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Great, thanks Stef, I'll try that out.

Hi Stef, Thanks for your reply and sorry for creating confusion, I am using a custom build process, which is calling rescomp from a c# level editor I am making. However since I didn't set the starting directory for the rescomp command window process, it was starting in C:\Windows\System32 and theref...

Yeah, I'm excited about that too - people retiring and spending time making the best games they can for vintage consoles. Kinda like the vintage motorcycle crowd.

Ok testing manually, rescomp says it can't find jarfile lz4w.jar. It exists in the SGDK\BIN directory, but I was calling it from another directory. When I called rescomp from the bin directory, it compressed successfully. So, no compression = 40kb .s file Slow = 20kb .s file Fast = 29kb .s file. The...

Hi guys, thanks for your help so far. Hmmmm I should have Java installed. Is there a particular command it is using that I can test to see if my system is configured correctly? Or is it just Java.exe? Does it need to be 32bit Java vs 64bit? With the tileset, it is 264 tiles. So 264 x 32 bytes is 844...

Hi Stef and others, I am trying to get compression to work with my engine. When I don't use compression with rescomp, everything builds fine. However, there are two separate problems with compression when I try to use it. Firstly, when I use the option for fast compression (2 / FAST / LZ4W), rescomp...

Hi Notaz,
Thanks for this!
My game is still a while away, but if I do finish it I am interested in publishing it.

With the custom cart you are developing, I assume it will have save capability in it? And what is the largest ROM size you are targeting? (hopefully 4MB will be enough for this project).

This is all exciting news, thanks all for your efforts in getting this going!

Hi Stef,
Thanks for your kind words.
Even if it is just as performant as the built in one it was a very useful exercise for me to write my own engine, and gives me more knowledge of how the system works.
Hopefully it will be more efficient for the exact games I am hoping to make too.

Hi all, Thanks for all of your helpful advice. I'm really enjoying writing this system, as frustrating as problems can be at times! Last night after work I think it's finally at 90% working stage! There was a problem where a moving sprite didn't come on screen until a bit too late, so it popped in s...

Hi Morden,
The pronounciation for the Korean word is Bah-ri-jaht

Hi Vetea, Congratulations on getting as far as you have. I watched the video and was genuinely impressed with how good the game looks and runs! I am also working on a SGDK project, and it will have sports in it as well, (although I don't know about tennis at this point - perhaps? Maybe other sports)...

Ah ok, thanks Stef for that info. It's great to know it has better performance now!

I really do like your implementation and it's flexibility.
But it's also fun to design my own, and hopefully it will be more specific to the needs of this project too.

Interesting, perhaps I am underestimating the power of Blast Processing! I heard that SGDK's internal SpriteEngine had performance issues dealing with more than 5 or 6 multi-sprites on the screen at once so I was approaching the writing of my Sprite Engine extremely carefully. It's still good to be ...

Thanks DJ, With your Goplanes implementation, you mention you only update the objects that are close to the player. How are you determining when to update them? * Are you checking each frame whether they are visible and therefore whether they need to be updated? * Are you checking only if the camera...