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Norman Sword

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I wonder why the mapping picture of Manic 40 Miner uses the title screen picture from Manic Miner and not the title screen picture from Manic 40 Miner?

The pictures are different enough that even the low res spoiler picture, is evidently the original Manic Miner. 

Can you spot all the changes?

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adding 2nd picture.
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1. "40" between the main title

2. The car windscreen 'A Pillar' missing pixel fixed (as you know this was 'fixed' in the Software Projects release of the original whereas the Bug Byte version has it missing)

3. Blank 'Final Barrier' cavern area fully populated with background

4. Fixed piano key layout of black keys

5. Bright cyan/red for indication a key is playing (something I tend to do anyway on some of my releases)

6. Full key indication in cyan/red vs one attribute block

 

I get the feeling I've missed one something ? 🙂

 

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I basically redrew all the text. I started from scratch and drew all the text in a way that I would do. Then modified back some of the quirks from the original.

Starting on MANIC 
The start of the Leading M is adjusted and cleaned up to a consitant 1 pixel wide
The A has a narrower left side upright.
The C has the upper flick removed

On MINER
The strange indent on the M was fixed. To me it looked wonky
The Start curve on the M of Miner duplicates the start M on Manic
The tail of the R duplicates the initial curl on the M's

On STARRING
The A and R are better kerned

On MINER WILLY
The L's in Miner Willy are made Narrower

on PRESS ENTER TO START
The E's all have a longer middle
The N has its middle kink removed
The A has the lower bar moved up a pixel
The T and the A in START are better kerned

 

 

Changed the keyboard layout and also changed the length of the black keys relative to the white portion below.



 

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Wow 😮 A lot more changes than I thought!

To be fair they are noticeable now you mention them. I guess I was looking for the 'obvious' ones.

 

On 1/31/2022 at 2:15 PM, Norman Sword said:

I wonder why the mapping picture of Manic 40 Miner uses the title screen picture from Manic Miner and not the title screen picture from Manic 40 Miner?

I'll contact Pavero over the next few days Norman, I'm almost sure he'll want to update the "map" to correctly reflect the changes.

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On 1/31/2022 at 2:15 PM, Norman Sword said:

I wonder why the mapping picture of Manic 40 Miner uses the title screen picture from Manic Miner and not the title screen picture from Manic 40 Miner?

I did not receive a reply to my enquiry about this to the map author (but I think that's partly my fault now, I've emailed today instead!) so I took a screenshot of the correct title screen, resized it and applied it to the "map" I posted earlier, which for reference can be found in this post

I made no other changes to the image, save for 'whiting out' the playing keys from my screenshot before applying it to correct the incorrect one, and took the whole lot at maximum display size (1688x1336)

EDIT... The map author has now updated the image on their site too.

🙂

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