Sounds good, nice to be able to get hold of the programmers 😀

I believe KS2 is the best version of KS1. Basically if you equip KS1 with WIFI, enough RAM, upgrade the firmware and the NextBasic versions to latest, then it should in theory run the same as a KS2.

ps. Kevin replied on my bug reports in itch.io, he said he's going to look into the issues soon and also invited me to look into to code myself 😅
What I got from his answers is that there was bug in NextBasic 2.06 and below that got fixed, which lead to different behavior. And also NextBasic 2.08 runs a bit faster, which Kevin sees as a good thing as now he can throw more stuff in, but he needs to work on the timing of things as his older scrolling games do pretty weird things right now.

That would be an interesting feature yes. I’m no expert on all this stuff, sadly, can it happen that KS1 Next at some point can’t be upgraded to run stuff made on and for KS2 stuff? That would be horrible 😔

I suppose you could downgrade, but why would you want to, cause then you break compatibility with newer stuff. If the guy is not updating his stuff and we really like a game, then I might have a look at his code. He said himself everyone should feel free to play around with it. it's only basic so it's pretty accessible too. I don't rule out the possibility of having our very own lvlupscore versions of his games on the site here or something.. That would be a cool addition to lvlupscore I suppose. And help everyone play these games on their upgraded Nexts.. Win Win... But first let see what Kevin does in the coming months :P

Will he update it? Would have been wonderful if they had forseen this, and you could get the Next to boot with different versions. Don’t know if it would be possible to keep older versions, and then boot them. Never been much into programming and that stuff. Is it possible to go back to older versions, probably, but that would be a pain 😩

Digging more into Kevin's free NextBasic games; especially his older ones are bound to have all kinds of little issues with timing and in 1 case even collision detection issues. The issue according to Kevin himself, at least for one very much broken game, is that the game is compatible with NextBasic version v2.06, but for v2.07 and up, the game needs patching indeed.

The KS2 boots up with v2.08, so if they've been breaking certain compatibility in their Basic then yeah, these things happen. Suppose after upgrading the KS1 it'll be same story. Bit of a shame. Reminds me of what was happening on the MEGA65 when I was active with that one a year ago. Kernel updates would also break things. Suppose that is the state with these lovely machines for now, as they are under heavy development still

Will probably need an update for KS2 :-(

I wonder how the game is running on your KS1 machine today Frankie? On KS2 the scrolling speed seems to be all over the place. It's very hard to play atm. Already left a note on itch.io to the developer about it. Just wondering if KS1 machines are fine though

Yes on all

Hardware checked, game checked, gameplay checked, score checked, initials checked.

Voting yes.