Mord's Blog

Are you using the hardware collision detection registers for the key+gate? The collision registers are very literal, so if you're flickering both the gate and the key, then you need to make sure your flicker code knows that both must appear on the same frame.

That I am, which is why I find it surprising. The thing is that it only sometimes happens during flicker. (Sometimes when it's got 4 objects to flicker, sometimes when it has 3, sometimes when it has 2...) The problem can potentially be in the Object Manager which selects the objects to display, or in the collision manager that determines what objects have collided and how to react. I'll end up checking the entire thing and getting it to work properly before I start adding more objects however. The whole point of making sure the gate wouldn't flicker was so that I didn't have to worry about the two objects that are overlapping never being displayed on the same frame. (And thus never reacting to one another)

 

I'm also in the process of restructuring the rom for a larger size (to hold more rooms, objects, etc) so I'll probably just try to get the new rom format working first before looking at it under a microscope.