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done ! is there a reason for the striped version of mr Do ?

great ! I'll give it a shot..

Bummer are you sure it's a problem of the copy, or I messed something up ?

I was settled to the original mr Do colors, but now you spoiled me for choice :P I love blue taizo ! It makes the game even more colorful, I don't know about the others yet.. Can we have a version with blue Taizo only ? In the meantime can you help me find the lives indicator icon ? Thanks again

I'm currently thinking about the pooka transformation.. In Dig Dug they turn into ghosts (well ghost eyes to be exact) with minimum animation like the ones below.. But here we have a full set of sprites with 4 directions and 3 frames of animation in each, I will probably have to pump it up a bit, or choose another critter from the dig dug universe.... I don't know yet

Hey MrFish Somehow I have made the assumption that on the soft sprites we only have available the background colors..

I want to do that eventually.. I'm learning as I go

Yeah baby !! it was worth it, bouncing Pookas everywhere Small things left to do.. Enjoy ! Mr. Do! - (taizo wip7 pookas).xex

Scratch that !!! I just found the damned thing :P :P Mr. Do! - (taizo wip5 pookas fixed).xex

Latest wip attached ! Pookas have been included (only on the going right direction) I have run into a graphic glitch (a pesky line) that is only visible on the second frame of the pookas animation.. I haven't been able to track this down, so I'm asking for any help or advice edit: The problematic frame starts at: 4fd1 Mr. Do! - (taizo wip5 pookas).xex

getting there..

ok new animation added (apple gobbling + chewing fygars in place) ! I just realized that the letter monster (letter pooka now) can eat apples too.. and it has his own set of animation for chewing. I haven't noticed before, because In the original mr. Do, the chewing animation of the two type of monsters is almost the same.. Lets do it better Mr. Do! - (wip4).xex

thanks man

oops, minor change.. download again if you want ! Mr. Do! - (taizo wip3).xex

All Taizo sprites (walking, digging, dying) all directions are complete ! I encountered many problems with the up/down directions.. mainly with the power-ball and how it overlaps the sprite, but I think I found the best compromise, and hundreds of frames later, I call Taizo complete Check the latest work in progress, done Taizo Fygars Letter monster to do Pookas Mr. Do! - (taizo wip2).xex

I keep getting distracted from hacking in the dozens of frames for the pookas.. So I take on the Taizo sprite which in comparison seems a piece of cake. I run to some problems because the power ball is actually drawn with the ball so I cant edit it.. The eyes of my original Taizo was background color (see through) so the ball keeps turning one of them white. Since I found that ORing is enabled, I made a decision to turn the visor pink and the eyes red, problem solved ! I'm currently working on the up/down frames.. It's tricky but fun. So here he is with his jackhammer/power ball launcher in hand !! I love how the digging animation turns out. Check it out, Edit: also check the alternate position of the head.. I kind of like it better, but it's removed further from Dig Dug..

Pooka all directions are ready to hack in !! the big blue pooka is the letter monster !

Here is a sample with all the fygar directions.. missing fygar eating an apple sequence, It's gonna take a while, but I'm getting there !! Enjoy Mr. Do! - (full fygar).xex

Hmmm.. I was afraid of that :P and I agree with you ! At first I was going with original Mr. Do orientation (image 1), on the other hand in Dig Dug 1, sprites always stay horizontal.. I didn't like either way, so I based (image 2) set on Dig Dug 2 Now I must draw the pooka's vertical frames and figure out how Taizo will work the same way !! I love my new hobby

I have a dilemma I just have finished hacking in the fygar (soft) sprites, including the newly created up and down directions (image 1), and of course then it came to me that they could look much better if I don't rotate them at all (image 2) To change them involves a great deal of work and swearing from my part.. so before I begin, which of the two looks the best ?

Man.. this is brutal ! Took me 3 hours and a headache, to finish just the 'to the right' frames of the fygar.. I'm getting the hang of it. It's like a puzzle that doesn't make sense, but the result is great !! ..and now a bunch of fygars are after me

my first soft sprite edit, very excited !!

yes ! it's all clear now !! the comparison shot was an eye opener Thanks again.

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