Battle chip menu is almost ready. Chips icon are done using "GPUTCHR" with custom font. However, I remember that the function "GPUTCHR" used decimal values for the scale parameter on previous versions of smilebasic but now It doesn't.

This looks like the Megaman Battle Network games for the GBA.

…and I like that.

I cannot tell you how excited I am for this. Could we get an estimated release window for this?

I'll try to use this as an entry to the contest in SBS. Obviously, I will change the assets to avoid copyright infringement.

What contest?

Where the sub-chip at dough

Nevermind, I went to the SBS. I think you stand a great chance. Now, I have no idea what everyone else is doing, but you seem to be working very hard on this. I can't wait to see what it turns out as. I'd like to help with this, but I feel like the only thing I could possibly do is help make original sprites for the final product. (I'd be honored to do that btw)

That would be great. Actually, I've lost a lot of time doing sprites because sometimes I'm not convinced that they look good. But I need to finish some stuff before that: -Battle chip effects. -Artificial inteligence for 3 entities. -Panel effects on damage(Paint them yellow when an attack is over them). -Win/Lose conditions.

Yeah, how would I be able to edit the sprites? If you upload it will it get taken down?

With Encryption or a "fake-game" that hide the shared files. ActorBug(Japanese guy) posted a program on the japanese wiki to compress all the files in a project to a single file and viceversa.(And it work pretty well. I have two copies of my project on the cloud: The compressed display 50476 and the uncompressed show 2367258)

I think I can upload a small game and the compressed file. Then, you'll need to use the program created by actorbug to uncompress the files. About encryption... I saw the implementation of the algorithm "md5" in java but I want to see if I can change actorbug's compressor to encrypt all the data.

Yeah, let me know when it's ready. Could I use Sprite Editor programs to edit them when they are uncompressed? I have one, and it works pretty well.

I'd imagine I'd be able to, but I'm still learning about how to help create stuff.

Do you already have a field program and matching tileset(s)?

I don't know what do you mean with that question. If you refer to a "program" that change the field of the battle, then yes, i have the tileset but I haven't done the events that change them in battle. If you refer to a program to handle the overworld, then no and I have no plans to do that.

(I meant an overworld.) The battle system takes up only one edit block of code, right? (I learned freelance, so I'm sorry that I don't use the proper terminology)

(I mean the slots. Does the battle engine only take up one slot?)

I use 2 slots: 0: Executable 3: compiled files. Right now I have 39 txt files in the project: -1 is the executable -1 is TH GRP editor. -1 is hosiken's font editor. -1 is the font file generated by the previous program. -4 are from lowerdash(Compiler, base file, generic code generator and key setter for lowerdash keywords). -The rest are the modules used on the game.

Well then, that leaves two slots for, I don't know, some crased MMBN fan such as myself to make a field executable or something.

That can be done with other module. One of my modules is called GAME_LOOP. It store another module and call the following functions. init_: Called once to create all the sprites and arrays. destroy_: Clear all the sprites and free the memory of the arrays. input_: Handle the input of the player. update_: Handle the logic of the game. render_: self explanatory.

The modules used in GAME_LOOP must implement these methods to work properly.(This is the equivalent of an "interface" in Java)

I usually just use tags with slightly different names. (@Init, @draw, @control, @return) I use @control to handle both button input and game logic, even though I know that's an impractical thing to do :v

(I don't really use lowerdash.)

Raimondz your still doing a amazing job thank you again for recreating my childhood in smilebasic!