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Have you found a way to do "mod 384" faster than doing a division? Since MD horizontal resolution is 320, not a n^2 number, the closest bigger computer friendly number is 384 (256+128). 512 is too big. As you may know having this kind of number helps a lot in computation, in this case when trying to...

Remember the golden rule of sales. If it can't be pirated within 3 months, you've buffered yourself against the worst of piracy. That's because they expect to do most of the sales within 3 months. Currently for games coming from a big inversion is more likely a week, they expect to do 50% of the sa...

How much would going the full bore, and adding a CPU and/or soundchip the game is dependent on onto the cartridge on deter piracy? Of course, that makes manufacturing and design a whole lot more expensive. :lol: That seems to me the best solution, a chip that is used all the time along the game mak...

Eh, it wouldn't be particularly expensive to include a small ARM core with a secure key area The VDP can be accessed directly from cartridge lines ? From the case of SVP I suppose the answer is no. If it's the case it becomes a mess, and still the amount of data transferable is limited by the 68K.

Makes sense: NES doesn't have enought memory to do a modifiable map much larger than an screen. But instead this games changes powers every level, for example.

I already know how to detect between emulators and real hardware. Now I need to detect between copiers and the real cartridge.

Should I relay in additional hardware inside the cartridge, or could be a software technique to detect it ? What do you think?

A better game? :D Well, it still needs some balancing. It's seriously unfair where they can not only shoot through each other to get you, but only have to hit you once... this game would frustrate the hell out of me. There are better ways! For what I can see movement and shooting is random. You can...

Dont really see the point in being able to scroll faster than 1 pixel for this game. I don't know the specifics of you game, but one of the big reason that games becomes boring is repetitiveness, both for gamers and developer. Is like playing the same song over and over for months, you will end hat...

Chilly Willy,
that's extremely common in 16bit games, simply there is not enough cpu power. Do, since there is only a few shoots and foes in this game it can be done. But, what do you gain by doing so?

If you do a search over internet (not only MD) you will find is easy to start developing a video game, there are tens of thousands of on going developing games, but is extremely hard to finish it, judging for the very few tens which are finished. And most of them are just games highly based on other...

In the 90's developing teams were in the very few tens at most, with light teams you can go nuts in programming excellence since organization is easy. But now, with thousands you need more strict rules to make it go forward. HardCorps' programmer said in an interview that, after the game had been pl...

What others said is really the proper way to do it. About the jump you mentioned, I can't see it on screen with the rom you provided, but any way, this is probably due you do a similar process: 1) Copy sprites on VRAM 2) Update sprites and scroll position 3) Scroll is updated at Vblank inside VDP (d...

Chilly Willy wrote: ↑

Wed Jul 12, 2017 6:34 pm

Maybe, but it's the first time I've seen it, so it's new to me.

I was talking to SegaTim. Sorry about the confusion.

Belive me that's not the end of it, not even close.

¿What happens when you reach the limit of the level?

Same video, if I'm not mistaken.