In between drawing sprites I've been working on my title screen (really, game menu). Here's what I have so far - changes will be made, though. This is mainly just a mockup - no controls do anything yet - but the GFX pieces are almost all in place.

* Splash screen displays for about 5 seconds on power-on. It's just the word 'Karate' in Japanese and does a cheap rainbow flashing. Then the menu pops up.

* Enemy can be one of "human" to "c", "c-", "c--" etc. (AI difficulty level)

* Color will be selected to allow both players to change their uniform

* FIGHT! starts a game

* Record shows matches won for each player. Reset button to revert to 0-0.

Still plugging away at character graphics.