2048-2600

A port of the 2048 game to the Atari 2600 VCS

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A port of the 2048 game to the Atari 2600 VCS

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Mar 25, 15:00	2014-03-25 15:00:00 UTC	2014-03-25 16:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 25, 16:00	2014-03-25 16:00:00 UTC	2014-03-25 17:00:00 UTC	1	0	1
Mar 25, 17:00	2014-03-25 17:00:00 UTC	2014-03-25 18:00:00 UTC	0	0	0
Mar 25, 18:00	2014-03-25 18:00:00 UTC	2014-03-25 19:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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chesterbr·Mar 25, 2014

Glad you liked it! I spent some (fun) time to squeeze the different width tiles in ways that would work well on different sizes, some working better than the others. If someone wants to improve upon it (the tiles are human-editable here: https://github.com/chesterbr/2048-2600/blob/master/tilegen.r...), I'd be happy to take a look!

In 2048 game to the Atari 2600 VCS

unwiredben·Mar 25, 2014

Very impressive, I'd been thinking of something similar. In playing it in Stella, I frequently get into a "no move" situation where the grid looks like 2 8 16 2 4 128 2 4 16 64 8 8 4 16 4 _ Based on this config, I should be able to move right to collapse the two 8s, but no input it being allowed. I suspect it's a bug in the "NEW RANDOM TILE" code not allowing that last cell to be selected for a new item, since in the Stella debugger, memory at A8 is stuck with value 3. Update: https://github.com/chesterbr/2048-2600/pull/2

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postit·Mar 25, 2014Submission

2048 game to the Atari 2600 VCS

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