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No problem, game works great now - thanks!

Thanks! I don’t use Retroarch but will look forward to trying the updated version. 

Hi, I loaded this on RetroVirtualMachine using both a standard 6128 and a 6128+, and I can't get past the title screen. Pressing space, M, Return or Fire on my pad doesn't work, it just cycles through the "PUSH START" title screen.

Interesting port. There’s a few issues like how you fall into the water almost immediately on entering the pond and puddle screens (which doesn’t happen on the original), and the scores that appear when you jump over enemies is unreadable, but it’s a decent game.

It also seems to get confused if you go left from certain screens  I managed to end up on the right side of the pond with 2 ropes and I couldn’t grab hold of the right rope no matter when I jumped  

Could be made really good with a bit more human intervention to fix the issues 

I haven’t had a chance to try this on the Playdate yet, but looking at the screens and gifs. It reminds me of Juggernaut on the ZX Spectrum! Which isn’t a bad a thing at all :D

I enjoyed this on RVM, but today my PicoGX cart arrived and I’ve been playing it on the GX4000…and it’s so cool seeing what the actual console can do!

Brilliant version of Bomb Jack, amazing graphics and sound and it’s so cool that it saves the hiscore :D

Thanks so much for making this, I hope you work on more CPC games in future. 

The hiscore entry works if you die on stages 3 and 4 as well, it's only on stage 2 that it doesn't come up. I'll just need to not die there!

Quick update: tested it again and if you run out of lives on stage 1, the hiscore text pops up fine. But on stage 2 it does what I showed in my video.

I'll go test it on stage 3 and 4 as well.

Thanks!

HI, just started playing this on my Jag GameDrive and it's a great version of Donkey Kong, but I spotted quite a big bug...

When you lose your last life, the game appears to hang, but it's actually waiting for you to enter your initials if you got a hiscore. But the game doesn't put anything on-screen to show you what letters you're entering. I took a video to show what happens when you die. I ended up pressing B a few times and it entered AAA into the hiscore table, but gave no indication that it had done so. It does work if you use left and right to select other letters but the game doesn't show you're selecting them.

I've tried it on BigPemu as well and this problem happens there too.

Un juego fantastico! Dificil pero adictiva :D

Super interesting as always, thank you! And you've reminded me of two things

1: that I need to finally watch Das Boot very soon...

2: I'm still really excited to finally play your game :D

3: swinging sausages are an excellent touch

Thanks! I’ll look out for that :)

Nice game, how do I select the hard version?

Really interesting, thanks for the ongoing blogs! Very much looking forward to the finished game.

Just recently got a Lynx Gamedrive and gave this a go tonight. Incredibly impressive, difficult but beatable (as I did after a few goes) and is the basis for an excellent full game if you decide to take it further!

This is such  a cool match 3, works great on the Lynx! I’d love to see a full colour version just so it didn’t strain my eyes to differentiate between the icons 😂

I’ve actually played that but forgot about it haha you’re absolutely right! 

This just keeps looking better and better! In addition to the Knight Lore/Head Over Heels vibes, I’m also getting Movie feelings when I see the characters pulling objects around now!

This looks so impressive! Excited to play it :)

Can I just say that I think you might have more luck at getting people to download your games if you include actual screenshots and, ideally, videos of the gameplay?

There's no way I'm throwing a couple of bucks down on something where I have no idea what it actually looks or plays like on Playdate...

I didn't play the previous demo but this version feels perfectly playable - a good speed for moving but not too fast, and I killed the skull creatures no problem.

Also, I love the title screen song, it reminds me of the Boulet Brothers' music, which may or may not mean anything to you! But I mean that as an absolute compliment :)

Looking forward to this, like the headline says this looks like a cool word game!

I absolutely did play it more than once! And I'll try it again with the latest update :D

Haha! Played it semi-darkness with a small lamp on...and really enjoyed it! Tried it twice and got the bad and good ending, though was told that I'd cheated during the good ending so not sure if I did something wrong?

Love the smooth animations, really nicely done in Pulp, and the courtroom scene is beautifully drawn!

Installed and will play tonight!

The screenshot looks intriguing! Looking forward to playing this :D

This is cool but there's a bit of a bug when you try to move through the main maze diagonally down-left - the square gets stuck instead of sliding along the wall, which makes moving a bit stickier than it should be.

Also, when going into a castle, the original jumps you into the castle as soon as you move into the open portcullis, whereas in your version you have to keep moving off the top of the screen.

Other than that, great version of the easy mode!

Congratulations on the big update, looking forward to giving it a try tomorrow!

Sounds good, I hope you run with it and continue to develop the game!

I'm not very good at this yet but I like the speed of the knight for the same reasons Ryan mentioned. Very much enjoying this!

Yeah I just did that yesterday and it works now :)

I love these changes, makes it feel like you’re progressing between levels and games :D 

Hi, I think you’ve compiled the game using a beta SDK as it’s asking me to update my Playdate’s firmware even though I’m on the latest main release. 

I bought Jezzak after reading your comment as I love Qix style games. And you’re right, it’s really good! However, this game offers a slower, more thoughtful version in my opinion which is also really enjoyable.

The only thing I’d like is a pause when your game ends before starting the next one to review your score vs the hiscore. 

That new version works perfectly, thanks!

That really does help, thanks very  much for the explanation! I've still not had that much time but I'm a few holes in and enjoying the story :)

I haven’t played much yet (just got past a couple of strokes) and I’m enjoying the story but I have a question!

The icons are really small and there’s no explanation for what they do. Should I be picking the icon nearest to the hole or can pick any one to get more information?

And if you’d like a hand with putting in apostrophes and quote marks then just let me know :) it would make the text easier to read in places. 

Thanks very much! They're pretty simple (mostly done to see if I could get back into coding, and Pulp is a nice, easier entry back into it) but I think there's some fun to be had in them!

I saw your update about the upcoming Catalog release of FBIC and the Itch update, looking forward to playing more of it, it's a great game :)

When I sideload this it tells me I need a system update but the Playdate says I’m up-to-date. Does your game need the latest beta operating system to install?