Romhacks After Burner II ReToned V1.02 / 1.02B (Genesis) Romhack

[Romhack Plaza]

AFTER BURNER II RE-TONED V1.02 / 1.02B This patch changes some colours from the original 1989 MegaDrive release, attract mode and in-game were slightly adjusted. The way the palettes are arranged in the original ROM present a trade-off between better afterburrner effects vs decent explosions, so I created two different patches, I’m not delighted with any of them but it’s a baby step. V1.02 – Yellow Afterburner effect & yellowish explosions V1.02B – Red Afterburner effect & reddish explosions V1.02 / 1.02B – Initial patches Tested on GENS & real hardware – Genesis Model 1 VA3 + Sony Trinitron […]

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[Byros]

Thanks for your kind words, I'm unfamiliar with caliber.50 both in the arcade and the megadrive/genesis, so I'm not sure if I could really add any meaningful color adjustment, but we'll see as time goes by.

 

[bjankins1]

I have no clue if you would take this on but would you try your color hacking skills on a genesis game called caliber.50? Goal in mind would be to make it look more like the arcade version

 

[Byros]

Don't like how this ROM ended up and want to take a shot at it?
Here are my notes about palette locations, they're somewhat messy but usable with HivePal
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After Burner II - Colour Palette
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Intro After Burner I - Pink Spheres
$15BE0
$15B5E - Pink & Blue White Shine
$15B7E - Purple & Orange White Shine 

Intro AFTER BURNER I Green Plane
$15B00 - 

Intro After Burner I - Gray Smoke
$15B14 - Plane Gray Engine Parts
$15b44

Intro After Burner I - Airplane Engine
$15B0C

Intro After Burner II - Gray Spheres
$15BC0

Intro After Burner II - Blue Spheres
$15BA0

Intro After Burner II - Title Text
$15F38

Start After Burner II - Red Spheres
$15B80

$15B04 Control Pad Blue Text Left
$15B24 START / OPTION MENU
$15B44 SEGA - DEMPA Text
$15B42 SEGA DEMPA TEXT BACKGROUND

OPTION MENU BACKGROUND
$15B00

SEGA ENTERPRISE----------------
$15FCC CVN 606 Font Colour
$15FCE Enterprise Green Font
$15FD0 SEGA Blue Font

TAKE OFF SMOKE
$15B68

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$15FE0 - SEGA BOOT SCREEN BLACK BACKGROUND
$15FE2 -SEGA BOOT SCREEN TEXT INLINE
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STAGE SKY COLOURS 1X
15E42 Stage 1
...
15E6E Stage 23

STAGE GROUND COLOURS 2X
15E84 Stage 1
...
15EDC Stage 23

STAGE GROUND BUSHES & STUFF
15B8C Stage 1
15BEC Stage 3
15B6C Stage 4

15FAC Stage 8 Bonus

XXXXX 23

TAKE OFF SKY & Level 1
$15B2C-NO
$15DAC-NO
$15E42-YES!
$15E6A-NO
$15E6E-NO

$15B04 SEA - NO
$15B14 NO
$15C94 

$15C90 - F14 TOMCAT

WHITE PLANE & WHITE EXPLOSION?
15C94 TO> 15C9E -YES

SECONDARY EXPLOSION ORANGE
$15C44 
$15C4C 
$15C74

SECONDARY EXPLOSION ORANGE 2 CYCLE
$15C40
$15D0C
 
$15B08 is afterburner flame effect

$15B1E - START WHITE F14 & ENEMY

LEVEL 1 SEA WAVES
$15B70
$15B72

$15B92 - White wave - Light
$15B94 - white wave - Mid
$15B96 - White wave - Dark

LEVEL 1 SKY
$15CD4 - NO
$15CF4 - NO
$15D14 - No
$160C4 - No
$160F4 - No

$15B44 - SPEED M Font Colour

MISSILE SMOKE COLOURS (REDDISH)
$15CA4 Dark Accent
$15CA6 Dark Background

$15CC4 Mid Accent
$15CC6 Mid Background

$15CE4 Light Accent
$15CE6 Light Background

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ENGINE COLOUR CYCLING
$15C40 - 

DEFAULT
dc.w $004E,$008E,$006E,$00AE,$008E,$00CE,$006E,$00AE,$000E,$002E,$004E,$006E,$008E,$00AE,$00CE,$00EE
dc.w $000E,$004E,$006E,$00AE,$00CE,$00AE,$006E,$004E,$000E,$004E,$006E,$00AE,$00CE,$00AE,$006E,$004E

YELLOW FAST
dc.w $00EE,$00EE,$00CE,$00CE,$00AE,$00AE,$008E,$008E,$006E,$006E,$004E,$004E,$002E,$002E,$000E,$000E
dc.w $002E,$002E,$004E,$004E,$006E,$006E,$008E,$008E,$00AE,$00AE,$00CE,$00CE,$00EE,$00EE,$00CE,$00CE

SUPER FAST YELLOW-RED
dc.w $00EE,$00CE,$00AE,$008E,$006E,$004E,$002E,$000E,$000E,$002E,$004E,$006E,$008E,$00AE,$00CE,$00EE
dc.w $00EE,$00CE,$00AE,$008E,$006E,$004E,$002E,$000E,$000E,$002E,$004E,$006E,$008E,$00AE,$00CE,$00EE