people are going to be staring at me when I'm shouting out Peppy quotes in math class...

In the asteroid level in the snes star fox, the scenery isn't made out of any rendered polygons at all (there isn't really much scenery anyway ). The asteroids themselves are scaled sprites. So, in the asteroid level (which looks like it will be in the game by looking at Magic Banana's Lylat System mockup), will you be using sprites or making 3d models for the asteroids? If you choose to go with asteroid sprites, I made some at different sizes (assuming that you won't scale them, but draw different sprites for the asteroids' distances). I also made a mockup for what it would look like in the game, because mockups look cool .

Yeah, I wasn't sure what would be polygons and what would be sprites so I left the enemies alone. Oh, don't forget about the asteroid with that nice grin going on.  

@thepenguin77
Looks pretty nice so far, and I know it's just gonna keep getting better and better. Sadly, the Fall Semester for college has started for me, so I won't be able to do as much as I have over the summer. I'm not gonna stop spriting, but I'm letting you guys know that i won't be able to dish out as many awesome screens as before (except if you catch me when I have some free time over the weekend )

First a little background. Like I said earlier, I had to make a custom font routine. But since the whole small font map is about 2kb or something, I just left it out. Instead, I go to _sFont_len, and use the page number from the bcall to look for the start of the font table.

The difference between the two is that Kerm Martian tried to play it on an 83+ and said it wasn't working. He told me that it crashed when it was searching for the font. So I switched to using _Load_sFont instead. That was the only change, and it still doesn't work on os's 1.xx. The problem is that I have no way to test on those calculators.

Woah!  This is incredible!  The Penguin, you're doing an amazing job at coding it, and Magic Banana and yunhua are doing an amazing job spriting this.  Wow.  Excellent work.  Oh, and I think +10 respect for one post is higher than I've seen before.

Wonderful job!

You know, if you were to enable music for this game, I could make a pretty sweet rendition of the Star Fox 64 Versus music

Oh wait, there was 83+ support?? I was sure this game was only gonna be for 15 MHz calcs

It's just for 15MHz, all of his problems were caused because of the fact that he didn't know that.

I was just wondering...is the 3D in this engine capable of full rotation? It would be really cool to use this for games like Descent! Can you only face forward, like raycasting, or can you look up and down?

Ooh! If that is possible, maybe you could do an "all range mode" style of play like in the n64 version of starfox! I always liked that part the most.

No, it doesn't do rotation. That would require much more math. I actually sat on the couch for about an hour moving my arms in different rotations trying to visualize how you could rotate coordinates. But thankfully I realized that starfox doesn't rotate them either. I was envisioning Descent too (though I've always thought it was called destination saturn) but I think that would be way too slow with the numbers of polygons. Plus the rotation would give it enough calculations to really slow it down.

If you haven't figured it out, this means no "all range mode."

You know, if you were to enable music for this game, I could make a pretty sweet rendition of the Star Fox 64 Versus music

That would require way too much processor time. Any spare time I have would be going towards a bigger screen anyways.

I'm all for the 83+ support!

Ahh! Stop posting while I'm posting. lol. I don't see any possible way to make this happen on the 83+. By the end of this, I wouldn't doubt that the program will be 20kb + 5kb for program data and it will be using 20kb of storage memory. Not to mention the lack of crystal timers and 6MHz.

will the bosses be sprites or made of polygons? i'm particularly wondering about andross; i don't think he wouldn't seem the same if he was a sprite...

It would be nice to add the asteroid field as shown in another screenshot on another page. It looks quite cool. Unless sprite scaling is too slow with so many of them?

If you add asteroid field you show also add the out of this dimension or black hole worlds