Elite The New Kind GBA: Difference between revisions

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This is a GBA port of Elite - The New Kind, based on the original PC version from Christian Pinder.

Differences to PC version:

Not as many graphics options, e.g. planet styles and anti aliased lines are missing.
Find Planet can be performed only when docked.
1 mission extra - see source code for spoilers.
A couple of extra ships appear, taken from Elite A.

Intro screen:

A - Load a saved game

B - Continue

Start - Ship parade screen

In game:

Start - Bring up controls menu

Up/Down - Select an option

Right/A - Buy

Left - Sell

B - Cancel

In space:

A - Fire

B - Fire missile (can be configured)

Up/Down - Dive/Climb

Left/Right - Roll left/right

L/R - Slow Down/Speed up (can be configured)

Start - Menu

Select - Target missile (can be configured)

Speed toggle (specified key+):

Up/Down - Increase/decrease speed

View toggle (specified key+):

D-Pad - View front/rear/left/right

A/B - Increase/decrease zoom factor

On The Chart Screens:

D-Pad - Move cross hairs around

B - Return cursor to docked planet when "finding"

Up/Down - Change current letter

"?" - Search for the named planet

L - Show info on planet

You may lose a previous Quick Save or data from save slot 8!! To work around this possible loss" Back up your save file, just in case.

Tested on real hardware using a Flash Advance 256Mb and also on the Visualboy Advance emulator.

1.7.1

No new features, just minor bug fixes:
- Spurious planet no longer shown on short range chart
- Quick save size was not calculated correctly - this fix introduces an incompatibility with previous saves.

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 |title=Elite - The New Kind
 |image=newkindgba02.png
-|description=GBA port of Christian Pinder's reverse engineered code.
+|description=GBA port of Elite The New Kind, based on the reverse engineered code by Christian Pinder.
 |author=Quirky
 |lastupdated=2005/12/30