Description
You have traveled back in time to the 90s! You look around your room and see a massive collection of games. Mario, Zelda, Mega Man, Castlevania, Metroid, Sonic, Street Fighter, and more, all waiting to be played. You can listen to your older brother playing Doom in the other room and The Simpsons on the family TV. You see posters of the Ninja Turtles and Transformers, along with countless toys of all kinds. You can even sense the smell of pizza coming from the kitchen! So many great memories are coming back to you!
You go and turn on your computer and see something different. Not only is your computer more advanced than it ever was before. (Heck, you don't even remember having a computer all for you, you always shared the family computer) It now has a brand new program pre-installed: RPG Maker. "Awesome!" you think, "I can make one of those cool Final Fantasy games!". You proceed to spend hours planning how to make your dream game; thinking of sharing it with all your friends at school until you realize something... You only have a single floppy disk to put the game on.
Well, not everything was better in the past.
The 1.44 Floppy disk event is a way to celebrate the now-obsolete data storage medium and also a way to go back in time and appreciate how valuable space back then; where every single byte was valuable and games were optimized to make the most of each one (Unlike modern games were 50+ GB games has kind of become the norm).
The idea is simple: Make a game that can fit into one floppy disk. While there were lots of different kinds of disks with varying capacities back then, the most standard and well-known was the 1.44 Mb one. You are free to do whatever you want as long as it can fit into those 1.44 Mb. You are not restricted to the technology of the era either. Any modern game engine is fair game, as long as the compressed game still fits into 1.44 Mb.
- Teams are allowed.
- You may use any engine.
- You can use any resources you've made in the past. This includes making resources before the event officially starts.
- The games must be uploaded to the event page.
- There must be at least 10 minutes of gameplay.
- The game size can't be larger than 1.44 Mb. (Compressed of course)
- RTP is allowed but the game should run without it installed. If you need help here are some tutorials for RPG Maker 2003
- The game should be able to run out of the box with minimal fussing. This ideally means that it should run by just clicking the .EXE file. But if the game requires some extra files then those same files should go within the 1.44 Mb limit.
- The event begins on Wednesday the 14th of April and ends at 4:00 am Thursday the 29th of April. (14.4 days. Get it?)
- RPG Maker VX / Ace, MV, and MZ are not available for this event. Their projects even stripped down to the bare minimum don't give enough room to fit into 1.44 Mb. You can still use them if you somehow manage to make the game fit though. Good luck!
- Any questions? You can send a PM to "El_WaKa" on RMN or "WaKa" in the Discord server.
"Don't copy that Floppy" 14 MS: For participating.
"The Golden Disk" 75 MS: For completing a full game.
You go and turn on your computer and see something different. Not only is your computer more advanced than it ever was before. (Heck, you don't even remember having a computer all for you, you always shared the family computer) It now has a brand new program pre-installed: RPG Maker. "Awesome!" you think, "I can make one of those cool Final Fantasy games!". You proceed to spend hours planning how to make your dream game; thinking of sharing it with all your friends at school until you realize something... You only have a single floppy disk to put the game on.
Well, not everything was better in the past.
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The 1.44 Floppy disk event is a way to celebrate the now-obsolete data storage medium and also a way to go back in time and appreciate how valuable space back then; where every single byte was valuable and games were optimized to make the most of each one (Unlike modern games were 50+ GB games has kind of become the norm).
The idea is simple: Make a game that can fit into one floppy disk. While there were lots of different kinds of disks with varying capacities back then, the most standard and well-known was the 1.44 Mb one. You are free to do whatever you want as long as it can fit into those 1.44 Mb. You are not restricted to the technology of the era either. Any modern game engine is fair game, as long as the compressed game still fits into 1.44 Mb.
RULES:
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- Teams are allowed.
- You may use any engine.
- You can use any resources you've made in the past. This includes making resources before the event officially starts.
- The games must be uploaded to the event page.
- There must be at least 10 minutes of gameplay.
- The game size can't be larger than 1.44 Mb. (Compressed of course)
- RTP is allowed but the game should run without it installed. If you need help here are some tutorials for RPG Maker 2003
- The game should be able to run out of the box with minimal fussing. This ideally means that it should run by just clicking the .EXE file. But if the game requires some extra files then those same files should go within the 1.44 Mb limit.
- The event begins on Wednesday the 14th of April and ends at 4:00 am Thursday the 29th of April. (14.4 days. Get it?)
- RPG Maker VX / Ace, MV, and MZ are not available for this event. Their projects even stripped down to the bare minimum don't give enough room to fit into 1.44 Mb. You can still use them if you somehow manage to make the game fit though. Good luck!
- Any questions? You can send a PM to "El_WaKa" on RMN or "WaKa" in the Discord server.
REWARDS:
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"Don't copy that Floppy" 14 MS: For participating.
"The Golden Disk" 75 MS: For completing a full game.
Details
- 04/14/2021 12:00 AM
- 04/29/2021 04:00 AM
- 10
Registration
You must be logged in to sign up for 1.44 Floppy Disc Event .
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I copied that floppy
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is it time?
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Looks like I need to try something beside MV
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A floppy disk or floppy diskette (sometimes casually referred to as a floppy or diskette) is a type of disk storage composed of
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Floppy0153
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Error loading program. (A)bort? (R)etry? (F)ail?
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This team has performed an illegal action and will be shut down.
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America On-Lion Free Trial Disc
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Nostalgia
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Floppy Disks were invented by computers to help us
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Everybody do the flop!
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Tass Times in RMN
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www.eMachinesFloppyDiskSettlement.com
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Mirak calls for help! But no one came...
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shittyabandonwarez.cn/dos/drekirokr-3540/download/
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RM_256k
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Friends: The JRPG
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I miss floppy disks
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flop pies
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Diskette 0 Drive Seek Failure
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1998 called. ...Can...Can I stay there for a while? Please? :o
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Team Double Density
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Keep on smilin'
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(A)bort (R)etry (F)ail
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Final Fantasy but bigger
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Insert the system disk before inserting the game disk.
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C:\DOS\Run
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GOT 144 PROBLEMS BUT THE DISC AIN'T ONE
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Alliesoft Games
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found this weird game at a cursed garage sale
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An excuse to use RM 2k again
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First time using 2003. Hope this works
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It's very interesting
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I'll show you what I can do with HTML and JS!
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RM1K44(B)
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