R-Type Walkthrough, ZX Spectrum

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11 жыл бұрын

A walkthrough of the ZX Spectrum game, R-Type. From the recording originally sent to www.rzxarchive.co.uk/ .
Recorded using "rollback", a feature of the emulator which allows you to mark a point, which you can then roll back to later if you get in trouble, and try again. More info. on the channel "About" page: / rzxarchive
#ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming #RType

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@baldheadkid 5 жыл бұрын

weirdest/saddest thing is me having to wait 30 years to see what anything beyond Level 1 looked like

@kriszteblade 4 жыл бұрын

We feel the same brother... And it is not only this game. Without access to POKEs you were pretty much f..d as a kid in the 80s. The games were 1000x harder than today.

@PIPEHEAD 2 жыл бұрын

I was given a 48k in 1992. When I got R Type I did the honourable thing - I bought a Multiface ....... It was worth it - my index finger is still working, and I finished the game !

@iantellam9970 2 жыл бұрын

I think it says something that I didn't even consider this a particularly hard game by Sepctrum standards - I could get to about level 4 I think. Whichever is the one after the giant spaceship.

@seraphinberktold7087 Жыл бұрын

You did play using the keyboard, didn't you? Level 1 is nearly a breeze with a joystick and some practice. 😎

@ForViewingOnly 9 жыл бұрын

Just incredible that the Speccy could do this. There's a ridiculous number things moving on the screen at any one time. Impressive bit of programming!

@stevensgoodallsg 4 жыл бұрын

@@ForViewingOnly you're an utter uneducated phallus that cannot even spell simple words

@Craig1959M 7 жыл бұрын

Absolute masterclass in programming...

@magmilion4175 4 жыл бұрын

true, this is an incredible triumph of software over hardware, fully agree!

@seraphinberktold7087 4 жыл бұрын

I agree on masterclass programming. Bob Pape used the hardware abilities of the ZX Spectrum to achieve spectacular effects. Basically, this is a character-based (8*8 pixel grid) game. In order to conceal this, the background scrolls pixel by pixel (redefined characters, I presume). Thus the Speccy doesn't have to shovel around large chunks of pixels on screen. It is sufficient to deal with character-size elements. This technique frees a lot of CPU cycles to power the game. There is even time for beeper sound effects - and on the ZX Spectrum with 48 kB the beeper in operation means that the CPU cannot do anything else but generate sound.

@ChalkTeacher 5 жыл бұрын

This port is the reason why I'm so interested on the ZX Spectrum. A clear example of the fascinating things you can do with such limited hardware

@PKWeaver74 Жыл бұрын

I think the limitations made the spectrum game the best version. The fact that the sprites move 8 pixels at a time to avoid colour clash and if you played it properly (q,a,o,p and space) you could get sections where positional accuracy was crucial that I found created a better gaming experience than the arcade version. But then I didn't play the arcade version nearly as much!

@TheMGDmusic 6 жыл бұрын

I just came from playing the original R-type on MAME and is incredible how this game looks in a spectrum. A piece of art in 48K

@captainblood9616 2 жыл бұрын

Bob Pape has to be easily one of the best Spectrum programmers of all time. Great work as always by Mark Jones on graphics too. This is easily one of, if not the best arcade conversions on the Spectrum, they were usually pretty awful.

@georgeperes3621 2 ай бұрын

Probably, but there are several other good programmers on zx-spectrum: David Perry, Joffa Smith, Mike Lamb, Jon Ritman, Dave Thompson, Dominic Robinson, David Shea, Rafaelle Cecco, John M. Phillips, etc... Good arcade conversions on speccy: Rainbow Islands, Ikari Warriors, Renegade, Arkanoid, Arkanoid Revenge of Doh, Green Beret, Terra Cresta, Flying Shark, Cabal

@paulmorphy6187 7 жыл бұрын

Very true to the original arcade version as far as gameplay goes. An incredible feat of programming. Used to play this with a mate on my spectrum into the wee hours every night trying to complete it. Got to be one of the greatest spectrum games.

@StrangerHappened 5 жыл бұрын

But how do we compare this game to Zynaps and later-released Zybex? To be honest, I love all three. And all three are great in their Spectrum renditions.

@sl9sl9 5 жыл бұрын

Zynaps looks and sounds great and plays great too, with near perfect smoothness at all times. Zybex looks worse than the others and lags a lot every time an audio explosion plays. R-Type is just in a different league, it has all the massive bosses from the arcade, gorgeous levels and variety that elevates it beyond everything else. There is just no contest IMO.

@pherzin 6 жыл бұрын

One of the games that Spectrum can be proud of. The conversion is superb!

@lorifairhead8124 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to ppl for pointing out the author of this masterpiece wrote a book, what an excellent thing to do, I've been reading it today so exciting to me as it's been a real long time now since I coded a game. Reading about it and watching this playthrough this looks like a very smart piece of work. I've programmed lots of 6502 and x86 but very little z80. Now I've got to make a game for the zxspectrum, start by writing a z80 assembler while absorbing Zaks book. I revisited the 81 a few times and that thing was fun last time I did write a z80 disassembler in UNIX shell script. Yes, this is a most lavish inspiration thanks and greetz

@user-ge1mw8xu3h 5 жыл бұрын

примерно 30 лет назад это была моя самая любимая игра с нее началась моя любовь к компьютерным играм

@user-eo1yb3uj4g 5 жыл бұрын

а у меня саботеры любимые

@markdillon5494 2 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the delight and awe of Speccie owners when this came out? What an achievement to create something this good.

@PIPEHEAD 2 жыл бұрын

Nobody could imagine the buzz of this masterpiece, from today's perspective - the average birthday card has better graphics and infinitely better sound ! I'm in the stupid position of having bought and built one of the first ZX81s off the production line, but not getting a Spectrum till 1992, as it was in its death throes. I seem to be locked in a bit of a time warp, because I just can't get past this game .....

@alexanderj.6701 5 жыл бұрын

This brings back so many happy childhood memories! What a beautiful and difficult game!

@inceptional 4 жыл бұрын

It's crazy that somehow the Spectrum can show all of this onscreen with no sprite flicker (I know it doesn't even use sprites), and from what I can tell there's not really any obvious slowdown either. In many ways this is actually more impressive than even the SNES version of Super R-Type that was created generations later on much more powerful and sophisticated hardware.

@whelkboy 11 жыл бұрын

Bob Pape. What a legend!

@thelogster 4 жыл бұрын

bizzley.com/

@valalex2223 2 жыл бұрын

It's incredible! One processor and 48 memory!...Excellent ported, good sound, fantastic work of programmers and other creators. This computer will forever remain in our hearts and memory, our beloved and kind Spectrum, a bright and kind, eternal memory to the creator - Clive Sinclair!

@georgeperes3621 3 ай бұрын

In fact, there is only 42Kb available for program code if you discount 6192 bytes (for video memory)!

@Sath888 4 жыл бұрын

Wow what an amazing game. My No1 favourite Speccy game and I still play it today on Emulators and PS4. Those weapons and effects and so much going on at one time on the screen just blew me away. Thanks for a great channel

@magmilion4175 4 жыл бұрын

impressive! the creators of ZX Spectrum couldn't have believed their eyes seeing this

@NobleSteed00 4 жыл бұрын

Игра на века. Моя мелочь пузатая забыла фортнайты ламерские, оторваться не может от этого.

@sent4dc 8 жыл бұрын

Jeez, man, I don't think I've ever advanced that far when I was playing it as a kid. Good job dodging all those moving squeaking object!

@ChabyCZ 4 жыл бұрын

Another unforgettable game. Thank you for sharing.

@Hologhoul 3 ай бұрын

It's pretty incredible, all things considered. I'm glad it was seen as such at the time, not only later.

@peterkrajcovic5105 6 жыл бұрын

Fantastic play. I was able to get to 4th level with one life and then all lifes lost in the same level :-) And finally, I had to use infinite lifes to finish the game.

@danielelston7457 3 ай бұрын

In my all time top 10 for spectrum games

@DAIadvisor 8 жыл бұрын

Super impressive for Speccy, and indeed an awesome looking game. Thanks for the upload! :D

@user-of3dq7hv7p 6 жыл бұрын

Вспомнил молодость. Сколько игр было пройдено на импульсе и спектруме . Эх было время........ 😂😂😂😪😪😪👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

@thehappyvintagesloth9676 Жыл бұрын

This is amazing! Cool seeing the game so closely rendered on such limited hardware. A masterful reduction!

@LemmyBarnett 4 жыл бұрын

WHAT A GAME. The greatest ever conversion.

@gaz5629 5 жыл бұрын

One of the few spectrum games I played beginning to end one of the best if not The best game on spectrum

@deldia 8 жыл бұрын

From what I remember this game was hard as hell on the spectrum.

@rabscots910 3 жыл бұрын

It becomes a neon space novel on the speccy. Looove the sounds. What an awesome iteration.....

@johnmurray2595 2 жыл бұрын

One of my most memorable favourite games!

@arserobinson7118 5 жыл бұрын

This game was wicked on the Speccy

@ashleykingston1980 4 жыл бұрын

Wow! There was actually a proper ending in the game! It was too hard to beat as a kid but I assumed as an adult they did the usual Spectrum thing of just saying "Thanks". 😂

@jackjude 2 жыл бұрын

R-Type looked great on any system. I thought this was one of the most impressive games on the ZX

@TheWorld487 5 жыл бұрын

This is unbelievable. The fifth boss is awesome.

@Zakalwe-01 3 жыл бұрын

I'm astounded!! It's amazing 👏

@predragmiletic3078 6 жыл бұрын

spectrum rtype.. top 10 game of all time

@malygos1898 6 жыл бұрын

Шедевр 101%

@CasperLD 5 жыл бұрын

I watched my brother go slowly insane trying to beat this game

@adrianhughes2163 Ай бұрын

Great game, fantastic programming and art work, but I wish you didn't lose your weapon power ups if you get killed, its makes the game near impossible for us mere mortals! Thanks for posting and great game playing there!!

@rnichol22 2 ай бұрын

Very well coded conversion of an arcade classic.

@davidwhaite3330 2 ай бұрын

Looks a brilliant game excellent graphics to cant believe i've never seen this b4 on the Speccy ,

@merlin-ulg 7 жыл бұрын

Лучший шутер на Спектруме! Программисты совершили просто невозможное на Спектруме! В свое время прошел первые 5 уровней и почти 6-ой, а остальных просто не было записано на кассете (пиратка, что с нее взять). Зато благодаря POKE-сам в загрузчике, можно было загружать любой уровень, поэтому каждый уровень задрачивался отдельно. Это было офигенно! The best space shooter on the ZX-SPECTRUM! Respect to programmers!

@deniskutergin2508 6 жыл бұрын

Серьезно? Это же говно полное. Если брать шутеры, то рулит Exolon.

@RandomusFun 11 жыл бұрын

Одна из самых лучших и любимых мной игр на Спекки! Сколько времени было потрачено на нее и не сосчитать.

@peteralexander2941 7 жыл бұрын

best usage of 48k I've seen on the spectrum :) it's just a shame the amstrad version was a lazy speccy port, at least before the 128k remake

@gwishart 5 жыл бұрын

I don't think "lazy" is exactly fair, the programmer of the Amstrad CPC version was given the source code and graphics data from the Spectrum version, and given three weeks to write the entire game.

@deaniepops1 3 жыл бұрын

All hail the almighty spectrum

@whelkboy 11 жыл бұрын

You are a damn fine player. That's one hard game!

@danmcdaid 6 ай бұрын

Absolutely fantastic version of R-Type. Goes like shit off the proverbial shovel as well, incredible speed.

@Georgeconna32 2 жыл бұрын

~Fab games this one. Hours and hours playing it.

@petyaivachenko1687 4 жыл бұрын

игра моего детства, до 2 уровня кажется не доходил)))

@AmstradExin 2 жыл бұрын

I soldered an Atari-style Gamepad port to my Didaktik M Keyboard, which was a matrix of switches to play the game with a gamepad. The original R-Type on Spectrum did not support any type of Joystick, which my computer had. Both Kemston and Sinclair Joystick port. Just redefinable keys. So you had to redefine keys for the mapping on the gamepad from Atari. It plays wonderful like that! Really responsive and I made it through levels easily.

@valalex2223 Жыл бұрын

A very good adaptation of the game, for zx at that time it was a miracle! Of course there is no background music, but there are very beautiful sprites, the style for this beautiful PC, the ZX has very good and correct colors, the C-64 has bad colors, but very cool SID music! Porting by 200% is very good for this hardware at that time!

@mourninggirl8825 4 жыл бұрын

At first i thought this virsion of rtype looked baaaad. But then i seen the wave beam lll. This is a pretty cool little port of an arcade classic

@bluedog8181 3 жыл бұрын

Четвёртый уровень у меня не грузился. Покупал кассету три раза, надеясь что там другая копия. И продавцам никак было не объяснить в чём проблема, они дальше первого уровня не проходили :) В конце 90-х прошёл на эмуляторе на одной жизни без проблем. Придёт Spectrum Next - обязательно перепройду R-Type.

@pherzin 6 жыл бұрын

Сколько же крови попортила)

@Havoc72UK 7 жыл бұрын

I broke my joystick playing this game.... that's sounds wrong😕Fantastic game. I would love this on my modern pc. Imagine the graphics!

@blewskrin 3 жыл бұрын

лет 30 назад несколько раз покупал кассеты с R-Type, а на них не все "блоки" были. Макс что было это 6 - прошли их, а там старт тэйп, и оказывается там ещё были. Только уже позже с появлением интернета, эмуляторов добрался поиграть в 2 последних. В компьютерных залах был вариант игры где тот же самый уровень завиклен был (ну допустим 5ый), чтоб не гонять кассеты и таким способом народ оттачивал скилы.

@WillScarlet1991 11 жыл бұрын

One of the best :)

@acer1130 3 жыл бұрын

Отличго! Вспомнил молодость 1992года

@wrmusic8736 4 ай бұрын

When people write about how it's a masterclass in programming - they undersell it. Unlike (almost) every other 8 bit computer or console out there - ZX Spectrum was not made to have games. In fact all it could do is 'text mode'. No sprites. So all the graphics you see - it's basically devs modifying the stock font. Literally. Every 8x8 space is basically a letter. And as far as ZX Spectrum is concerned - it simply fills the screen with text. I'd add "every frame" - but Speccy doesn't even have a concept of frames.

@sjfvideo9508 11 жыл бұрын

You won't find a better shooter on the Speccy. In the right hands it could also do colour well. Great conversion.

@spamspamiasty6426 4 ай бұрын

Best shot"em up EVER.

@falkerhard 3 жыл бұрын

I think this version had the most pleasing graphics.

@user8927 2 жыл бұрын

the boss of the first level - I was hiding under the tail and the demon flew away to the left)

@silentgamerzx 3 жыл бұрын

Лучшая игра того времени на zx spectrum 48)

@yeraysantanaaday6827 3 жыл бұрын

It looks like if spectrum was a coin up...one of the best computer games in this machine...the bad thing is the excesive level of difficult maybe, like most spectrum games.

@blainethemono4550 4 жыл бұрын

Elite FOREVER ! Ave Bill Gilbert !

@justth0r 10 жыл бұрын

одна из первых игр, которые я играл ещё на Ленинград-48, который спаял брат, запчасти для которого покупали вместе на радио-рынке

@captainspaulding7720 4 жыл бұрын

Сколько сил и таланта потрачено программерами на эту игру -- просто уму непостижимо. Сделать на Speccy что-то сто́ящее крайне сложно, а это одна из тех немногих игр, котрая сделана на пределе технических возможностей Спектрума. Из 3d игр на Speccy, сложнее всего наверное, было сделать Hard Drivin, ибо присутствовала заливка граней с учётом источника света и всё это надо было оптимизировать по скорости. Stunt Cars Racing так-же очень крута, с учётом скуднейших возможностей железа Speccy. Так-как ни аппаратного умножения, ни аппаратной линии и заливки (как у MSX2) у Спекрума к сожалению небыло, то всё делали софтово.

@solomonshort8075 3 жыл бұрын

И к тому же писалось на ассемблере

@5times146 7 жыл бұрын

brilliant

@gj8313 2 жыл бұрын

Speccy forever❤️

@Slayer-fv7qp 4 жыл бұрын

nostalgic

@flowinsounds 5 жыл бұрын

a game I was actually good at.

@spectrumdays Жыл бұрын

Love R-Type, recently did podcast about it on my channel.

@lurtzsaruman 2 жыл бұрын

Наверное самая лютая игрушка 80-х

@Adrian-rc2ss 7 жыл бұрын

This game was so high quality it almost made me desist changing my ZX for a C64 ! . . but al last I did it anyway :)

@JohnSmith-sy6zm 6 жыл бұрын

Good choice!

@markmahabir6342 4 жыл бұрын

Traitor!

@thorstenv646 4 жыл бұрын

Traitor! And a good choice.

@CarboardTrain 4 жыл бұрын

И эта игра занимала 20-30КБ. Примерно как 5 ярлыков на твоём рабочем столе... This game was about 20-30kb, like 4-5 shortcuts at your desktop.

@felixw.2612 4 жыл бұрын

Вся игра с подгружаемыми уровнями весит 140 кб.

@BVargas78 3 жыл бұрын

I had a lot more fun with this version than with the Amiga version which i was initially hyped for but remember feeling disappointed.

@user-of3dq7hv7p 6 жыл бұрын

Спасибо

@alexrider5108 7 жыл бұрын

Молодец! А я в свое время только до конца 4-го уровня дошел...

@Pohmelniy 4 жыл бұрын

Ностальгическое "копи соплю!")))

@user-gb3zo3kr3x 3 жыл бұрын

Hilarious. Discovered that i actually passed till the last level years ago (without saves! on old ZX)

@afriend9428 5 жыл бұрын

It’s amazing!! Only if it had music the C64 music then it beats all systems even Arcade! LOL 😎

@seraphinberktold7087 5 жыл бұрын

It was very strange that such a brilliant game never got a sound enhancement for the AY chip of the ZX Spectrum 128. The 128 kB versions of the ZX Spectrum appeared in 1985 and R-Type's conversion to the Speccy happened 1988 when the 128 kB models had been the new standard Spectrum versions for something like 3 years.

@gwishart 5 жыл бұрын

@@seraphinberktold7087 Bob Pape (the programmer) explains this in his book, "It's Behind You". Basically, he'd been told by his boss that a musician would be providing in-game music and sound effects, so Pape left space for the data and ensured there were enough spare clock-cycles to have an interrupt driven music routine running in the background. Shortly before the game was due to go for mastering, his boss told him that there was no musician and that Pape was responsible for all the music and sound effects. It's the same reason the Amstrad CPC version is also music-less: just after the Spectrum version went for mastering - in mid-September, Keith Goodyer was handed the Spectrum code and graphics and told the CPC version was being released in November, so he had only 21 days to write the entire game.

@azesh5013 6 жыл бұрын

моя мышечная память помнит, как ее проходить. Это нормально?

@videonovosty24-365 5 жыл бұрын

да

@user-cy2pt4tw8l 5 жыл бұрын

я до 4 уровня доходил без единой смерти и там меня прям вначале уровня всегда убивали !!!! )))

@karrbonn 4 жыл бұрын

феноменально)

@johnbestbest620 4 жыл бұрын

Мои потные ладони помнят это.

@MetaJamm 4 жыл бұрын

У меня слишком много помнит мышечная память. В чип и дейл на денди и сейчас кидаю ящики во врагов ещё до их появления на экране. Жаль вот только это женщин не впечатляет)))

@lkghost7 5 жыл бұрын

одна из самых сложных игр была которую я прошел )

@7319slava 10 жыл бұрын

Четырнадцать лучших игр на ZX Spectrum, моя версия. Порядок нумерации не имеет значения : 1) AirwolfII 2) Batty 3) Commando_(1985) 4) Dynamite Dan (1988) 5) Exolon 6) GreenBeret 7) Jetpac 8) JumpingJack 9) Manic Miner 10) R type 11) Renegade 12) SirLancelot 13) WayOfTheExplodingFistThe(DroSoft) 14) Zynaps Все они запускаются на Эмуляторе !

@martharochedoloveled2777 9 жыл бұрын

Very good comrade! The games of Spectrum was good! and Pijamarama, Galactic Gunners and Jack the Nipper? Awesome games!!!

@merlin-ulg 7 жыл бұрын

Серьезно? И ни одной от CodeMasters? И даже без ELITE? Не шути так больше! Seriously? And no ones by CodeMasters? Even without ELITE? Don't joke!

@RedOverlord2017 7 жыл бұрын

merlinulg, а чего ты ожидал от любителя Air Wolf'а и R-Type? Может, он даже и запускал Elite, но ничего не понял. А в Диззи не смог выбраться из колодца. Я лет в 8 запускал Lightforce, тоже вроде R-Type, уже тогда она мне не понравилась своей примитивностью.

@merlin-ulg 7 жыл бұрын

Red Lord Мне тоже нравится AIRWOLF2, и тем более великолепный R-TYPE, это ни о чем не говорит. У CodeMasters тоже отличных и легкопонятных игр навалом, хоть тот же FAST FOOD возьми или KWIK SNAX или POWERBOAT. Если ты не в глухой деревне жил, то всегда рядом были такие же коллеги-спектрумисты (да хотя бы тот же продавец кассет, дискет), которые всегда тебе покажут и расскажут, что нужно в игре делать. На худой конец были книжки с описаниями игр, там были толковые описания тех же ELITE и DIZZY. Были ситуации, когда игра дествительно непонятной была, но все равно привлекала внимание своей необычностью, графикой, музыкой и т.д. На Денди-Сегах-ПС ведь практически тоже самое было, и ничего, как-то выкручивались.

@elnoel1220 2 жыл бұрын

I wish they did a 128k version with music from the SMS version.

@chazjamesn 4 жыл бұрын

The coder who wrote this conversation (Bob Pape) has written a free e-book about the making of it. It's brilliant, full of excellent details, so good I've read it twice! Check out www.bizzley.com

@MrVitka1 4 жыл бұрын

SUPER MEGA GAME!!!

@user-bm9tn3ge6i 4 жыл бұрын

Вот так живешь-живёшь, а тут бац! и через 30 лет выясняется, что у "Р-Тупе" был оказывается на 1 а 8 уровней. Довольно странно, в городе миллионнике не было кассет с другими уровнями

@jayk9435 2 ай бұрын

Que complicado era, muy estresante..

@rogerdavidson6236 3 жыл бұрын

All those R-Type ships that appear at the end after you've wiped out the aliens....where the hell were they through levels 1-8?? Parked at the intergalactic diner getting doughnuts??