Omg! E L I T E Gba!

[BaDToaD]

OMG I didn't realise E L I T E TNK was on the GBA. Having fiddled with the GP32 version in the past and enjoyed NES E L I T E via Little John I suddenly thought hey I wonder if E L I T E is available for GBA.

It is. portable E L I T E was never this good.

It's The New Kind (ie homebrew) so you'll need a flashcard to play it.

Sorry of it's old news to everyone but I had to say something I mean FGS this is E L I T E we're talking about hehe.

OK I'm off to register some Right on Commanders!

PS GBA Review here.


EDIT: Bloody Thargoids... Why didn't I save

 

[fishybawb]

I got most of the way through porting TNK for the GP2X until the source went missing Actually that was before Allegro was ported, so it'd be even easier for someone to do it now. Just need to rescale the graphics a bit

 

[WhizzBang]

It's very good, isn't it.

You should also check out Elite AGB also by Quirky. It has lots of extras added such as extra player ships, more equipment and missions etc. Here is a link to Quirkys download page. If only he would take up GP2X coding.

 

[BaDToaD]

I love the game. Never gets old for me. Until X2 came along there was nothing to even come close to it for me as a space trading game.

I used to get payed for playing all day at the computer shop I worked in because I sold more BBCs playing E L I T E than just selling them (if you see what I mean)

Thanks for the link to AGB I'll give it a go

 

[lubidog]

Elite is my Greatest Gaming Moment. I love this game and played it via emu a few years back. Badtoad, what flash card do you use? I am tempted to get a flash card just to play this one game. Can you play it on the DS?

I even bought a proper copy, with lenslock and everything, for the speccy a couple of years ago, just to have it...

 

[WhizzBang]

I would recommend you get a Supercard instead of a flash cart. It is cheaper and you can use SD or compact Flash cards (depending on which version you buy) to play your games. It is less hassel, easier to handle saves and generally pretty good. The only drawback is that some official games play a bit slow (e.g. Super Mario Kart and Yoshis Island) but Elite runs perfectly, as do most other things.

 

[Gruntfuggly]

Yup - I have to agree - for me Elite was one of the defining points in gaming history. I remember going round to a mates house with a new copy of Jetpac as it had just been released on the BBC and trying to show it to him, but he just kept banging on about this 'Elite' game. When I first saw it I thought, err, it looks crap. Then I played it - then I was addicted. Stopped playing about a year later after my 256th "Right On Commander", just a few weeks before some bastard released a 'hack the save file to give yourself Elite status' app in Acorn User. Oh well - at least I knew I'd done it the hard way...

 

[WrongEyedJesus]

I was so jealous of my mate who had the disk version for the BBC whilst I had to suffer the pauper tape version. No Fer de Lances for me to tackle.....

 

[Gruntfuggly]

Ah - but at least you had asteroids! You could buy mining lasers - but there was a bug on the disk version which meant that no asteroids ever turned up!

And the docking computer always worked - the disk version sometimes tried to take you in through the back of the space station...

But yes, I must admit it was cool the first time I took on a fer-de-lance.

What other differences were there?

 

[WrongEyedJesus]

What other differences were there?

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Much more ships on disk version.

Off the top of my head:

Anacondas, Kraits, Morays, Asps, Transporters, Boas, Fer de Lances, Gecko, Worm.

Weapons included Mining Lasers and Galaxy Lasers,Docking computer on tape only required you to be in docking zone (Sign on display) whilst disk version required close manouvering to space station.

No missions on tape version (Constrictor etc)

Flipping into targoid space by pulling back joystick in Hyperspace only worked on disk version (I think, willing to be corrected on this one)

Asteroids almost always appeared with one ship after several space jumps (J). They were quite annoying as you had to destroy them for little credit before you could hyperspace.

For some nicely rendered images of ships check here.

Ah the memories of lost hours trying to save for that Galactic Hyperdrive only to get it and jump galaxies to an Anarchist planet where you got wiped and realised you have forgotten to save.

 

[Gruntfuggly]

I remember chasing the constrictor into the next galaxy and spending hours wandering round various planets trying to pick up the thread of it again...

That was the only time you ever really needed to change galaxies though... it would have been nice if there were more missions where you needed to go to particular planets in other galaxies...

 

[BaDToaD]

Elite is my Greatest Gaming Moment. I love this game and played it via emu a few years back. Badtoad, what flash card do you use? I am tempted to get a flash card just to play this one game. Can you play it on the DS?

I even bought a proper copy, with lenslock and everything, for the speccy a couple of years ago, just to have it...

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I've got a Supercard SD. I'm not sure if GBA homebrew works on DS but I can't see any logical reason why it shouldn't.

Someone here will know for sure.

The NES version works well on GP32 Little John. You need to find the hacked PD version. It's NTSC in stead of PAL or Vice Versa.

 

[grahf]

GBA homebrew runs on the DS just as well as if you were running a standard GBA game.

I must admit, i never got the chance to really play Elite.

 

[thingley]

I find that some homebrew will work perfectly with a supercard if you compress it using the supercard application for windows.

ZX Advance for example will not work if you just copy the GBA file to the card - but if you use the Supercard application to compress it and create a .sav file then it runs perfectly.

 

[lubidog]

Great, gonna order one now!!!

It was funny. When I got into the whole retro thing a few years ago, all the games were a tiny bit disappointing at first, apart from Elite. This game was as great then as it is now. I stopped playing Knights of the Old Republic for it!

Thanks for the heads up and all that!

 

[BaDToaD]

Great, gonna order one now!!!

It was funny. When I got into the whole retro thing a few years ago, all the games were a tiny bit disappointing at first, apart from Elite. This game was as great then as it is now. I stopped playing Knights of the Old Republic for it!

Thanks for the heads up and all that!

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Old news it may have been but it was a worthwhile post after all

 

[Alex.]

Thanks for the suggestion, I'll try it out on Frodo asap.

- Alex

 

[WhizzBang]

It's very hard to try it out on Frodo (or GP2XPectrum, or the BBC emulator, or the other computer emulators) as it has so many keys. The only version that is playable on the GP32 is the Freeware NTSC hack of the NES version on Little John. This will not run on the GP2x though so Elite is not really playable on the GP2X yet.

 

[BaDToaD]

A possible solution may be the GP2x version of castaway. If it's like the GP32 version and you can create custom button configurations?

I played ST elite quite sucessfully on the GP32. I took a while to setup and remember the button configs though. It used the shoulder buttons to go between seperate button layouts for combat, docking, navigation etc with the on screen keyboard filling in for the non critical stuff.

 

[Alex.]

NES version works well on LJGP. It looks like a fun game, although it's not very fast to figure out.

- Alex