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 14FV300.
CRC-32: ccafe00e
SHA-1: 523e4abdf19794a167a347b7eeca79907416e084
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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.
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
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