Game-No-Watch Ball (Channel F)
A downloadable game
First Released: Thursday 11th February 2024
Updated:
Friday 12th February 2024 - Main release
Monday 15th April 2024 - Finishing off and Colour release
One Player game
A port of the 1980 Game and Watch game Ball - without the watch.
Ball (Original Release) is the February 2024 release
Ball (Colour) is the April 2024 release with blue, green and red
Ball (Black and White) is the April 2024 release in black and white
Press 1 to get to the start screen
Press 2 to get to the attract mode (1 ball automated)
Press 3 to get to 2 ball mode
Press 4 to get to 3 ball mode
Left or right on controller moves hands
Mute for sanity
In 2 ball mode you get 1 point for each successful catch
Every 10 points the speed increases
Every 100 points the speed resets
Max display score is 9,999 but will continue to keep going after overflow
In 3 ball mode you get 10 points for each successful catch
Every 100 points the speed increases
Every 1,000 points the speed resets
Max display score is 9,990 but will continue to keep going after overflow
Things I might need to do:
Need to do a instruction manual - I'm unsure whether to keep the Channel F format or do a Game and Watch one instead.
Decide on whether to reimplement the "show all ball positions" as a feature of startup and pressing 1. This is minor and not gameplay related
Download
Install instructions
This is a rom file for the Fairchild Channel F
Methods to play on real hardware is limited, if you are able to do this you already know how
Otherwise, there is a number of emulators that can use this file, including versions of Mess / Mame, and also FreeChaF on RetroArch, though compatibility with all emulators cannot be guaranteed.
Development log
- Update to Game-no-Watch BallApr 15, 2024
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New update taking into account changes suggested by e5frog, check out the development log for full details.
That is a pretty clever port. Planning on porting more LCD Handheld games and G&W games to the Channel F?
absolutely! While the channel F has a lot of limitations on the speed that graphics update on the screen, G&W games fit nicely into it.
E5frog has given me some ideas to improve this one so might work on that first, but definitely looking forward to making some more. After March I might have more time for this as I'm cutting down to 4-5 days work.
I think I know some of them you might like. Chef, Flag, Judge, Sonic 3 Tiger handheld or Tom and Jerry Popper by Gakken.
Chef I actually owned, so would love to do that, I had quite a few sega tiger electronics too, sonic, shinobi and after burner. If I can get the after burner type game to run on a Fairchild I'll be quite happy!
Thanks for the ideas, might try some of them!
You're welcome.
The main release is now available, with some potential minor changes if I feel like it (see above description).
Open to requests for other ports to do on the Fairchild channel F.