Topic: Requests/Ideas - Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle

Falconburns

Joined Apr 15, 2013

OP

June 18 2013, 9:46am, last edited May 19 2022, 2:04pm

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Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (Mega Drive)
Created 18 Jun, 2013 09:46 by Falconburns


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Alex Kidd in the Enchanted Castle (Europe) (Rev A).md
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Alex Kidd - Cheongong Maseong (Korea).md
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Falconburns

Joined Apr 15, 2013

OP

June 18 2013, 9:50am

Level achievements on the way, should encourage a playthrough.

Scott, what are you using to make your badges? I would like to replicate the effects you put on (the fade, shadow, light effects) so they are kept in line.
Same with the Golden Axe ones I created.

Scott

Moderator

Joined Oct 3, 2012

June 18 2013, 12:44pm

Hey Falconburns! You're doing a great job with these achievements BTW! The template I use is here or here, but I'm thinking it might be better to replace the existing badges with the border with normal ones - 99% of achievements don't have this border so they look a little out of place, and they discourage people from adding new ones when they whole set is added, because they (probably) wouldn't be able to replicate the effect without these files. It was just an idea I thought would make the badges look a little better, but I don't think it really matters to keep it. It's up to you really, it was just something I thought was a good idea at the time :P

Falconburns

Joined Apr 15, 2013

OP

June 18 2013, 1:11pm

I do like the effects, but I do see what your are saying. It would be difficult to get everyone that creates them to use the same template. I'm just running through testing the achievements for Alex Kidd now. To be honest I never made it this far in the game in my life. The last level is a real killer at times! :-(

Wolferhu

Joined Jun 9, 2013

June 19 2013, 2:52am

Yes,I also think Scott's achievements looks pretty awesome.
But I think you've right,probably the most part of the people can't use these templates so maybe really better if you want a "uniform outlooking" in this if all of them without the frame and the effects.
Although I would prefer if all of them would be with these effect and outlooking..but I guess it would be a tremendous work if somebody should have to "upgrade" all of the badges after every user:P

Falconburns

Joined Apr 15, 2013

OP

June 19 2013, 8:16am

I have played about with the existing achievements (I hope that is OK Scott, just wanted to bring them into line)
Changed the badges and conflicting names (one of the level based ones is called "To The Sky")

Scott

Moderator

Joined Oct 3, 2012

June 19 2013, 8:55am

Haha nice! And yes of course it's OK! That's what RA is all about :D the only reason that achievement was called 'to the sky' was because I was listening to this song at the time :P didn't realise it was a level one too :)

Thanks for your time and effort making this work BTW, it is really appreciated - even now when RA is still quite small and is still growing, it might feel pointless if only a few people earn these achievements, but over time (and for the forseeable future) people will always be able to come back and earn these. It's a circle - it takes time and effort to make achievements, but people will be more likely to come back if there are more achievements, meaning they will be more likely to help make more/better/improve achievements and so on :P

Falconburns

Joined Apr 15, 2013

OP

June 19 2013, 9:19am

I agree, there are certain games that will immediately draw attention and others that don't. I always tend to be curious about lesser known titles, even if they are poor at times (Thunder Fox I am looking at you!). I am sure there are a lot of people that feel the same way, have a connection to a lesser known game and really want to play it with achievements. We just need to get them on here! ;-)

I can just see this being the beginning of a HUGE community and you putting this together for us to enjoy was a genius idea!
I loved earning achievements on classic titles through XBOX Live but always found it very limited. And with the Wii's lack of any achievement style support, the Virtual Console seemed pointless, to the point when it was worth just shelling out a bit more and buying a used cartridge copy instead.

Wolferhu

Joined Jun 9, 2013

June 19 2013, 9:54am

Yes,you've right. These whole site was a pretty genious idea.
We were talked with some of my friends few months ago that would be pretty amazing something like this but I didn't know in that time that these site's already exists:P
We talked about this anyway especially about the Playstation,because there're many games for the Playstation and the Playstation 2 what would worth many achievements but somehow the Sony not really supports these games even when they bring out some old titles to the Playstation 3. Or at least many times there're 0 achievements even if they're on Playstation 3.
But of course many older games're even better than any Playstation game:)
Although by time would be cool an RAPlaystation as well:P
So it's fantastic if here would be achievements for all of the games on every platform:)

Wolferhu

Joined Jun 9, 2013

June 19 2013, 9:59am

I agree with Falconburns too.
I think the classic epic titles're necessary of course and they must have to be here as well.
But the best on these site that you can really find many games already what were not so popular in their times.
Sure,some of them maybe not the very best:P But there're many quite good as well,and very interesting to discovery these many unknown title:)

Wolferhu

Joined Jun 9, 2013

June 23 2013, 8:11pm

Funny,the last level's almost longer than the whole previous game:P
By the way the achievements're great and all of them worked correctly:)
Thanks for Falconburns:)

TheEmpress

Joined Jun 23, 2016

October 25 2019, 3:06am, last edited October 25 2019, 3:07am

Well, If you are new to this game, this manual can help you a lot.

GegeT2

Joined May 20, 2019

August 10 2020, 9:20pm

hi, sorry for my bad english, but "On Yer Bike (5) (6)
Ride a Sukopako Motorcycle" don't trigger for me i use eur us and korea rom and nothing. this cheevos can be obtain in the beginning of stage 2, no? i try too easy normal and hard and nothing all others cheevos work fine. someboby help me? thanks

DarknessZedzi

Developer

Joined Apr 25, 2018

September 11 2022, 11:04am

I added to all achievements protection from a cheat that gives all items.
Also fixed a typo in the demo mode protection in two achievements and fixed the RP so that it works correctly on the last level (removed 0x in the values).
Backup of the old achievements code:

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I Can Fly (1) 0xH00fe27>=1_d0xH00fe27=0

Moneybags (5) M:0xH00fe1e>=32_0xH00c186=0

I Have The Power (1) d0xH00fe28=0_0xH00fe28=1_0xH00c186!=1

On Yer Bike (1) 0xHfe22=1_0xHc186!=1

Rookie (3) d0xH00fe0c=0_0xH00fe0c=1_0xH00c186!=1

Prairie Dogging (4) d0xH00fe0c=1_0xH00fe0c=2_0xH00c186!=1

Splishy Splashy (5) d0xH00fe0c=2_0xH00fe0c=3_0xH00c186!=1

Stingy Stingers (5) d0xH00fe0c=3_0xH00fe0c=4_0xH00c186!=1

Too Many Mummies (5) d0xH00fe0c=4_0xH00fe0c=5_0xH00c186!=1

Hi Ho Hi Ho, Its Off To Work We Go (5) d0xH00fe0c=5_0xH00fe0c=6_0xH00c186!=1

Star Tropics (5) d0xH00fe0c=6_0xH00fe0c=7_0xH00c186!=1

Rocky Road (5) d0xH00fe0c=7_0xH00fe0c=8_0xH00c186!=1

Mountain Climber (5) d0xH00fe0c=8_0xH00fe0c=9_0xH00c186!=1

To The Sky (10) d0xH00fe0c=9_0xH00fe0c=10_0xH00c186!=1

I Can Read Your Mind (1) d0xH00fe2b=0_0xH00fe2b=1_0xH00c186!=0

Miracle Kidd (25) 0xHfe17=147_0xHfe0a=10

Bouncing Around (1) d0xH00fe26=0_0xH00fe26=1_0xH00c186!=0

DarknessZedzi

Developer

Joined Apr 25, 2018

January 15 2023, 4:07pm

I plan to create new achievements for this game.

-2 achievements for obtaining items for which there were no achievements (Wizard's Cane, Cape).
-11 achievements for completing the level on hard (one per level)
-achievement for beating the game on hard without using continues
-achievement for beating the game without using items (except for the helicopter at level 10, normal or hard)
-achievement for collecting a certain amount of money without death or for collecting a certain amount of money in one life (the required amount still needs to be balanced, normal or hard)
-I'm also thinking about reaching a certain number of lives (needs balancing, normal or hard), but I'm not sure yet that I will create it.
-achievements for opening all chests on the level (one per level where there are chests, normal or hard)
-achievement for finding all the houses of minigames on level 3 (and possibly on some others if I find unknown to me and non-obvious in other levels)
-probably achievements on hidden paths in level 11
-complete level 1 without killing enemies using a Sukopako Motorcycle from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-complete level 1 without killing enemies using a Pogo Stick from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-complete level 2 without killing enemies using a Sukopako Motorcycle from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
- pass level 2 without killing enemies using a Pogo Stick from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-scroll level 3 to the end using the Sukopako Motorcycle from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-scroll level 3 to the end without killing enemies using a Pedicopter from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
- pass level 4 without killing enemies using a Pogo Stick from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
- pass level 4 without killing enemies using a Pedicopter from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-in level 5, reach the boss without killing enemies using a Pogo Stick from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-in level 5, reach the boss without killing enemies using a Pedicopter from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-in level 6, reach the boss using a Sukopako Motorcycle from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-in level 6, reach the boss using a Pogo Stick from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
- pass level 7 without killing enemies using a Pogo Stick from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-in level 8, reach the boss without killing enemies using a Pogo Stick from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-in level 8, reach the boss using a Sukopako Motorcycle from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
-complete level 9 using a Pogo Stick and a Pedicopter from the beginning of the level (you can change, normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
- pass level 10 without using a Pedicopter from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)
- pass level 11 without killing enemies from the beginning of the level (normal or hard, items cheat is allowed)

Probably some other achievements if I find interesting options in the development process.
Or a slight change in the conditions specified in the achievement plan if a reason for this is found during the development process.

I also plan to redistribute points in existing achievements:

Bouncing Around (1) 5 --> 1

I Can Fly (1) 5 --> 1

I Have The Power (1) 5 --> 1

On Yer Bike (1) 5 --> 1

I Can Read Your Mind (1) 5 --> 1

Rookie (3) 5 --> 3

Prairie Dogging (4) 5 --> 4

Too Many Mummies (5) 10 --> 5

Hi Ho Hi Ho, Its Off To Work We Go (5) 10 --> 5

Star Tropics (5) 10 --> 5

Rocky Road (5) 10 --> 5

Mountain Climber (5) 10 --> 5

Miracle Kidd (25) 25 --> 10

I also plan to change the RP script for this game to be more informative.