bugs - Speedhack 2005] [Rambananas - Speedhack 2006] [Make clean - Speedhack 2009] [The source god - TINS 2010] |
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Rodrigo Monteiro
Member #4,373
February 2004
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Very nice and polished entry... some genuinely interesting levels, and the unlockable content is also pretty cool. Thumbs up! _____________________________ |
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Jeff Bernard
Member #6,698
December 2005
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I tried the last version posted by Matthew. I still get just a black screen with music. That's more than I get. It still crashes right away for me. -- |
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Inphernic
Member #1,111
March 2001
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Really nice, but the controls get frustrating. The hardest thing in this game. If you don't correct the landing, momentum takes you to the force field, and if you correct, you hit the platform, drop the garbage bag and don't have enough time to pick it up. Or jumping off ledges - it's too easy to get too close to a ledge and when you think you're making a full jump, you actually just started dropping and end up making a shorter double jump. -- |
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torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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How about some more maps for gquest, 14 left me a bit unsatisfied? Thomas Fjellstrom said: That said, it might be better to have acodec dlopen its dependencies. But then you couldn't static link them... I suppose you could still do that if the function pointers have the same names as the functions, since the syntax for calling them would still be the same. Only need to recompile. On Windows, a simpler option could be delay-loading. The linker just replaces functions from the DLL with thunks that call LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress upon first call of the function. You can also call the __HrLoadAllImportsForDll function if you want all symbols resolved right now, but then it's not just linker switches anymore. Maybe delay-loading could be a solution for 'official' precompiled binaries, at least. If the user never calls any ogg loading functions, no attempt will be made to load ogg/vorbis dll files, etc. |
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Rodrigo Monteiro
Member #4,373
February 2004
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Sorry for the off-topic post, but on ML's post above (the one with the source), buffer is being allocated with new[] and deallocated with delete, instead of delete[]. That's undefined behavior. _____________________________ |
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Thomas Fjellstrom
Member #476
June 2000
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torhu said: On Windows, a simpler option could be delay-loading I thought thats how regular DLLs worked tbh. Otherwise why do they all have thunked methods in the .a/.lib file? Seriously, I thought thats how they worked the whole time -- |
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The last few levels are quite tough. I unlocked the last level, the one question mark on it, and I didn't know what to do there, because I couldn't read the text. Something about unlock points... 
For example, level 10, the upper black vanishing platform.
(ie: the dll isn't opened till the first use, and possibly even each symbol isn't loaded till its first use).