I need help making a better animation code, this one when used causes a lot of slowdown in the game, i would like to maybe use spanim..? but how would i make it only go when the circle pad is pressed (using my circle pad movement code is preferred) so just up down left and right. if you could help that would be awesome! thanks, -*J.P.*

Check this key [DFDEES3]. I haven't commented the code but what it does is store the state of the animation (And using the button constants to use the same states of the buttons) and play the animation if the state change. Also, call vsync once per cycle (After doing all the changes on the screen).

I don't know if you have any other uses for D_ANIM or L_ANIM than what you show here, but from looking at the help function for SPANIM, you should be able to replace lines 634-640 and 648-654 with a single SPANIM code each. Maybe something like SPANIM 200,"3",5,1108,5,1109,5,1110,1111

As far as functionality with the circle pad goes, you should be able to detect if the circle pad is being pressed, and then you could use SPSTOP to stop animation when the circle pad isn't being pressed.

I messed up the code up there. Should be SPANIM 200,3,5,1108,5,1109,5,1110,5,1111,0

Take a look at how I did animation on the game I sent you

ok thanks guys, ill look into all of those