This. I don't know about other people, but just THINKING about how little others have done with waaaaaay more programming know-how than me, discourages me sooo much.

Don't know if you're using Apps, ASM, or TI-BASIC... I once did a system for graph screen menues in TI-BASIC for a TI-83+. Ended up having to abstract that into a whole separate program, to prevent Goto-related lag. (Gotos work by searching through each Lbl from the beginning of the program.) I point this out because you're likely going to have to do the same thing (if using TI-BASIC) -- especially given the variance in the menues (main, items, Pokemon, attacks, ...).

My point? You can get this done, sure... But if it's in TI-BASIC, it's either gonna be multiple programs or one very, very laggedy-ass program.

Still, though, it's an interesting project. Screenshots (if possible) would be pretty interesting to look at.

You never answered if you are using BASIC or ASM. xD I prefer ASM... BASIC games lag a lot.

Srry srry about lack of info. I have been busy. haha. I am programming in Ti-Basic, simply because it is really the only programming language that I know. and @DavidJCobb - you were right on the money. I had to redo my warp system, to many end-block buildups. (ERR:MEMORY) lol. I had finals to study for this weekend, and I took finals today so not much has been done since my last post, HOWEVER, I will not rob you guys of screenshots as evidence.



The tileset for interior (subject to change)

Grey's house downstiars

sorry about the numbers in the corner. those are there temporarily for testing/mapping purposes.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 21 2009, 10:34 pm by ProtoTank.

Sweet! This looks so cool! How much space does the TI have on it? Is it enough to contain all 150 Pokemon sprites on it?

It has 24K of user RAM and up to 2 MB of ROM.
He'll just have to be tricky for the pokemon sprites.

How fast is the framerate? BASIC programs are known to be really slow ...

The frame rate is decent. My program has "real(" functions that hook into an assembly library and execute rendering operations from that. The only prerequisite is that xLIB is downloaded and installed on your calculator. A small price to pay for the leisure of avoiding nasty slow rendering methods that i used to use... like scatterplots .

You want to talk about discouraging?


From what I can tell, all of the godly things like this require ASM skill... which I lack . I wish I could get me some ASM skill...

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 22 2009, 4:05 am by ProtoTank.

A greyscale game like that is hard to make ... Yes, it requires ASM. I made a program for viewing greyscale images in ASM. Basically you just swap between two image buffers, one appearing for 1/3rd of a frame and one appearing for the other 2/3rds of the frame.

I'd show you my program, but I recall there being a minor instability with a certain key combination and I don't want you to lose your data.
So here is a bitmap that I used: [attach=5221]

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Greyscale does NOT require asm!! I hate to contradict a mighty body like you FaRTy, but this is the best news I have come across in a while.

http://www.omnimaga.org/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=166

It's not 100% BASIC. ;o With BASIC you can alternate two frames really fast, but it still flickers or makes weird patterns ... Also I usually use 4 colors, not 3. (3'd probably be a little simpler, though... Just alternate the two frames instead of display frame 1, wait one step, display frame 2, wait two steps, repeat. ;o)
I just read the whole readme. xD I don't think putting real(20, etc. after every single line of code is very useful.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Dec 24 2009, 8:38 am by FaRTy1billion.

Yeah, the silly thing is though, the programs written for the demo during the readme don't work. I hate to be a pain, but Farty, how do for( loops work? I don't get the syntax. If you could explain with an example that would be awesome. Thanks

IIRC, on a TI-83+, it's

:FOR Var, Start, Stop, Increment
:your code here
:End

It's basically the same as

:Start -> Var
:WHILE Var < Stop
:your code here
:Var + Increment -> Var
:End

If you finish this I will go buy a TI-83/84 or w/e this is on and play this like a game boy when they first came out. [that would be ALL the time...]