Time Soldiers - Time Soldiers Pro - Mod - Hacks

Version	Date	By	IPS download	Size
1.0	27 Mar 2023	BcnAbel76	TimeSoldiers-SMS-TimeSoldiersPro-Mod-1.0.zip	166KB

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Competition Entry

This was a competition entry in 2023

Welcome to the definitive Time Soldiers hack, hereinafter TIME SOLDIERS PRO.

Based on the arcade version, developed by Alpha Denshi Co.Ltd. and SNK

Implementing a rotary arcadestick system (google images) for a 2-button controller with a directional pad was not easy, so the official developers created a game based on pointing where you are looking.

A system that is not very optimized but functional after all, but months ago the idea came to me and from there the hack was developed for more than four months.

Use the Special Weapon button to set the shooting direction, now I combined DPAD+2 to aim, and the 1 button to shoot, it was much faster and more efficient, the game gained in agility, there was no need to move in a circle to dodge and shoot.

I put a restriction that if you had a Special Weapon at that moment, you had to press once to rotate the shot and second to shoot, but sometimes it was effective and other times it was slow, no doubt implementing a third button would be great, but the The simplicity of the system and the charm of the Master System pad made me opt for effectiveness, with all this it made the game more frantic but at the same time strategic to preserve the Special Weapon.

At this time, it started changing the main characters based on the ones in the arcade, 8 directions, 8 different positions, 16 leg animations.

Added 3 new enemies in Age of Rome, Medusa, Gladiator and Spear and Shield Soldier were added. Since Roman Ghost's design didn't suit me, it was removed.

The initial animation of the game was added to the main home screen, the SNK logo and the PRO were added to TIME SOLDIERS, leaving a fantastic result.

I adjusted the colors of the Mid-Bosses, Bosses and Gylend to get closer to the arcade version, also I created an engine so that every shot that hit them would flash the enemy and it would be clear.

Now 5 lives and 5 continues per player. This gave me the idea of being able to view this information but it was a waste of resources, so I designed that this information was only available in case the Special Weapon bar was active, it was a way of rewarding the player since he could see his progression and know how many lives he had left.

Design 1 chiby style character for these counters

Change the style on the Game Over screen including the characters playing themselves with the Master System on a 4:3 TV

Replace the generic sprite used to rescue the 5 friends, with a new design: Sirius (Green), Primitive Age Laplace (Yellow), Age of Rome Dymos (Fuchsia), World Wars Alpha (White), Age of Wars Altair (Blue), Future World Now when they are rescued on the rescue screen and on the score screen they celebrate it, and they are in the order in which they are rescued.

Added the Power-Up feature, while this item makes you invincible for a while, nothing really lets you know, just the energy bar. Based on the arcade version, the hypercycled characters break their clothes and walk bare-chested like Conan, this could not be less and I drew 8 more directions with the characters bare-chested.

Design 1 hypercycled chiby character

I designed 5 more chiby characters for the Congratulations screen.

Summarizing in general, many more details were added to the game, without a doubt a version with its own character and the best 8-bit version.

I hope you play it, enjoy it, and know how to see the effort and love put into this hack, surely the most complete at all levels in my life.

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file name	size (bytes)
total 1 file	166K
TimeSoldiers-SMS-TimeSoldiersPro-Mod-1.0.zip	166K

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