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chrismaltby / gb-studio

A quick and easy to use drag and drop retro game creator for your favourite handheld video game system
https://www.gbstudio.dev
MIT License
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Request: (color mode only) more video RAM #802

Open teaaaaaaaa opened 3 years ago

teaaaaaaaa commented 3 years ago

It's related to a problem. A scene background doesn't display properly because it exceeds the 192 tile limit, but the problem is, even when color mode is enabled, there's only 8 kilobytes of video RAM, the Gameboy color has twice as much video RAM as the Gameboy which should be enough to display the entire background correctly!

The solution might be to add an option to enable the 16 kilobyte video RAM, and once color mode is disabled this option is also disabled until color mode is enabled again.

Maybe an experienced programmer could modify the engine to increase the amount of video RAM, or there's the possibility of mid-scanline bank switching being able to do the same thing (doubt that would ever be added and even if it was it would be very limited)

maxoakland commented 3 years ago

This would be extremely cool and I'm hoping it will be included in the big update

ChaoticPumpkin commented 2 years ago

Would love to see this, I've been trying to get this working but haven't been able to yet.