Jack is back!

It sounds good, I will be attentive to his work, I am very interested in this kind of new games and I would like to thank you for his effort.

Thank you, John.
But, I was referring to this Msx-1 game.

Let' s the sprite flickering dance begin with the msx1 vdp and multicolor enemies

You can use two or three sprites per character, avoiding at most putting 2 colors on the same line because the invisible parts do not count. So you can put 4 multicolored characters next to each other without blinking.

Hello @Pippo ,

Thanks for the info but i'm not sure if i understand you. When you mean change the SAT, you mean vary the plane of the VPD in which the sprite will appear, right?

The latter is what I do when there are more than four sprites per line. I rotate the plane of the VDP in which the sprites appear as a round ribbon, causing them to appear in a plane with a lower priority than they were, except for the last sprite, the one that makes "5th sprite" who is painted in the most prioritary plane.

If anyone has any other better way to avoid sprite's flickering, I'd be grateful to hear about it.

Thanks

Hello @Pippo,
"as far as I know, when you swap the "SAT", Sprite 4 (5th Sprite) becomes Sprite 0."
That's what i'm doing. I hope experts can show me how to avoid it.
Thaks for all.

Forget my message above, it's not true.

Verry nice!!

@Juanmi
I've tested both versions on two MSX1 real machine (Sony HB-10P & Philips VG-8020) using Rookie Drive cartridge for the disk format version (DSK) and the MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD cartridge for the ROM version, in this case I had to use the option /U (Disables subslots and set MegaFlashROM SCC+ as unique device available) when i flashed it to run it correctly.
The truth is that I haven't tested it much on machines higher than MSX1 because the Kralizec version is already available for those machines (sorry). I only tested on an emulator for MSX2 machines o higher. I'll check next weekend on a MSX2 real machine (Sony HB-F9S) with the MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD and the Rookie Drive cartridge.

@fregarni

Kralizec's MSX2 version it's unbeatable, but I don't think that's an excuse for an MSX1 game don´t works on an MSX2 or higher.
The problem (using /U or not) it's that the game freezes when you press fire to start playing. The game freezes on the title screen.

If I want to play Bombjack, I'll play the Kralizec version of course. I was only telling you this in case you wanted to create a rom without bugs, for the mere fact of your personal satisfaction for doing things right.

In any case, don't pay much attention to me, practically no one plays in real anymore, people are satisfied with watching a video on YouTube or just 4 screenshots

@Juanmi
I have tested the game, both the DSK version and the ROM, on a SONY HB-F9S MSX2 (real machine) and it works correctly. I have tested the game on Mitsubishi Ml-G1 ES on openMSX emulator and it works. When I have tested it on the Panasonic FS-A1WX, it is true that it hangs when starting the game. I have already fixed this bug and updated the version on my itch.io page.
I sincerely thank you for reporting the bug (it's corrected, thank you very much).

Any plans for an cartridge release?

@fregarni

For you information, I tried your game on a Canon V-20 using a Carnivore2 and it works perfectly!

Thanks for releasing this amazing game