Altered Beast 1.0 features are:
Complete conversion, from the animated opening screen to the game ending.
It is a "file" version. That is: it will run from disk or hard disk.
Compatible with any MSX computer (including MSX 1.0 with slow VDP, which was not correctly supported by the original cassete version).
Palette specially designed when running on MSX2 or better computers, based on Cool Colors palette.
Return to the game start screen when the game is won.
Compatible with any MSX-DOS version (from 1.0 to 2.4).
"Full" speed (= Spectrum) when running on 7MHz (or faster) computers.
The minimum requirements for any MSX are 64Kbytes RAM, 16KBytes VRAM and DOS 1.x.
The recommended equipment is: MSX2 running at 7MHz (or more), 128Kbytes RAM, 16KBytes VRAM, DOS 2.x and HardDisk.
I am thinking to add the following features:
Scoreboard improvement, adding more energy blocks.
Colision system improvement, making the game easier.
Dynamic palette on the stages (MSX2 computers).
Improvements that will not be:
Adition of original Spectrum sound scores (even using CD).
New graphic colorization.
The use of sprites on the main character.