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1022 1023 1024 | Time Trial Champions | thedudeguy |  |  | Nice Seeing you back around Th!
I'm realizing that at this point I'm willing to sift through decompiled byte code to reverse-engineer the physics engine, but am short a source file. I can find the palm pilot version as abandonware places, but the tooling for decompiling and investigating those is nearly nonexistent.
To that end, if anyone has an iOS package available, send it my way (JackUrbs@gmail.com). I've asked PMD for a copy of the game I sent him way back that also includes the editor, as that may speed up the process rather than rebuilding it from scratch.
I have experience with Godot, so I imagine that would be a good surface to port it to once I can figure out what's going on underneath.
The only downside is that I doubt that we'd be able to continue to use this site for outputs from the new game. If someone were interested in understanding how the *replays* worked, that's a blocker I haven't even gotten starting thinking around.
But Th surfaces a real risk - one day bike.toyspring.com may just 404. As a fallback (and perhaps an easier place to organize), I've made a discord: https://discord.gg/uarUCmtavF. Once I have something started I'll be putting updates there. |
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| Time Trial Champions | bones |  | | was literally about to come here to say I can make a discord. I don't have coding experience (learning now at my job actually) but any way I can contribute I would be heavily interested in. Joined the discord, hope to see more on there.
Champ, your message brought out the feels man. Miss this community even 15ish years later. |
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| Champ's game on Speed Bump | Champ |  | | Thanks, Andrew! When I got this gold I didn't even think it was that fast. Honestly most of my golds seem there is room for improvement. |
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| Time Trial Champions | Laser |  | | Join the Discord so you can talk to me anytime, anywhere. |
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| Kamirashi's game on Leap of Faith | Kamirashi |  | | Squeezing in a gold to end the year  |
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| Kamirashi's game on Leap of Faith | Champ | | | Very clean run. This level is very claustrophobic  Congrats on the gold, Kamirashi! |
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| Time Trial Champions | L4gger625 |  | | Hi everybody, I'm an unknown guy here but this game is one of my childhood games and I absolutely love it! Long story... I just came here to say that thedudeguy, Champ and me, are creating a spiritual successor to BoD and have created a website teasing the game, you can find our Discord over there!  http://bikeordie.net/ |
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| Time Trial Champions | Vega |  | | Gotta chime in here. I frequently check in on BoD. A truly serious tragedy to see this amazing game flounder into basically oblivion. Champ - I dunno what this new site is, but I'm very happy to see some die hard BoD'ers doing something [anything] to keep the game alive. I have commented publicly on this forum and attempted to reach Sz on other platforms that I would love the opportunity to buy the ownership rights to Bike Or Die outright. I don't know what the game is worth monetarily. (maybe zilch at this point?) That has nothing to do with my interest. I am neck deep in managing a wildly successful mortgage channel for a Top 5 bank and have no material dreams of striking it rich in a defunct game of yesteryear.
No. The real truth is that Bike or Die is in my blood por vida. I simply want to be an Ambassador of Bike or Die, and would be grief stricken if BoD ever went dark/offline for good. I believe this is the one of the most incredibly complex and fantastically challenging games ever created, on any platform that exists. The possibilities are virtually endless. I know I am not alone. And that lends credence and clout to confirm that there's something special, something different about this crazy game.
Champ/Laser/Bones/the dudeguy/BikerBrian/Pickle/AndrewA/PMD, and I suppose newcomer L4gger625... (and dozens and dozens of other long time comrades of BoD) whatever happens, whoever has connections, please keep me in the loop. I would love to find a way to keep BoD alive and personally be involved in some kind of substantial capacity if possible.
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| Kamirashi's game on Zip-Zap | Kamirashi | | | I was not expecting a medal here, it's such an awkward level to get a fast time on. |
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| BikeForce | Mr.pickle. | | | heh, I remember when this pack first came out and everyone had their minds blown by how good the graphics looked (Which is funny in hindsight). Gosh we gotta find some way to play this again! |
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| Kenn's game on LaserTag | Mr.pickle. | | | The limits people pushed this game is just nuts. I really dont think anyone plays games to nearly this level of (almost) perfection anymore. Most mobile games now are basically idle games designed to keep you playing long enough to watch ads and/or make purchases. There is just nothing out there that is a one time purchase and is then THIS engaging long term trying to do a specific trick.
Its kinda like looking at one of the original Mario games and comparing it to Mario Sunshine, its not even close to the same thing. Some of the game is infinitely better but there also is something that never really got recaptured since the original. I feel like there is almost nothing on the app store today that recaptures the original feel and addictiveness of the games on Palm OS back in the day (Big ones that come to mind for me are BOD, Tradewinds and Warfare Inc.) |
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| Kamirashi's game on Zip-Zap | BikerBrian |  | | Great run on this one. I'm glad it wasn't just a touch faster  .
It is tough to keep enough momentum on the climb to reach the finish flag. |
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| Champ's game on Expl-O-sion 2.0 | Pinchies | | | There are now finally nice ways to emulate bike or die.
The easiest way is to search for "Bike or Die PalmDB" and then to click the link to "try it now" at the bottom of the page. |
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| Kamirashi's game on Jump Over | Kamirashi | | | This could be so much faster, but I'm happy with gold |
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| Kamirashi's game on Bike or Pi | Kamirashi | | | Got the best possible beginning and just played the rest of the level really safe. |
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| Kamirashi's game on Lifeboat Rescue | Kamirashi | | | That was really unexpected, was aiming for top 10 and clutched this run! |
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| Kamirashi's game on No Escape | Kamirashi | | | The 2nd 14 year old gold beaten in a few days, still seems like it can be improved a bit with the new beginning. This takes me to #1 in the pack and #2 on the leaderboard |
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| Kamirashi's game on Planet | Kamirashi | | | Keeping up the theme of 1 frame |
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