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DRW wrote:The sprite still has very little to do with the artwork in the cutscene.

Cutscene: Fanservice-y sexy witch. Huge hair. Firm ass. Mini dress. Boots.

Sprite: Looking like a five year old girl in one-piece pajamas.

And?

I can't convince you that i'm right but you will never made my mind change about that too and honestly i think we all don't care. That's because your whole view stems from a 68k centric perspective. Until you adapt a more holistic perspective, you'll always have that bias and preconceptions. I like...

(EDIT: to make it clear, 256×256 possible values would require 64K entries... if one of those values has a larger range, the table starts becoming really big) Wouldn't that be 128kbyte (because the element size would be WORD?). Oh sorry i can't let pass that... Do you in fact understand how hardwar...

No SPC700 or 64KB of audio ram, just have the 65816 handle audio... Considering how much the 65c816 is criticized for not being fast enough, I cannot imagine how poor it'd be at rendering audio. The 16 MHz ARM on the GBA is already the bare minimum, and most games have audio engines of poor quality...

tepples wrote:One might say C or C++ feels to an assembly-first programmer the way Haskell feels to a C or C++-first programmer.

That makes me want to learn Haskell even more. (Seriously)

Then it's hats off, that's one of the hardest ways to start. I had messed with Basic when I was 10, but when I decided to learn Real(tm) programming, I thought I'd go to the deep end and start with C instead of python, java or C#. The "I have to do WHAT to make a simple operation work" fa...

devmas wrote: Push addresses to a stack, goto somewhere, then pop addresses to "return" to and goto that...

That's called a function.

What year was this? Hudson/NEC started working on the Arcade Card for the PCE CD in late '92. That was 2304k if ram (18 megabits, 16megabits of it was DRAM). It was supposed to be released late '93, but delayed until early-mid '94.

Unless you're doing something small like a 64k PRG project, I think temples method works fine. Size shouldn't be that much of an issue. Megaman games use tepples method (every 8x8 cell inside the meta sprite frame has it's own x/y/flip/pal attributes). Tepples' method can also save some potential cp...

A user wants to use an NES debugger on a 64-bit Linux PC but refuses to use any non-free software out of principle and refuses to install any 32-bit free software (such as FCEUX for Windows in Wine) out of fear that the 32-bit support libraries will take several gigabytes and "hav[ing] better ...

Speaking of NTSC color artifacts: PC-Engine demo by Chris Covell http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g51QqurGqg0

7.159mhz dot clock mode used, dot crawl filter turned off (no cycling per frame-to-frame difference).

I wrote a quick XM Player for PCE (missing a lot of FX) using the PCM Driver. Here are some rom examples: http://www.pcedev.net/XMPlay/XMPlay_Pack1.zip http://www.pcedev.net/XMPlay/HuXMPlay_Pack2.zip The samples playing higher than 2x the driver really get crushed. No post processing was done on the...

First public release: http://www.pcedev.net/audio/SamplePlayer/driver_package_v_1_2_0.zip (Note if you're browsing through the source files, tab = 2 spaces). Includes a pre-assembled rom. Though I don't have any good samples to demo it with. Edit: Also, it doesn't have a name yet. Not sure what to c...

writing self modifying code that needs to reside in ram (all absolute addresses have to be redefined) ca65 has a built-in feature for this purpose, i.e. a segment has a "load" address for where it will be placed, and a "run" address for where it will be executed. Yeah.. I really...

If CA65 can assemble code or data on top of an already incbin file, that there's an easy(ish) way to do this. Store all the absolute addresses as whatever (doesn't matter), and have your program output a non binary file to include with the binary file. In the supplemental file, you'll need a series ...