Did you try to widen the area where we have to send the ball by using tiles instead of sprites?
This should allow the size of the area to vary depending on the difficulty.
The size of the target area already vary depending of the difficulty:
- Easy : 32 x 32 pixels
- Medium : 16 x 32 pixels
- Hard : 16 x 16 pixels
Anyway, I have no more room in VRAM to put tiles in alternative color.
Allow me to give 1 suggestion:
The ball pitcher can consist of tiles + 3 sprites.
The sprites that overlap are 2 at the top (green and yellow) and 2 at the bottom (green and white)
In this way you avoid flickering while maintaining the graphic aspect
I think the ball is made up of 2 sprites, so you will never have sprites overlaps
This is a demo of sprites + tiles and no flickering Demo
Can you explain what you did? I don't know what I'm supposed to see. ^^
If you can make a ROM, it could be easier for me to check what you did through Meisei or Emulicious's VRAM viewer.
In "Final.dsk" run "Final.bas"
in "Final.asm" you can read a not optimized asm-code used in dsk file.
The starting point is that in rom file I see the ball pitcher consisting of 4 colors in 8 pixels.
I then used sprites + tiles to show the possibility of overcoming this limit.
In my file you see only a static image of course. But we have the ball pitcher and the ball on the left without flicker
I have tried it on the CocoaMSX an runs fine. Congratulations for the hard job done here! I'll try to make some time to load it on my Padial LPE Flash Cartridge and let you know.
