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Yep, that explosion looks great. Very smooth. It flows really nicely with the movement of the aircraft.

That was very helpful Memblers. I have taken on your concept for storing animation routines and I am building off of that. I am still figuring out what I can do with it. I believe it can be a very useful piece of code for managing sprite animation during gameplay too. Thanks very much for the help g...

As a follow up, I found out where my problem with the jumping was after a lot of tinkering. Memblers and tepples were correct about resetting the scroll position after writing the palette, but I also needed to clear the PPUADDR by writing 0 to it. I only realized I needed to do that after reading se...

That would explain some of the odd behavior I have seen. Thanks for clearing that up.

PH

I will check on the scrolling, from what I have seen, that seems likely. Is it a quirk of the machine that the scrolling needs to be reset all the time? I have been keeping code in separate files as you suggest. One big file quickly becomes unmanageable. I have also been using macros when appropriat...

Hi everyone I have some questions for you, but thought I should introduce myself first as I am fairly new to NES programming. I've been a fan of the system since I was a kid in the 80s. It was the first system I had, and so it holds a special place for me. I took up collecting classic video games a ...