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Working on 1:2 resolution is weird for graphical artist, or anyone else, I have never seen do it. Pixels are not square any more.
Doubled resolution is done by interlacing images (on different lines), not sure of the result quality on 90’s phosphor tv’s.

You need twice the memory for tiles, backgrounds and sprites alike, and there is no much to start with if you use all the others planes. So it’s a case between resolutions vs diversity, where variety is already somewhat scarce. On lots of design questions memory is the underlying factor, today as ev...

As far as I know that can’t be done: the problem is that symbols '/' and '-' are interpreted as division and minus.

Very true - the C preprocessor can be run on gas files (use .S instead of .s for automatically doing so). Pragmas and defines and stuff can be used. This does make a gas assembler specific file very flexible compared to more traditional assemblers. I didn't know! investigation about to lunch. Defin...

After doing asm on several platforms I have to recommend gcc/gas. Why? Because macros are quite powerful, not perfect, but good enough to make extend programing simpler than others. (I know I touched a sensitive point, waiting for massive angry replies… ;) ) And to be honest GAS is probably the wors...

Set the exception to jump to ram, there jump again to the desired h-int routine, you can use an absolute word jump, then wrote your routine in asm. It’s important to only push/pop the registers you’re going to use if you are cpu constrained; also there is the user stack pointer (usp) so you can swap...

Let’s first agree on what’s the situation: as I understand you have a map, a 2D matrix, where each element is a metatile of 5x5 tiles. Is that correct? Something like this: struct Tile { int indexOfTileOnVRAM; int colisionResponseIndex; }; struct Metatile { Tile tiles[ 5 ][ 5 ]; }; const Metatile me...

Here is my first one. I understand we use const to save data to the rom. But if I need to have a writable version of it in runtime, is there a proper way of doing things or do I just create a new variable and copy the values from a to b? Don't do that, you're making it worst. Use "const" for data t...

Usb requires to a least to power 500 mA, but there is no upper limit. But the point of this project, I think, is to reuse old usb chargers; I don’t see the scenario were data cables will be useful.

By dynamically loading I mean that, when the sprite changes, its tiles are loaded from rom to ram the previous frame, the space of vram that occupies the sprite is always the same. The idea is to have large animations for the main character, which is the most repetitive one, so can lead to visual sa...

The 'SEGA' animation at the start generates multiple scaled copes of the logo on the CPU on start-up and animates between them. The original unscaled SEGA logo appears to be the only uncompressed graphics in the rom. For some reason I just thought of it, the sprites of the two main characters/heroe...

The most stupid optimization, but useful since can be done in lot of occasions: move.b 0xA10001, d0 and.b #0xF , d0 Optimized: moveq.l #0xF, d0 and.b 0xA10001, d0 If you are going for bit operations probably can be done. Also clears the register which perhaps is what you need.

Palettes are defined independently as 16 uncompressed colours, then referenced in palette sets which are just pointers to 4 palettes to load at once. Makes sense that way, palettes can be loaded anytime. You can compress them do, there are unused bits, but bit manipulation is not cheap at cpu level...

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You are right Eke, I thought that on cold start both z80 was stopped and without bus, so a fast position to check it, but it’s only stopped/reset. Just redid the experiment making sure the bus was acquired by the 68K and: Fusion: high byte Regen: high byte Gens KMOD: low byte MD1 Asian TMS: high byt...