For all you googlers out there. Here's the newest screenshot:

And here's the post containing the newest version.

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Stop reading. Watch the screenshot VV


That's right, 4 level grayscale, polygon 3d Star Fox. I've only been working on it for about a week so it still has a long way to go, but it's still awsome.

A few days ago, I searched polygon 3d graphics on google, once I got the general idea for how they are stored in memory, I made a wire frame program. I realized how easy it actually was because I had a 3d cube on my calculator in about two hours, so then I thought, star fox? To make this work, it had to be grayscale because without it, you couldn't see anything. To accommodate this, I changed the screen to 48 by 48. Then after a long while of creating an arbitrary triangle and a quadrilateral drawer. I had 3d graphics.

Every thing in the game is super easy to change, I can add new objects, change the level, and make the enemies better. Right now, the enemies suck, but that's because they were the most recent addition.

Here are some general specs on the game:
48x48 screen
60 hz 4 level grayscale
The rest of the screen is updated at 7.5 hz.
Gameplay is held at 15 fps for now.
Each "tile" is 48x48
The tilemap is 9*12. (deeper than wide)

If anyone hates my sprites, I'll gladly accept new ones. Even new enemies that I haven't created yet. Just watch star fox snes on youtube. I'm a programmer, not a spriter.

I'll keep posting progress as it comes.

That looks awesome
I am not a spriter either.
How hard would it be to make the screen larger (64*64 or full-screen) while keeping good speed?

I don't think I can go any bigger.

Grayscale wise:

48*48 = 18% cpu
64*64 = 31% cpu
96*64 = 47% cpu

Then drawing the triangle and quads takes most of the processing time, so if those had to do more, it might really slow down. It's already running at about 90%. And I still have to add more enemies and more objects.

But, in the end, if I can, I'll bump it up to 64*64.

WOAH! That's awesome! Can't wait to see how this turns out! 
(don't forget about barrel rolls  )

I'd never forget the barrel roll. That's part of why I put the screen at the top instead of centered. This way there's room for "Do a barrel roll!"

Holy crap! How did you make this? o.o

Straight up ASM or Axe?

What about having a 2 calc setup? One sends a message over the usb port to start the music when it starts the level, the other plays it through a link port speaker!

That's not raycasting......*drool*

Something to help poeple ignore the small screen space is a really fancy HUD. it helps a lot to see purpose in the bars of white.

Edit: Oh, it is raycasting! doesn't look like it to me, but still awesome!

Edit2: Wait, I'm confused.....

You could have incoming transmissions from Peppy at the bottom  (not Slippy )

Btw, are you thinking about using all that black space at the bottom for text and stuff?