Candy Kid game for the SMS Power! 2021 Competition.
Saturday, 27th March 2021
Candy Kid was an entry in the SMS Power! 2020 Competition. The 100 levels have been re-designed and bosses introduced.
Candy Kid is a simple maze chase game. Eat all the candy to pass each level. Eat all bonuses to maximize your score!
The 3x Candy "Mama" enemies Pro / Adi / Suz have different personalities and alternate between scatter and attack.
Blast your way through 100x levels of crazy maze paced action! Simple. Addictive. Fun.
Candy Kid video game was originally programmed by Grandstand Leisure from New Zealand in September 1984.
The game written in BASIC on the Sega SC-3000. Thanks to SMS Power! original source code can be found here.
Candy Kid was re-written in C#/.NET and XNA for Windows PC and ported to iOS / Android using MonoGame.
Now, thanks to the awesome community at SMS Power! Candy Kid is available for the Sega Master System.
- Programming: devkitSMS
- Compiler sdcc 3.6
- Languages: C / Z80
- Visual Studio 2015
- Graphics: BMP2Tile 0.43 / GIMP2 / paint.net
- Music: Mod2Psg2 / VGM2PSG
- Assembler: WLA-DX
- Emulators: Emulicious / Fusion / Meka
http://github.com/SteveProXNA/CandyKidSMS
You can hack this ROM!
Download and dump CandyKid.sms into Hex Editor, e.g. HxD, and modify the bytes:
- 0x004F Debugger Used to show debugging info for game.
- 0x0050 Invincible Non-zero value enables invincibility.
- 0x0051 FullBoost Non-zero value enables maximum boost.
- 0x0052 Trees Type Set value to 1=Show otherwise 2=Kill.
- 0x0053 Exits Type Set value to 1=Open otherwise 2=Shut.
- 0x0054 Difficulty Set value to 1=Easy otherwise 2=Hard.
- 0x0055 Game Speed Set value to 1=Slow otherwise 2=Fast.
- 0x0056 World No. Set start World no currently 1 to 10.
- 0x0057 Round No. Set start Round no currently 1 to 10.
- 0x0058 Music Off Set 0=Music to play otherwise silent.
- 0x0059 Sound Off Set 0=Sound to play otherwise silent.
There are 4x different bonuses: 100 / 200 / 400 / 800 pts. Double bonus points after level 70.
Player will receive extra 2000 pts after eating all candy and collecting all bonuses in level.
At the end of every two rounds there is a small boss. Eat all the mega candy to defeat.
At the end of every ten rounds there is a large boss. Eat all the mega candy to defeat.
Press button 2 five times on Title screen and you'll be invincible each game this is actioned.
Press and hold button 2 during game play to action Game Over and force quit out of game.
Press and hold button 2 during boss fight to quit out and defeat boss then play next level.
Press and hold button 2 on Splash screen to reset High score and all options previously saved.
Extra special thanks to: sverx for devkitSMS and Calindro for their 24/7 Tech Support!
Plus shout out to eruiz00 as I used many programming tricks from "Astro Force"
Also, I used a lot of programming tricks from haroldoop's various code samples.
Finally, thanks goes to: Maxim, Martin, Ville Helin, Steve Snake, Bock + Kusfo
Currently, there are 100x levels but game has twice capacity - please let me know if you'd like to design some levels :)
Feel free to give your input: should Candy Mamas scatter and/or attack for different duration, different speeds etc.?
- Facebook https://www.facebook.com/CandyKidVideoGame
- Blogger http://steveproxna.blogspot.com/search/label/Candy%20Kid
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
http://steveproxna.blogspot.com/2019/04/devkitsms-programming-sample-iii.html
http://steveproxna.blogspot.com/2020/05/devkitsms-programming-sample-iv.html
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.
Original Candy Kid builds are available here:
- iOS http://apple.co/1QcidUk
- Android http://goo.gl/5rWsYO
- PC http://amzn.to/1QiHM9d
- Blog: http://steveproxna.blogspot.com
- Email: steven_boland@hotmail.com
- Twitter: @SteveProXNA