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                                  for MSXdev 20th anniversary
                                        by FranChesstein 2023                                  
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 Plot
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Year 4157. Humanity had to emigrate  out of solar  system to  outlive 
earth disasters. After centuries wandering space, finally they  could 
arrive at the TRAPPIST-1 solar system  where set up and started a new 
human civilitation. The chosen exoplanet  was rich in uranium, source 
of energy to begin their new way of life. Unfortunately, they weren't
were alone in TRAPPIST-1, there were other  form of lifes who want to
get the same resources  of energy for them.  In order to get it, they
had  created  control  nuclear spheres  which nulled willpower of the 
exoplanet natural wildlife.So, they could reach the natural resources 
easier. 

Uchu Yohei  was the  chosen human to  remove these  control balls and 
reset the  natural wildlife in the planet.  Bearing just a plasma gun 
he should return the planet to the human control. 

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 How to run
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- Real MSX Hardware
    1) you should save it in cartridge (no warranty is given)
    2) or use some extra software as opfxsd and write:
       "opfxsd uchu.rom /k4"
- MSX-VR
    1) go to VR-DOS
    2) write: "play uchu.rom /MODEL msx1 /MAPPER konami"
- Emulation
    1) openmsx is your friend, just write:
      "openmsx -machine Philips_VG_8020 game.rom -romtype KONAMI4"

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 How to play
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- Arrows to LEFT, RIGHT, JUMP or UPSTAIRS and SQUAT or DOWNSTARIS.
- Space or Fire to SHOOT.
- Pressing 'DOWN' ARROW when booting to change to 50 hz.

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 Features & Requirements
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- Game size 128 Kb (mapper Konami k4)
- Hardware MSX-1 (recommended to play)
- RAM size requirements 16KB
- Genre Platform/Maze/Openworld

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 Programing resources
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- Single MSX Library
- SMLe graphic editor
- Small device C compiler (sdcc)

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 GRAPHICS
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- The main characther and  the graphics of the first world were taken 
  (and weakly modified) from https://www.patreon.com/V3X3D. 
  
    https://v3x3d.itch.io/retro-lines (free resource).

- Rest  of  sprites and  graphics were created by the game author(me) 
  being clearly inspired on the V3X3D job.

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 MUSIC & FXs
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- The music was taken from https://zxtunes.com/
    Title:  "Another world" by D.C. Pierro
    Ending: "Mother earth" by NecHq 

- FXs were created by me (sorry)

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 Author
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José Javier Franco Benítez 2023 (copyleft) 
I am a no-proffesional coder, graphician or musician
(aka Franchesstein)

Any bug, please, tell me.

Bugs  &  contact  at:   franchesstein@hotmail.com  or  usual  forums. 
Surely I will see it.

Also, you can visit my silly web here:
https://franchesstein.webs.com/

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 Legal conditions
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This game is totally free. I  have took free resources  from internet  
and it is  fair to give it totally free for everyone. its sell is not
allowed.

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 Last update 11th March 2023
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