Landing in Top Gun is easy and I'd like to see everyone whining about it dock with the satellite in Captain Skyhawk while all of RARE's best demoscene tricks go off all around you.
Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
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Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
#102Just for comparison, this is how the code could look like in Python: SUCCESS = 0 TOO_FAR_LEFT = 2 TOO_SLOW_OR_TOO_LOW = 4 TOO_FAST_OR_TOO_HIGH = 8 MIN_ALTITUDE = 100 MAX_ALTITUDE = 300 MIN_SPEED = 200 MAX_SPEED = 400 MIN_SPEED_200_RANGE = 238 MAX_SPEED_300_RANGE = 338 MAX_HEADING_RIGHT = 8 def landing_skill_check( altitude: int, speed: int, heading: int) -> int: if altitude = MAX_ALTITUDE: return TOO_FAST_OR_TOO_HIGH…
Oh my... This is how the code could look indeed. Which LLM did you use to generate this?
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#103Incidentally, this is not a blog that makes it easy to look at the archives! - No link to other posts - This post is at https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/top-gun-landing/ - https://relaxing.run/blag/posts/ gives a 403 - https://relaxing.run/blag/ gives a 403 - https://relaxing.run/ gives a full-page picture of some beautiful mountains - No Atom/RSS link hidden in source Not a complaint! If this is an intentional choice…
This article, and the mountain picture, are the only pages indexed by Google: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Arelaxing.run
Chances are, this is the site's inaugural post.
Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
#104The best part: > Best read with Danger Zone playing on loop
Archer? Is that you?
Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
#105The information to properly land the plane is in the manual. The required air speed and altitude have never been a secret, if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't). The real difficulty, not explored in this disassembly, is that the game has semi-realistic physics! My older brother was in flight school at the time and was able to easily land the plane and taught me how to do it. As the article states, "…
The saying for landing is: "throttle for altitude, pitch for speed". Most folks attempt the opposite.
Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
#106The information to properly land the plane is in the manual. The required air speed and altitude have never been a secret, if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't). The real difficulty, not explored in this disassembly, is that the game has semi-realistic physics! My older brother was in flight school at the time and was able to easily land the plane and taught me how to do it. As the article states, "…
> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't).
Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.
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#107Most NES games had "cheat" methodologies for game testing purposes, which made it into production cartridges. For Top Gun, you could bypass fighting anything on EVERY level, by flying up and to the left for the duration of the combat. I only knew a few of these tricks. In Parappa the Rappa, there were various patterns that would essentially complete every level with various outcomes, regardless of the actual songs.
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#108Oh god the trauma this brought back.
There was also that water level in TMNT https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFNWJXWgI
And then the Speeder Bike level in Battletoads Battlemaniacs.
I don't mind instant death scenarios, as long as there is a quick restart and no game over mechanic (Celeste got this perfect, IMO). It is wild to me just how many of these kinds of scenarios there are in memorable games from the 8/16 bit (and before) era.
Re: Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
#109The information to properly land the plane is in the manual. The required air speed and altitude have never been a secret, if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't). The real difficulty, not explored in this disassembly, is that the game has semi-realistic physics! My older brother was in flight school at the time and was able to easily land the plane and taught me how to do it. As the article states, "…
> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't). Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.
In my experience used games were often traded or passed around as bare cartridges. And that's how I got most of my games.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't). Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run, I may rtfm a dozen times before I finally got home with the game.
In my experience used games were often traded or passed around as bare cartridges. And that's how I got most of my games.
Rentals too often came without the manual.