Custom Score Font Battle Menu

[+Gemintronic]

Remember kids: VisualbB allows you to make your own score font for the default 6 digit score display! This is perfect for a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest like battle menu.

 

So far I've thought of two ideal sets of letters to exchange for numbers:

 

 

0123456789

ATCKRUNSE

RUN

ATTACK

USE

CAST

 

 

0123456789

FIGHTLESPM

FIGHT

FLEE

ITEM

SPELL

 

The first has one space left for an additional letter or just used as a space. The second letter set seems to have potential for alot more useful words such as LIFE, PET and PILL

Edited June 27, 2012 by theloon

[Pioneer4x4]

That is a great idea!

I think the top 9 in order are eairtonsl which can spell atari...

Edited June 28, 2012 by Pioneer4x4

[RevEng]

It's worth mentioning that non-DPC+ score code can display 16 characters with a bit of minor hacking. (not sure about the DPC+ score code)

 

Just put the attached score_graphics.asm in your project directory, and adjust the score digits like so...

 

dim sc0=score
dim sc1=score+1
dim sc2=score+2

sc0=$AB
sc1=$CD
sc2=$EF

scorecolor=$0f

mainloop
drawscreen
goto mainloop

 

 

score_graphics.asm

[+Gemintronic]

Thanks RevEng! I thought the score somehow had 16 characters. You've served it up on a silver platter!

 

Er, not platinum though How does one properly edit the extra characters? Please don't say EMACS..

[RevEng]

You can just edit the .byte values in score_graphics.asm. I'd never say emacs... vi is my preference.

 

I fixed the score_graphics.asm previously posted so it has DOS newlines. You should be able to re-download it and use your favourite plaintext editor.

[jrok]

So far I've thought of two ideal sets of letters to exchange for numbers:

 

 

0123456789

ATCKRUNSE

RUN

ATTACK

USE

CAST

 

 

0123456789

FIGHTLESPM

FIGHT

FLEE

ITEM

SPELL

 

The first has one space left for an additional letter or just used as a space. The second letter set seems to have potential for alot more useful words such as LIFE, PET and PILL

 

I like the first set much better. In addition to the flexibility of a blank space, you could also use it to spell words like:

 

EAT

ASK

ACT

TURN

TAKE

REACT

SNEAK

SNARE

TEAR

SACK

CASK

CASE

RUNE

SANE / NUTS (good for Lovecraftian Cthlulu-type games )

NUKE

CRANK

TRACK

STUNK

SUNK

ARCANE

Edited December 13, 2012 by jrok

[+Random Terrain]

Thanks. This will also help when we just want to display hexadecimal numbers in the score.

 

  dim sc0=score
  dim sc1=score+1
  dim sc2=score+2

  sc0=$AB
  sc1=$CD
  sc2=$EF

  scorecolor=$0F

__Main_Loop

  drawscreen

  goto __Main_Loop

[RevEng]

I added some more for the first set and summarized them here. Some really useful ones here, and a few goofy ones...

 

ATCKRUNSE

(theloon)

• RUN
  
• ATTACK
  
• USE
  
• CAST
  

(jrok)

• EAT
  
• ASK
  
• ACT
  
• TURN
  
• TAKE
  
• REACT
  
• SNEAK
  
• SNARE
  
• TEAR
  
• SACK
  
• CASK
  
• CASE
  
• RUNE
  
• SANE / NUTS (good for Lovecraftian Cthlulu-type games )
  
• NUKE
  
• CRANK
  
• TRACK
  
• STUNK
  
• SUNK
  
• ARCANE
  

(RevEng)

• ENTER
  
• STUN
  
• NURSE
  
• CURSE
  
• TREAT
  
• REST
  
• CUT
  
• STRUCK
  
• TRUCE
  
• ASSERT
  
• NUTTER
  
• SUCKER
  
• ERECT
  
• CRANK
  
• SUCK
  
• TEASE
  
• TASTE
  

[+Gemintronic]

I'll just leave this here..

 

ATCKRUNSE

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[Lillapojkenpåön]

It's worth mentioning that non-DPC+ score code can display 16 characters with a bit of minor hacking. (not sure about the DPC+ score code)

 

Just put the attached score_graphics.asm in your project directory, and adjust the score digits like so...

 

dim sc0=score
dim sc1=score+1
dim sc2=score+2

sc0=$AB
sc1=$CD
sc2=$EF

scorecolor=$0f

mainloop
drawscreen
goto mainloop

scratch.bas.bin.png

 

score_graphics.asm

 

It works in DPC+ but the scoregraphics seems to go in bank 1 so I could only fit one letter (after commenting out vblank and minikernel) Any smart solution to that? Doesn't have to be pretty

Keeping the numbers where they are (if that's for speed) and putting the letters in another bank/table with inline assembly maybe?

 

I want to have waves so when the wave changes I will jump to a wave change loop that doesn't do much else except change bg and pfcolors so I'm picturing something like this..

_sc1=$AB somehow from a different bank òr table or with inline assembly

_sc2=$CD somehow from a different bank òr table or with inline assembly

_sc2=wave variable

 

WAVEPS=wave.pavse, PERFECT! the two words I really want in my game, I hope there's a way.

Edited April 8, 2018 by Lillapojkenpåön