Ultimate Tapan Kaikki

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👉 The original README.TXT can be found as README.ORIG.TXT.

This is the legendary 90s game Ultimate Tapan Kaikki, ported to SDL2. It runs at least on macOS, Linux, FreeBSD and Windows.

The port is maintained by the Suomipelit organization, whose mission is to archive, port, and maintain classic Finnish freeware and shareware games. Feel free to join the Suomipelit Slack too!

Key bindings

Player 1 and 2 game controls can be customized under OPTIONS -> PLAYER OPTIONS -> DEFINE KEYS 1/2.

Game controllers are also supported but buttons need to be configured in options before playing. No more than two controllers are recognized at the same time. Analog inputs or navigating in menus is not currently supported.

Other than player keys are hard-coded.

Note: Some Apple keyboards don't have a right ctrl key. If you have such a keyboard, you have to change the player 1 shoot key before playing.

Moving in menus

Player 1 game controls

When playing solo, you can use grave (left of 1), 1 ... 9, 0, and minus (right of 0) to select the corresponding weapon. Grave selects fist, 1 selects pistola, 2 selects shotgun, etc.

Player 2 game controls

Miscellaneous game controls

Shop controls

Differences compared to the original game

This port is based on hkroger's published original sources at https://github.com/hkroger/ultimatetapankaikki. Those sources are for v1.2 beta, whereas the latest published version of the game is v1.21, also called TK321 (the released zipfile's name was TK321.zip).

We've fixed all the bugs and differences between v1.2 beta and v1.21.

Changes required to port the game:

• When starting the game, it runs in a window. You can change to full screen and with left alt + return.

• Networking on native versions is now based on TCP/IP, originally it used IPX. When joining a network game, there's a new screen that allows typing the server address. Port is 8099.

• Networking on web version is based on WebRTC. All currently active games are visible in server list. List is provided by lobby server.

• In-game screenshots are saved in BMP format as opposed to original PCX format.

New features:

• Pressing Esc in episode selection menu goes back to main menu.

• Pressing Shift + Esc anywhere in the game quits immediately.

• Game controller support.

• Setting the environment variable TK_MUTE_MUSIC mutes all music. Useful if you like your Tapan Kaikki with your favorite mixtape.

• You can use the -e command line parameter to immediately jump into single-player game in the given episode. This works with the -l switch too. Mostly useful for development, of course.

• Setting the environment variable TK_SKIP_LEVEL_INFO will skip the screen that appears at the start of each level. Useful for impatient developers.

• Name is not cleared if pressing ESC in name prompt.

• Player name is prompted if starting or joining to network game with default name.

• Text chat in multiplayer games with Return key.

• Text input fields support copy-paste (Ctrl + c/v)

• Number of players on a server is shown on server list

• Online game name can be set in multiplayer options. It defaults to player name.

Bugfixes:

• Many memory leaks and buffer overflows have been fixed.

• Many places in menus caused a high CPU load because of busy loops waiting for something. These have been fixed.

• Fixed player name changing to only accepts a-z and 0-9, space and .. Originally it accepted any keypress and produced a space for characters not available in the font.

• Clients now monitor server connection and quit to main menu if the server crashes.

• Player names and colors were mixed up in split screen mode.

• Empty player name is not allowed.

Building from source

Requirements:

• CMake
• C++ compiler: At least gcc, clang and Visual Studio are supported
• Libraries: SDL2, SDL2_mixer, SDL2_image, SDL2_net
  • On macOS, you can install these with Homebrew. brew install sdl2 sdl2_mixer sdl2_image sdl2_net
  • On Windows you can download these from SDL website

Building:

cmake .
cmake --build .

On Window, this produces GAME.EXE which you can run. On other systems, the name of the executable is tk3.

On Windows, you may need to explicitly specify paths to your SDL libraries, like

cmake -DSDL2_PATH="C:\\<path>\\SDL2-2.0.9" -DSDL2_MIXER_PATH="C:\\<path>\\SDL2_mixer-2.0.4" -DSDL2_IMAGE_PATH="C:\\<path>\\SDL2_image-2.0.4" -DSDL2_NET_PATH="C:\\<path>\\SDL2_net-2.0.1" .

which produces project files for 32-bit target. For 64-bit target, use e.g. cmake -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64".

On browser:

Emscripten JavaScript/WebAssembly build for browsers is also supported. You can try it live here.

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=<path to>/emsdk/upstream/emscripten/cmake/Modules/Platform/Emscripten.cmake .
cmake --build .

For best performance it is recommended to build with -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release.

It might be easiest to run local HTTP server with Python

python -m http.server

and opening the game with supported browser at http://localhost:8000/ultimatetapankaikki.html.

Building releases

• Linux: Run ./pkg/build-deb.sh to build a .deb (Docker is required)
• Windows: TBD (probably using cpack somehow)
• macOS: Run ./pkg/build-macos.sh to build a .dmg

Releases

Version 3 - 2020-11-08

Network game not compatible with version 2!

• Web port
• Network gaming changes
  • Text chat with Return key
  • Fixed joining with cooperative mode as active
  • Fixed kill messages
  • Fixed frag count in some cases
  • Fixed missing smoke and spot light effects on clients
  • Increased network code execution frequency
  • Show number of players on server list
  • Reduced keep-alive messages
  • Add game name option to multiplayer options
• Fixed a memory leak in sound resampling
• Fixed minor buffer overflow with sprite loading
• Fixed a local deathmatch crash if playing with enemies
• Fixed empty name input
• Avoid unnecessary screen drawing
• Copy-paste support to text input fields

Version 2 - 2019-02-04

• Fixed bug #131: Small sprites (crosshair, bomb, mine) were not being visible in the port. They worked fine in the original version.

Version 1 - 2019-01-28

• Initial release