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Well I made it move 8 pixels at a time and even with a delay in moving each tile, it still looks pretty smooth. It's kinda tricky to avoid it stomping around, too.

Yeah the legs are only supposed to move one at a time and I think it'd be perfectly acceptable if they move 8 pixels at a time if the movement is done quickly enough so it doesn't look jerky to the player.

infiniteneslives wrote:What if you didn't even use scrolling though?

Depending on how much detail and repetiveness was in the legs/feet seems like something the MMC2/4 could handle fairly well.

How would it be pulled off without scrolling? Moving it tile by tile?

Damn, well OK, glad I checked with you guys before I did it.

Here's a mockup image of what I meant. I need region 1 to stay put while regions 2 and 3 move around horizontally and vertically, independently of each other.

For the penultimate boss in my game, I didn't know if the idea I had would be possible because i don't know how well the NES can split up regions to scroll. I tried reading the wiki about scroll regions but I wasn't sure if I was clear on what it said. For the first part of the boss, I simply want i...

Yeah pretty much. I thought it'd be a fun little project to do where I try to keep with the NES limitations as much as possible.

Awesome! I will definitely use this effect then.

I'm trying to meticulously keep with NES limitations in my game, but I got an idea that might be a bit much for it though but I wanted to double check before I just threw the idea out the window. I know games like Rad Racer did things like this so I don't know if it's entirely impossible. I want a 2...

I suppose I'll try it with sprites first and if I get too much sprite flicker I'll just forgo the sides of the monitor.

Would I be able to have the monitor sides as tiles and smooth pixel by pixel scrolling if I made the game not draw the sides of the display of the level itself? I would be OK with horizontal scroll regions for the top and bottom of the screen where it stays in place and displays the top and bottom o...

I was wondering if it were possible on the NES to have a level that takes place on a monitor screen in game. I've included a screenshot below to clarify what I mean. http://tcrf.net/images/4/4b/GunstarGreenArenaFinal.png If not that way, is there any roundabout way to trick the NES to do it in a sim...

OK thanks, that's what I thought might be going on, but I wasn't too sure.

If any of you played and/or examined Super Mario Bros. 3, I was wondering how the game did that darkness effect on the map screen of world 8 where everything is black except a circle around Mario/Luigi.

Yeah I know 90% of people probably won't notice and I know Mega Man 9/10 would've required like 50 PPUs to work on the NES but I'm trying to keep as strictly to the NES limitations as possible as a sort of challenge to myself, partly for fun. I am trying really hard to keep in mind stuff like the ga...