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Posted By

Hendriks
on 2025-11-03
13:02:38
 Re: USSAS

Looking forward to this one! The videos are extremely interesting, as I am thinking about a fast side scroller as well. A different theme as yours, so don’t worry happy
Posted By

Andras
on 2025-11-03
12:48:40
 Re: USSAS

@Csabo kicsit komplikált, de így működik. Köszönöm.
Csabo1
 Re: USSAS

@Csabo it's a little complicated, but it works. Thank you.
Posted By

Csabo
on 2025-11-03
10:16:53
 Re: USSAS

Watch it on desktop? happy

Also, out of curiosity, I tried it on my Android tablet. Once I switched it to "Desktop site", it worked exactly like the desktop version of YouTube, the auto-translated Hungarian captions are there.
Posted By

Andras
on 2025-11-03
09:14:33
 Re: USSAS

Nincs magyar a nyelvek között Androidon sad
Valamennyire értem angol felirattal, de lehangoló, hogy nálatok van magyar automata fordítás, nálam pedig nincs
 Re: USSAS

There is no Hungarian among the languages ​​on Android sad
I understand it somewhat with English subtitles, but it's depressing that you have Hungarian automatic translation and I don't
Posted By

Csabo
on 2025-11-03
07:54:17
 Re: USSAS

Yeah, the problem is time. You wouldn't believe the effort it takes to properly subtitle video, even short ones. The automatic translation is good enough, so it's not worth the effort.
Posted By

gerliczer
on 2025-11-03
07:03:21
 Re: USSAS

@Andras: Mondom kapcsold be az automatikus angol feliratozást, utána kapcsold be az automatikus fordítást magyar nyelvre. Ugyan abban a menüpontban. Nekem FF-ban és Edge-ben (asztali) ment.
 Apologies to the international readers

As I already told, turn on the automatically generated English subtitles, after that turn on automatic translation to Hungarian. Both in the exact same menu item. It works for me in FF and Edge (both desktop).
Posted By

Andras
on 2025-11-03
06:45:18
 Re: USSAS

@gerliczer magyar fordítás nincs benne.
Posted By

Crown
on 2025-11-03
03:51:08
 Re: USSAS

Yeah you right, have to split it into two interrupts, remove like 24 lines on the top border area, and remove 26 lines on the bottom area. Essentially you have to replicate te border splits of a standard NTSC layout.

Commodore monitors have a very high tolerance on v-sync, I remember you can add around a 100+ lines to normal PAL screen on a 1084 monitor, before it falls out of phase and starts rolling.
Posted By

gerliczer
on 2025-11-03
02:16:49
 Re: USSAS

@Crown: Would it be really that easy? Wouldn't it move the active screen area down? Wouldn't that look ugly? And how would monitors like my 1901 react to such a modified signal?

@Andras: Turn on auto-generated English subtitles, then turn on Auto-translate to Hungarian.
Posted By

Andras
on 2025-11-02
23:49:17
 Re: USSAS

@Csabo Can we expect Hungarian subtitles for the videos?
Posted By

Csabo
on 2025-11-02
20:07:32
 Re: USSAS

Yep, yep, that is exactly what I tried to explain in my first video (apparently not very well grin).

The three fixed colors that are the same throughout the screen will be black, skin-tone and white. The sprites can only use these three, and then the per-character color will be for the background graphics. This approach is good for a couple of reasons: one, I don't have to worry about writing anything into the color memory, I can display the sprites only by displaying the characters, and also this guarantees that there will be no color clash.

Posted By

Verona
on 2025-11-02
20:04:06
 Re: USSAS

Epy I used that idea too. More colors in the background, if you cut on char color.
Posted By

Csabo
on 2025-11-02
16:52:25
 Re: USSAS

I think I mentioned it in one of the video; they are pre-shifted. I would not be able to hit 25FPS otherwise, and that's one of the overall goals that for me is a must.

Edit: #4 (YouTube) Scroll + move, and (somehow) Skoro.
gerliczer, Luca2
Posted By

cobbpg
on 2025-11-02
16:25:22
 Re: USSAS

Are you using pre-shifted sprites, or is all shifting done on the fly?
Posted By

gerliczer
on 2025-11-02
12:23:07
 Re: USSAS

@KiCHY: Should he? Or you do? surprised confused




twisted twisted twisted twisted twisted



I'm sorry. I'm so ashamed of myself. sad
KiCHY1
Csabo1
Posted By

Crown
on 2025-11-02
12:19:43
 Re: USSAS

Let me throw in an idea here. You're targeting a 2 frame game cycle, and I assume you'd like to support both PAL and NTSC, so 30 FPS on NTSC and 25 FPS on PAL.
Instead I'd recommend implementing PAL60 on PAL, which would get you 30 FPS in PAL as well, and the available number of cycles would be pretty much the same on both, minus the small interrupt code which generates PAL60.

PAL60 is widely supported by TVs and monitors, so it would be fairly compatible on the hardware level. On emulation level, it needs to be checked, but it's not a very complex thing to add support for it. Technically it's very simple to generate PAL60, you basically have to increase the $ff1d value by 50 (0x32) on the bottom border area, preferably right after the last displayed section. Obviously the frame is going to be 50 lines shorter, but if you are targeting NTSC as well, you don't loose anything, because you've already been forced to fit the NTSC cycle budget.

There is a huge difference in playing a game in 60FPS vs 50FPS, and the same is true for 30FPS vs 25FPS.
Posted By

KiCHY
on 2025-11-02
06:12:49
 Re: USSAS

I like these kinds of videos! Keep coming happy
Posted By

Csabo
on 2025-11-01
19:55:59
 Re: USSAS

#3 (YouTube): Move... but not scroll :-/
Luca, Litwr2
krzycho751, gerliczer2
Posted By

Csabo
on 2025-10-31
20:00:45
 Re: USSAS

#2 (YouTube): Overlap happens.
gerliczer, krzycho7512
Luca, Litwr, TRP3
Posted By

Csabo
on 2025-10-31
10:57:41
 Re: USSAS

Yeah, KiCHY is insanely good. I only used his old mockups from here. The thing is, I would only want to involve him (or anyone else) if the project actually looks fully viable. We'll see!
Posted By

Epy
on 2025-10-31
10:35:44
 Re: USSAS

Really good idea to avoid color clash is using char color as backcolor. Same technic in Pets Rescue and Mad Pod Race as I know. KiCHY is good at this kind of graphics. I'm looking forward the progress of the development happy
Posted By

gerliczer
on 2025-10-31
08:41:17
 Re: USSAS

That's the good stuff! Moar pleez! thumbsup
Posted By

Luca
on 2025-10-31
06:11:57
 Re: USSAS

Some backgrounds are recognisable under any workstage wink
Posted By

Mad
on 2025-10-31
03:33:49
 Re: USSAS

Just seen it, nice. Seems it will be more some sort of a real arcade game. Good work.
Posted By

Csabo
on 2025-10-30
20:15:26
 USSAS

I'm working on an (U)ntitled (S)ide (S)crolling (A)ction (S)tabber. I'll try to post daily updates for a while, see how it goes. I'll keep it all in this one thread.

#1 (YouTube)
Luca, Litwr, BSZ3
gerliczer, TRP, krzycho751, siz, Murphy5

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