my battle engine takes up around 25K -- 15K for most elements, 10K for all the enemies.

The data is very compressed too, so 12K of each data page is for the tilemap data, and the other 4K is for strings, copying routines, and other stuff associated with the map quadrant/ dungeon buffer.

Thanks all for supporting this project so far!  I must admit that 33 pages and still more to go is very nice

water features?  I have water and stuff, do you mean like boats and stuff?  I'm thinking a raft shop like in zelda: oracle of ages   if that's what you mean

But no, this will be able to run on a 83+ SE or higher -- it WILL fit on a 83+BE, but it would be insanely slow, even in monomode 1 (just black and white display) or monomode 2 (3 level grayscale)

thanks for the input, btw

And in case nobody picked it up, this will be done in mostly pure assembly.  There will be parts where complex assembly math will screw with my mind, where axe comes in, but about 75% of the coding will be assembly.

yeah, water will be used like in zelda games though hopefully this game will compare to link's awakening

yeah, mostly assembly, because since axe can't deal with more than one application page, disassembling and editing axe compiled code to do so will be much harder than just writing it out in assembly.  I was gonna do this in assembly at first, then I went to axe, then I'm back to asm again funny how I run round and round like a whirling dervish

anyways, thanks for the support also I'm using your sprite for an enemy in the highlands, I'll put you in the credits

And, if you want, you can pick up a TaNF userbar to support the project wait a second and I'll edit it into this post

use this code in your signature:


EDIT: sorry, here's the right tag:
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Here is the completed map for Trio and Niko: Falling: (attached)

Also, I'll blow it up and add some red labels in later today so you can see what the different areas are.

I have to tip my had to you, this is a massive under taking with loads of tiles. I'm interested in watching this progress.

water features?  I have water and stuff, do you mean like boats and stuff?  I'm thinking a raft shop like in zelda: oracle of ages   if that's what you mean

But no, this will be able to run on a 83+ SE or higher -- it WILL fit on a 83+BE, but it would be insanely slow, even in monomode 1 (just black and white display) or monomode 2 (3 level grayscale)

thanks for the input, btw

And in case nobody picked it up, this will be done in mostly pure assembly.  There will be parts where complex assembly math will screw with my mind, where axe comes in, but about 75% of the coding will be assembly.

I'm curious though, why do you think it would run with such massive slowdown on the BE?

I was looking through the entire thread this morning, and I have to admit I'm impressed with myself right now -- over 300 completely original tiles and 20K of coding, this is still going strong, even though I've killed it at least 5 times nothing can stop me now.  I can't believe I was able to keep a project more than a month.

Well, with that being said, if my periods of stress and no motivation still can't kill this, then this will be finished.  15% done, only 85% to go!

I actually think that this can be done just in time for next school year, realistically.  Kids will then have a week to figure out how to load it onto their calcs and set it up before math class dull drums kick in.

Anyways, I did set up the assembly environment today, with the main file containing pages 0 and 1 and a data file containing 7 pages of data, which are all filled with 0s

By next week, I'll hope to be done 10% of the coding.

Nice to hear progress, and I hope the assembly isn't too much of a pain

Awesome to hear progress and I hope you finish this. Just looking at the map makes me even more impatient to explore the game.

EDIT: Btw I was bored and this happened: