so i had an idea for saving space on the main sprite page, i would like to try putting the island sprites on another sprite page, but how do i specify the page to take the sprite from? is there a command to specifying the page to use, like specifying the display to use.

can you help me? on the mario engine thing?

I can try. there's a nice tutorial on sbs about spanim btw

You can't use two sprite pages at the same time. If you change it, then the current sprites on the screen will look different. You can load the map with graphic function instead. Those functions are slower than using sprites but it's good to use them for graphics that doesn't change.

ok, how would I do it with graphic functions?

LOAD "GPR2:MAP.GRP",0 DISPLAY 1 GCOPY 2,XI,YI,XF,YF,XT,YT,0 (XI,YI);(XF,YF) are the coordinates that surround the map. (XT,YT) is the coordinate where you want to paste the map.

ok thank you, I will try that, though only one problem, how would I scale it up lets say 10x the size?

There are actually....zero tutorials on animating sprites....