Yeah, I think there should be at least one other game which used this feature. Charles' doc mentions Raiden Trad and Alien Soldier, but I haven't examined those.
It is NOT a bug. It IS a feature. It's present on pretty much every system with playfields, sprites, and priority settings. It isn't specifically documented because it's bloody obvious to a games coder. Except, of course, it actually IS mentioned in the SNES manual.
Well, at least then they wouldn't need to waste any more time than they needed to finding things with the hardware 8p
Well, since this is active again, I was thinking a good way of exploiting this feature would be to use it to do something similar to the title card lettering of Sonic 2 GG/SMS.
Is this what the Sonic 1 and Sonic 2 title screens use to hide the characters when they move into the ring? When I comment out the object loaded by sub_12F08 in Sonic 2, I can see them when they're below the ribbon.
The whole ring + ribbon is on scroll-A high. I have only prevented a sprite from loading. After looking at it in Genecyst, I think the part that is still on top in the screenshot is also using the exploit. There is a sprite there which has the top edges of the ribbon, but the part that is a full character tall has some random tiles from Tails(?). This suggests to me that it is never actually seen and only exists to make that part of A/H show up on top. I'm not confident in my understanding of the VDP, so I would really appreciate a response from somebody who is.
One of the sprite masking modes would be something that you could use in a case like this... I have not done any checking though...
