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The comparison with PCE is funny too,because the autor seems to mean that the SMS can have some advantages over the PCE, even on the CPU side,saying that the Z80 can be assimiled to a 8/16 bits CPU and the PCE one is a 8 bits only. Frankly the PCE destroy the SMS in every possible way,the only commo...

I 'am impressed by the size of your music files .
Keep the .it format for later, have support for .mod and .xm is already great IMO

'm not talking about 8-pixel sprites. I'm talking about slivers, which are single-line tile slices. Ah ok, it was in the sprites caracteristics, this is why i misunderstood,because for me it's obvious that a tiles based system, can fill the entire screen width with tiles,and i did not see the point...

@93143: Your Md's 8-pixel slivers per line are false .
The sprite limits are:
in H32 : 16 sprites or 256 pixels sprites
in H40 : 20 sprites or 320 pixels sprites

It's impossible to fill an entire line with 8 pixels sprites only, because you reach the sprites number limit first .

Thus in conclusion: let me know when you work for a game company that has strict deadlines, is responsible for a console launch title, with only limited documentation provided by the console manufacturer. "Coded with ass". Of course, I agree, but if you put an inexperienced coder on a processor tha...

incredible, thanks for the link .

I was sure this game was coded with the ass, now it's confirmed .

psycopathicteen wrote:The guy who started the project found out that the bubbles in stage 2 use a grid for collision instead of using circular collision.

Do you mean that the collisions used several boxes for each bubble ?

I'm interested in using this program for SNES graphics, but mainly for PCE as well, as there aren't a lot of good tilemap optimizing programs for the PCE/Turbografx. To that end, is 16 subpalettes possible in your program, or is the default of 8 the maximum option? You already have a similar tool f...

A thunder spirit patch which removes all the slowdowns would be good too .

The easiest way to render this is to use 2 frames, as there is only 2 frames of animation you can switch between the both by changing only the vertical scrolling(you make 2 pictures of 256x224 pixels,one for each animation) . Alternate the scrolling between 0 and 224 with a frame counter will doing ...

Why did you choose UFTC ??,because if you want a fast streaming decompression, you should try LZ4 instead .
https://www.brutaldeluxe.fr/products/cr ... index.html

UFTC is fast to decompress, but it seems limited in some types of data,and not well suited for bitplane graphics .

hibber22 wrote:I know super mario world has an sa-1 patch that improves frame rate and performance, fastrom isn't the only solution.

The spectacular thing is the game benefits of huge enhancement in term of speed and stuffs on screen, and only with a patch,without using the SA-1 specificities.

BTW your PCE version of Journey to Silius is incredible

I found this newspaper article from 1984 and it says the 68000 was only $15. If that's the case how cheap was it in 1990, and how much money did Nintendo really save by using a custom 65816? https://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/29/business/motorola-s-powerful-new-chip.html I really doubt that the 68k wa...

Ideally i would stay with as much C code as possible (90%) and only put assembly on critical sections (10% at most) when i need it, and I think that is possible even with an average C compiler. Why would do need C specifically ? You could just as well code 90% in any other language and the critical...