Although, the people who make compiler (SDCC) have periodically worked on automatic compression of init data for some types of C vars. I think still turned off though.
@hbons speak to chatgpt free version, tell it what you think that game should be about, and then hit it with straight up questions: what would the first level seeing be? what quests can I add to the first level? What items would player need to solve these quests? You can also ask for witty or funny suggestions, it will try to fulfill that too.
@hbons The good thing that it does: it prints the most obvious solution, and a very detailed one. Then you can select things which are really boring and you've seen them 1000 times, and replace them with your creativity. Gives a framework for the thought. It can't give really original twists but it removes the writer block from your brain 🤔
@hbons I use save states a ton when developing games and I love how sameboy looks but wasn't able to find a save state function in it. Save states are really useful for backing out of a crash without having to reset the game.
because of the limited ROM size only the bump map is stored and the room is decorated when switching rooms.
however this has a noticable delay (~20 frames). found this interrupt snippet so I can print how many frames were dropped and I can measure progress. 👍
@hbons I really, really need and want to take time to play around developing for actual GB hardware... it's always so fun to hear about the architecture and tidbits about it!
@hbons the custom camera ROM “Photo!” makes uses of this and the faster Color crystal to allow it to allow the viewfinder frame rate to run at double speed! 🤯
it's very smooth now, will post a before/after recording later. :)
lessons: was using a modulo-% somewhere. removed many function calls inline and simplified the calculations. moved stuff out of loops that didn't have to be recalculated.
@hbons I don’t understand much of game dev but would this game theoretically run on a physical game boy? And which programming language are/were used to develop game boy games back then?
@hbons I'll take a look on that. I'm more interested in decompiling a game and seeing how it works on the inside. But I assume it would be more assembly?
@hbons While I totally can understand why the majority voted for the right design I think the left one suits the other screenshot you’ve posted here much better.
It might be on purpose but I would be irritated by the notable difference in brightness compared to the stage design
@hbons Pretty much why, I am lazy to install AltStore and Delta hahah; I can also give it a try in a Miyoo Mini+ to check compatibility there if you want
Add comment