Hello-
I actually have a few quesitons and was wondering if anyone had any advice.
I wanna display a bunch of text on the screen, like as much as possible for one line, but I can only display 8 sprites per screen, true (right now the font are sprites in a chr file)? But I see more than eight letters of text on a line of the screen all the time in games(title screens etc.) wtf?
also (and this is just a whim) what if I made the text I want to display just one long background that scrolls vertiaclly upwards? does that make any sense? theoretically it sounds easier but I'm pretty new to all this?
**Maybe I'm overhtinking (or underthinking) this, is there an easier way to program text onto a screen (since that's pretty much all my program will be), like with a hex editor?
I was also wondering what to do next as far as developing my program is concerned, I have the graphics created, a pallette, what else do I have to get together before I can start experimenting with programming the rom?
sorry for sounding like a tard. But you guys knowledgable and cool
Thanks
Matt
I actually have a few quesitons and was wondering if anyone had any advice.
I wanna display a bunch of text on the screen, like as much as possible for one line, but I can only display 8 sprites per screen, true (right now the font are sprites in a chr file)? But I see more than eight letters of text on a line of the screen all the time in games(title screens etc.) wtf?
also (and this is just a whim) what if I made the text I want to display just one long background that scrolls vertiaclly upwards? does that make any sense? theoretically it sounds easier but I'm pretty new to all this?
**Maybe I'm overhtinking (or underthinking) this, is there an easier way to program text onto a screen (since that's pretty much all my program will be), like with a hex editor?
I was also wondering what to do next as far as developing my program is concerned, I have the graphics created, a pallette, what else do I have to get together before I can start experimenting with programming the rom?
sorry for sounding like a tard. But you guys knowledgable and cool
Thanks
Matt