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Thanks for the tip Doug, that seems to be a useful trick. I'm not sure I really understand how exactly this would be applied though. If you can provide some additional details about how it would be used it could help me better understand. I've made some progress - I can now read the contents of the ...

As a learning exercise I'm trying to make a Tetris clone. I had been going through some tutorials that got me as far as drawing background, sprites, and taking controller input. I applied this info in making a background to show the play area. Due to the limitations of number of onscreen sprites, my...

Just wanted to post an update, I incorporated the feedback to differentiate between buttons that are pressed vs buttons that are held. I'm trying to mimic the "delayed auto shift" mechanic from Tetris, so in addition to that I also keep track of whether the D-Pad button has been held long ...

Thanks I'll give it a shot tonight! One question though - if the user is holding down the d-pad wouldn't lines 4 and 5 reset the counter to zero before the increment happens on lines 6 and 7 each time the subroutine is called? If so I can figure out logic to prevent that, I just want to make sure I'...

I made some good progress tonight. I set it up so the up button has the kind of movement I want. I'm trying to do something similar to Tetris where the piece will move one square when pressing direction key, then pause slightly, then continue a sustained movement if you keep holding the button down....

Thanks, changing to constants solved the problem. I had thought I was using the right addressing mode, I guess I'll need more hands on practice to really understand them though. I'll keep plugging away tomorrow

Thanks everyone for the feedback and info. I feel like I'm learning a lot but not quite there yet. I'm attempting to rework the controller logic to be consistent with the first basic example in the controller reading wiki article. The work in progress I have can be found here: https://github.com/bus...

I've finished going through some basic tutorials and am trying to move beyond them. I've been following this tutorial for reading user input: http://thevirtualmountain.com/nes/2017/04/12/reading-controller-input.html The tutorial demonstrates how to read d-pad input to move some sprites one pixel at...