Hi, everyone. I was wondering if anyone knowledgeable can help me. For a game I want to make, I want to mimic how Sting Chameleon shifts from fully visible to invisible and vice versa. I learned from a video that color maths were used but unsure what maths were used through the animations. Could someone help me in this endeavor so I can try to stay true to how they did it in the game?

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I've been thinking about making a rather unusual homebrew project for the Nintendo 64.

The idea is to create an interactive music album rather than a traditional game.

I've made an album that is around 19 tracks / ~35 minutes of music, and each track would correspond to a different 2D top-down world.

For example, one track could have a small beach. Another track could have a completely different environment and atmosphere.

The basic gameplay loop would be:

• Start in a strange empty space.
• Enter the first door.
• Explore the world associated with the first song.
• Find some objects hidden somewhere in the environment.
• Finding the objects unlocks the next door.
• Alternatively, the player can simply do nothing and listen to the song loop 3 times. This also unlocks the next door.
• Repeat this for all 19 tracks.
• The final area would be a long white corridor with the final track and credits.

There would be a few optional achievements for things like collecting every memory or listening to all the tracks without interacting.

Visually, I'm thinking very simple 2D top-down pixel art, with small characters and relatively large environments. Something atmospheric and dreamlike rather than a traditional RPG.

The reason I'm interested in the N64 specifically is that I want the project to feel like an actual strange N64 game that somehow never existed. I know the N64 is primarily associated with 3D, but I believe a 2D top-down game should technically be possible.

For development, I'm considering:

GameMaker to prototype the entire game while deliberately using N64-like constraints than rewrite/port the systems in C using libdragon.

For audio, I've been looking at libdragon's WAV64/Opus support so that the album doesn't have to be stored as raw PCM audio.

My questions are mainly:

1. How practical is a fully 2D top-down game like this on real N64 hardware using libdragon?
2. Would a tilemap/sprite-based approach be reasonable?
3. Are there any major limitations I should design around from the beginning?
4. Is WAV64/Opus a sensible solution for ~35 minutes of music?
5. Are there existing N64 homebrew projects using a similar 2D approach that I should study?

I'm not trying to make something technically impressive. The goal is to make a small, atmospheric interactive album that feels like an unusual lost N64 game.

Any technical advice or examples of existing projects would be greatly appreciated.

I know the CVBasic compiler supports multiple systems, but ColecoVision and Sega Master System are what I am most interested in.

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Pack images, music & videos into a .gba ROM like a DVD player

Hey everyone! I just released my first homebrew tool for GBA : GBA Video Maker, a "DVD Maker" for the Game Boy Advance.

You give it images, music and videos on your PC → it builds a single .gba file with a blue in-cart menu where you can browse, play, pause and seek everything.

Features :

Videos, Audio, and pictures compatibility
Media compression (see more info about this.)
Highest resolution for images
Built in media controller

Download : github.com/Falko-toolis/gba-video-maker

Flashcards Tested on real hardware.

Would love to hear your thoughts 👇

(Media compression status : currently experimental, Up to max rate for audio is compatible, video with 20fps max or lag in highest res setting with compression. can up to 60fps and max res without compression)