Simpsons Trivia game for the SMS Power! 2018 Competition
Tuesday, 27th March 2018
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!
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.
- Programming: devkitSMS
- Languages: C / Z80
- Visual Studio 2008
- Graphics: BMP2Tile
- Music: VGM2PSG
- Assembler: WLA-DX
- Disassembler: SMS Examine
- Emulators: Fusion / Meka / Emulicious
http://github.com/SteveProXNA/SimpsonsTriviaSMS
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.
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!
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
- You Tube https://youtu.be/6VpGrZLTGTk
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...
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
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:
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