Here’s a summary of a quick and fun weekend project. For tl:dr people : Download the IPS file and run it together with your School Fighter ROM dump. @inobscurity wanted to try the unlicensed HK game School Fighter for the GBC, but the ROM dump would hang before the first level. I had just…
First successful code build.
Here is the small, but significant, first step into programming the VT168. Using a standard build of the cc65 C compiler and a draft configuration file, I successfully mapped the memory and structure of the VT168 hardware. With that and the available register documentation, I had a sample running in…
Software Sprites With a Tile Based Display
Earlier today, I was talking about the Sega Mega Drive and how it sometimes used software sprites (but mostly its predecessor, the Sega Master System). This made me think of the technique for a while and how I haven’t seen it detailed in any length for a while. It was not that…