Sonic 1: Modernisation Project

LOVE the second picture...but you're definitely going to need more loops, uphills, and turns. Also going to need a lot of misc things like flowers or poles or something to make it more of a level.

 

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Basic Flatland, Aaand:


Prettier Flatland.

Comment/Crits?

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The 2nd image looks way better.
Although for some reason. the level itself kinda reminds me of Sparkling Zone.

 

Background's fairly sparse. Is it supposed to be space? You could always add a planet or two in the background, if that the case. It's not realistic that there would be many visible planets at one time, but hey! It's Sega. Outrun had the Eiffel Tower just a couple meters away from Big Ben, if I remember correctly.

 

The grass needs a better way to combine with the ground..

 

I prefer the 2nd one better. Less dithering would make it better, perhaps?

 

It would be cool if you combined both square types in the same level.
Like Hez mentioned, it needs additional tiles to create structures & objects although I do realize this art is still in its early stages.

 

Looking better than ever. Though you should have made it into a youtube video instead, would have made more sense. :P

 

That looks wonderful. I especially like the text that tells you when to jump dash.

 

That is looking great!
Bring some more detail to the mountains (which I think you were already planning) because now they look too simplified and Mario-like.
Also, I hope you will replace the remaining original tiles (palmtrees,flowers etc.) as well so it looks completely different.

Keep it up, this is serious progress.

 

Why the hell does Mighty's lives icon still say SONIC?

 

lol, subroutine to draw life icons

It's a compressed art file in the disassembly (lifeicon.bin). Open it up in Tile Layer Pro, edit, boom.

 

I think he meant he's trying to find the subroutine which handles the load cue to use for the life icon. He appears to have 2 characters, so he'd need to use alternate calls for each character.

 

Apparently you're not too bright either, since you didn't understand what he was saying.

Anyway, the art is loaded via a pattern load cue. Specifically, I believe PLC $1 is the one you want. It should be called by something like the following:

Code (Text):

1. asdf:
2.         moveq   #1,d0
3.         jsr LoadPLC

Or at least something similar. Just check against your character byte and it'll be easy to add new PLC loads based on it. Personally, I suggest making a jump table - it's a bit more to set up, but it's a lot more efficient when you're gonna have lots of compares based on a byte.

 

Yeah, I just realized that =P

But PLC $1 only contains the monitors, shield, and star patterns. PLC $0 is the one, but I can't find a call for it (PLC $1 is called at the beginning of the level subroutine).