Be warned though, I am giving you permission to use my code in other projects however you see fit, but I am not giving you permission to use my code to create/finish "The Blue Platform" or anything in the world I have created for it. That is something I still want to do myself sometime down the road.

I'm much more interested in the actual game, later on if you decide you want to continue work maybe we can either work together on it or i can program in your ideas and you can work with the storyline, etc. Or if you want to finish it all by yourself that's fine, too, it just has a really cool storyline and a lot in common with my favorite RPG ever (Legend of Legaia). I've gotta download DCS first but i'm gonna test it out now. Thanks, Eeems!

Wasn't there also that one bug that caused the map to suddenly become off by one tile compared to the collision detection map? I don't remember how it worked but I recall playing the Celtic III version and sometimes falling through the block on one side of a platform. Or did you have time to fix that during the conversion to ASM?

Alright, i just popped open the source code tonight and it seems like the main folder is just the title screen Anyway the "old" folder had what seemed to be the actual source and when i loaded the program onto my calc what i first thought is that you weren't resetting some sort of jumping flag after touching a ladder. What it turned out to be is that you aren't resetting the ladder flag If you're on a ladder and press 2nd to jump, the code jumps but still thinks you're on a ladder, since when you run the ladder routine it sees that you've jumped (but still thinks you're on a ladder). Soo... all you have to do is first reset the ladder then check if you're jumping. Here's the code i changed it to:
char_ladder:
xor a
ld (charT+2),a

ld a,(charJ)
or a
ret nz ;quit if jumping

ld a,(charT) ;get x
ld d,a
ld a,(charT+1) ;get y
ld e,a

call Tile_value ;check (x,y)
cp 10
jr z,+_

inc e ;go to y+1

call Tile_value
cp 10
jr z,+_ ;check (x,y+1)

getoffsetD
ld d,a ;store it back to d
getX ;get the characters edge
cp d ;compare
ret z ;if it doesn't equal the other, then it is partway between the two
;so another check is required
ld a,(charT) ;get x
inc a ;get for x+1
ld d,a

call Tile_value ;check (x+1,y+1)
cp 10
jr z,+_

dec e ;go to Y

call Tile_value ;check (x+1,y)
cp 10
jr z,+_
ret

_ ld a,1
ld (charT+2),a
getkey(dkUp)
jr z,_
call char_up
loadanim(charS,7,8)
ret
_ loadanim(charS,7,7)
getkey(dkDown)
ret z
call char_down
loadanim(charS,7,8)
ret
Attached is the new source file

Did you see the screenshot? And that was the problem, once the jump flag was set it never got to the ladder code, where it checks if you are on a ladder and resets the ladder flag if not. So the ladder flag gets set but never reset, since once the jump flag is set it can't enter the ladder routine anymore (and it gets reset in the ladder routine). As far as i can tell it works fine now, i don't know if there were any issues elsewhere, though And yeah, if you want to set up an SVN somewhere i can commit little things as i/we come across them.

That's what i'm here for Whatever i can do to help this see the light of day. It seems like you've got so much done already, both with the story (which for me is always the hardest part, programming it is somehow much easier/more fun ) and the actual engine. You've got a working tilemap engine, even ladders!, battles, and lots of other things started (though not necessarily finished). Btw, you are more than welcome to use the hand cursor thing that i drew:

I think it's seven pixels tall? It's the smallest i could make without it looking like a blob

That's what i'm here for Whatever i can do to help this see the light of day. It seems like you've got so much done already, both with the story (which for me is always the hardest part, programming it is somehow much easier/more fun ) and the actual engine. You've got a working tilemap engine, even ladders!, battles, and lots of other things started (though not necessarily finished). Btw, you are more than welcome to use the hand cursor thing that i drew:

From which game is that screenshot? It looks really great!

By the way if you redo this Chickendude do you plan to add jumping physics if Eeems didn't already?