Gonna keep this one pretty short because the title really tells you all you need to know lol. I was recently brought onto the SHC team and decided to try my hand at creating a re-implementation of the splash screen that's been used for entries the previous 2-3 years of the contest as both a challenge to myself and to make integration of whichever jingle wins the latest Mega Drive Music Contest much easier. Visually and functionally speaking, it's based on the lite version of the SHC splash that @MarkeyJester created for SHC 2021, though of course with entirely different code under the hood. I managed to make this over the course of a few days and I'm pretty proud of some of the tricks I managed to pull off. I could talk about it here, but that would spoil the surprise; take a look at the code and see for yourself. Installation of the binary version is identical to the S1/S2 and S3K versions that were distributed in years prior. If you were using the advanced users' version of the old splash screen, it is recommended that you use the source version of this implementation instead. The zip archive attached to this post contains both versions for the sake of simplicity. Enjoy and see you next contest!
