Ok, I'm working on the player movement and physics, and on scrolling. I'll post a first code around Wednesday.
But I need a help for the level storage and conception. It would be nice if someone could code a sort of level editor that will store levels in an appvar.
Here is the system I use for levels :
 - the screen is cut into 8*12 tiles (so 96 tiles) and each tile is one byte in L1. The levels will be 8 tiles height and 89 tiles widht wich makes 712 bytes.
 - the first bit of a byte is 0 for background or 1 for platform. The backgrounds tiles will be gray and light gray, and the platforms and obstacles gray and black. The others 7 bits are the number of the tile (so 128 possible tiles, wich should be enough )

BTW great sprites saintrunner, now can you save the hexcodes to an Axe file ? So I could use them.

help cut down on size in the long run for all data needed

I dont understand?

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you are going to need a fast greyscale tile mapper as well it looks like...


and tiles to populate that...

How about Steel Snail? lol

anyways here are the sprites I have so far, I apologize if any of it looks messy, but I had to re design a lot of it because the originals were big and when I made this in 16x16 (a little big, but if you can make it look good smaller, go ahead) it looked weird. so let me know what you think

Thats not bad. but that is also assuming we have enough clock cycles to do 4 level greyscale, control 4+ enemies at a time. scroll the background (which is not a standard thing greyscale routines like) and keep up with all the collision detection of the player moving there bullets and the enemies bullets.

just throwing that out there for a game that will probably be 6mhz

eventually yes but for now we can just make the levels by hand for testing its easier that way. and you can leave items out with a null value (0?) to help debug each indivisual item

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ok i will say one thing really fast. for a metal slug style game you will want some kind of scripting. calc or not it is doable. and if done properly will make the whole project insanely easier to manage in group format. how you ask simple

by scripting it you can have each person work on different aspects of the script system. one person works on the drawing commands one works on the players  attacks ect
by using a good interupt scheme you can work threw the whole mess while keeping up on collision detections and achieve good quality graphics.
 
also if you hard code it it will be to large to fit a decent amount of levels/content. with scripting and compression it will take a lot less space i belive

also from experiance i say use 3 level greyscale if at all possible will allow you to have a background for detail/professional look but still keep everything easy to see.

(keep in mind tho im asm which is a bit more optimized than axe and alot of the stuff i have worked on is very optimized...so take my thoughts with a grain of salt i havent used axe parser in ages )