Pong Fighter

Pong Fighter v1.1 By Guyfawkes

Homepage: http://www.gbaemu.com/
Pong Fighter Homepage: http://pongfighter.gbaemu.com/

FEATURES:
- One player vs. CPU
- One player vs. Two Player (not via link)
- Difficulty level for one player vs. CPU
- Fireballs :)
- Energy bar Street Fighter style
NOTE: Although a 'Tournament Mode' is shown in the menu it is currently disabled as this part of the game is not finished.

THE GAME
The game is based on the classic Pong, if you have never played it before where have you been for the last couple of decades? :) Basically think of Pong as a game of Tennis, you control the racket and must return the ball to your opponents half of the court. If you miss the ball you will loose a point. However in this version to keep in tune with the Street Fighter theme you will loose a portion of your energy - no energy = game over. Players can now also launch fireballs at their opponent which if properly timed will stun them for a few vital seconds which could make them miss the ball.

CONTROLS
Two player games are not played via a link cable on two machines, that is way out of my league at the moment! Instead both players share one machine.

Control P1 P2
UP D-Pad Up A Button
DOWN D-Pad Down B Button
FIREBALL Left Shoulder Right Shoulder
PAUSE Start Start

RELEASE NOTES
Pong Fighter has been tested on hardware and is now fully working (at last). Emulators tested on :

VisualBoyAdvance - Perfect
BoyCott Advance - Perfect
DreamGBA - Perfect
Mappy VM - Perfect

Is the default speed setting too slow? I reckon it should be slightly faster, about 1/3 increase of what is currently is?

VERSION HISTORY
v1.1

- Many bug fixes including:

Graphics now display clearer on hardware
Text display bug fixed
Random lockups fixed (bug with input)

- Major code cleanup, rewrote many functions for when the Tournament Mode is finished.

v1.0 - First public release exclusively for Gollums excellent BoyCott Advance emulator.

PLANNED FOR FUTURE
Here is what I would like to see in future versions:

- Sort out that damn CPU AI.. way too easy to beat!
- Music and SFX
- Multiple characters and backgrounds to choose from
- A tournament based game fighting against different players in one player mode
- Power ups such as slow down opponent, multi ball, super fireballs etc
- Two player link up... eventually :)

BUG REPORTS AND IDEAS
Please let me know of any bugs in the game or any ideas you have to add to the game. I can be contacted at guyfawkes@emuholic.com

CREDITS AND GREETS
Game Code - Guyfawkes
Original Game Code & plenty of advice with the game - Nokturn
Pong Fighter Logo - Mr. Zingh

Greets To:
Dijital, James, Gollum, Nokturn, EmuManiac, Kojote, Dovoto, _MADrigal_, Alex, everyone on the GBAEmu forums, all the homegrown GBA programmers and everyone else that knows me.