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alex2 wrote:Just draw the tiles instead of making them all sprites.

If you mean draw sprite tiles, that's what I'm doing. I was just concerned about how many I had to draw.

If you mean that I should put it on a fg/bg layer, I can't.

asdf The school quarter ended and I finally have time to get back to work on this. I spent part of the day making another frame for the portal using paralars' method, but it didn't work out very well. Screenshot: layer2transparent.png the animation looks really jerky, and I'm just not very happy wit...

Oh, I see what you mean. Thanks! I'll try that! ;)

To maintain a small palette, use dithering! Create areas of two colors aligned in a checkered manner to make it look like a consistent area of a color inbetween (e. g. the shaded edges of my avatar) You could also use that to create a pseudo-semi-transparent glow around it, by checkering colored an...

I've been working on the opening cinematic for the final level, and one of the things involved has been a portal/wormhole-type object that moves slowly across the screen. It's essentially just a circular window that masks any layer 1 information that it covers. I set up the foreground and background...

I, for one, am digging the community's standard for long levels. Longer levels provide more of a challenge to the player, both from an endurance standpoint, and from the standpoint that it becomes harder to "memorize" the obstacles. It forces the player to rely much more on skill than on m...

MrDeePay wrote:I heard you can't save in that game- is that true?

which game? In Hydorah you can only save 3 times and in the game I suggested you have (I believe) infinite continues but no saves. I don't know about the megaman/streetfighter game.

Sebby19 wrote:I enjoyed and 100% Hydorah

what the...? how? I'm terrible at shmups, but I'm pretty sure Path of Scylla is literally impossible.

Kudos!

In other news anon bloodlust's avatar is malware. lolwut? Google chrome updated its list of malware sites to include the image host I was using from a million years ago. Which is weird, because it's not a malware site (although it is pretty shitty). I went ahead and deleted that avatar though. I'll...

So indie developer Locomalito, the guy who made Hydorah, just came out with a new freeware platformer called Maldita Castilla. It's tough as nails, but really well-made and worth taking a look at. It's more or less a love letter to the old ghouls and ghosts type games, so if you try it expect to die...

This is the funniest smw-related thing I've seen happen in a very long time.

So now that Addmusic 5 is not coming out, there's probably no way that the sound effect detuning bug is going to be resolvable in the final level's song. For those of you who don't know what that is, the sound channels that the SNES normally uses get can be tuned using certain commands in a songs co...

Just wanted to mention that there isn't a boss in the final final level. If someone want's to make one that's fine with me, but they should probably talk to me first so it fits thematically and aesthetically.

If not, the level is really neat by itself, and I have no doubt people will enjoy it.

Since I've been kinda silent on this forum for a while, I figured I'd just give a small update as to how the final level is going. In terms of the level itself, the major milestones left for me to cover are music insertion, background insertion, and fixing one final bug with one of my asm gimmicks ....

Wyatt wrote:You can PM me the midi.

I already started the txt file. It's pretty much tuned. it's just the precision stuff that I need help with. Making sure the $EE $xx values are correct (they should all be within about $10 of their 'correct' values)

so uh, I've got the midi finished for the final final level. The song intentionally mucks around with it's tuning resulting in a bunch of semi-tones. Add a whole bunch of volume slides and vibratos and this is looking messy. Is there anyone out there with perfect pitch who wouldn't mind helping out...

so uh, I've got the midi finished for the final final level. The song intentionally mucks around with it's tuning resulting in a bunch of semi-tones. Add a whole bunch of volume slides and vibratos and this is looking messy.

Is there anyone out there with perfect pitch who wouldn't mind helping out?

So me and limepie came up with a pretty awesome way to free up 95% of my reserved slots while still keeping my level attached to a2mt. However, getting it to work is going to take some massive amounts of programming. If anyone would be willing to help me trudge through this I'd really appreciate it....

Not explicitly the Talkhaus IRC but close enough 10:11 <Lexie>I'm not asking you to tell me what it's "like" 10:12 <Lexie>Tell me what it does 10:12 <Lexie>Explicitly 10:12 <jesus>okay 10:12 <Lexie>You're interrupting my Crackeding so this had better be good 10:13 <jesus>so once you collec...

By using a level comparison: org !AddressToHijack JML Code org !Freespace Code: REP #$10 LDA $010B CMP !YourLevel BNE Return SEP #$10 <code> Return: SEP #$10 <restoration code> right, but don't I have to hijack all of those addresses from my code? Do I just do this for every one? Also, what goes in...

For funky hitbox, it might be easiest to put a couple of rectangular hitbox areas along the edge of whatever the thing is (and maybe define a point past the right/left of it as one big "take damage" area). If you write your own slim hit detection routine that ignores everything about inte...

Well, I checked your thread on SMWC, and I still kinda don't know what you're trying to do exactly. If you want a tidal wave type thing to chase the player, I don't know why you need windowing. Couldn't you just say use layer 3 in additive mode with tidal tiles on it? I mean, usually windowing is c...

so I spent like 9 hours today teaching myself windowing, and I'm 90% of the way done with 1 of those two major ASM things. Unfortunately, the last %10 is where I am now stuck if anyone really, REALLY good at ASM wouldn't mind helping out (not coding, just explaining what final steps to take in my al...

I'm 2 major asm things away from being done with my level. If anyone with windowing or advanced layer 3 knowledge would be willing to help out I'd really appreciate it.

Here is something tide.png I've just finished it, so I can't tell if it's any good yet. Turns out it's hard to convey a look of flowing water in a static image, you didn't say anything about animation frames, so I assume it's just a moving image. are you kidding me?! That's freaking amazing! thank ...