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Thanks Stef,
I'm glad to know it's at least possible!
I'll continue to make my engine in the background. Thanks for everything you continue to do with SGDK.

Hi Stef (and others!)

Just a question, when I make multiple xgms for use with SGDK, which all use the same rhythm drum kit pcm sound effects, and I combine them as assets into my ROM, do the PCM sound effects only take up space once in the ROM, or does each song have it's own instance of the PCM ...

Hmm I seem to remember reading somewhere that if the Master System video mode was sacrificed, there would be enough CRAM available for more palettes, or something similar to that. Never mind!

And I definitely wouldn't want to sacrifice 320px wide mode - that is one of the killer advantages the MD ...

I wish wish wish wish the Mega Drive had the things on Stef's list.
My order would be:
1) 4 palettes for BG, 4 palettes for Sprites.
2) RGB444
3) 128KB VRAM

1 Is the most tragic, as it could theoretically be achieved for free, as ob1 mentioned.
From what I understand, 2 could have been achieved by ...

That looks awesome.
I am most of the way through writing a scripting engine in my Mega Drive engine in C and the designer for Windows in C#.
Yours looks far more elegant than mine! Great job.

Congratulations on finishing your game!

I've been working on my engine, tilemapper and management interface for the last year.
I've almost finished the text display part now, so its very slow (but enjoyable!) going.

Hi Stef,
Thanks for your help with this.
I have just upgraded the SDK to the latest version you have just released with the new GCC!

The problem was indeed I was out of memory.

I didn't think it could be possible at first, since my project is so simple.

However I dug deeper, seeing that I was ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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).