Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 If I had known that, I would have offered my help in optimizing for space. I am really good at that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 If I had known that, I would have offered my help in optimizing for space. I am really good at that. Can confirm! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+SpiceWare Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 If I had known that, I would have offered my help in optimizing for space. I am really good at that. That he is! Part 16 of The Story of Stay Frosty 2 will cover our 3 week optimization session where we freed up nearly 2K of space. It wasn't 3 weeks of actual work though as Christmas and New Years were in the middle of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RePixel8 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Thanks for the offer. I'll know where to come in future How about optimising for performance? I'm recently working on a new platform game, written in BB, but with an assembly display kernel. I like the ease of development that BB provides for the game logic and bankswitching etc, but this particular game really required a custom kernel to do things like changing the playfield color mid-scanline and render horizontal sections of the PF based on ROM lookup tables. I put it down a while ago to concentrate on other projects, but when I get back to it I think it definitely could benefit from some optimisation to squeeze a few cycles out of the display loop, so I may be requiring your assistance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Sure! For me the kernel is the most fun part of a project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AW127 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 (edited) However, the PAL version should only be slightly faster than the NTSC version and not anywhere near 20% faster. Hy RePixel8. First of all, i want to tell you that this game is great and plays good. The speed difference is not 20% but its about 10% - 12%, when i use a stopwatch and orientate on certain things in the background of the game and how they scroll to certain positions. So the player feels this speed-difference at once, because it`s not that small. Maybe it can be made smaller, like it is in other speed-adjusted PAL-games. I did design the game in such as way that the NTSC version will work without problems on a PAL console (i.e. PAL60) and vice versa, as I used colors that work on both formats. This color-thing you solved in a superb way! And i wondered how this can be, when i started this NTSC-rom and saw no color-difference in PAL and NTSC mode. First game i saw on the VCS2600, which looks totally similar in PAL and NTSC mode, without the need to adjust the color-palette. Good idea this was. I wished, more games would use colors, which were nearly the same in NTSC- and PAL-palette. 2) The roms that can be downloaded from http://repixel8.com/games/jumpvcs do not have PAL / NTSC switching capabilities built in....... Yes, i also found out this, because nothing happened when i used the roms in STELLA and changed to sw-colors in game-properties. Edited March 23, 2015 by AW127 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhomaios Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 Curious, is there an official connection with Canabalt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RePixel8 Posted March 23, 2015 Share Posted March 23, 2015 No official connection, just inspired by Canabalt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 I received the labels today for JumpVCS, Brik, and several other games! They will be hitting the store soon. I'll update this thread again once JumpVCS is in the store! ..Al 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrekMD Posted June 8, 2015 Share Posted June 8, 2015 One word: AWESOME! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinks Posted June 9, 2015 Share Posted June 9, 2015 Does anyone have a video of the game with the real sound thst would be on the actual cart? I seen the first post but it had synth type sounds. It does look great! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWantMyMoneyBack Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 On 3/13/2015 at 12:26 AM, AW127 said: Here the programer offers the roms: http://repixel8.com/games/jumpvcs This link no longer works. Does anyone know where we can get this ROM from? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RePixel8 Posted March 16, 2021 Share Posted March 16, 2021 3 minutes ago, IWantMyMoneyBack said: This link no longer works. Does anyone know where we can get this ROM from? Hi, Apologies for this. We are currently in the process of updating the Website and some content is currently not yet migrated. These pages should be back within the next few days, but in the mean time you can download the ROMS from the following links. http://download.repixel8.com/games/jumpvcs_ntsc.bin http://download.repixel8.com/games/jumpvcs_pal.bin Hope this helps. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IWantMyMoneyBack Posted March 18, 2021 Share Posted March 18, 2021 On 3/16/2021 at 6:40 AM, RePixel8 said: Hi, Apologies for this. We are currently in the process of updating the Website and some content is currently not yet migrated. These pages should be back within the next few days, but in the mean time you can download the ROMS from the following links. http://download.repixel8.com/games/jumpvcs_ntsc.bin http://download.repixel8.com/games/jumpvcs_pal.bin Hope this helps. Yes, it does. Thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZilchSr Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 On 3/16/2021 at 7:40 AM, RePixel8 said: Hi, Apologies for this. We are currently in the process of updating the Website and some content is currently not yet migrated. These pages should be back within the next few days, but in the mean time you can download the ROMS from the following links. http://download.repixel8.com/games/jumpvcs_ntsc.bin http://download.repixel8.com/games/jumpvcs_pal.bin Hope this helps. It looks like these links are broken. Any update on the page's availability? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Al_Nafuur Posted February 20, 2022 Share Posted February 20, 2022 25 minutes ago, ZilchSr said: It looks like these links are broken. Any update on the page's availability? the links worked for me. I just downloaded the PAL version to the PlusStore, because only the NTSC version was available there. @RePixel8 awesome work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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