For instance, the square blocks in the slot machine bonus stage have a lot of individual rotations which cut down on the available VRAM, so it's nice that a single set of art is good for three different colors.
Sometimes the art reuse isn't immediately obvious, though. Here are the contents of CRAM during a special stage:
On the left side we can see the colors for the four kinds of spheres, followed by... the same colors? Except for white? This was really confusing, so I tried replacing the duplicate colors with something else. Some green should stand out.
And suddenly it became obvious.
Get the Blue spheres!
ReplyDeleteAvoid the Tomatoes!
Wow, neat!
ReplyDeleteI have to say, that's very clever. After all, they have all of those smaller, distant versions of the sphere in RAM, so having a star and plain version would use twice the space.
ReplyDeleteI likeToasty3D's comment; keep the green stars on the red spheres, and just tell the player they are killer tomatoes. Just like in the movie series and accompanying animated series (Attack of the Killer Tomatoes). Remember it; it was done by Fred Wolf Films, same as "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "Toxic Crusaders".
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