Before I make such a drastic shift in direction in my game, I'd like to
solicit the opinions of the list. Should I cut out the messages,
considering them a luxury I cannot afford? Should I instead look to trim
down images further and/or change to a joystick for input? Is there
another option that I'm not considering and should?
I had a really tight squeeze with my 255 game multicart menu. It was a lot
of text for 4k.
Are you really using all 26 alphabet characters? Maybe you can reword some
messages to avoid using less common letters like V or X, then drop the data
for those characters. And null terminating messages sometimes saves
space. Also, you can combine a few letter graphics like "U" and "H", or
"I" and "T". I got this from Dark Mage/Stellar Track.
U
dc.b $7C ; | XXXXX | $F549
dc.b $C6 ; |XX XX | $F54A
dc.b $C6 ; |XX XX | $F54B
H
dc.b $C6 ; |XX XX | $F54C
dc.b $C6 ; |XX XX | $F54D
dc.b $C6 ; |XX XX | $F54E
dc.b $FE ; |XXXXXXX | $F54F
dc.b $C6 ; |XX XX | $F550
dc.b $C6 ; |XX XX | $F551
You sound like you want to stick with 4k, but why not go up to an 8k
cartridge? That would give you a lot of freedom.
-Paul
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