Posted by Thanatos-Zero

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It has been quite some time. Some of you were surely asking what happened with the Megaman Odyssey Project. It has been halted due Kujakiller's new occupation, which made him quite the workaholic. His interrests shifted and if I speak with him about our project, he doesn't want anything to do with it. All my encouragement in order to motivate him failed, but that has mostly to do with his low self-esteem and his regrets to not be able to finish it in time. Because of said regrets, he un-offically cancelled the game.

Would I have only known sooner of his project back in 2005, we would have been able to progress much faster, since I have now a bunch of new friends who would do anything for him.

Still, if you want to change Kujakiller's mind about the project, leave here a message for him. Perhaps if you all encourage him, it might move him.
I would love to continue to work for him.

@za909
We have a zombie version of the Sniper Joe in the ROM.

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Posted by Thanatos-Zero

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@Mickevincent
So, why haven't you made an account on my board yet? If you did, I would have you made a member of the team way sooner.
Still, as long as Kujakiller is too tired of the project to continue, you can only do some ground work. Ask Megaman-Omega if he has said work for you.

(Go a few pages back, my link to the board should be there)

Edit: I will not bother KK with it though, as I respect his wishes. I shall be back to support him, whenever he is ready to continue the project. I will do some ground work as well, when Megaman-Omega wishes it.

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Posted by FULMINE50

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I'm not good at making sprites, I do a copy and paste parts of sprite.
For example, for the sprite of fake Protoman, need 3 or more squares of sprites (in tile layer pro), and as you saw from the video,the sprite of f. Protoman is without arm while jumping.
Is a long time that I ask questions about how to solve the problem

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Posted by NetSplit

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Making the black at the bottom be foreground is not a correct solution. Backgrounds on the NES are not drawn in front of or behind sprites; instead, sprite tiles carry with them a priority that makes them be drawn in front of or behind the background. If you made the black a non-transparent color and made the ship be drawn behind backgrounds, it would also be drawn behind the buildings, which is certainly not what you want.

There are two correct solutions here that preserve the black bar. You can turn off sprites entirely starting after the last non-black scanline, but the timing for this may be difficult and it's possible you could get some onscreen glitchiness. Or, you can place 8 sprite tiles on each row of the black section with a draw priority higher than the ship so that the ship isn't drawn on those rows. Note, however, that many emulators allow the user to turn off this 'feature', which would negate your work, so the first solution is probably more likely to work. For reference, Zelda 1 uses the 8 tile trick to make Link invisible when walking through north or south dungeon doors, and that emulator feature breaks this trick. If the number of tiles you need for this is too much, you could do just one row and change how the ship comes onscreen (having its tiles not be drawn if they're below that row, so it appears row by row), or you could cut the required tiles in half by switching to 8x16 sprite mode.

Edit: Fixed an omitted word.

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Posted by infidelity

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If i ever get around to making my video tutorial on basic nes asm, i know now where to post it. :-) Id love to share my tidbits from what was taught to me, and what i learned on my own. :-)

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Posted by NovaYoshi

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I started with this tutorial that my cousin wrote, and it's actually intended for NES homebrew, but I think actually getting to test out code in the language you're trying to learn and see the effects of it is much better than just reading documents.

It expects this assembler and linker, and doesn't cover clearing the screen, reading the controllers, or sprites, but those were pretty easy to figure out with other sources.

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Posted by za909

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Very interesting and useful topic indeed!
I need to ask though, does it cover the "DPCM bug" of the 2A03 that was fixed for the 2A07 in PAL consoles? Something about stalling the CPU for a couple cycles, and if you happen to be messing with the PPU or the Controller ports at that time, it gets ruined.

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Posted by NovaYoshi

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I started with this tutorial that my cousin wrote, and it's actually intended for NES homebrew, but I think actually getting to test out code in the language you're trying to learn and see the effects of it is much better than just reading documents.

It expects this assembler and linker, and doesn't cover clearing the screen, reading the controllers, or sprites, but those were pretty easy to figure out with other sources.

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Posted by kuja killer

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Ehhh.. i waste years on trying to do stupid boss AI.

The problem with me is "not" about being able to program in NES asm.
My problem is, i have purely zero "thinking" skills or creativity or imagination. So i stall for months or years trying to do 1 boss at a time.

In this case, duplex, bolt, and necro for my game...

But man... if i had a brain like puresabe.. then i would of been light years ahead with my game already. His creativity and imagination for rock 4 MI blows me out of the universe a trillion times over.

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