Karateka two-player
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- Publication date
- 2018-08-10
- Topics
- karateka, apple ii, apple, disk, DSK, floppy, Jordan Mechner, Charles Mangin
- Language
- English
A two-player version of the classic Apple II game, Karateka by Jordan Mechner.
This version patched by Charles Mangin.
PLAYER 1 CONTROLS:
- Q,A,Z to punch
- W,S,X to kick
- C,V to move/run
- SPACE to go from standing to fighting stance and back.
PLAYER 2 CONTROLS:
- N to kick
- M to punch
- < to move left
Thanks to Chris Torrence, for helping spelunk the game’s memory layout; to Antoine Vignau for his clean DSK crack and a patch to skip the intro and get right into fighting; 4AM for inspiration and helping test.
One of the first games I ever played on my family’s Apple IIe was the Jordan Mechner master work, Karateka. Fight the bad guys, save the princess – it’s a simple but classic formula. My brother and I would take turns making our way through Akuma’s fortress. Even then, we wanted a two player version.
Fast forward more than 30 years, and I’ve taught myself 6502 assembly after getting back into the Apple II, through the thriving community online. The idea of a two player version of Karateka came back to me while at KansasFest a couple of years ago. I noodled a little on it back then, getting distracted by finding the code that created the unique music in the game.
Long story short: I finally found the places in the game code that needed patching to allow a second player to control the enemies in the game, and create a functioning two player version of Karateka. The resulting patch is only 42 bytes long.
More information on this patch: http://retroconnector.com/karateka-two-player/
- Addeddate
- 2018-08-10 14:45:51
- Emulator
- apple2ee
- Emulator_ext
- dsk
- Identifier
- karateka-two-player
- Identifier-ark
- ark:/13960/t1hj3nh3d
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- Year
- 2018
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The game is not working. Stuck in home page
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