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Well I apparently remembered to clear sprites for the credits screen, but forgot to do it for the title screens. Here's a fixed version.

Issues I found in the latest beta (this was all in Nintendulator) 1) There's some extra gray pixels in the upper left corner on I Wanna Flip The Sky's title screens 2) The instructions for I Wanna Flip The Sky leave out the select button (not really a big deal though) 3) I get some graphical bugs in...

Also, there is a request to add I Wanna Flip the Sky as #16. I can add it now if the author clarifies whether he needs royalties, but it can always go in volume 2. I just wanted to make sure I understood the agreement between the game authors. So it sounds like this is basically a community fundrai...

On some of the harder/longer levels (like the wall-jumping stage (was that the one called Jacob's Ladder?)) I think it would have been nice with checkpoints halfway through, so you don't have to start from the beginning all the time. I was thinking about adding a cruel mode, where death sent you ba...

Thanks everyone who tried it out! Some things feel weird, such as walking in the opposite direction on a conveyor belt, because the character's speed is the exact same as the speed of the conveyor belt. It would look more natural if the player moved slightly faster, so that he'd still move forward, ...

I Wanna Flip The Sky is a game I threw together for the NEO Flash contest. It's a platformer along the lines of I Wanna Be The Guy, Battle Kid, etc. In each level you're trying to reach the exit door while avoiding traps like spikes and conveyor belts. The trick is you can flip gravity a limited num...

You can point him to my old, not quite finished shooter Wraith: http://www.nesdev.com/incoming/wraith-v0.5.zip Also GemVenture: beta is here http://www.pdroms.de/files/2172/ , finished version available here (cartridge only) http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=30&products_id=92 Brief inst...

I still use CodeWarrior for my text editing needs. Old habits die hard.

Slightly off topic: which Mac NES emulators are good for debugging? Are they still being updated? I haven't found any, and mostly use Nestopia. I think I tried getting FCEUX running under Wine once, but didn't have much success. I managed to get the linux version of FCEUX installed, but didn't real...

Is anyone here developing exclusively on a Mac? If so, could you point me toward the tools you use? I don't work exclusively on Mac, but probably the majority of my time is spent there. I use p65 for an assembler and Tile Molester for chr editor, both of which I also use on Windows. If you use Tile...

These look amazing. Another minor correction: the main character in Bionic Commando isn't Super Joe; Super Joe is the guy you rescue.

I think it's highly dependent on the game. GemVenture is closer to method 2, and another puzzle game I've considered would probably use something like method 1. GemVenture actually treats moving gems and non-moving gems in totally different ways, so you could consider it using both method 1 and 2.

It basically describes that I've meant under words 'a general VRAM update system'. Is there actual games that uses this method? GemVenture uses a similar system, as do my other works in progress. Wraith also used such a system, but it was much cruder. My understanding is that BattleToads also used ...

You can show off the beta version of GemVenture (http://www.pdroms.de/files/2172/download/).

tepples wrote:Then the shell casing should be a separate sound effect that starts when the animation starts.

That'll work sometimes, but other times it won't be convenient. If you had the sound of the gunfire and the shell casing as a single recording, for instance.