Maybe use xlib to make it faster.

Looks nice so far and glad you managed to get it to run. About the title screen, though, IMHO you should maybe move the copyright thing at the bottom, else it kinda looks weird in the middle, especially since the title is technically Illusiat 11, Illusiat XI or Illusiat Eleven.


As for the rest of the game, I know you are adding color palettes through Celtic commands. Do you think you could do something about the screen size issue to make the game not look weird? One solution could be to just do like in Illusiat 6 and 7 and add an HUD on the right side in the empty space and removing the current battle HUD. The in-game menu could be slightly altered to accomodate such HUD (basically the HUD could expand like in Illusiat 7 when entering the menu). For the rest of the screen you could just move everything down by one or two lines then add black bars at the top and bottom like in movies.

Output() works when xLIBC commands are being used??

I tried using xLIBC before it always screwed up home screen commands

Oh ok, that might explain it. Do you have any screenshot of the border as well as demonstrating the color palettes by the way?


EDIT: I also wish that Celtic or xLIB had a way to store 1-bit map data where each tile is  only 1 bit large (meaning 8 tiles are 1 byte), so that it would be possible to make an Illusiat port as small as the 83+ counterpart. 8xi files on the CSE are close to 22 KB large, while on the 83+ they're 767 bytes.

Question, is the floor in the first dungeon supposed to be black?


EDIT: Nevermind, further in the screenshot it's green again. Did you use jsTified for the screenie? It tends to mess up screenshots heavily >.<


Also if I was you, if you can find a way other than ClrHome to clear the screen, you could erase that gray bar at the top using xLIBC. Also, maybe make the gray border on the graph screen white.

To be honest, in the original game the name was a bit inspired from Korea, but not meant to be translated so the names for the most part were left intact in the English version.


Also, I was wondering if with xLIBC there was a way to turn the entire screen black and still use Celtic colors+Output() afterward? You would have to use For(Z,1,10:Output(Z,1,"                          ":End instead of ClrHome to erase text but you could make the game look like this if it was feasible (perhaps placed differently, though, and maybe with an HUD as replacement of the logo?):



(I know the busy indicator can't be erased, though, unless in 160x240 mode)

Aaah ok that would be nice. And I see about the status bar.
 
Did you try with plain black sprites? Try the sprite commands (some let you draw a big rectangle made of just 1 sprite) and there are tilemapping commands. I wonder if they would also break Output?

Also, since I was kinda bored, I made more mockups





Although now it looks more and more Atari ish (maybe the title could be placed at the top and the copyright at the bottom like in Pitfall?)