Balloon Master 0.2.2 (beta)

Second public beta of Balloon Master, a hot-air balloon adventure for the Sega Master System (256 KB ROM).

▶ Play in the browser: https://joergsf4.github.io/balloon-master/

What's new in 0.2.2

• Fixed unreliable "PUSH 1": about every second button press was lost (starting the game, after losing a life, continue). Presses are now always registered.
• Up also starts/continues like Button 1; a press during the title demo starts the game; a held button continues after "level complete".

New in 0.2

• Rebuilt thunderstorm world: a long, fast channel of round cloud banks above and below, with free-sky phases and tougher stretches, lightning from the clouds, rain in the foreground and fast storm birds. No fuel and no hook here; the wind only gets stronger.
• Twice a lizard head rises out of the lower clouds, the wind drops for a moment, and it spits lightning at you.

Files

• balloon-master-beta.sms – the game (starts in London, six worlds)
• balloon-master-testing.sms – same game, plus a world select on the title screen (left/right) for testing

Runs on Master System emulators (Mednafen, SMS Plus, Genesis Plus GX ...), MiSTer, Analogue Pocket (SMS cores) and flash carts. Not tested on original hardware yet.

Controls: Button 1 or Up = burner, Button 2 = rope with hook (fuel barrels), left/right = choose world (testing build).

Code, graphics and music: MIT license, see the repository.

Balloon Master 0.2.1 (beta)

Second public beta of Balloon Master, a hot-air balloon adventure for the Sega Master System (256 KB ROM).

▶ Play in the browser: https://joergsf4.github.io/balloon-master/

What's new in 0.2.1

• Input fixes: Up now starts the game like Button 1 (title, "level complete", game over). A button press during the title demo starts the game right away instead of only returning to the title. After "level complete" a held button also continues (before, you had to release and press again).

New in 0.2

• Rebuilt thunderstorm world: a long, fast channel of round cloud banks above and below, with free-sky phases and tougher stretches, lightning from the clouds, rain in the foreground and fast storm birds. No fuel and no hook here; the wind only gets stronger.
• Twice a lizard head rises out of the lower clouds, the wind drops for a moment, and it spits lightning at you.

Files

• balloon-master-beta.sms – the game (starts in London, six worlds)
• balloon-master-testing.sms – same game, plus a world select on the title screen (left/right) for testing

Runs on Master System emulators (Mednafen, SMS Plus, Genesis Plus GX ...), MiSTer, Analogue Pocket (SMS cores) and flash carts. Not tested on original hardware yet.

Controls: Button 1 or Up = burner, Button 2 = rope with hook (fuel barrels), left/right = choose world (testing build).

Code, graphics and music: MIT license, see the repository.

Balloon Master 0.2 (beta)

Second public beta of Balloon Master, a hot-air balloon adventure for the Sega Master System (256 KB ROM).

▶ Play in the browser: https://joergsf4.github.io/balloon-master/

What's new

• Rebuilt thunderstorm world: a long, fast channel of round cloud banks above and below, with free-sky phases and tougher stretches, lightning from the clouds, rain in the foreground and fast storm birds. No fuel and no hook here; the wind only gets stronger.
• Twice a lizard head rises out of the lower clouds, the wind drops for a moment, and it spits lightning at you.
• Smoother scrolling in the storm world.

Files

• balloon-master-beta.sms – the game (starts in London, six worlds)
• balloon-master-testing.sms – same game, plus a world select on the title screen (left/right) for testing

Runs on Master System emulators (Mednafen, SMS Plus, Genesis Plus GX ...), MiSTer, Analogue Pocket (SMS cores) and flash carts. Not tested on original hardware yet.

Controls: Button 1 or Up = burner, Button 2 = rope with hook (fuel barrels), left/right = choose world (testing build).

Code, graphics and music: MIT license, see the repository.

Balloon Master 0.1 (beta)

First public beta of Balloon Master, a hot-air balloon adventure for the Sega Master System (256 KB ROM).

▶ Play in the browser: https://joergsf4.github.io/balloon-master/

Files

• balloon-master-beta.sms – the game (starts in London, six worlds)
• balloon-master-testing.sms – same game, plus a world select on the title screen (left/right) for testing

Runs on Master System emulators (Mednafen, SMS Plus, Genesis Plus GX ...), MiSTer, Analogue Pocket (SMS cores) and flash carts. Not tested on original hardware yet.

Controls: Button 1 or Up = burner, Button 2 = rope with hook (fuel barrels), left/right = choose world (testing build).

Code, graphics and music: MIT license, see the repository.