Free software (GPL v2.0 or later) reimplementation of "The Wing of Madoola"
In order to function, OpenMadoola requires a Wing of Madoola ROM image as well as the font.bin and nes.pal data files from this repository. The ROM image can either be a standard NES ROM file named "madoola.nes" or the "sharedassets1.assets" file from Sunsoft is Back! Retro Game Selection on Steam. OpenMadoola reads all the graphics and level data from the ROM image, and will refuse to start if it is not present. If you don't have an original cartridge or don't want to deal with dumping it, I would recommend buying the collection on Steam rather than downloading a ROM off the internet. It's only $13 and has a nice interface with high-quality scans of the manual as well as some concept art. It also shows Sunsoft that there's interest in their legacy IP. To retrieve the "sharedassets1.assets" file, go to your Steam library, right click the Sunsoft collection, and click "Manage->Browse local files". It will be in the "SUNSOFT is Back! Retro Game Selection_Data" directory.
OpenMadoola will attempt to read the ROM image and data files from these directories:
~/.openmadoola/usr/local/share/openmadoola/usr/share/openmadoola- Current working directory
It will also write configuration and save data to ~/.openmadoola.
OpenMadoola will attempt to read the ROM image and data files from the current working directory (typically the directory the executable is in). If it doesn't see a ROM image in the current working directory, it will also try reading from the default Steam install directory (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SUNSOFT is Back! レトロゲームセレクション). OpenMadoola will write configuration and save data to the current working directory.
| Keyboard | Gamepad (xbox layout) | Equivalent NES button |
|---|---|---|
| W | D-Pad Up | D-Pad Up |
| S | D-Pad Down | D-Pad Down |
| A | D-Pad Left | D-Pad Left |
| D | D-Pad Right | D-Pad Right |
| J | X | B |
| K | A | A |
| Right Shift | Back | Select |
| Enter | Start | Start |
You can change the controls in the options menu. Pressing A+B+Select+Start while in-game will exit to the title screen.
Also in the options menu, you'll find a "game type" setting. The "Original" game type tries to simulate the original NES game but with important bugfixes, while the "Plus" game type (the default) includes additional fixes for more minor bugs as well as tweaks that I think improve the game.
- Game runs without NES hardware limitations (no slowdown, no sprite flicker, no garbage on the edge of the screen)
- Game progress is saved to disk
- Fixed a bug where collecting the Wing of Madoola and then entering a door would make Darutos not spawn
- Fixed a bug where killing Darutos and then dying to one of his fireballs would let you skip fighting him after continuing
- Fixed a bug where sound effects would sometimes get stuck on, glitch out, etc.
- Fixed a bug where pausing and then unpausing on a castle level would cause the noise channel to drop out of the music
- Fixed a bug where the mirroring on the fireball that some enemies throw wasn't initialized
- Added the opening/ending text from the arcade version of the game
- Added a second emulated sound chip just for music (meaning that channels won't cut out to play sound effects)
- Music doesn't restart when warping within the same stage
- Music doesn't restart when pausing/unpausing the game
- The selected weapon is visible during gameplay, and you can change weapons without pausing
- Darutos gets drawn even when he's only partially visible, making him easier to see
- Fixed a bug where the orb you get at the end of a level wasn't animated correctly
- Fixed a bug where Nipata would get stuck if it spawned in a narrow gap
Install GCC or Clang, make, cmake, and the SDL2 development libraries from your package manager.
Generate the build files with
cmake -B build -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
Next, compile the executable with this command:
cmake --build build --config Release
Install Visual Studio and cmake.
Download the latest SDL2 VC development version from here. Unzip the file into libs\SDL2, making sure that you go down a level so the top-level directories in the folder are docs\ include\ libs\ etc.
Run cmake on the checked out source directory, then open the generated solution in Visual Studio.
Note that I don't check if the project builds with Visual Studio in between releases, so if you check out from master it's possible that the project won't build without changes. If you make a PR with the required changes, that would be appreciated.
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