Simpsons Trivia - Homebrew

Game for Master System

Version	Date	By	Download	Source
2.0	30 Mar 2018	SteveProXNA	SimpsonsTrivia-SMS-2.0.zip (99KB)	SimpsonsTrivia-SMS-2.0-src.zip (1.1MB)

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Competition Entry

This was a competition entry in 2018

Old Versions

file name	size (bytes)
total 5 files	440K
SimpsonsTrivia-SMS-1.00.zip	35K
SimpsonsTrivia-SMS-1.01-src.zip	153K
SimpsonsTrivia-SMS-1.01.zip	35K
SimpsonsTrivia-SMS-1.02-src.zip	183K
SimpsonsTrivia-SMS-1.02.zip	35K

Simpsons Trivia game for the SMS Power! 2018 Competition

RELEASE

Tuesday, 27th March 2017

INTRO

The Simpsons is a hit TV show that has become a world wide phenomenon.

Therefore, it seems only natural to build a Simpsons Trivia game for the SMS!

INSTRUCTIONS

Simple: move joystick Up and Down to select a multi-choice answer: A, B, C, D.

Press button 1 to select an answer or progress forward through any prompts.

Note: Press button 2 to always go back. Joystick Left and Right are not used.

TOOLS

Programming: devkitSMS
Languages: C / Z80
Editor: Visual Studio 2008
Graphics: BMP2Tile
Music: VGM2PSG
Assembler: WLA-DX
Disassembler: SMS Examine
Emulators: Fusion / Meka / Emulicious

SOURCE CODE

http://github.com/SteveProXNA/SimpsonsTriviaSMS

ROM HACKING

You can hack this ROM! Download and dump SimpsonsTriviaSMS.sms into Hex Editor, e.g. HxD, and modify bytes:

0x004F: Used in development => debugging.
0x0050: Non-zero value will show answers.
0x0051: Ask random questions during quiz.
0x0052: Music 0=music play otherwise off.
0x0053: Sound 0=sound on otherwise off.
0x0054: Set visibility on all extra info.

CHEAT

Some of the questions may be tough so you can cheat if necessary!

Either hack the ROM [above] to show the answers for every quiz OR

Alternatively on the Title screen whenyou're prompted to "Press Start"

Press button 2 five times and you will have answers to current quiz!

CREDITS

Extra special thanks to: sverx for devkitSMS https://github.com/sverx/devkitSMS

Plus shout out to eruiz00 as I used some programming tricks from "Astro Force"

Special thanks to:

Maxim, Martin, Ville Helin, Steve Snake, Bock + Calindro

Also, I "borrowed" sound effects from Baluba Balok http://bit.ly/2nnSQJG and Super Uwol! https://bit.ly/2GljuNB. Thanks very much guys!

Note: game complete screen has the "Flicky" game over music from SMS Power!

Reference to original Simpsons Trivia questions can be found here:

https://www.absurdtrivia.com/trivia/the-simpsons

SOCIAL MEDIA

You Tube

http://youtu.be/6VpGrZLTGTk

OUTSTANDING

It would be nice to have more graphics of The Simpsons characters throughout the quiz.

Unfortunately, I only had enough time to import one consistent image for everything...

DOCUMENTATION

Links to documentation on games written for the Sega Master System using devkitSMS:

http://steveproxna.blogspot.com/2017/09/devkitsms-programming-setup.html

http://steveproxna.blogspot.com/2017/11/devkitsms-programming-sample.html

http://steveproxna.blogspot.com/2018/03/devkitsms-programming-sample-ii.html

COMPANY BIO

StevePro Studios is an independent game developer that builds and publishes 80s retro arcade video games!

Founded by Steven Boland "SteveProXNA" (Jan-2007) a "one man team of one" currently based in Dublin, Ireland.

Previous Sega-based retro games published include "Candy Kid" available here:

CONTACT

Blog: http://steveproxna.blogspot.com
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: [@SteveProXNA](http://twitter.com/SteveProXNA)

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