Production update 2023-02-22 (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

Hope you had a great week. On my end, I had a couple of stepbacks but overall, things went well. Here's a quick summary of the progress made!

Progress is coming along nicely. Today I finished the single longest and most complex part of the whole video, so everything beyond that point will be easier. The script does need a significant rewrite of one of the later sections, so there's a good couple of hours of work that needs to go into that at some point. Other than that, we're a third of the way through recording and editing.

I must admit that for various reasons, I fell behind on recording. Friday was a bad day because I hurt my eye in the morning and spent most of the day avoiding using it. I also fell behind on editing but like I said, that was to be expected. What I had planned for this week was a lot of very light editing that I should be able to knock out much quicker. There should be no cause for concern unless I'm still significantly behind by the start of next week.

I'm also going to do the sponsored segment a bit earlier than what the schedule says, to give some time for Manscaped to review it.

Pictures of progress

Here are a few things I did this week!

The Chargin' Chuck that gets loaded in the sprite slot Yoshi is eating.

Explaining why eating a Chuck gives a powerup (note that a couple of sprites are slightly wrong there, I need to fix that at some point).

What powerup you get in the box and what routine gets run for sprite IDs outside the powerup table. Most of these won't actually give a powerup, but the important value is Chargin' Chuck at $91 gives Lakitu's cloud. This took me hours to figure out but I'm glad I did because I gained a deeper understanding of everything I was grossly simplifying to make a simple, easy explanation of all this.

Running code outside the ROM is not good.

Breaking down the instructions being run, the variables from RAM being read and the values they need to be at, and what happens to the Memory Data Register (MDR) to make the game return to proper execution. This whole section is over 2 minutes and I did it all today.

That's it! Lots of progress through really thick material. I'm happy that's done and very pleased with the result. Here's to easier progress now! I'll see you next week!