Does anyone here at Omnimaga have any experience with developing on the Nintendo DS? Even if it is just simple programming.

Hmmm, you think you could make updates in the latest posts, instead of editing the topic post please? That would help.

No I haven't beat Metroid II

I wish I had. I have tried many times, but it is a hard game to beat, that is for sure.

Wow that new screenshot looks really fast! I like it! Keep up the great work DJ_Omnimaga.

Madskillz: Well he already won. One more contest will be directed here though.

Also sorry DJ_Omnimaga, and Ranman for not seeing your posts.(It didn't show up as unread)

Here is the explanation:

Dimensions are based on perpendiculars and although the 4th dimension has not been discovered it can be easily attributed to other things. For example a 2 dimensional world has two axes that expand on forever to make a plane.

Now the 3rd dimension just adds a perpendicular axis to this 2nd dimension which means to get to the 1st dimension you would have to go through the 2nd.

So think of it this way the 4th dimension is perpendicular to the 3rd dimension. That is hard to think about, and impossible to draw since we can only see, write, and think in the 3rd dimension.

Onto the answer to my question about the safe. First know this:

4th dimension is to the 3rd dimension as the 3rd dimension is to the 2nd dimension

Now with that in mind. How would we take money out of a 2 dimensional person's safe. Well the safe could only look like this(with money "="):

+---+
+==+
+---+

So now how can you take the money out of that locked safe up there? Well just pull it out perpendicularly to the 2D guy's world, and he won't even notice it is gone! Locks and all.

(END)

Ranman: To answer your question. We do not know what constitutes a 4D person, but it is thought that if a 4D person were to walk through this dimension we would only see spheres hanging in the air. Just as a 2D person would only see slices(lines) of a 3D person walking through its dimension.

Really I love this. Tilemaps are basically the introduction to how collision detection is handled even in the 3D games of today. There is always simplified data that corresponds tot he graphical data that people don't realize.

So basically what this means is when your character moves around the map, don't think of him as moving in the graphical world, but the collision detection world. This means that he can have a corresponding position in the collision detection world.

So take this for example. An 8x8 sprite in a 8x8 tilemapped world of:

1,1,1,1,1
1,0,0,0,1
1,0,0,0,1
1,1,1,1,1

He can move on the 0's, but not the 1's. So put the character at the position of (2,1) given as (right offset, down offset) and then say the player presses the right key. Then you check (3,1) before you move the player. (3,1) is a 0 so you can move the player.

That is basically how it works.

I agree with you DJ_Omnimaga. I don't think it happens as much at omnimaga.org, but gamedev.net is a different story.

I would also like to add to your list.

People who say you should know before you even thinking of getting into development, otherwise you should quit. This has never happened to me, but it seems to happen a lot over at gamedev.net

Also people who say "I am not going to do the work for you." only after you have asked one question, that doesn't even hint at wanting them to do the work for you.

DJ_Omnimaga: I will change that then.