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It also seems to imply the trees are either sparsely populated or that the scenario is situated just at the edge of a forest, but you could, if you wanted to, work around that by criscrossing parts of the foreground with shadows from objects not seen in front of the camera but are casting shadows t...

Update! https://i.imgur.com/FqY74aW.png https://i.imgur.com/seA5MTS.png I tweaked the color for the tree bark to help it stand out against the dirt. Making the canopy has been a huge challenge; I had to try several different methods before I got to one that felt passable. Even now, I feel like I nee...

dougeff wrote: Find the music data, and just corrupt it and see what happens.

Do it! DO IT!!!!

The colors are a bit boring. If you must use the same palette for trees and ground, maybe it would help to use fewer bright pixels for trees, to get some more contrast between trees and ground. The trees are a different color from the ground, but yeah, they look very similar. The colors aren't real...

Uhg, it's taken me three months but I'm finally able to work on this again.
Here's some trees, or at least some bark.

93143 wrote:
Perhaps their relationship with Rare was so good because Rare didn't do that...

That made me laugh. Thank you.

So I already knew I wasn't going to have much time these last couple weeks, so I decided to make some water instead of starting on the trees. Here's a sample with a water tile: https://i.imgur.com/5qop4c7.png And here it is a detail with the water animated: https://i.imgur.com/o9mzCtd.gif It uses th...

I'm working on a forest scene. I've only got the dirt tiles made so far, but I'm sharing it because I'd like some feedback. Please critique it openly; I welcome all feedback. Tell me what's wrong; make me cry. I already see dozens of errors, but I've been staring at it too long so I can't tell what ...

Ahh, I see my mistake now. Although it can share data with the background, there is still only 16K that can be used as sprites. Wait, does that really come out to only two banks of 256 tiles? That's only double what the NES can store; that's outrageous. How did even half the games I've played even f...

They both are looking at the same amount of memory for sprites ...no? The SNES can only address 16 KB of sprite tile data at a time. Mid-frame OBSEL writes are very difficult to use for anything other than faking a BG layer with sprites, because of how hard it is to make sure the data you want is a...

So from looking at the stats, the SNES seems to beat the Genesis in terms of sprites. But there's one thing I'm still left to wonder. Why then, was it so much more common to see things built out several smaller sprites on the Genesis than the SNES? Was this just a style thing? Or was there some othe...

Genesis: 64 KiB; always shared with background Super NES: 16 KiB out of 64 KiB; can optionally be changed mid-screen or shared with background That sounds needlessly complicated without offering any real advantages. If the SNES can just operate with 64 KiB shared with the background, why would you ...

I was thinking about 16-bit systems lately, which mostly comes down to the SNES versus the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. And today, actually I was just thinking about rendering sprites. Wasn't that one of the categories where Sega beat Nintendo hands down? Or was it not so hands-down, or am I mistaken en...

I've tried redrawing the sprite using some earlier sketches as a reference.
Not really sure if I like this version better.

I've been working on some pixel art for a character, roughly following some 16-bit guidelines. I feel like increasing the resolution to 40 pixels high helped out a lot compared to my earlier version , but I feel like this is still not up to par. I appreciate any feedback. Be critical. Rip my work to...