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New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« on: October 31, 2011, 03:22:15 pm »
European Casio PRIZM users now have access to a greater range of calculator games to try out. Smashmaster released a 5-levels demo of I Wanna Be The Guy, a very hard platformer game where you must avoid spikes and other obstacles to reach the end of each level.



It uses the home screen (ASCII art graphics), but takes advantage of the color and greater choice of characters available on this calculator, such as the triangle character for spikes and arrows. The game is hard. However if you find yourself stuck, you have the ability to double-jump, so you can reach greater distances.

The only bad part of the game is that it will not run on the american version of the Casio PRIZM, the FX-cg10, because the g3p files (pictures) made for the FX-cg20 are not compatible with it. Before playing the game, you must edit the source code and remove every Bg-Pict line of code (there are about 6 or 7). Use the editor search function to find them or simply run the game until you no longer get any error.

The download link for IWBTG is available here.


Besides that, there are two other new games available for the European PRIZM: Brain Challenge and Flight cg20, both of which also uses g3p images. Like the game above, they will not work on the FX-cg10 without removing all Bg-Pict commands first. Brain challenge is a set of puzzle mini-games using those pics, while Flight is a game where you must try to avoid hitting the obstacles during a flight by pressing the up arrow at the right time. The last game, while simple, also demonstrates the use of graph equations and settings to generate graphics.

A Youtube video of Flight cg20 is available here. It starts around 1:51. (Before that there is also a Tetris game in the works that is being shown)

Note that games that use such picture files are very large (one picture takes about 55 KB of archive memory), so make sure you got enough space left in your 16 MB! Note that by removing the image commands you save a lot of space too, although then Brain Challenge may be completely unplayable.
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Re: New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2011, 04:43:40 pm »
Can't I just flash fx-CG20 software on it XD?

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Re: New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2011, 05:35:09 pm »
Can't I just flash fx-CG20 software on it XD?

Well, it would be nice if that worked. :P Sadly, Casio has a few security measures to prevent that. If they're as advanced as the Nspire OS protection or maybe even simpler than the Z80 calcs is something that I'm not sure about, but it would probably be easier to find a way to create images that are compatible with the fx-CG10. Qwerty has been analyzing part of the file format and jimbauwens has been trying to figure out another part of it, so maybe it'll be possible one day.

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Re: New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2011, 12:35:16 pm »
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Can't I just flash fx-CG20 software on it?
Actually, the fx-CG 10 OS is identical to the fx-CG 20 one.

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Re: New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2011, 01:39:51 pm »
If it's identical does the game run on the american version?

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Re: New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2011, 01:52:16 pm »
If it's identical does the game run on the american version?
The installed OS might be the same, but the calcs run the OS in different ways, so the game still won't work on the fx-CG10.

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Re: New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2011, 04:33:59 pm »
I'm interested in getting a Prizm in the next few months, does anyone know if I can even get a CG-20 in the US?

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Re: New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2011, 04:41:20 pm »
You can't. It's only sold in Europe, while the cg10 is only sold in America. Ebay might be your best bet, but be careful and make sure it's really a cg20.

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Re: New interesting FX-cg20 BASIC games
« Reply #8 on: November 02, 2011, 02:30:07 pm »
You can't. It's only sold in Europe, while the cg10 is only sold in America. Ebay might be your best bet, but be careful and make sure it's really a cg20.

Well that sucks. I suppose it's the same deal if I wanted a TI-84 Pocket.fr?