Indie Retro News: Commando - 1980's military shooter by Capcom as an Amiga AGA edition via JOTD [UPDATE]

The legend that’s JOTD, who has carried out many conversions reminiscent of Double Dragon, Ghosts’n Goblins, and Xevious, has now launched Capcom’s traditional vertical shooter Commando over to the Amiga as an enhanced AGA Arcade version. The conversion leverages the Superior Graphics Structure of the Amiga 1200 and 4000, bringing an arcade-faithful expertise that goals to surpass earlier dwelling ports. Whereas Elite Methods initially launched a well-received ECS/OCS port for the platform again in 1989. JOTD has acknowledged that the traditional Elite model stays a top quality conversion, noting that the structure of the sport wasn’t overly complicated to adapt, making an upgraded, arcade-accurate AGA model an attractive problem he could not cross up.

The distinguished developer, famend for high-quality arcade-to-Amiga transcodes like Double Dragon and Ghosts’n Goblins, revealed that this undertaking marks a return to his specialised porting strategies. JOTD defined that he chosen Commando particularly to kickstart his Z80 assembly-to-68000 binary conversion efforts, using the undertaking to fine-tune and excellent his custom-built code translation instruments. Lastly, IM76 did an superior job with the sound packing the chords and samples to three (or 4 channels when doable) and now it actually sounds just like the arcade.

Additional Information :

I wanted a easy but correctly coded & reversed sport to check my new Z80 converter. Sport was disassembled by Scott Tunstall (who additionally did a couple of different Z80 ones and which helped me so much). It was incomplete and I accomplished it a bit bit to have the ability to convert the code.
I wished to try this sport not as a result of I prefer it (I by no means performed it within the arcades, and even on amiga), additionally not as a result of the amiga conversion is unhealthy (it’s superior for OCS) nevertheless it appeared enjoyable and doable, with a {hardware} shut from Ghosts’N’Goblins. Capcom code has good high quality like Konami & Sega however in contrast to Namco shit, so it appeared simpler to try this beginning with DigDug or others.”

Credit :

jotd: reverse-engineering, 68000 transcode, graphics conversion sound conversion for the Amiga.
IM76: music
PascalDe73: icons
Capcom: unique sport

[UPDATE] Whereas the sport was completed a while in the past, I assumed it greatest to say a couple of updates which were made to the sport with the next being stated by JOTD “Display is now centered (as horizontal scrolling isn’t wanted in any case), music repair , small optimizations, and sprites & tiles sync difficulty solved. Now bridge is not shifted, and similar for static objects (thanks Claude A.I. for pointing it out)

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