Depths of Europa - Enhanced Web Version Experiment
Depths of Europa - Enhanced Web Test
This is an experimental enhanced edition of the demo for Depths of Europa.
It defaults to landscape on mobile and may be harder to play, with the overlay controls for A/B getting in the way of the screen - this is just an experiment, but I'll try to come up with a more workable style going forward.
What we're doing here is an extension of the technique Chris Maltby demonstrated a few years ago, reading (or writing...) memory values from the emulated game to provide additional features. In this case, a live map that will update as you play - it should completely reflect the map available in game; it's just a convenience.
I've written a tutorial of sorts on how to do this at:
https://www.shacknews.com/cortex/article/5213/enhancing-gameboy-games-on-the-web
This technique could be further elaborated on to provide other enhancements - even to the point of extended control schemes or hi fidelity soundtrack replacements.
Development log
- Gameboy Web Enhancement Demo91 days ago
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Very very cool. Thanks for writing the tutorial!
Very interesting technique. Would fit very well on a Nintendo DS
For any Gameboy devs who want to do something similar, I wrote a breakdown of how this all works at:
https://www.shacknews.com/cortex/article/5213/enhancing-gameboy-games-on-the-web
That write up was great! Very interesting!
Amazing work, would be cool to get the current room location on the map too, not sure if you can pull that from the game memory? Really cool though! (Make the Link Cable version now!!!) :)
I can do the current room. I’m not doing the link cable idea here, but I am seriously considering extra modes for the full game using that idea.
Alright, it’s got the current room - and it’s at least basically functional on mobile now, defaulting to landscape to better fill a wide phone screen.
I am using a different emulator here, so I’m not sure if performance will be completely in line with playing off the main demo page.
That works a treat! Even works well as a mobile game - love the overlay buttons! Current room on the map is cool!