What do you want to be able to program?

I'll go for powerups, but I'd prefer to learn how to add more playable characters.

 

Second BUMP:

I think learning objects would be most beneficial.
New bosses are fun, but objects mean new ways to design levels, which lead to more fun overall.

 

...and a pogo spring monitor (like Sonic Triple Trouble), Sonic walking on the ceiling (like DEZ2 under S3&K), rain rising water (but I think I have the answer), multiple bosses under the same act (should be easy too), and then how to make easily dynamic patterns reloading (like the cliffs in the background of HTZ).

Okay, this may be a bit too much and off the poll, but that's what I'm looking for.

 

Bosses. I want the Egg Dragon to live!!!!

 

I can move the background. :D

Remaking the lost sprites of S2Beta under S2 is very easy when you know where to search under S2Beta and where to change pointers. Making a whole new sprite starting from nothing is obviously much more difficult.

As far as I know, bosses aren't a huge single sprite. They have several little sprites working together, each one having a relative position on screen from a 'main' sprite. If you want to program a boss, you have to find how to make them work together, like if they are making a very and single huge sprite. And that's the hardest part I think.

Correct me if I'm wrong, because I'm not sure of that.

 

I voted on objects becuase the more objects you can program the more possiblities are opened in level design.(ex switches that collapse brindges or those spring things from Sonic CD's Stardust Speedway.). My second choice I would have voted for was enimies becuase they can give a new challage to players seeing as they would never had encountered an orignal badnik in play before.

 

bosses that would be cool

 

I have a feeling that boss programming involes a lot of that bastardly VDP...

But beyond that, the basics of programming aren't that hard to understand. It won't be some huge learning blockade to overcome :P

However, VDP is...

Anyways, Teach us oh great Teacherer!


Sidenote: Oh joy of joys! Me first post as a member! :shocked:

 

*splooges all over the keyboard*

Now that IS good news.

But in all seriousness,

You lost me right there

 

LOst Library eh? I was wondering what that thing was...

*goes to check it out*

 

So in your sample:

Code (Text):

1. btst #7,d0
2. beq.s WOOOO!

"btst #7,d0" - no clue what that does...something with the register.

"beq.s WOOOO!" - The "Woo" should be the location of the mappings in the ROM? (maybe a pointer?)

 

Code (Text):

1. btst #7,d0
2. beq.s WOOOO!

Test bit 7 of data register 0, set Zero condition code apropriately.
If Zero condition code is set into the status register, then branch to ProgramCounter+WOOOO!

In hex:
08 00 00 07 67 WOOOO!