DKC Atlas Forum

If had a set of sprite animations for my own character, and I want to replace Donkey Kong with my own character via graphic hacking, is there a program avaliable? If such a program exists, if I write my own homebrew game that decodes animated sprites in the same format DKC does, would I be able to u...

Is this the format for the table at $BC8000?

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CODE_B5A0FC: AE 30 17 LDX $1730 ; $1730 is dma transfer table pointer CODE_B5A0FF: 98 TYA ; CODE_B5A100: 18 CLC ; CODE_B5A101: 65 40 ADC $40 ; CODE_B5A103: A8 TAY ; index Y is graphics source address CODE_B5A104: 9D 36 17 STA $1736,x ; set dma address CODE_B5A107: A5 3B LDA $3B ; tiles to upload in...

In DKC2, there is a similar code at $B5A919, only with the table located at $1732. Here is the code in DKC2 that generates the table at $1732. CODE_B59F40: E2 20 SEP #$20 ; CODE_B59F42: A5 70 LDA $70 ; CODE_B59F44: 4A LSR A ; CODE_B59F45: 4A LSR A ; CODE_B59F46: 4A LSR A ; CODE_B59F47: 4A LSR A ; CO...

Interesting. The actual DMA code just follows a list of updates that is generated through the non-vblank part of the game's code, and stops when encountering a bank that is in the $00-$7f range. All the trickery must be in the code that generates the list. EDIT: Woops. The accumulator is in 16-bit m...

DKC has a dynamic animation engine, where VRAM is constantly being updated, while the characters are being animated.

I've asked this question on here several times, but I have never got a response. Here are some facts I was a able to find on this website. 1) DKC animates sprites at 30fps 2) DKC has up to 14 animated objects, excluding bananas and HUD. 3) Objects cannot exceed 32 8x8 tiles, except for bosses. Now h...

Simion32 wrote:*checks RE code*

Actually, 15FPS is correct. My bad...

It was actually 1 image every 2 frames, in 30FPS (DKC SNES rendering speed). DOH'

Is there also a maximum amount of animated objects onscreen at once?

The website "girlsaskguys.com"

For those who never heard of it, it is a website filled with "dating advice" that is total nonsense.

Phyreburnz wrote:Now if somebody would say "your opinion is crap because of A, B, and C," that is much more acceptable.

A lot of people abuse that too. I've had experiences where people said stuff like "Your opinion is gay, because you shave your legs" and thought they had a valid argument.

I trick that a lot of trolls use to get around the logical fallacy of "ad hominem attacks" is by taking personal attacks like "You are stupid/gay/retarded" and simply changing the wording to "Your argument is stupid/gay/retarded" just to insult the other person, without...

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?110846-Why-Did-the-Atari-Lynx-Fail These people don't know what a "screen resolution" is. One guy points out that the Atari Lynx had a lower screen resolution than the Nintendo Game Boy, (and it does) and nobody gets his point. One guy even po...

Too bad Sega didn't have Rare at the time.. :| What are you talking about? Then DKC wouldn't exist! I like Snes better though and agree with Jomingo because at the time, I didn't even know they made widescreen TV's. You don't need a widescreen TV. The Genesis has 320 pixels in the same horizontal l...

Wow, that's insane, one time I got banned from a forum for having a avatar that was not related to the forum, like having a mario avatar on DKC-Atlas for an example, I was banned and they erased my account for it. Here is a rant I made, just to get this off my chess. I wrote this when I was angry, ...

Any 8-bit or 16-bit platformer that scrolls the player character 1 pixel per frame, and uses a 4fps walking animation is overrated. I could never understand why developers kept using that as their standard, even by the end of the 2d gaming era.

The word "troll" is overrated.

The Motorola 68000 (The cpu in the Sega Genesis) is vastly overrated. Did it have "blast prosessing"? :lol: By the way, does anyone else think Family Guy is overrated? I do like the Simson's though. If you got banned from a Mario hacking website, just for stating that the SNES is capable ...

The Motorola 68000 (The cpu in the Sega Genesis) is vastly overrated.

Am I the only person who can't find a screen recorder that doesn't expire after a week?

- My Little Pony Oh God!!! That's another reason why I hate ROM hacking sites. That group of 10 or so people that run 90% of ROM hacking sites, love posting Pony Porn on all of their sites. Back on the topic about ROM hacking documentation. Atleast I'm generous about giving documentation about home...

The idea of ROM hacking is awsome, but too many of them are run by the same group of 10 or so moderators, that all hold a flipping grudge against me. That's why I do homebrewing instead. They didn't let me have access all their documentation of how these game engines work, I had to start coding from...

ROM hacking website forums. Basically they work like this: The moderators order you to do all of his/her ASM work for him/her. You ask for documentation on the game that you've been ordered to ROM hack. They don't give you any required documentation because "documentation is exclusively for the...

I got this person named wupwup who harassed me, it was bad, it even tried to have cybersex with me, and it is 23, and I was only 14 at the time, overall, do something about it, take legal action. How do I report him? I asked my local policeman about a month ago, and he said that they're only allowe...

This guy named "smkdan" has been antagonizing me for the last 4 years. Here is his inflamatory PM he sent me on nesdev: Hi psycopathicteen, I'll start this off by saying I'm not here to antagonise you. I don't hate/despise you. Hate is a bit much for a petty internet squabble. This is a pr...

smkdan gets idiot-of-the-year award. http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=56044 http://nesdev.parodius.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=8845 It's really concerning that literally years have passed and you're still angry about drama that I would've forgotten ages ago if you didn't keep bringing it up...

A few days ago I tried registering at sonic-retro.org thinking it was some normal website, (register, log in, done!) but then I found out it is a little harder than that. Pretty much your stuck in a "validation forum" where first you half to make a post to convince the moderators that your...

When you masterbate watching Donkey Kong riding on himself.

I hate it when I make a post and get 10 different people insulting me, and having to argue with every single one individually.

by the way? You mean to tell me this was the same "Is DKC Atlas dying?" thread that was here last year?

Hitachi 6309 CPU. It came out in the late 80s and was one of the fastest 16-bit CPUs around but what was it used for? A stupid 8-bit computer (Tandy CoCo3) that doesn't even support hardware sprites. What is even stupider is that Tandy's next computer system had 16-bit graphics and audio hardware, b...

I've noticed less and less people are going on here regularly. It looks like this website is slowly but surely losing all of it's popularity. Wrong. Quality over quantity, any day. Most of the people who frequent this place are friendly and dedicated, so I'd say there is a great balance of people a...

My forum name is a more interesting way of spelling my real name.

Scraps69 wrote:Orchestrated music has nuances that computer generated music cannot imitate.

Not the MIDI-like orchestrated music that is overused in SNES RPGs.

I think you might be focusing too much on the negative advertisements of men heh. I've never seen an ad placing men as dumb except maybe stumbling when they see a beautiful woman. Where have you been for the last 20 years? Millions of innocent men get arrested for being VICTIMS of sexual violence e...

Sorry for delaying the next update of my homebrew game. My laptop caught a virus, and I won't be able to work on it until my laptop is fixed. In the mean time, I'm making a top 5 list of the most unimpressive graphical tricks that non-technical gamers find impressive. #5) Line Scroll Parallax in Gen...

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This article is sexist.

Men are portrayed as lazy, dumb, violent, perverted and misogynist. I know how women are portrayed as "sexy" by the media, but there are hundreds of educational documentaries about how women are portrayed by the media, but very few if any for how men are portrayed. In fact, I find the educ...

The Sega-16.com users actually believe the SNES's CPU takes 1/4 of a frame just write one sprite to the oam.

YoshiInAVoid wrote:This is amazing! How did you make it? I feel like such a noob since I can't figure out how to load a sprite or more than one layer of backgrounds at a time in SNES ASM

Your "sprite" routine, all it does is clear the OAM.

It scares me how some SNES games lag with only 4 enemies onscreen. Lagging with 20 enemies would be understandable, but 4 is just retarded. Did they use per-pixel collision as opposed to using collision boxes? Did they test collision with every individual background tile, as oppose to just the bg ti...

The SNES's CPU was never pushed to it's full potential. If I was there back then, I would be able to program games like Gunstar Heroes and Thunder Force 4. Pushing a lot of enemies onscreen doesn't take that much CPU power, unlike most people would believe.

I was planning on using that giant rotating robot dude as a boss later in the level.

aperson98 wrote:Check this out today I found what the Genesis sound system can do when pushed to it's fullest. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zG1H_88V ... re=related
Wow just wow I didn't think the Genesis had the capabilty to do this!

Too bad the song they chose was kind've lame.

I just love how Nintendo kept boasting over the SNES's ability for being able to do stupid things like transparency and mosiac, like they actually were that useful in games. :lol: A sort've unknown advantage the Genesis has over the SNES, is it's sprite system. Eventhough the SNES has a bigger maxim...

Here is something I hear a lot.

"the most popular companies have the best programmers"

Then why can I get significantly more sprites/objects/enemies onscreen than Capcom and Konami could without lagging?

Well, Kiddy's worked it out - by the sounds of it... (pardon the pun) That's a strange issue to leave present in the game; I'd have thought this would have been easily caught during testing. Of course, judging by the numerous other programming errors and oversights which plague the GBA ports (and e...

I love throwing a lot of enemies onscreen.

Quote Removed by Moderator Well I tested what DKC2 would have looked like on the MD and 32x. *NOTE: may not be exact. First the original Snes game. http://a.imageshack.us/img826/3756/skongquestuv10b3000copy.th.png What it would pretty much look like on Genesis. http://a.imageshack.us/img15/852/skon...

Tomarrow is my first day back to school, and the one thing I hate the most is being harrassed by women. Just because I have stutering speech problems does not mean I must be "desperate" and therefore a "rapist."

The FBI defines rape as "Any unwanted physical contact from a man." This includes unwanted kissing, hugging or touching as a form of rape. This same definition has been used in hundreds of anti-rape speeches, yet I seem to be the only one who catches it.

I'm aware of that; I do have experience in 65c816 ASM. I'm just trying to say, that just because you don't have 32bit doesn't mean you can't make the level that long. You can have a level as large as you want (within ROM space limits) using the same old 16-bit tile format. Yeah it'd require a littl...