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Okay I've got that previous move working, but I want to edit it. Thus far it makes a trail of the same object appear four times in a row with a specific animation:

Code:

; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Subroutine for Sonic's hammer spin animation
; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
; ||||||||||||||| S U B R O U T I N E |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 
Sonic_HammerSpin:
move.b ($FFFFF603).w,d0 ; move the current button press to d0
btst #1,($FFFFF602).w ; is Down button pressed?
beq.s HS_End1 ; if not, return
and.b #$40,d0 ; get only button A
beq.s HS_End1 ; if A was pressed, branch
tst.b ($FFFFFFCC).w ; was jumpdash flag set?
beq.s HammerSpin_Cont ; if yes, branch
;bra.s HammerSpin_Hearts
HS_End1:
rts
 
HammerSpin_Cont:
move.b  #1,($FFFFFFCC).w                ; set jumpdash flag
move.b  #$20,$1C(a0)                    ; show hammer animation
move.w  #$BC,d0                         ; set jumpdash sound
jsr    (PlaySound).l                   ; play jumpdash sound
 
HammerSpin_Hearts:
cmpi.b #$20,$1C(a0) ; is Sonic in the jumping animation? 
bne.w HS_End2 ; if not, return 
bsr     SingleObjLoad
bne     HS_End2
move.b  #$10,(a1)
move.l  8(a0),d0
move.l  $C(a0),$C(a1)
move.b  #0,$1C(a1) 
btst    #0,$22(a0)
beq     @Set1stXPos
neg     $10(a1)
move.b  #2,$1C(a1)

@Set1stXPos:
move.b  #0*2,$2A(a1)
cmpi.b #$20,$1C(a0) ; is Sonic in the jumping animation? 
bne.w HS_End2 ; if not, return 
bsr     SingleObjLoad
bne     HS_End2 
move.b  #$10,(a1)
move.l  8(a0),8(a1)
move.l  $C(a0),$C(a1)
move.b  #1,$1C(a1)
@Set2ndFrameDuration:
move.b  #2*2,$2A(a1)
cmpi.b #$20,$1C(a0) ; is Sonic in the jumping animation? 
bne.w HS_End2 ; if not, return
bsr     SingleObjLoad
bne     HS_End2
move.b  #$10,(a1)
move.l  8(a0),d0
move.l  $C(a0),$C(a1)
move.b  #2,$1C(a1)
btst    #0,$22(a0)
beq     @Set3rdXPos
neg     $10(a1)
move.b  #0,$1C(a1)

@Set3rdXPos:
move.b  #4*2,$2A(a1)
cmpi.b #$20,$1C(a0) ; is Sonic in the jumping animation? 
bne.w HS_End2 ; if not, return
bsr     SingleObjLoad
bne     HS_End2 
move.b  #$10,(a1)
move.l  8(a0),8(a1)
move.l  $C(a0),$C(a1)
move.b  #3,$1C(a1)
 
@Set4thFrameDuration:
move.b  #6*2,$2A(a1)

HS_End2:
clr.w   $10(a0) ; clear X-velocity to move sonic directly down
tst.w   $12(a0)                                 ; is Sonic moving upwards?
bpl.s   HS_End3                                 ; if not, branch
clr.w   $12(a0)                                 ; clear X-velocity to move sonic directly down
 
HS_End3:
rts

What I want it to do is make a trail of these four objects in a never-ending loop until the player's animation changes. Any idea how to keep it going?

 

Finally someone else who is making unique character move sets! Tired of seeing only the spindash, peelout, or homing attack in other hacks. Wish I could help you with your issue, good luck though, I believe in ya!

 

Well it's really just a tweak of my already quite old Amy hack. I'm making new revisions to make everything work closer to how she did in Advance 1. This will refine the hearts trail from her hammer attacks.

 

Oh Alright, should be labeled Amy's Hammer attack then lol naw I'm fooling. Also I believe I've played that old version.

 

All you need to do now, is create a variable/flag and set it when you hit the capsule (I'm guessing you would just set a unused address to something instead as you are using Hivebrain), and clear it after the restart flag is set in the 'Got Through' Routine. Just tried it myself, and what needs to be done further than that, fixing a lot of screen-locking and art issues, and a few other things in the Signpost Object that prevent it from working properly.

 

Got it fixed now. I took some code from the original title screen code & added it to the Splash Title.

Good thing at TitleScreen i made it JMP SPLASH & not overwrite original title screen.

 

All you need to do now, is create a variable/flag and set it when you hit the capsule (I'm guessing you would just set a unused address to something instead as you are using Hivebrain), and clear it after the restart flag is set in the 'Got Through' Routine. Just tried it myself, and what needs to be done further than that, fixing a lot of screen-locking and art issues, and a few other things in the Signpost Object that prevent it from working properly.




I'm actually going with a different plan. I'm going to make it so the animal capsule will also run SBZ 2's code but when Sonic reaches the end of the level right after the animal capsule, he will advance to the next level.

 

I am having problem with the spindash

When I spindash the tiles are 4 pixels above ground

I dont know why this happens and what is the problem

Here is a picture of the problem:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2drrb3u0o22rnbi/s1built002.jpg?dl=0

Thanks for any help

 

You've importeted the mappings improperly. The simplest way of fixing it is probably to either use SonMapEd or Flex to move each Spindash sprite four pixels downwards (by using the arrow keys and holding Ctrl in SME's case) and then re-save the mappings.

 

Thanks Selbi it worked

 

My SonLVL suddenly decided to be a bitch and not save my object layouts.



And when I view it in SovLVL, it's perfectly fine.



The hell is going on? I have no clue as to why this is happening...

 

YOu'll have to reload the layout and start placing your objects over again. This particular glitch got me, too...

 

Alright Bagumba, how many objects do you have in that level, you could have too many, which can cause all of them to not load? I've never had a glitch like this with SonLVL.

Edit: Wait, they are loading, sorry I read your question too quickly and didn't look at the pictures very long, guess it is a SonLVL glitch, but it hasn't happened to me before. The limit is still an important thing to know though. S1-S2 255 objects, and if you don't have the ring manager in S1, the rings count towards the object count (I think, don't hesitate to correct me), S3-S3K over 800 or maybe its less not really sure.

 

Is it possible that there's a missing terminator at the start of the layout data? If it's the first layout file in the ROM or otherwise not immediately following a previous layout file, you could try putting dc.w -1, 0, 0 before the incbin.

Otherwise, are you sure SonLVL is editing the right file?

 

I'm about to make my Custom Bosses (Yes from the Castlevania series, all in one art hopefully), but before I do, Is there a size limit (Width & Height) to bosses, without having any effect to any other loaded objects? I ask cause a few months back I tried Loading Gaibon, but the size of him had GHZ's platforms vanish, but could still stand on them. this continued till he was gone.

 

You have several limits to account for (this is the scenario for 28 tile horizontal resolution mode).

The first limit is the sprite count limit, the sprite table in VRAM consists of $280 bytes, holding a potential $50 sprites at any one time. The HUD, the platforms, the main character, they all consist of sprites, so your potential is now lower than $50.

The second limit is a horizontal display limit, the VDP is capable of displaying up to approximately $20 sprites when drawing a scan-line, the lowest (above $20th) priority sprites displaying on the same scan-line shall become masked (masked is a misnomer, but you get the concept).

The third limit is Sonic 1's sprite map format, which restricts the sprites on the X and Y position range of $100 pixels ($80 pixels from the centre of the object).

 

Alrighty. Guess i'm gonna have to shrink some of them in order for all of them to work.

also...

Where in Xenowhirl's Sonic 2 Disassembly is the spindust files? I know where the art is, but at first, looking at s2.asm, I thought mappings & dplc (if any)  they were Obj08, but seen when it looked corrupt that it wasn't. where are those files located

 

Can you please fix your grammar? I don't quite understand what your trying to ask. Are you saying that the files are corrupt or that you can't find the files?

 

the question...

Like i said

Thinking the Maps & DPLC was obj08, I loaded them with spindust's art & it wasn't it.

 

I have two questions that I'm pretty sure I've seen answered before but I can't find the answers to. Both questions are for Sonic 1's Hivebrain Disassembly. (The Project 128 version if it matters)

1. How do you change the duration of the title screen?

2. How do I make it so the shield art won't flip (I'm not sure if x or y but not both) when you jump?