Imma try to figure out how this works by watching it...will edit

I'm guessing here, but...

Does it start by backing up the buffer to the back-buffer or something, then from there it's free to meddle with the front buff?
And it has a loop, that takes out every other row, and compresses it to be solid without any gaps.
When it hits zero, another loop starts, possibly after flipping the backbuffer first, grabbing rows from the back-buffer and inserting them.
Am I right or am I completely off?

EDIT: ok, completely off it looks like

Yep, basically it just redraws the tilemap each frame, but with some interesting rules applied to the Y location of each tile

Wow, looks like a winner

In other news, I had a random RAM clear and lost the three or four lines for the actual shifting...
But i re-made that in a few minutes, and now I have a company logo and splash screen

Thanks!

This is actually my first real exploit with the horizontal lines on the buffer, copying from an outside source and all (only other thing I've used was builder's fire routine and my water adaptation)

And yes, i plan on keeping that as my logo

Shifting is now possible.
There's some sort of bug when you switch from the 14th row (counting from zero) and I'm trying to work that out atm.
Will post screenie when possible, more than likely sometime later today.

The flipping looks fantastic with the only suggestion being that it could be a bit faster...(maybe don't draw every frame, or something. Maybe you can just change a value somewhere...I don't know how that transition works )

As Shannon Monroe, one of the Senior Production Managers of Disney Interactive, once told me when looking at some animation and video that I did a while ago (No, seriously. He was really cool about it all...)

Something to always keep in mind when creating transitions is what we call the "DVD Title Rule":
No matter how fantastic your animation looks the first time, there is no denying that there is an inverse relationship between the wow factor and the just-open-the-damn-menu factor of the transition.

Hearing that made me realize just how correct he was, and has led me to cut down on transition times in a lot of things I've made. Please don't take this as me saying, "It's boring. Get it over with faster," but rather that I'm saying, "This transition looks fabulous, but don't let it eat up your gameplay!" There's a point where you know the solution already and you just want to get through to the next level as fast as possible, without having to wait for shift transitions.

Either way, the whole thing looks fantastic. I especially like the effectiveness of that sprite! It works much better than I'd have imagined it would.

The transition looks really great now that you've integrated it into gameplay. Personally, I think the speed is fine.