After Burner II Silent Attract Mode Available for Download!
I have developed a silent attract mode for After Burner II. I modified the two program ROMs to mute the engine, missile, and explosion sounds that occur during the attract sequence because, frankly, they drive me nuts!
I had a pretty steep learning curve, having never even seen assembly language before this project. I tried to document all of my work so that others might find the curve less steep in the future. I must say, I really enjoyed the whole experience.
The entire writeup is available on my website here or if you want to skip all my ramblings and just download the patch files, you can get them here.
While I was doing this, I also discovered how to create the opposite effect--a noisy After Burner. This turns on all of the game sounds during attract mode, but has an undesirable side effect. In the game sequences where the jet is not shot down before the high score table, the engine noise persists until another sound occurs. This is very annoying and probably makes the noisy After Burner a bad idea.
I finished the coding over Christmas, but I just now had a chance to install and test the ROMs that Steph burned for me, and they work great! Enjoy!
I have developed a silent attract mode for After Burner II. I modified the two program ROMs to mute the engine, missile, and explosion sounds that occur during the attract sequence because, frankly, they drive me nuts!
I had a pretty steep learning curve, having never even seen assembly language before this project. I tried to document all of my work so that others might find the curve less steep in the future. I must say, I really enjoyed the whole experience.
The entire writeup is available on my website here or if you want to skip all my ramblings and just download the patch files, you can get them here.
While I was doing this, I also discovered how to create the opposite effect--a noisy After Burner. This turns on all of the game sounds during attract mode, but has an undesirable side effect. In the game sequences where the jet is not shot down before the high score table, the engine noise persists until another sound occurs. This is very annoying and probably makes the noisy After Burner a bad idea.
I finished the coding over Christmas, but I just now had a chance to install and test the ROMs that Steph burned for me, and they work great! Enjoy!
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