Author Topic: Metroid Pi (Read 9072 times)

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #45 on:** September 03, 2007, 01:56:00 pm »

cool to hear. I hope to be able to integrate celtic II to Metroid II: Evolution, because the insane amount of subroutine is what make the entire game run very slow, especially on the 83+. If it's the total memory usage that cause problem then I can't do much though

. Still, taking down the 300 8x12 maps in Metroid II from about 3-40 subroutines to 5 would pwn, same if i manage to have the programs copied to XTEMPxxx all merged together and just recall the part of code i need for my routine

JonimusPrime · « **Reply #46 on:** September 04, 2007, 05:08:00 am »

will it have different graphics or will it still be ASC II?

DJ Omnimaga · « **Reply #47 on:** September 04, 2007, 05:49:00 am »

I would stick with dual layer ASCII, it looked pretty neat to me. Else, then I would move to xLIB

Harrierfalcon · « **Reply #48 on:** September 04, 2007, 04:21:00 pm »

Well so far, here's what I'm planning:

Dual-layer ASCII graphics, with more graphics manipulation
Extensive use of Basic's subprograms and my new relatively fast dynamic subroutine system.
Plenty more powerups--missiles, energy tanks, Space jump, hi jump, beam stacking
A couple of wavering powerups; morph ball and suits.
3 worlds, with X number of rooms each (although my limit per world is 18*18, that should tell you something).
Obviously, a way longer gameplay time.
Speed! I did some major testing, Metroid Pi runs much faster when the parser doesn't have to go through all the hard-coded stuff. Therefore, combining subroutines with the ability to change themselves to suit, say, a new beam, or missiles, will be very beneficial. And, not quite so dependent on variables, but rather on constants .

nitacku · « **Reply #49 on:** September 04, 2007, 06:48:00 pm »

Maybe part of your engine could be incorporated into the secret project, or vise versa. The tile routine works pretty fast

Harrierfalcon · « **Reply #50 on:** September 05, 2007, 12:30:00 am »

I'll tell you that it involves Celtic2 and prgmZASSEMB1. (That's one of the subprograms of the OTBP assembler).

That program takes the program whose name is in Ans as a string, and returns that entire program as a string. Complete with newline tokens that appear as spaces.

Combined with the program manipulation abilities of Celtic2, it works well and pretty fast.

Author Topic: Metroid Pi (Read 9072 times)

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