Wow thats perfect! I bet those graphics should translate well to the 84C .

Wow that looks cool. Maybe you could ask the author if you can port it, although I think that title logo needs more pixelating for the outline.

Moving to area by area is no problem at this stage, if i get time ill attempt an experiment.

Yeah, I thought about that too seeing that the screen in MiniTroid is actually 9x12 sprites, which is almost 8x12 sprites.

There are actually 4 BASIC ones, one of which has decent speed and dual layer ASCII, but it only has about 30 minutes of gameplay. The issue with the others isn't really the slow framerate as much as it is the unresponsiveness of keypresses, though (In Metroid II Evolution, for example, keypresses enters into effect 1 second after being registered, which makes precise movement nearly impossible.) As for the 12x9 maps this shouldn't be a problem since on the CSE you can fit 20x15 tiles that are 16x16 or scaled up 8x8. It would obviously require some redesign if some maps are too small, though.

I like . I wish the LCD supported 4 bit color mode with the basic color palette too because it would have made it mmuch easier to use old school sprites. Currently they have to be converteed to 16 bits prior being outputted on the screen.

True but the extra speed gain would have been nice.

I don't know but the old CFX calcs looked almost like they had 3 layers or something, due to how pixels looked like. However it might just have been due to poor lightning. They use 3 colors at once (which can be changed individually, but not via BASIC games) and the screen background is yellow-ish (although it can take an orange tint if you increase the contrast)