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Found it! :D For any other noobies that might see this, this is the way to do it if you're using asm68k: BiggerText: DC.B 'Hi this is a text with more lines',$0D DC.B "It's quite handy writing these lines in the editor",$0D DC.B "Here's just one more line for good measure",$0D,$03 EVEN ;;; << Ensure...

Hey all, I'm making a simple tic-tac-toe game for the megadrive just to kinda get to know the system. I was working on a function that would display a block of text so I typed up this: BiggerText: DC.B 'Hi this is a text with more lines',$0D DC.B "It's quite handy writing these lines in the editor",...

Hi all! I had a passionate (but friendly) discussion with a friend a few days ago about how to approach learning a new programming language or any topic for that matter. Our big disagreement was on the amount of preparation before jumping in. He argued it's better to first read up on everything as m...

I'd go for the scrolling shooter idea.
I think it gives you the most creative freedom and also the ability to quickly add ideas in there,
if that makes sense.

The best of luck to you and your dad!

I'll update this post soon for people who would like to see. :) I missed this the first time around, but I played through it just now, and survived! It's got a cool little atmosphere, and I like that the puzzles (and, more specifically, their solutions) actually make sense. It's got a great vibe! C...

I'm not sure if I understand well what you're doing, but you're supposed to set all 64 hardware sprites to some value every frame. Unused sprites usually go in the $f0-$ff range for vertical position. You're not supposed to use the sprite X/Y coordinates from shadow OAM as actual game values. Of co...

I also noticed in that debugger that none of the zeropage variables are using zeropage addressing mode (STA $003A instead of STA $3A). So they're all 1 byte larger and 1 cycle slower, it could be running slower than you expected. If you're using the NESASM assembler, you have to specifically type "...

Found it! :D You were right, the nmi wasn't done before the next nmi was triggered. (There should be a name for this) I did store the registers but made the big error to first jsr to a function. I probably put it there late one evening when I wasn't thinking right. :lol: :oops: https://i.imgur.com/8...

Hi all, I have this very annoying bug that I can't find the cause of for the life of me. When the character reaches the right of the screen I disable sprite rendering, delete all sprites except for the character, load the new screen and put the character on the left of the screen. This works 85% of ...

Sprite 0 has no associated interrupt. The only thing you can do to run code at the exact time you want with it is if you "lock" the CPU in a loop that checks the flag continuously (called polling) and then exits when it sees that the bit has gone to 1. This means you can not do anything else until ...

I'd place sprite 0 around x0 and y52 so it will set the flag when the beam is around the last 5th of the screen. Also note that as there are 200+ horizontal lines in a screen, putting sprite 0 at y=52 place it nearer to the top of the screen, rather than around the last 5th of it (note that during ...

Thanks! That pretty much explains everything.

Good day all, I was reading up on the sprite 0 flag and immediately a few questions started popping up in my head. When an nmi hits: 0. update color palates and background tiles if necessary. (still in vblank) 1. Do the sprite DMA. (still in vblank) 2. Read controllers. 2. update game. 3. update mus...

Great minor project and an awesome first game! I survived and I really like the game. I enjoyed graphics especially the demon statue is quite badass. I like the vibe of the game. What sound enginee did you use? Thank you! :mrgreen: I use Shiru's famitone2. The game actually grew a fair bit since I ...

Excellent work! Reminded me of Sweet Home for the Famicom. I love how unique it feels compared to other games on the system. I would happily shell out for a full game on cartridge if you ever get to it! As others have said, I think some of the "hit boxes" for triggering interactions were a little t...