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Our planet is threatened by Wekas, red and evil alien jellies who invade Earth with the intention of colonizing it and subduing all forms of life. Despite being only a little blue penguin, our hero the daring Waimanu will face the invader to defend the freedom of our planet.

Here's the official announcement post on our blog (includes video footage)

How to play [short explanation]
Waimanu should squash the Wekas pushing blocks against them.
Walls will vibrate if hit and will stun leaning Wekas making them vulnerable.
Lots of points are awarded for lining up the three special blocks in every level.

- Direction pad to move our hero around
- 1/START to push/break blocks and to hit walls
- 2 to use a special feature (available if you picked up a bonus... read the full "How to play" for more details)
- PAUSE to pause/unpause the game. Let your fingers rest when needed :)

Complete how to play instructions.

4 different areas with their own tune and effects and 8 different levels per area are provided for your enjoyment.

Download at: http://disjointedstudio.blogspot.com

The game has been tested mainly on Emulicious and MEKA emulators and on my PAL SMS II (at both 50/60Hz) using a Master EverDrive. Should run correctly also on an original SMS and on a Genesis/MegaDrive.

We hope that you enjoy the game. If you spot bugs or hardware glitches, please let us know. Thank you! :)

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Menu screen

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Area 1

Very nice !
reminds me a lot of Kickle Cubicle/Meikyū Shima ;)

Very nice take on Pengo! It looks and sounds lovely and, most importantly, it plays great as well. Congratulations!

Thanks! :) Also, let's post your highscore... I'm giving you few days to master it, of course ;)

Also, how many of you noticed we waited Friday 13th to release it? Unfortunately it doesn't happen very often... ;)

Fantastic job! It looks and feels good - a very polished production. The game really welcomed me and made me feel like I was a natural talent... then I realized I had been playing on easy mode. But I guess this means the controls/gameplay is intuitive :) Congratulations to sverx and friends!

Very nice game! Very polished presentation.

Wow, this is good stuff.

Are you planning to make physical copy?

Thank you for this excellent homebrew release!

Not that it matters, but according to the SMS Power Development Section, the rom header specifies an incorrect rom size (32KB instead of 128KB).

Thanks guys :)
Also, feel free to post here if you have criticism or if you find bugs, instead of writing me PMs. We don't feel offended :)

hang-on wrote

The game really welcomed me and made me feel like I was a natural talent... then I realized I had been playing on easy mode.

The difficulty curve is sort of exponential, so that you're supposed to quite easily learn how to play and get up to the third area... and struggle from there on ;)
In hard mode you get the same curve just with more Wekas to fight with, and they're also slightly more aggressive, and you've also got less time for each level. I suggest you try to master the game at easy mode first :)

@Revo: we're discussing about it. What's your opinion? :)

@pcfreak324: true. WLA-DX makes this so that the boot is faster. Many commercial games do this too. I guess it shouln't cause any side effect on any system.

sverx wrote

The difficulty curve is sort of exponential, so that you're supposed to quite easily learn how to play and get up to the third area... and struggle from there on ;)
In hard mode you get the same curve just with more Wekas to fight with, and they're also slightly more aggressive, and you've also got less time for each level. I suggest you try to master the game at easy mode first :)

Very nice! I'll install this game on my main gaming setup, and include it in the everyday gaming sessions. I won't promise I'll ever get to master it, though. I'm still trying with Bruce Lee. And also with Hokuto No Ken. But I will post my highscore sometime during next week! :)

It is awesome!
I wish there was a 2nd player co-op as in the megadrive's pengo

sverx wrote

@Revo: we're discussing about it. What's your opinion? :)

I think every good homebrew game should have physical copies but only with brand new material, pretty easy for the electronic pcb, plastic boxes, cover, manual but like always the problem is cartridge case... You can use Megadrive one (it's not looking good on SMS1^^ but easy to found brand new) or you can maybe wait a little bit about a french project on the famous ultimate-consoles.fr forum ;)

sverx wrote

@pcfreak324: true. WLA-DX makes this so that the boot is faster. Many commercial games do this too. I guess it shouln't cause any side effect on any system.

Yep, he did good.

Sverx, PM or mail me.
I've got some new "blank" SMS pcb ;)

Nicely done Sverx! :)

You weren't tempted to wait until next years comp? ;-) I'm sure you would have cleaned up with this one.

So professional. Presentation is very nice.

How long did it take you guys?

efry wrote

You weren't tempted to wait until next years comp?

No, actually I would have preferred to finish it in time for this year (2015) compo... :(

psidum wrote

How long did it take you guys?

Too much. It started as a learning project when I just finished reading Maxim's tutorial (we never thank you enough!) in Oct. 2013. Then I had to code PSGlib to support music and SFXs, and my friends had to learn how to use Deflemask for the audio assets (we really could't find a perfect tool for SFXs creation, unfortunately...). Various RL issues also got in the way, making the effort take approximately one year longer than expected.

Also, this is my first game ever which I completely wrote in ASM... and probably the last. We're not going to share the full souce code... but if you're interested in specific parts of the code (for example: how we handle tilemap updates queue, or 7(8)-digits BCD score/hiscore routines, etc...) I think I can share some snippets :)

Nice nice game, congratulations !

sverx wrote

if you're interested in specific parts of the code (for example: how we handle tilemap updates queue, or 7(8)-digits BCD score/hiscore routines, etc...) I think I can share some snippets :)

Please develop the "tilemap updates queue" concept, it puzzles me ;)

sverx wrote

we really could't find a perfect tool for SFXs creation, unfortunately...).

It took me a lot of experimenting until I got the sound effects for Bruce Lee just right. What helped me a lot was ripping sfx as vgm files from existing games with MEKA's help, then opening them in MOD2PSG2 to see how they were done. That gave me a good idea how certain effects were done.

However, there's a new way to create sfx now. You can use something like BFXR to create the effects, save them as .wav files then use furrtek's Talking PSG to convert them to vgm. You can then import them into MOD2PSG2 to further edit them and/or convert them to psg.

@vingazole: nothing fancy, I just meant to say that we had to create queues (and write code to handle them) because in the game logic code you want to update the screen background tilemap but it's not the right time to do that. Also, when you're finally at vblank stage, you want your updates to be as fast as possible, because there's a lot of things that you need done before next frame starts. The most important update queue in the game is the one that updates a block of 2x2 background tiles, you can easily see how many times we need to do that (a block is starting, a block is stopping, a block is breaking... and so on with some bonuses too...)

@Kagesan: that was a nice idea, indeed! About furrtek's tool, it just came too late, and we choose to stick to the SFXs we've done earlier.

Great work!
You're efforts are really appreciated!

Very nice game!! Congrats!

At first glance, i thought it was developed with smsdevKit, but it's ASM, wow!! Nice work!!

We at 1985Alternativo are working on making molds for Master System cartridges (we've already made molds for Nes and Megadrive). Maybe if you are interested on a physical release or something.

Nice to see movement on the scene!

Yes, it's ASM. In fact devkitSMS came when the game was already almost completely done...

We are very interested in SMS shell molds, of course, and I'm not the only one, so please keep us updated about that! :)

We'll have news in some weeks :-)

OK - I'm getting into this game (and good thing it is so generous with extra lives). So far my highscore is 72542, and world 3, stage 5. And I discovered the cool pause-image!

Thumbs up Disjointed Studio!

hang-on wrote

good thing it is so generous with extra lives

Yes, but you have to earn them scoring lots of points, which in turn means that you actively must concentrate on lining up the diamond blocks on almost each and every level, so that you'll have a good amount of lives left to face the third and the fourth 'worlds'...

hang-on wrote

Thumbs up Disjointed Studio!

Thanks, I'll surely pass them to my mates :)

Sorry for update this topic after almost 3 years but i want to show the physical edition of my collection made by me of this great game.

Many Thanks to sverx for the Game, really awesome quality.

PS: i am working on Weka Invaders too, I will post soon.

https://youtu.be/e8CQib8-4gk

We're really happy you liked it! :) Great work with the box!

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sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3805 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	[homebrew release] Waimanu: Scary Monsters Saga Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 3:10 pm
	Our planet is threatened by Wekas, red and evil alien jellies who invade Earth with the intention of colonizing it and subduing all forms of life. Despite being only a little blue penguin, our hero the daring Waimanu will face the invader to defend the freedom of our planet. Here's the official announcement post on our blog (includes video footage) How to play [short explanation] Waimanu should squash the Wekas pushing blocks against them. Walls will vibrate if hit and will stun leaning Wekas making them vulnerable. Lots of points are awarded for lining up the three special blocks in every level. - Direction pad to move our hero around - 1/START to push/break blocks and to hit walls - 2 to use a special feature (available if you picked up a bonus... read the full "How to play" for more details) - PAUSE to pause/unpause the game. Let your fingers rest when needed :) Complete how to play instructions. 4 different areas with their own tune and effects and 8 different levels per area are provided for your enjoyment. Download at: http://disjointedstudio.blogspot.com The game has been tested mainly on Emulicious and MEKA emulators and on my PAL SMS II (at both 50/60Hz) using a Master EverDrive. Should run correctly also on an original SMS and on a Genesis/MegaDrive. We hope that you enjoy the game. If you spot bugs or hardware glitches, please let us know. Thank you! :) menu.png (7.29 KB) Menu screen area1.png (10.02 KB) Area 1

ichigobankai Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 540 Location: Angers, France	Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 4:15 pm
	Very nice ! reminds me a lot of Kickle Cubicle/Meikyū Shima ;)

Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 876	Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 5:22 pm
Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 876	Very nice take on Pengo! It looks and sounds lovely and, most importantly, it plays great as well. Congratulations!

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3805 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:35 pm
	Thanks! :) Also, let's post your highscore... I'm giving you few days to master it, of course ;) Also, how many of you noticed we waited Friday 13th to release it? Unfortunately it doesn't happen very often... ;)

hang-on Joined: 23 Mar 2013 Posts: 611 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark	Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 7:48 pm
	Fantastic job! It looks and feels good - a very polished production. The game really welcomed me and made me feel like I was a natural talent... then I realized I had been playing on easy mode. But I guess this means the controls/gameplay is intuitive :) Congratulations to sverx and friends!

haroldoop Joined: 25 Feb 2006 Posts: 874 Location: Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil	Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2015 9:58 pm
	Very nice game! Very polished presentation.

Revo Guest	Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 11:04 am
Revo Guest	Wow, this is good stuff. Are you planning to make physical copy?

pcfreak324 Joined: 02 Aug 2015 Posts: 19	Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 1:36 pm
pcfreak324 Joined: 02 Aug 2015 Posts: 19	Thank you for this excellent homebrew release! Not that it matters, but according to the SMS Power Development Section, the rom header specifies an incorrect rom size (32KB instead of 128KB).

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3805 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 1:52 pm
	Thanks guys :) Also, feel free to post here if you have criticism or if you find bugs, instead of writing me PMs. We don't feel offended :) hang-on wrote The game really welcomed me and made me feel like I was a natural talent... then I realized I had been playing on easy mode. The difficulty curve is sort of exponential, so that you're supposed to quite easily learn how to play and get up to the third area... and struggle from there on ;) In hard mode you get the same curve just with more Wekas to fight with, and they're also slightly more aggressive, and you've also got less time for each level. I suggest you try to master the game at easy mode first :) @Revo: we're discussing about it. What's your opinion? :) @pcfreak324: true. WLA-DX makes this so that the boot is faster. Many commercial games do this too. I guess it shouln't cause any side effect on any system.

hang-on Joined: 23 Mar 2013 Posts: 611 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark	Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:37 pm
	sverx wrote The difficulty curve is sort of exponential, so that you're supposed to quite easily learn how to play and get up to the third area... and struggle from there on ;) In hard mode you get the same curve just with more Wekas to fight with, and they're also slightly more aggressive, and you've also got less time for each level. I suggest you try to master the game at easy mode first :) Very nice! I'll install this game on my main gaming setup, and include it in the everyday gaming sessions. I won't promise I'll ever get to master it, though. I'm still trying with Bruce Lee. And also with Hokuto No Ken. But I will post my highscore sometime during next week! :)

kamillebidan Joined: 25 Feb 2013 Posts: 384 Location: Osaka	Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 2:45 pm
	It is awesome! I wish there was a 2nd player co-op as in the megadrive's pengo

Revo Guest	Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 3:35 pm
Revo Guest	sverx wrote @Revo: we're discussing about it. What's your opinion? :) I think every good homebrew game should have physical copies but only with brand new material, pretty easy for the electronic pcb, plastic boxes, cover, manual but like always the problem is cartridge case... You can use Megadrive one (it's not looking good on SMS1^^ but easy to found brand new) or you can maybe wait a little bit about a french project on the famous ultimate-consoles.fr forum ;) sverx wrote @pcfreak324: true. WLA-DX makes this so that the boot is faster. Many commercial games do this too. I guess it shouln't cause any side effect on any system. Yep, he did good.

ichigobankai Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 540 Location: Angers, France	Posted: Sat Nov 14, 2015 9:43 pm
	Sverx, PM or mail me. I've got some new "blank" SMS pcb ;)

efry Joined: 09 Apr 2013 Posts: 106 Location: Sydney Australia	Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 2:58 am
	Nicely done Sverx! :) You weren't tempted to wait until next years comp? ;-) I'm sure you would have cleaned up with this one.

psidum Joined: 01 Jan 2014 Posts: 331	Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 5:35 am
psidum Joined: 01 Jan 2014 Posts: 331	So professional. Presentation is very nice. How long did it take you guys?

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3805 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 11:20 am
	efry wrote You weren't tempted to wait until next years comp? No, actually I would have preferred to finish it in time for this year (2015) compo... :( psidum wrote How long did it take you guys? Too much. It started as a learning project when I just finished reading Maxim's tutorial (we never thank you enough!) in Oct. 2013. Then I had to code PSGlib to support music and SFXs, and my friends had to learn how to use Deflemask for the audio assets (we really could't find a perfect tool for SFXs creation, unfortunately...). Various RL issues also got in the way, making the effort take approximately one year longer than expected. Also, this is my first game ever which I completely wrote in ASM... and probably the last. We're not going to share the full souce code... but if you're interested in specific parts of the code (for example: how we handle tilemap updates queue, or 7(8)-digits BCD score/hiscore routines, etc...) I think I can share some snippets :)

vingazole Joined: 20 Feb 2008 Posts: 118 Location: Saintes, France	Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 12:01 pm
	Nice nice game, congratulations ! sverx wrote if you're interested in specific parts of the code (for example: how we handle tilemap updates queue, or 7(8)-digits BCD score/hiscore routines, etc...) I think I can share some snippets :) Please develop the "tilemap updates queue" concept, it puzzles me ;)

Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 876	Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 12:32 pm
Kagesan Joined: 01 Feb 2014 Posts: 876	sverx wrote we really could't find a perfect tool for SFXs creation, unfortunately...). It took me a lot of experimenting until I got the sound effects for Bruce Lee just right. What helped me a lot was ripping sfx as vgm files from existing games with MEKA's help, then opening them in MOD2PSG2 to see how they were done. That gave me a good idea how certain effects were done. However, there's a new way to create sfx now. You can use something like BFXR to create the effects, save them as .wav files then use furrtek's Talking PSG to convert them to vgm. You can then import them into MOD2PSG2 to further edit them and/or convert them to psg.

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3805 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Sun Nov 15, 2015 1:58 pm
	@vingazole: nothing fancy, I just meant to say that we had to create queues (and write code to handle them) because in the game logic code you want to update the screen background tilemap but it's not the right time to do that. Also, when you're finally at vblank stage, you want your updates to be as fast as possible, because there's a lot of things that you need done before next frame starts. The most important update queue in the game is the one that updates a block of 2x2 background tiles, you can easily see how many times we need to do that (a block is starting, a block is stopping, a block is breaking... and so on with some bonuses too...) @Kagesan: that was a nice idea, indeed! About furrtek's tool, it just came too late, and we choose to stick to the SFXs we've done earlier.

Zipper Joined: 06 Apr 2011 Posts: 250 Location: Netherlands	Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 10:39 am
	Great work! You're efforts are really appreciated!

kusfo Joined: 29 Mar 2012 Posts: 882 Location: Spain	Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:57 am
kusfo Joined: 29 Mar 2012 Posts: 882 Location: Spain	Very nice game!! Congrats! At first glance, i thought it was developed with smsdevKit, but it's ASM, wow!! Nice work!! We at 1985Alternativo are working on making molds for Master System cartridges (we've already made molds for Nes and Megadrive). Maybe if you are interested on a physical release or something. Nice to see movement on the scene!

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3805 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 12:14 pm
	Yes, it's ASM. In fact devkitSMS came when the game was already almost completely done... We are very interested in SMS shell molds, of course, and I'm not the only one, so please keep us updated about that! :)

kusfo Joined: 29 Mar 2012 Posts: 882 Location: Spain	Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 1:12 pm
kusfo Joined: 29 Mar 2012 Posts: 882 Location: Spain	We'll have news in some weeks :-)

hang-on Joined: 23 Mar 2013 Posts: 611 Location: Copenhagen, Denmark	Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 6:23 pm
	OK - I'm getting into this game (and good thing it is so generous with extra lives). So far my highscore is 72542, and world 3, stage 5. And I discovered the cool pause-image! Thumbs up Disjointed Studio!

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3805 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2015 9:48 pm
	hang-on wrote good thing it is so generous with extra lives Yes, but you have to earn them scoring lots of points, which in turn means that you actively must concentrate on lining up the diamond blocks on almost each and every level, so that you'll have a good amount of lives left to face the third and the fourth 'worlds'... hang-on wrote Thumbs up Disjointed Studio! Thanks, I'll surely pass them to my mates :)

law81 Joined: 21 Oct 2015 Posts: 303	Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2018 4:55 pm
law81 Joined: 21 Oct 2015 Posts: 303	Sorry for update this topic after almost 3 years but i want to show the physical edition of my collection made by me of this great game. Many Thanks to sverx for the Game, really awesome quality. PS: i am working on Weka Invaders too, I will post soon. https://youtu.be/e8CQib8-4gk

sverx Joined: 05 Sep 2013 Posts: 3805 Location: Stockholm, Sweden	Posted: Wed Aug 01, 2018 12:41 pm
	We're really happy you liked it! :) Great work with the box!

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