Elite / Frontier Elite Legend - ZX Spectrum 2021 - best 8-bit Elite?
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Note: different service stations have (very) different prices. I landed in one were they requested 37K for repairing my ship (!)
I try another and it was only 9K. So try various stations before you pay.
Also, the jumping gates are perfect to make dirty money, quick. Just find two stars that are close enough, level 8 or higher, one agricultural and the other industrial. It takes a couple of minutes to make a round trip and buy and sell furs and machinery (or narcotics and firearms if you don't mind your legal status).
PS: How do I use the fuel injectors? did you try to capture another ship with the capture system?
I try another and it was only 9K. So try various stations before you pay.
Also, the jumping gates are perfect to make dirty money, quick. Just find two stars that are close enough, level 8 or higher, one agricultural and the other industrial. It takes a couple of minutes to make a round trip and buy and sell furs and machinery (or narcotics and firearms if you don't mind your legal status).
PS: How do I use the fuel injectors? did you try to capture another ship with the capture system?
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The jump gates cost something like 250 credits per use and I’m too much of a skinflint to pay those sort of prices
(I’m playing purely with a Cobra Mk3 so I like to maximise my profits, plus I like a bit of combat along the way)I’ve not seen those price differences, I’m guessing it’s linked to the system type or tech level. Nice find!
Fuel injectors are a turbo boost system - if you’ve got fuel in your tank then press + hold “J” to gain a small speed boost (you’ll see two go-faster arrows in the lower left of the HUD). It’s not a massive speed difference but it can help you catch faster ships or get out of mass-lock a little bit quicker.
I’ve never got the ship capture system; the highest tech level systems never have it in stock and I’ve never had a mission with it as a reward, so either I missed or didn’t trigger the prerequisites to get access to the equipment, or my game is bugged somehow (…or I might just be an idiot - I haven’t been checking Military stations. Edit: checked a Military station in a level 15 system, no joy).
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Niiiiiiiice!
I wish I still had my toast-rack 128k Speccy but it died a death 26 years ago. I look at your post with envious eyes!
Edit: what’s the attachment you’ve got there? It looks like a memory card reader but I cannot make out the text beneath the LEDs. Is there any form of acceleration in the Speccy? The emulator I’m using simulates the addon that doubles the Spectrum clock speed.
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It is a DivMMC Enjoy! to load the tap file from the SD. I also set 7mhz in my spectaculator (and also in the FPGA) but with real HW I do not know of any accelerator.Niiiiiiiice!
I wish I still had my toast-rack 128k Speccy but it died a death 26 years ago. I look at your post with envious eyes!
Edit: what’s the attachment you’ve got there? It looks like a memory card reader but I cannot make out the text beneath the LEDs. Is there any form of acceleration in the Speccy? The emulator I’m using simulates the addon that doubles the Spectrum clock speed.
Anyway it works great at 3.5mhz.
Hello there!
I m new here tho.
I saw some gameplay of this masterpiece and I got to say that this game is straight up ED scaled down on Zx Spectrum very well
One thing tho.... I wish this game could have a fully playable android version :^
Also does the dev of this masterpiece have discord or any contact info ?
I wanna talk to him and tell him about new things to implement in the game too)
I m new here tho.
I saw some gameplay of this masterpiece and I got to say that this game is straight up ED scaled down on Zx Spectrum very well
One thing tho.... I wish this game could have a fully playable android version :^
Also does the dev of this masterpiece have discord or any contact info ?
I wanna talk to him and tell him about new things to implement in the game too
)The forum thread is linked in the first post, though you’ll need a translator unless you can read Russian. The creator of the modded game is “LW” and it looks like they consider their work complete as of about 2 years ago.Hello there!
I m new here tho.
I saw some gameplay of this masterpiece and I got to say that this game is straight up ED scaled down on Zx Spectrum very well
One thing tho.... I wish this game could have a fully playable android version :^
Also does the dev of this masterpiece have discord or any contact info ?
I wanna talk to him and tell him about new things to implement in the game too
I’m currently playing on Android via the app “Speccy+” and a Bluetooth controller (I’m not a fan of touch-screen joypads!).
You can find the author at https://zx-pk.ru/threads/33861-elite-legend-128k.html?s=1bac8564047ac00beedf0ab7469dc4c5
Yeah, he s on that forum too but unfortunately i can no longer make an account there to message him ://
Wait, can Elite Legend be accessed as open source file so that others can continue developing it ?
Something like the game being converter on android phones by someone else
Does someone from here know enthusiastic game developers who might make "Elite Legend 128k" on android phones or at least on Snes/Gba port?
Because honestly I feel that EL128k would be perfect for a handheld/android port, so that the newer generations can play it in a compatible way :^
And honestly I really want to get in the Elite universe aswell, to explore the lore and secrets from it while playing.
I really love Elite since it always was the stepping stone of space exploration games, without restrictions like waiting for fueling, micro transactions and so on :0
Because honestly I feel that EL128k would be perfect for a handheld/android port, so that the newer generations can play it in a compatible way :^
And honestly I really want to get in the Elite universe aswell, to explore the lore and secrets from it while playing.
I really love Elite since it always was the stepping stone of space exploration games, without restrictions like waiting for fueling, micro transactions and so on :0
MISSLE-LOCK STOPPED WORKING!
I've been playing this for a week or so now and getting re-acquainted with Elite. I've made some good progress and have been saving along the way. I've now found that sometimes that pressing T doesn't turn the missile locking on, the targetting system just stays black. I've been to a repair station and there are no repairs required. Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
I've been playing this for a week or so now and getting re-acquainted with Elite. I've made some good progress and have been saving along the way. I've now found that sometimes that pressing T doesn't turn the missile locking on, the targetting system just stays black. I've been to a repair station and there are no repairs required. Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
What type of missiles do you have fitted and what do you have set to fire in your HUD?
Pressing “D” will cycle through your targeting modes: Cargo drone - Refuel - Missile - ECM Missile, depending on equipment fitted. You might just have the wrong mode selected.
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Next question - Hermit Asteroid stations. I've jumped to a multi-government planet and set the advanced compass to mode A to try and find a hermit asteriod station. I've been flying for about an hour without finding it, and have probably notched up over 100 kills in this flight alone, and the planet is now so far away it just shows as just a tiny letter O.
Do they actually exist?
Also - I've had 2 "Right on, Commander!" messages but still showing as Competent, on each time I've had the message I've not ascended in status. Is this right?
Do they actually exist?
Also - I've had 2 "Right on, Commander!" messages but still showing as Competent, on each time I've had the message I've not ascended in status. Is this right?
The asteroid bases are a long way out - if the “A” on your compass moves then it is out there.
I think the kill amounts have changed slightly in Elite Legend* and the “Right On Commander!” messages are every 250 kills rather than 256, so you should see a rank increase with your next ROC notification.
*my Elite rank coincided with a ROC message, while in the original Speccy game it was somewhere between them.
Thanks. I found the station eventually, but what a trek. And I don't have enough fuel to jump so I've either got to fight my back to the planet or sun again or go Galactic Hyperdrive.
There didn't seem to be much benefit to going to the station. Some of the market prices were different but there was no equipment or even fuel for sale. Seemed like a lot of effort to go to for verry little gain.
There didn't seem to be much benefit to going to the station. Some of the market prices were different but there was no equipment or even fuel for sale. Seemed like a lot of effort to go to for verry little gain.
Great prices for gold, platinum, and gem-stones if I remember correctly, but not very many of them were available at the one I trekked out to. It’s something I’ve only done once and not felt the need to do again. It’s a bit too Hutton Orbital for my tastes
Today has seen some interesting developments.
1. I had the supernova mission for the second time. Same as before, fly to the sun, scoop fuel, go to station, collect refugees, hyperspace away, refugees give you 100g gemstones. (I know some people use a galactic hyperdive here but I don't).
2. Triggered the stealth Asp mission, had several goes at this but kept destropying the Asp along with the cargo pod. Eventually, on one of the tries there was an epic battle with about 10 ships, during whcih I collected a random cargo pod and it turned out to be the cloaking device! Some other ship must have squibbed the Asp and I just nicked the bounty!
Question for today - the "fuel collector" (not fuel scoops). What does it actually do?
1. I had the supernova mission for the second time. Same as before, fly to the sun, scoop fuel, go to station, collect refugees, hyperspace away, refugees give you 100g gemstones. (I know some people use a galactic hyperdive here but I don't).
2. Triggered the stealth Asp mission, had several goes at this but kept destropying the Asp along with the cargo pod. Eventually, on one of the tries there was an epic battle with about 10 ships, during whcih I collected a random cargo pod and it turned out to be the cloaking device! Some other ship must have squibbed the Asp and I just nicked the bounty!
Question for today - the "fuel collector" (not fuel scoops). What does it actually do?