Blagger / ブラッガ enhanced version

ROM based game. It's the original MSX disk Blagger version patched with a lot of graphical improvements.

The Game

Quoted from Wikipedia:

Blagger is a platform game created by Antony Crowther and released by Alligata for the Commodore 64 and BBC Micro computers in 1983, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC (through Amsoft) and MSX in 1984 and Commodore 16/Commodore Plus/4 in 1985. In some countries this game was released under the name Gangster. The gameplay is similar to that of Manic Miner, also released in 1983. A sequel, Son of Blagger, was released in 1984 with a third and final title Blagger Goes to Hollywood released in 1985.

Being a Manic Miner's nut, the improvement of Blagger was a must. Although is a great game as it is, even a MSX1 can do much better; so after some disassembling and a lot of patching I've finished an enhanced version with the following improvements:

• Screen 2 colored graphics.
• Some little graphic designs enhancements.
• Multicolor sprites.
• Every 5 levels a checkpoint is saved in memory. You don't need to restart every time from level 00!.
• Suicide key.
• Works in 8KB RAM MSX machines.
• ...and all packed in a 16KB ROM.

Thanks goes to:

• OpenMSX (if you want a faithful MSX emulation, go for it).
• BlueMSX (great debugger).
• Meisei (still a great tool with nice development features).

And special thanks to:

• TheNestruo for its handy PCX to MSX1 sprites converter.

Screenshots

Videos

Now you get:

...and before was:

Controls

Here're the keys used in the game:

Space/Trigger : Jump

Left/right arrow keys/Stick : Moves left/right

Up/down arrow keys/Stick : Enables music/Disables music

ESC : Blagger commits suicide!

Load instructions

The game comes in ROM format.

To play with the ROM version, you only need to do the following:

EMULATORS: Insert the ROM file, turn on the emulation and wait until game starts.

REAL THING: Write the ROM file file to a diskette and launch it by means of tools like EXECROM or LOADROM. If you don't have a disk drive; but have a MegaflashROM, you can burn the ROM file in the cart to play.

The game has been tested with success on OpenMSX, BlueMSX or Meisei. Any other MSX emulator must run as well.

Although it hasn't been tested yet in real MSX machines it must run fine.

Download

Binary (ROM file): BLAGGERE.ROM

Changelog

15-05-13 Project started!.

19-07-13 First public release.