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Why limit yourself to 4bit channels? 7bit+7bit=8bit. Or 6bit+6bit+6bit+6bit=8bit. I mean, that assumes you don't want to waste cycles on clipping detection. You're not multiplying a 4bit channel with another channel; you're accumulating them. Unless I missed something here, and you want to use 4bit ...

Very nice. So when's the next demo gonna be released???

Ouu.. this is a sore topic. I hope I don't catch any flack for this ;>_>

Currently, C (small C) completely SUCKS on the PC-Engine. Not only are a lot of functions ridiculously slow (both internal to the compiler and to the external library. And it's in ASM!) - comes with a lot of limitations. And ...

Some NES games are like this as well (I think the first SMB game is like this).

15, 980Kb? I'm assuming you mean ram. I can't imagine the code/decompressor taking up that much rom space. It's no where near that on the 65x version for code length.

I've used aplib, packfire, and pucrunch for 65x and they are all within range of each other. I was working on an 8k compo and ...

Well, the Genesis/Megadrive only has four 16 color subpalettes. That's for both BG and Sprite data to use. So, the more subpalettes you reserve for this effect, the less you have for sprites and such.

One option is to have a single 16 color subpalette for the main sprite. Be sure to include a few ...

You can clip the tilemap to 63 tiles vertical using fine scroll option in the scroll table and repositioning the screen for a force wrap (it's commonly done on other systems).

As for horizontal clip to 63 tiles, it really depends on what you're trying to do. If scrolling (assuming it does since ...

Thabks a lot Gmaniac for explanation.

I knew I had no much chance to do it... I need to collect these kind of infos before starting to plan my palettes and tiles because I need to optimize them with what I know I'm able to do...

This trick would have been to make some kind of lightning ...

Heh. Chris Covell made an Axelay demo too, a few years back. You can see it in the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-YSnIDsz5U
(starting at 9:50)

It was the song speed effect - the original code didn't support beats per minute, so I added in some code. I was pretty proud of it - it was simple and compact... and the source of the problem. So I gave in and went to look how everyone else handles bpm; turns out, they DON'T! In every other player ...

You can always look at Milkytracker's source code.

For my MOD player wip, I used a number of docs (one was particularly great) - but I always ended up testing the effects directly in milkytracker and comparing them to my player. MOD format has sooo many of "start on tick 0" and "start on tick 1 ...

Very cool Would there be any possible way for the 'doubled' scanlines to show at half intensity? Give it a scanline effect?

Open up the exe in a hex editor and look for ascii characters. You'll find directive keywords in there.

If the CD audio tracks are not loaded, it won't work. Shouldn't be any problem if all the files are named correctly, though.

Thank you. That was the problem. I had the file names correct (and no other files in the directory), but that didn't seem to work. Kmod doesn't support CUE loading. I just ...

Hey Stef,

I enabled it, but it didn't change anything.

Edit: If I press start and a bunch of other buttons while the intro is loading, I can get it to skip to the title screen and enter the game. But once it enters the game and after the dialog text, glitches from there (can't control the main ...