XOP Ultra and XOP Black Ultra thread

Despatche · Post by **Despatche** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 4:01 pm

Oh, that's neat. I just remembered it was a remix of another song in the game anyway. And yeah, I just saw the bundle with the included soundtracks. Will definitely have to send you a $5-er, hopefully real soon. Always felt all your games look great, really.

Cool, thanks rancor! Maybe he has the original floating around somewhere.

I totally forgot about XOP 2010. I was thinking of the old old old original... I remember you releasing it as freeware sometime in 2006 or 2007 (that's how this thread started!). Though of course I'm interested in 2010 now!

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Thu Oct 10, 2013 6:22 pm

Despatche wrote:soundtracks

You said the secret word! kekekekeke

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 1:38 pm

'Sup?

Lord Satori · Post by **Lord Satori** » Tue Dec 03, 2013 9:03 pm

What's that all about?

kevinmaccioly · Post by **kevinmaccioly** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:58 am

Just bought the games and I'm running in a single problem in all of them. Everytime I go fullscreen, no matter what mode,the colors get messed up like a windows 95 game run by a current gen PC.

Is there anything I can do?

Thanks!

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 2:28 am

Unfortunately you'll need to use a workaround. http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 47#p853147

Anyway I'm re-doing all of the non-pixel art in the original XOP to be pixel art. So it's going to take awhile, because there's literally a ton of art to go through, but I think the end result will be worth it.

kevinmaccioly · Post by **kevinmaccioly** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 3:06 am

Udderdude wrote:Unfortunately you'll need to use a workaround. http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 47#p853147

Anyway I'm re-doing all of the non-pixel art in the original XOP to be pixel art. So it's going to take awhile, because there's literally a ton of art to go through, but I think the end result will be worth it.

Same thing as Diablo 1 and Road Rash, thanks!

BPzeBanshee · Post by **BPzeBanshee** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 4:08 am

Picture looks good. Lot of work for graphical update indeed, though.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Wed Dec 04, 2013 7:06 pm

Yeah, half the game's art is already pixel art, but on the other hand, it has more than twice as much art as your average game .. D:

Stage 3 midboss outline!

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:52 pm

Yeah, I removed it. If you want, I can stick it on Mediafire or something.

Moar bosses

Lord Satori · Post by **Lord Satori** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 1:15 am

kane wrote:If I remember correctly, the very first xop bundle installer had the ost as well. Why is that removed now?

Probably because it was a cool feature. Udderdude likes to remove cool features.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 2:23 am

You're so grumpy. :3

kevinmaccioly · Post by **kevinmaccioly** » Sat Dec 07, 2013 9:55 pm

Is it possible to continue in XOP (didn't play black yet)?
And, about uploading the OST, please do!

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Sun Dec 08, 2013 5:13 pm

Nope, no continues. If you want to see each stage w/o playing through normally, you can use Score Attack.

Here's the music! https://www.mediafire.com/?jdds24yt4otoboa

cuttingagent · Post by **cuttingagent** » Fri Dec 27, 2013 2:47 am

Glad to see this thing still getting updates, and thx for the music. =)

I keep thinking the song for Origin would have fit right in with the Hotline Miami soundtrack.

kevinmaccioly · Post by **kevinmaccioly** » Tue May 20, 2014 5:27 pm

Sorry to necrodump.

It seems that the extra options (slowdown/music display) do not save after exiting the game.
What is the extend score for each game?

Thanks in advance!

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Tue May 20, 2014 7:03 pm

I updated the game awhile ago with the ability to save the extra settings .. try downloading it again.

XOP Black Ultra's extend score varies by difficulty.

Medium = 20000000, 40000000
Advanced = 25000000, 50000000
Expert = 30000000, 60000000
Master = 35000000, 70000000

In XOP Ultra you get an extend automatically for clearing the first and third stage.

cuttingagent · Post by **cuttingagent** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 12:53 am

Hey I'm just reinstalling the XOP bundle from your site after a reformat and I'm noticing that the XOP Black Ultra Special version isn't in there... has this been discontinued? I have a backup copy of it so no worries abut being able to still play it, just curious. Also, sorry to hear about all this game theft drama I'm just hearing about in that other thread. Thanks again and good luck.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 1:33 pm

Yeah I got tired of maintaining so many versions of it. Sorry.

Chaos Phoenixma · Post by **Chaos Phoenixma** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 3:39 pm

The Special Version sounded quite interesting. Wish it was on the site so I could try it.

cuttingagent · Post by **cuttingagent** » Sat Dec 27, 2014 11:03 pm

That's okay, I still have it and am not even good enough at XOP to play it. =O

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Sun Dec 28, 2014 7:54 pm

Due to massive amounts of fail revolving around current events, involving a certian idiot attempting to steal my life's work and identity behind my back, I'm renaming the game to ZOP and requesting all older versions of the game be destroyed via orbital bombardment. You have 10 days to delete all copies, or you will be annihilated. You have been warned.

Jeneki · Post by **Jeneki** » Mon Dec 29, 2014 1:56 pm

Thanks. It's not every day we get a shmup with a great plot.

Lord Satori · Post by **Lord Satori** » Tue Dec 30, 2014 2:05 am

Jeneki wrote:Thanks. It's not every day we get a shmup with a great plot.

Haha, really loving this post.

kevinmaccioly · Post by **kevinmaccioly** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:47 am

I'm running both on a Windows 8.1 and they're stuttering a lot. It's especially on the scrolling lines from the weapons selection menu. I tried all compatibility settings, messed around with the graphic card configuration, nothing.
Any clues on how to fix it?

Thanks!

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 2:45 pm

Sorry .. I don't even have a Windows 8.1 box to test on. I'll see if I can get my hands on one to try it out on later. Did you try fullscreen mode also?

But yeah, let's face it .. XOP was originally written way back in 2002, and while I have been updating it along with Allegro and the other libraries it uses over the years, compatibility problems are inevitable and probably unsolveable w/o some serious work at this point. Maybe completely unsolveable if it's some low level problem with the way Allegro works.

kevinmaccioly · Post by **kevinmaccioly** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:26 pm

Udderdude wrote:Sorry .. I don't even have a Windows 8.1 box to test on. I'll see if I can get my hands on one to try it out on later. Did you try fullscreen mode also?

But yeah, let's face it .. XOP was originally written way back in 2002, and while I have been updating it along with Allegro and the other libraries it uses over the years, compatibility problems are inevitable and probably unsolveable w/o some serious work at this point. Maybe completely unsolveable if it's some low level problem with the way Allegro works.

It seems everything is stuttering here: Youtube, new games, videos. Anything that isn't the desktop. But thanks anyway.

LordHypnos · Post by **LordHypnos** » Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:37 pm

XOP runs perfect in WINE, as far as I can tell. If you have a linux or mac box sitting around, you might want to try to play it that way.

Udderdude · Post by **Udderdude** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 2:37 am

kevinmaccioly wrote:
Udderdude wrote:Sorry .. I don't even have a Windows 8.1 box to test on. I'll see if I can get my hands on one to try it out on later. Did you try fullscreen mode also?

But yeah, let's face it .. XOP was originally written way back in 2002, and while I have been updating it along with Allegro and the other libraries it uses over the years, compatibility problems are inevitable and probably unsolveable w/o some serious work at this point. Maybe completely unsolveable if it's some low level problem with the way Allegro works.
It seems everything is stuttering here: Youtube, new games, videos. Anything that isn't the desktop. But thanks anyway.

That's good to know. Maybe.

BPzeBanshee · Post by **BPzeBanshee** » Tue Jan 13, 2015 3:51 am

Try killing explorer.exe and then running it. Works for me when the game acts spotty under Windows 7, might be the same or relevant strain of issue.

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