Nice sprites glad you got the hang of xLib, it can be hard to use sometimes

I have been working with Builderboy on (read: Builderboy has been gratuitously showing me how to build) a physics/movement engine for Return to Maridia.

This is going to be fairly complex. As of now I have plans to use 2 separate engines: one for Samus (an 8x16 sprite) and one for her morph ball (an 8x8 sprite). Thanks to Builderboy, the 8x8 sprite engine is mostly done. From there I will be perfecting the engine to my tastes and extrapolating from it to create the 8x16 sprite one. Then comes the issue of tying both together and adding map and interaction bits to it.

Fun, neh?

Oh, and here's a screeny of the morphball engine as it is so far (which also shows off 2 of the game's power-ups )

Note: the screenie is probably half as fast as the actual engine

Yeah, if the object was restricted to 8x8 movement, it would be a lot faster.  1: because you are moving 2wice as far every frame, and 2: because you are doing half as many collision detections.  But like TsukasaZX said, this is 83+ version, not SE.

I was trying to replicate the morphball's look in all of the 2-D metroid games where it constantly rotates even when not moving.

In Metroid II Evolution and Expansion the morph ball was also rotating all the time even when no movement occured. However, it couldn't jump like in TsukasaZX screenie and unlike in many old Metroid games, when bombs exploded, you didn't move up

Tsukasa, I was doing some tinkering with the engine, and moving it 8x8 was hella fast!  It didn't feel as cool though.  4x4 gives it a nice platform element.  I also experimented with morph-ball rotation, what I did was sync the sprite image to the modulus of the x position, so it rotated in the correct direction, and only when you were moving.

@ TsukasaZX, that is English, even I know what he's talking about and i speak Dutch 0.0