Topic: Petit Computer

So many exclamation points...
anyways, not doing much with PTC atm. Also, I know some person on another site who says "Python and C beat BASIC any day of the week".
pfft what malarkey

EDIT: Counted the exclamation points in both of Hamjam's posts, there were twenty.

Can you load a custom font onto the touch screen? If so, how? Also: Temple Raid log entry No. 2 (or was it 3?)
*Added option to retry a level or to go back to title screen after you win or die.
*Bigger scores!
*Fixed grey enemy #1 collision glitch

I am also in the process of making the code more compact. Ideas are welcome! No qrs until launch date or after though because it is quite unfinished. After that, I will redo Battlewood. The new Battlewood will be a combination of Zelda, Tower Defense, Find mii, and Minecraft (All trademarks copyrights of their respective owners ) All in one Rpg style game.Other than that, I am toying with a PC game called RPGRPG [Rocket Propelled Gernade Role Playing Game], Making a space shooter with a twist called Self-Destruct, and a secret project as well. Cannot wait to see how Coral Maze turns out. It turned into something fantastic in @ramstrongs hands. I can bet .
@Morphtorok, How about Morphbrine? Also, how is your entry coming along?

I'm new to this forum & I going to tell certain people The god glitch that allows you to edit other peoples games... BUT... I'm only using it to:
-Detect Code plagiarizim (games that do not have a public or private source code)
-Debugging Reasons (VERY Broken games)
-Fix EXTREMELY broken games n' more!
& so are YOU!

@petithead what?? You can already edit each others games in petit computer. Its no secret nor is it a glitch. How about sharing what you are working on?

What was the url for that contest again?
Sorry, I can't find the original post about it.

http://smileboom.com/special/ptcm2/co_contest/english-p2.php

...or you can go to page 92

So um.. ANYONE? Know hpw to load custom fonts onto the touch screen? The contest is in 11 days!

PNLTYPE "OFF"
'select lower screen for BGU and BGF
BGPAGE 1

LOAD"BGF:YOURFONT"

PNLSTR 0,0,"ABCDE"

@ChangeV Thank you. But, My game uses both print and pnlstr. Do I have to refer to the page every time I want to use a custom font, or could I do something like this:
BGPAGE 1
LOAD "BGF:FONT"
BGPAGE 0
PNLSTR 0,0,"HELLO WORLD"
I can't test it right now. Thanks again! Also, got any simple code for copying the top screen Background and putting it on the bottom screen? I could generate ot on the bottom screen the samee way as the top screen but it would take about 7-10 more lines of code. And no, It is not a pre-loaded Background. Wow, you are a big help! You probably have a Beast load of a game you're working on .

@bluerobin2 If you'd like to use a custom font on both the upper on lower screen, all you'd have to do is:

BGPAGE 0
LOAD "BGF:FONT"
BGPAGE 1
LOAD "BGF:FONT"

The BGPAGE command lets all following commands that deal with backgrounds know which screen to work with. So, BGPAGE 0 tells all following commands to work on the upper screen, which means LOAD "BGF:FONT" will load the custom font to the upper screen. However, if we also want the bottom screen to have the custom font, we need to change which screen the commands will be looking at, so we have BGPAGE 1. Now, the following LOAD "BGF:FONT" command will load the custom FONT to the lower screen. Even though the two load commands are written the same way, the BGPAGE command tells it which page to load it to.

Now you can go about your regular printing as if nothing happened. For instance, after you do the above commands, you can then do:

PRINT "YEAH, TEXT!"
PRINT "MORE TEXT!"
PNLSTR 0,0,"FANCY LOWER SCREEN TEXT!"
PNLSTR 0,1,"DONE"

And it'll all be in your custom FONT.

Also, this will pretty much answer all syntax questions (I know your question wasn't about syntax, but anyway): http://www.petitcomputer.com/manual/manual.pdf. It's much easier to go through on the computer than the DS, and you can find commands using search instead of trying to remember what category the command is in.

@randomouscrap98 Thank you. I have checked the manual, but my computer doesn't let me search pdf files. It is a pain to find what I am looking for. At least the DS version is indexed...
ah, oh well; Thanks again!

You're welcome, sorry I didn't respond earlier. You know, I have the same problem, but my browser (Chrome) IS able to search pdfs. So I just drag the pdf file into the browser and suddenly I've got magical search powers that apparently Adobe Reader proper isn't capable of handling. It's so dumb.

Oh cool I didn't know you could use custom fonts. that's neat. That'll be useful for my zelda link to the past remake (hehehe)
now I just have to figure out how to get some custom sound effects into it later.
PS: When will my turn come around to work on Coral Maze. been waiting

I'm getting close to starting the fishing mechanics for Village, but there's so many different ones to choose from that I'm not sure which one I want. I like Minecraft's fishing (waiting some random amount of time then pull in the lure when it sinks), but I also like some of those mini-games where you have to press a certain combination of buttons or move certain directions, etc. I don't want to combine the two because I feel like it would be an unnecessary bombardment of stuff to do in order to just catch a fish. What do you guys think?

Make it more like pokemon where, you put your rod in. It twitches a bit.. then it goes "Oh a bite..."
and you have to tap A at that moment within a certain amount of time. And if you don't?

"oh too bad it got away..."

And then if you tap it
It goes "..."
and if you tap a again at the right time it goes "DADADA you caught a fish!"

Also I'd like it if you could also catch bugs in that game and sell them to people if you plan to have villagers (animal crossing-esque)

I'm planning on adding bugs and hopefully villagers (villagers will probably be the very last thing). And yes, I was also thinking about a Pokemon style fishing system, as that would be closer to the real Animal Crossing style than the others. Hmm...

currently, Nothing. ive hacked game #4 & apparently, IT GOES ON FOREVER
The only difference is the colors (I got bored & quit...). I also made it so your invincible. (way to smile boom...).

Btw, If you don't know, I can send you it via email OR swapnote. my Friend code is: 3539 - 8969 - 9717 Name: robert also, ask morptorock if hes morphtroid. If he is, PLEASE tell him to respond

Is this worth it because I really would like this game.