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Bubble Bobble does a clever trick of animating the character moving between levels. It's not just for show though. It guides the player where to look at the start of the level.

Multi-cart prizes have been missed two years in a row and I don't think a multi-cart should be offered as a prize if it can't be delivered. Additionally, the website/organization has been sluggish to update. I'd like to see the rules+deadline posted in February or March, and have submissions ready t...

I was disappointed with the last two contests and their delays. The volunteers deserve cheer, but I think they have bitten off more than they can chew. My own motivation for entering is tied to my view of the contest and its prizes, which right now, is poor. I don't think I'll spend more than a few ...

I'm fine with this, but I don't think it will have much of an effect. Work often fills whatever time is allotted to complete it. You don't stop procrastination by adding extra time.

In most assemblers you would write LDA #width

I'm guessing NESASM is the same.

Wow, great little game.

Is the deadline the end of January again?

And you wouldn't just win 1st, but also 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th!

I disliked the segment because the only question to tepples was one mocking his appearance. That's disrespectful and unprofessional to me. I would feel very hurt and betrayed had it happened to me.

Sure. You can do that by incrementing a counter variable in your NMI: INC counter ; Goes in NMI Then define the glass routine like this: FlashTheGlass: LDA counter AND #%11 BNE DoneFlash INC $0212 DoneFlash: RTS Changing the AND will change the speed. If your animation has a power-of-two number of s...

DTE is cool because of how simple/small the decompressor is (like 30 lines of asm). You can also design it to be backwards-compatible with uncompressed ASCII strings, which is convenient if you need that sort of thing. Anyway, this looks cool too. I'll keep it in mind the next time I need to compres...

Everything's synced to 60 frames per second, so that won't work. Slow movement's way easier by using fixed-point ("subpixel") velocities. Instead of using 1 byte to store velocity, use 2. If you do need a delay, you must decrement the timer exactly once per frame. It's easy if you have a 'wait_for_n...

Stack tends to be better if you're calling subroutines inside the loop, otherwise variables are the way to go.

The movie, game, and NESMAKER exist to serve as self-promotion of JoeG. Like, his whole shtick is advertising himself. Which is fine. I mean, that's how you succeed in capitalism and all. But wow, I just don't find the guy genuine or talented at all. He seems like a hack to me. It's the fellows he's...

If the thread could be posted to reddit's r/politics, r/the_donald, r/shitredditsays, or r/worldpolitics, I don't want to see it here.

Are the lines parallel to the x/y axis?