Atari STE and games, overview, game lists


  Games using STE enhancements :

Abrevs. :
ADMA - audio DMA
EPAL - extended palette (4096 col.)
HWS - hardware scrolling
BLIT - blitter (not strictly STE feature)
AJ - analogue joysticks
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Alien Busters IV - ADMA
Alien Thing - ADMA, EPAL
Alien Thing - Expert Edition - ADMA, EPAL
Alien Thing - The Directors Cut (Demo) - ADMA, EPAL
Ancient Art of War in the Skies, The - EPAL
Another World - ADMA
Asteroidia  - ?  Should use blitter but I don't see it, and scrolling is pathetic.
Astro Panic 94 - ADMA, BLIT, EPAL

B Squad (Demo) - EPAL, BLIT
Battletris - ADMA
Battletris+ - ADMA
Beastlord  - EPAL

Cannon Fodder II (preview) - EPAL-only title pic. Pih.
Captive - EPAL
Carlos - ADMA
Chambers of Shaolin - ADMA
Chaos Engine - HWS, EPAL
Chronicles of Omega, The - HWS, ADMA
Chu Chu Rocket  - ADMA, BLIT, AJ
CoCoCoPo -ADMA
Creatures - ADMA

Destruction Imminent - ADMA, BLIT, EPAL
Diamond Ice - ADMA, EPAL
Dragon's Lair - EPAL
Dragon's Lair II - EPAL
Dragon's Lair III - EPAL
Dragon's Lair Escape from the Singe's Castle - EPAL

Elvira the Arcade Game - BLIT
Esprit - ADMA  (Strange that later games - Oxyd, are not STE enhanced)
Exterminator - ADMA

Final Fight - EPAL
Fire and Ice  -  EPAL
First Samurai - EPAL, intro only
Frantick   - EPAL - only title

Ghost Battle - BLIT
GodPey  - BLIT

Heartland - ADMA, EPAL

International Rugby Challenge - EPAL

James Pond - EPAL
James Pond II (Robocod) - EPAL (1c only)

Leavin' Teramis  - EPAL, intro only
Lethal Xcess  - ADMA, BLIT

Magic Boy -  ADMA
Magic Fly - EPAL - only title pic.

Nicky Boom - ADMA
Nicky 2 - ADMA
No Limit 2 - ADMA, EPAL

Oh No! Not More Radioactive Mineshafts - BLIT, EPAL

Operation Garfield - EPAL, ADMA, BLIT

Pooz - ADMA
Pouif Ouf - ADMA, BLIT
Power Up plus  - ADMA, BLIT - despite it, scrolling is awful

Robocop 3 - ADMA, EPAL
Rock 'n' Roll Clams - ADMA, EPAL, BLIT
Rubicon  - ADMA by intro

Sheer Agony - EPAL
Sliders - ADMA, HWS, EPAL
Space Ace - EPAL
Space Ace II - EPAL
Starball  - ADMA
Stone Age (rev2.1, 1993) - ADMA
Superfly - ADMA

Titan - ADMA, HWS

Ultimate 'tris Game, The - ADMA, EPAL, BLIT

Vaxine - ADMA, EPAL
Winglord - ADMA, EPAL, BLIT
Wings of Death - ADMA, BLIT
Wrath of the Demon - EPAL

Zool  - HWS, BLIT

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STE only :

Alien Blast
Crackman
Dynabusters+   - I guess that  + means for STE
H Mec
H Mec 2
Manga Puzzle
Obsession
Pacman OE   - OE= On STE
Revenge of Mutant Camels STE v. (for STE v.)
Roger - ADMA, EPAL, BLIT
Sleepwalker
Square Off  (1995)  + TT, Falcon
Stardust     + Falcon
Street Fighter II (B/W, Demo)
Stone Age  (rev.2, 1992)  + Falcon
Substation   
Team
Tomtar
Utopos
Ultimate Arena, The - ADMA, EPAL, BLIT  + Falcon
Whitewater Madness
Zero 5

Enhanced scrolling updates by Zamuel_a :
Pacmania STE
Great Giana Sisters STE

Enhanced scrolling updates by Petari (me) :
Hard 'n' Heavy    +Falcon
Jinks    + Falcon

Some others can work on Falcon beside where is marked. Talking about unmodded games.


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Not working on STE:
This includes not TOS version caused problems, only
games writing to bad locations.

Note:  some games may fail on 4MB machines because lame code.

Many of cracks fail on higher TOS versions, so please test with
original or Pasti images if possible.

Hyperforce - overshot in palette writing loop
Grand Monster Slam - overshot in palette writing loop
Nightdown  -  writing to Screen pointer does nothing on ST.  On STE bus error.


As TOS version caused problem good example is Defender of the Crown:  code is not ready for enhanced palette of STE, handled via XBIOS calls. If run under TOS 1.04 on STE it works fine.
How to use TOS 1.04 on STE ? See on Floppy Image Runner site.

Making complete list of originals not working on regular STE with TOS 1.06/1.62 would take too much time. I guess that over 90% works.
TOS 2.05/2.06 (Mega STE) :  I guess that success rate is under 80%. Rob Norten protections fail (placed in second FAT).

What helps in case of problem:  Try another crack. Try running from AUTO folder. Use specialised SW for setting machine to act as having only 512KB (or 1MB) RAM. Install TOS 1.04 in RAM.


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  PP, August 1, 2012. - June. 2015.