Backgrounds as bosses, game levels, 8-way with either a platform/status bar solutions

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Which is the difference? What solution was arranged?


https://j.gifs.com/98Ozq4.gif

https://j.gifs.com/mwGxwr.gif

The word is yours.

First one is a raster effect (i.e. changing scroll position mid-screen). HUD is sprites, so no problem there.
Second one has the boss rendered as tiles and moving in tile steps and looks awful =P

Also: Super Mario Bros 3 has a status bar and 8-way scrolling. The trick is that the nametable arrangement is vertical (what people usually call "horizontal mirroring" >_>), so the tilemap is 32×60 tiles. Some of that is reserved for the statusbar, the rest is used for the level, meaning there isn't much room for height (some cheating aside). It still works surprisingly well.

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Originally Posted by Sik

First one is a raster effect (i.e. changing scroll position mid-screen). HUD is sprites, so no problem there.
Second one has the boss rendered as tiles and moving in tile steps and looks awful =P

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Thanks.

And here:

https://j.gifs.com/zmQPrm.gif

Same case?

I'm thinking similar to Contra's?

At the 1:30 mark

https://youtu.be/SoEN0TStsiE?t=91