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Has anybody ever spent time trying to disassemble and figure out the inner workings of shmups for NES? Like Gradius or Lifeforce. Or even SNES/Genesis/arcade shmups. I'm curious as to how they packed level data and enemy placements and how object management was done.

thanks!
djcc

There is galaxian: http://www.romhacking.net/documents/617/

djcouchycouch wrote:I'm curious as to how they packed level data and enemy placements and how object management was done.

I don't have any actual info, but for an auto-scrolling level that's only 1 screen tall, all of that must be extremely straightforward.