Some people might have guessed it, or maybe they found the YouTube video showing the game, for the rest of you, the mystery is now unveiled. The Konami game we've just ported to Spectrum was:

It's time to join Vick the explorer into The Valley of the Kings pyramids to find the Mystery Jewels, but be aware of the mummies!

To access the game card, just click here.

You may leave your comments here in the blog. Enjoy!

Nice pretty game, I love its playability, and the attention to little details that make it a superb work.

I can't pass from stage 2 to 3 though. I finish the stage 2 but the door leads to stage 1 and stage 1 door leads to stage 2. Maybe I'm missing something, anyway I'll try to figure out.

Badly that:

1. There is no music
2. graphics of levels (colour is not counted) does not vary.

Emlyn: there are two doors in every stage except for the first. A door to the next stage (in the right room in case of stage 2), and the same door from where you came from.

@newart
1- there is music indeed - try 128k mode - 128k uses the same sound processor as msx1
2- take a look at the original MSX version - the graphics are very similar, except the colour palette and the 8x8 colour cell instead of 8x1 colour cell

I CAN'T BELIEVE IT! Amazing work! How do you make it so close to original? Is there an general approach to it?

Guillian dissassembled and commented the original MSX code, and worked from there, changing the graphic routines, AY ports, control code... so the logic code behaves exactly the original.

I love this game. Been looking for it for a while now. Thank you so much. Just one newbie question: it is a .tap file and a .tzx file. How do i get it to work on my computer?

Both the .tap and .tzx files have the same game, but the tzx loads faster because it has a turbo loader.

If "your computer" is a real Spectrum, you can use WinTZX to feed the sound to your Spectrum, or to get a wav file with that sound. Other command line tools are also available and will probably work using Wine if you don't use Windows.

If it isn't, you need an emulator for your OS to load the tape image. ZXSpin and SpecEmu are good choices in Windows, and Fuse is good on Linux/FreeBSD/Mac OS X/other Unix variants.

You can check www.worldofspectrum.org to get utilities, emulators and futher help on how to use them on its forums.

...thank you! I love it, it's so nice to play a game, rather then fight a game!

Excellent conversion.

Ethical