Bio Force Ape

[ProgrammingAce]

http://programmingace.com/images/ButterKills.jpg

[udisi]

A little bit better collision detection and this thing has promise. the graphics are decent and seems to be running nicely. I so hope this gets made into a homebrew.

[ProgrammingAce]

A little bit better collision detection and this thing has promise. the graphics are decent and seems to be running nicely. I so hope this gets made into a homebrew.

It would be cool if someone were to pick this up and run with it. I hope someone is already working on it.

[cyberfluxor]

Best story line ever! When does the expansion come out?

[Ed Oscuro]

Ah there we go... I stopped reading about 5 pages in, but looking back I found this:



I really do need to read the entire thread before commenting.

I did check out that fake ROM. Now that was probably the greatest gaming experience I've ever had! ROFL
jajaja is a triple reverse agent, watch your back.

Wow, I guess that means Irene is going to shoot Ryu in the back but then he turns into Joe M. and dies. Who then turns into the Ninja Princess, and Irene turns into The Jaquio, and [REDACTED]

[nonix]

Just wanted to say hello to everyone, and that I read every single post in this classic thread. Kudos for the lolz, I know what it's liek to "eat communism in the face of Dur Butter". http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/smilies/2003_monkey.gif

I once listed a 100 line GameShark code to unlock GoldenEye007's hidden Citadel level, and nearly brought an entire forum to it's knees.

Moral of the story is: Enjoy life, and be kind to those less fortunate (or don't share a similar sense of humor). http://www.digitpress.com/forum/images/smilies/2003_moon.gif

[Sph1nx]

Wasn`t this proto on eBay last week.....

[TheRedEye]

Wasn`t this proto on eBay last week.....

I don't know if I'm spoiling a joke or not, but no, not that I know of? You would know better than me though, given your signature.

[Baloo]

Wasn`t this proto on eBay last week.....

Can you give us a link?

[ProgrammingAce]

It would be somewhat amusing if someone took the 1 level demo and tried passing it off as a real proto. Well, aside from the dude who pays a few grand for it, i guess.

[jajaja]

Ah, i first thought the real ROM of Bio Force Ape was actually found, but then i saw the EPROMs in the butter hehe :)



Ah there we go... I stopped reading about 5 pages in, but looking back I found this:

I really do need to read the entire thread before commenting.

I did check out that fake ROM. Now that was probably the greatest gaming experience I've ever had! ROFL
Ye, it was unfortunately a fake proto :\ Regarding that post i wrote back then (about 4 years ago), looking back i wonder why i was so serious when i wrote it hehe :\ I guess i didnt see the humor in this thread back then, but today i do :)

Where can i find that fake ROM by the way?



jajaja is a triple reverse agent, watch your back.

Wow, I guess that means Irene is going to shoot Ryu in the back but then he turns into Joe M. and dies. Who then turns into the Ninja Princess, and Irene turns into The Jaquio, and [REDACTED]
What is a triple reverse agent? It is a serious question, english isnt my first language :\

But regarding my post that ShinobiMan quoted, i dont know why i was so serious when i wrote it back then, and why i didnt see the humor in this thread back then. Maybe it was because that i got fooled thinking it was real, but then i found out that it was fake, so i got a bit dissapointed hehe :\ Because i wanted to see more of on how Bio Force Ape looked like. Today i see the humor in this thread :)

Long time no see by the way, how are you? :) I havnt really been that active on this forum lately :\

EDIT: I added some text.

[Baloo]

Can you give us a link?

Still would like to see if there really WAS a Bio Force Ape ROM on eBay.

http://thewarpzone.classicgaming.gamespy.com/unreleased/bioape1.jpg

[XYXZYZ]

Here's a Famitsu article (from Nintendoage) to compliment the Nintendo Power #27 article Baloo posted.

http://www.nintendoage.com/media/elements_nocache/BFB311A9-0874-9EBD-9E76CC7C2FB0286E.jpg

[Sph1nx]

Can you give us a link?

I Was being a jackass / moron as per thread rules.

[SunDay]

Hello ALL ! !
When I read all of this I got !INSPIRED!
...so here it is!
BioForceApe short comic by me...Sunday

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/381/ape2p.th.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/ape2p.jpg/)

Comment,look at it,lick it,do what ever you want with it! :)

[TRM]

Hello ALL ! !
When I read all of this I got !INSPIRED!
...so here it is!
BioForceApe short comic by me...Sunday

http://img36.imageshack.us/img36/381/ape2p.th.jpg (http://img36.imageshack.us/i/ape2p.jpg/)

Comment,look at it,lick it,do what ever you want with it! :)

I wonder if the released game will have a free comic book with it, like Werewolf and Cheetahmen

[Sonicwolf]

Oh no, not this topic again. Crud.

[Ed Oscuro]

What does his mug say? DICE (http://www.dice.se/) SUKS?

[TheRedEye]

What does his mug say? DICE (http://www.dice.se/) SUKS?

I'm hoping it says "FORCE ROCKS," this guy is a big fan of FORCE and when he changed into a monster he incorporated it into his new name.

[Doc Recca]

To the d00d who went "lol, IGN (or GameSpot) has it listed... sombody shud tellz them!!1"

This game existed (and somewhere, it still does). It WAS in development but got cancelled (Nintendo Power, issue 27 and some random Famitsu issue backs this up), so why the hell shouldn't they have it there? They have other cancelled games there. This topic didn't exactly create Bio Force Ape, the OP just claimed to have a cartridge that was never released.

Don't be stooped.

[TheRedEye]

Man, this thread gets bumped for the weirdest reasons.

[Doc Recca]

Yeah, sorry. Anyway...

http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn270/Teranugima/BioForceApe-EXISTENCE.png


EDIT: What makes this whole Bio Force Ape-not-seemingly-existing business even worse, is this excerpt from Nintendo Power issue 35, Gossip Galore section:


http://i306.photobucket.com/albums/nn270/Teranugima/NintendoPower35GossipGaloreBioForce.png

If this isn't nonsense, anyone who got their hands on the game could very well have the full version and not a 1-stage prototype!

Damn you, Seta. Damn you all to hell. Don't show off with what looks to be the greatest NES game ever and then just throw it out the window.

[ProgrammingAce]

Man, this thread gets bumped for the weirdest reasons.

Yes it does.

[Archimboldi]

everything in that gossip section is about a licensed game

[pseudonym]

Did you bump this thread just to say that? hehe.

One of the mods/admins should put this in classic posts or somewhere so this thread never gets lost.

[Icarus Moonsight]

Eat fascism!

http://www.crestock.com/uploads/blog/2009/propaganda-parodies/25-Eat-your-luftwaffel.jpg

Um, no... That's not right.

http://www.crestock.com/uploads/blog/2009/propaganda-parodies/27-Get-your-spoon.jpg

There, that's better. Can't eat communism or butter without your trusty spoon. :)

Sorry guys, it's been a while. :p

[Baloo]

Yes it does.

http://www.dahmus.org/blogimg/fry-see-what-you-did-there.jpg

[mobiusclimber]

The funny thing is, this game looks like a joke even as far back as the Nintendo Power coverage. Seta isn't exactly known for making "good" games, and both of the articles linked to sound like the writer is being sarcastic (in the first article he talks about powerful enemies or whatever and shows a screenshot of an apple, in the second one he talks about how fast-paced the action in it supposedly is then says there likely won't be any monkey business since it seems the game is canceled--judging just from the screens and from other Seta games I can't imagine the action was terribly fast-paced). Or is it just me reading too much into it.

[SEGA]

Found.

http://tedforums.com/temp/bio_force_ape_cart.jpg

[Enigmus]

Found.

http://tedforums.com/temp/bio_force_ape_cart.jpg


Please tell me that's fake, or else I'll have to send another mob to your coordinates.
20 bucks says it's fake!

[Icarus Moonsight]

:hmm: A commercial production label?... Skepticism levels: Critical

[slapdash]

Want... Bigger... Picture...

[ProgrammingAce]

*sigh* it's fake...

[Icarus Moonsight]

It was actually funny the first two times though. LOL

Remember kids, keep your EPROMs in buttersticks to ensure maximum data integrity and security. Butter keeps the bitrot away and blocks 110% of UV rays! If your prototypes are also constantly assaulted by vampires and zombies, use garlic butter and be sure you have a Holy imbued chain whip in your game room. ;)

[Soma]

I think this one might be real.

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d102128426

[PapaStu]

I think this one might be real.

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d102128426


I'll get right on that for 2700 bucks.

[TheRedEye]

If anyone is seriously considering grabbing this let me know so we can all save some money avoiding a war.

[Vlcice]

In this recession I didn't seriously think there would be any inflation on 2k monies.

[PapaStu]

If anyone is seriously considering grabbing this let me know so we can all save some money avoiding a war.

Someone is interested in it. There is now a bid on it.

[ProgrammingAce]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d102128426&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

Why is this the only site on the internet that's linked the auction? It's not on lost levels or nintendo age, or any other website on the planet. I have neither the time nor the patience to analyze that screenshot, but it doesn't really pass the smell test. No matter how the auction ends up, it's just going to annoy the piss out of me.

[mobiusclimber]

I tried Google's wonderful translation software and got this:



Release is planned from Bio Force Ape Seta.
I have three issues did not play.
Clear conditions are different for each face is clear I go through each goal in terms of three has failed.
Disk system uses a shell for developing infrastructure so.
I can not save no such claim without any description, no thank you in return.

Be contacted within 48 hours, only five people bidding thank you 振Ri込Meru days. The shipment size and weight, Yu-mail will be Yu-Pack etc..

Um, yeah, ok... what?

[ProgrammingAce]

I can't believe i'm even bothering to go through this, but here it goes...

Rotate the photo so it's straight. Draw a line from the first pixel of the first letter "T" in "press start" to the first pixel in the second "T". There are 56 pixels between the three letters, so to scale it, each 8 pixel area on the screenshot takes up 18.667 pixels of the photo.

Luckily, right near the "press start" you can see both edges of the screen. From edge to edge is 564 pixels. Using our calculation above, that means the screen is roughly 241 pixels wide. That's close enough to the resolution of 256 pixels we expected, allowing for some to be chopped off by the CRT. So our 18.667 to 8 ratio is probably pretty close.

Using the same calculation we can measure the ape's head to be 76 pixels wide by 84 pixels tall. We'll round that to the closest 8x8 block and assume the picture is actually 80x80 pixels. For reference, the butter monster in the competition cart is only 48x48 pixels.

Scaling dur butter to 80x80 pixels and dumping him in the same corner as the ape's head, the scale matches up.

The one thing that makes me really question the picture is the detail in the crow's feet near the ape's eye. If you assume those lines are 1 pixel, then the image has too many pixels in it to be 80x80. One pixel on the NES would take up .45 pixels in the picture.

Unfortunately the picture is too low resolution to tell for sure. I still think it's fake, but that may be more wishful thinking then fact. It certainly passes ever test i can think to run against it.

[DreamTR]

That's the first time the guy has sold any video games as far as I know, but his feedback is stellar, he got to level 3 but could not pass it, and that's about it. Hopefully in a few hours all will be well in butter land.

[NayusDante]

In this day and age, you would think that he'd post a video or something. One menu screenshot isn't much proof for this kind of thing.

It's an FDS dev cart, right? Can't you write those over pretty easily? I'm more inclined to believe that it's a recent homebrew than an authentic prototype.

[ccovell]

It's actually not an FDS RAM adaptor, but an official Nintendo Famicom dev board. They jammed the board into FDS RAM adaptor cases, for obvious reasons...

[DreamTR]

In this day and age, you would think that he'd post a video or something. One menu screenshot isn't much proof for this kind of thing.

It's an FDS dev cart, right? Can't you write those over pretty easily? I'm more inclined to believe that it's a recent homebrew than an authentic prototype.

LOL, I really don't think random Japanese guy decided to look at the craziness of Bio Force Ape on DP and make a homebrew. That thing is as real as it gets.

[adaml]

Ahhhh. After all this time we may actually figure out if this has an ending. Programming Ace, that's one hell of a Murphy's Law ruling if this turns out to be real.

[ProgrammingAce]

You're telling me...

One day after the competition cart goes on sale, and way before I have any chance to finish the final game.

[Ballz]

If nothing else, you're incorporating the buttery storyline in your homebrew version, right? I mean, what chances are there the real game will have our villain eating Communism? Right? Right...?

[Baloo]

Whatever happened to the auction?

[Bratwurst]

Whatever happened to the auction?

It was a fake. :(

[rbudrick]

Yep, fake. Totally fake. Confirmed!11!

-Rob

[PapaStu]

Did they (Lost Levels) get their $$ back?

[Bratwurst]

Did they (Lost Levels) get their $$ back?

Nope. 3k down the drain, boys.

[Kid Fenris]

Somewhere there's a room full of Japanese game collectors laughing and humping their anime-girl pillows.

[Bratwurst]

We're pretty sure it was Mimi Nakamura who orchestrated the scam.

[Greg2600]

Why would anyone think that was real?

[Baloo]

Wow, that sucks.

[Enigmus]

Well, looks like we have another scammer to hunt down and mercilessly beat- I mean, bring to justice!

Seriously, LL got fucked BIG TIME. Someone should report this to the authorities, because this is the worst late April Fools prank I've ever heard of.

[swlovinist]

Wow, that really sucks. I hope justice can be served.

[Greg2600]

Anyone who bids on something on a foreign website, of any kind, is taking a huge risk. Did they pay with something like Paypal, which you could easily file a claim and be covered? Seems very careless.

[ProgrammingAce]

I just wanted to be post number 666... carry on

[Soma]

Yep, fake. Totally fake. Confirmed!11!

-Rob

T_T

Did the person who bought it (who is a member here), or on behalf of other people say that himself?

It is just I think he left the seller positive feedback, which is odd if it wasn't real.

[rbudrick]

Nope. 3k down the drain, boys.

3k monies indeed.

-Rob

[ProgrammingAce]

Sorry to be "very hostile and aggressive", but what the fuck happened?

[skaar]

Crickets....

[MASTERWEEDO]

Sorry to be "very hostile and aggressive", but what the fuck happened?

i missed this too.

[loempiavreter]

To the people who are making the remake,

How close is it to the actual game?
http://www.unseen64.net/2008/04/14/bio-force-ape-nes-unreleased/
Here we have screenshot of the ape swining a rope and different kinds of stages, are they gonna be recreated? And how about the enemy designs that can be seen in screenshots?

And what exactly is that competition cart? Is it a demo of the game?

[Ed Oscuro]

LOL, I really don't think random Japanese guy decided to look at the craziness of Bio Force Ape on DP and make a homebrew. That thing is as real as it gets.
I feel convinced!

Somebody will have to tell me what went down afterwards. Hope somebody is able to get in touch with the Y!AJ people to put the hurt on the scammer, if that's indeed what happened. :?

[TheRedEye]

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2749/4535275077_c466bda00f_o.png (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostlevels/4535275077/)

[Kitsune Sniper]

Well. What does that mean.

[TheRedEye]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4535927418_79f7c1ba16_o.png (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostlevels/4535927418/)

[Vectorman0]

I'm surprised you didn't save those until next April 1st.

[TheRedEye]

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4009/4535312819_30d1da3e12_o.png (http://www.flickr.com/photos/lostlevels/4535312819/)

[Kitsune Sniper]

TheRedEye is obviously trying to get his post count up.