Thanks TheCoder1998!

Awesome AssemblyBandit! I hope that ticalc accepts it soon so we can play it, although I doubt it, considering there are files that haven't been approved for two weeks now. In the meantime you can maybe upload it here and poke an Omni staff or Cemetech.

*pokes Sorunome so that when someone uploads a tutorial or file on Omnimaga,OmnomIRC notifies the entire channel and highlights some of the active admins and juju *

Now I hope this game won't permanently halt my game progress, because I have really been waiting for it for a while and I think I might end up being addicted

you're welcome 
also i can't remember a decent pacman game for the ti 84+SE.
i think i know what i'm gonna do tomorrow 

Quigibo's version was kinda good, as well as the 1999 one. However the 1999 one doesn't fit in one screen, so you can't see everything at once.

Yeah I got the idea from Cemetech (SAX) actually

@DJ: I have enough problems with the downloads as is! A notifier would be nice, but its hard to find admins sometimes, sometimes it takes longer to approve than ticalc.org!

Here's the link: PacMan


*Buttonz and Frogger have also been updated. Buttonz now has lives and in Frogger, the limit is now 4 cars per lane to avoid impossible win situations, timers have been adjusted for the fly and alligator, and now if you beat the level fast enough, you get extra points.

Thanks, that game is a beast! I'm glad its finally out, I really got tired of working on it. I realized how much I hate being constrained to do something a specific way. That game won't be updated anytime soon! I would like to address those issues but I'm bored with it for now. Different mazes will probably be added, the flicker will be reduced (maybe removed), I'll probably reduce the ghost collision all around (its at minus 2 pixels now), I like the pixel increment with the eyes , but I'm not sure about the pellets. Right now its time to do some R&D. I'm creating more routines and testing out different stuff. Once I get my libraries updated and organized, games will come out much faster. I really just want to hibernate right now and stay out of sight for a bit to get things situated

Yeah, to remove the flicker I would use the screen swapping technique but I would have to change alot of the code. To reduce flicker I was just going to keep a second copy of the background on the other screen that I could copy before erasing to keep the sprite on the screen longer. It would be easy to implement but I'm not sure how much it would reduce the flicker. R&D stands for research and development. I want to make some optimized engines for different scenarios and see the limits on what can be done. It would help me out knowing what can be pulled off with what so that I can apply it to future games. I can pull off a 4 way smooth scrolling rpg engine, but I want to know the optimized resolution. I want to test out the best way to make a horizontal scrolling engine, how many sprites can I have, and how fast can it scroll. For instance, in Mario I'm thinking 160 mode with hardware scrolling. I doubt it can scroll that fast so I'll probably make the levels with a lot of blocks and stuff to keep Mario from being able to move around to quick anyway. He *has* to be around 8x8 because there is a huge performance gain when using small sprites. Because of his size it leaves a lot of room for the sky. So the levels will be multi-tiered frequently to take up the unused spaced. Enemies can't be too bright and there has to be very limited numbers and ideally they shouldn't be allowed to travel over a detailed background. I would like to test different scenarios out and make a good horizontal scrolling engine that I can apply to other games as well. I still haven't even taken my calc apart yet or thoroughly reviewed the rom. One trick I use to get a screenshot is to make a debug key and when I press it, it draws something off screen. That instantly makes the screen go crazy but since I use the ON key to exit the app all I have to do is keep pressing 2nd then ON until it turns off without altering anything. When I turn the calc back on, the screen gets reset except for the GRAM and the TIOS doesn't bother redrawing anything except for the cursor and battery icon. I just run the screenshot program and edit out the cursor and icon in Paint.net. Now, how did the calc know to reset the screen? Another cool thing is that only the start of a window has to be on the screen, it can end wherever and not make the screen go crazy. There is also a second level of craziness that upsets the calc so much that it does a ram reset immediately. When I figured out the sequence to start the screen for the banned one, it was based off the datasheet and display ram alone, I never checked to see how the calc does it. I really have to look through the ram, take apart the calc and see which pins go where and if there is access to them. I got this new oscilloscope and I've only turned it on to test it out...

I'll update PacMan later! And of course I've seen it, that video is probably the best demo of the TI84+C's horizontal scrolling and background capabilities! Mario is going to be based off SMB1 with a different level style.