@Tifreak, just wanted to share my oppinon that's all. I thought AOD 86 did use line to clear things also O_o my bad. On the old 83 I always used text to quickly clear out larger areas at a time if i didn't want to do a clear draw or wanted to preserve some of the screen. Although, I haven't tested it v.s line on the SE. How about giving us a recap on pokemon, of what is completed so far? Methinks you should write yourself out a diagram of what is done and what all needs to be done and then make a plan on what to tackle and in which order. That way you can organize related subprograms and work on them together.

Ok, Pokemon alpha 0.1.6 has the following:

::Fully working title screen with introduction
::Save - Load fully operational
::Walking engine at 70%
----Engine still needs support for:
--------Pitch black
--------Jumping ledges on left and right sides
--------NPC line of sight (still not sure about this one..)
::Random encounters works, with flashing animation
::Stat Generation mostly works, needs to give attacks properly
::Entering buildings works
::Maps from Pallet Town through Route 2
----Can enter buildings in Pallet only at this point
::Can interact with NPC's, including one in Viridian that has a Yes/No menu
::In-Game menu seems to work, or at least, in theory it is fully functional.
::Town Map is created
::Can view Ash's stats
::Pokemon Party screen was created at one point, not sure if it is still there
::Pokedex system completed


I think that covers a big portion of what is functioning in the game. Still to come for beta 0.1.7:

::Completed stat generation
::Functional Battle system
::Functional Items system (it is started, just not useable)
::Events system


And I understand, Art_of_Camelot, opinions are welcome, its just I was trying to figure out where that topic came up from. If I was doing large boxes, I agree, I would probably use Text(, but since the boxes and sprites are generally small, I am trying to go for smoothness, and Line( is sure smoother than Text(, and uses less bytes, because of all the spaces generally required to clear out long sections.

Oh, trust me, not nearly as badly as I can't wait for it...

Edit:

I have put pencil to paper and hopefully have created new, faster code, to get the attacks stuck correctly to the appropriate pokemon. I will find out later this evening. At this point, there is an Oktoberfest going on, with lots of junk food, and I am missing out!

is your final program going to include all the source? cuz i would really love to study your programs and code!

dragons?

I has many dragon statues. It is a bit of a hobby of mine. I will post pics up later this afternoon.

And thanks. ^_^

After I can get away from work in... 4 hours, I will get time to look through that code and get it on calc to test. Hopefully it will drastically speed things up.

cool, how many dragons in your collection?

vs

Think it looks faster?

What I have done is removed all the error checking for the displayer, as that should all be done through the getkey loop and detection, etc. I also added a While command in to right before the displaying of just the names, so it would go to that instead of redrawing the other few parts each time it moved. I had not realized it was doing that before hand... <.<