VCS Game Maker

will you add access to make more high quality backgrounds? (i'm not referring to color)

Hello, can you please help me with something? I am trying to make a chasing game using player 1 as the enemy but its too fast for player 0 and I'm using the example blocks for collisions and those have limits so I cant make the actor go faster than the enemy and there is no support for decimals, help please, also i need help making wait seconds blocks for events! your engine is so cool!

Dear Harold,

 i'm developing intensly this last month with vcs game maker, and i think to have found some bugs, i hope you can fix them as soon as possible: somethimes the emulator on the right dont react at the change in code and it is too complex to find where you are positioned in the main cartridge somethimes impossible. There are two bugs when you use a player to run the screen through left to right, it come back three times than go. Also background scroll has a bug there are some graphics artifacts every frame in the buttom of the screen. I hope to be of any help! Thank you for reding.

Eu agora em 2026 tô achando muito legal ainda, mas o meu notebook quebrou e eu tô tendo que usar no celular.

Eu acho que no celular seria legal ter um botão para abrir a janela do  emulador.

Os ícones de feramentas fossem menores.

O Jogo não saísse de tela cheia quando eu saia da tela do emulador.

Eu acho que é um bug quando eu abro qualquer coisa de texto a tela fica preta.

Outro bug é que o bloco que deveria mudar o cenário para um que eu tenha desenhado, só reconhece o primeiro cenário "Test 1".

Também seria legal se tivesse em portugues.

E a última coisa ruim é o exemplo de código de plataformer porque o player 0 e o player 1 ficam tremendo no chão.

O resto tudo é bom😁👍

how to see what a variable is set to in vcs game maker

Very coll project! What i needed to program better in Batari!!! Thank you

I will make little donation if only my credit card was accepted anyway you can download all my free software.

Bye

alguien me puede decir como hacer que el player 1 se mueva aleatoriamente pero con colicciones

Forgetting that problem: are you gonna add new mechanics, multicolor backgrounds and custom score appeareances?

Will there be the ability to set different looks in a multiplex sprite? Something akin to 3 unique looking columns rather than 3 of the same columns. Got the idea from space invaders where a bullet changes a sprites look at that specific coordinate and not affecting the others

sorry for the delay it's this one:

Hi With what key i can shoot missle 0?

Hi, are you planning to implement support for 8/16 KB ROMs?

Hi, I hope you had a good start to the new year. Thanks for the new update. I've been waiting impatiently for it.

hello again haroldo! thanks for your example, i fired up my project and messed around with it to tailor it to my game, and after much head scratching and trial and error, it worked! my zelda clone actually works! thank you so much for your help, its made my job so much easier! another thing i would eventually get to (in a future project) would be getting rooms to wrap round ala swordquest earthworld, how would wraparound be implemented? im busy with my zelda clone again now, thanks to your help! keep up the good work mate, you have a supporter in me for such a brilliant tool! =)

Hey Haroldo, any luck on that animation bug?

hello Haroldo! The program is superb! I've thoroughly enjoyed tinkering with it, but I've hit a wall. I'm trying to code a simple 6 screen zelda clone, no enemies or anything, just a simple empty world map to practice with. I'm having trouble getting the screen transition to work (trying to go for vcs adventure simple screen flip method) I've attached a screen grab of my current idea of going about this, and it works for going left and up a screen, but won't when going right and down.

I've racked my brains, searched Google, but to know avail... could u explain how to change screens on my overall map ala adventure, or possibly help me through a more efficient method, with which I can build on please? My backgrounds are there, my collision works (using your example) and please apologise for the bare bones screenshot of my project, it was imported into mobile version, but all my files are set up on Windows version at home. Thank you, and keep up the great work! :)

Yes, I know. I'm an old pain in the neck. But I'm not a programmer, and I've always worked on other things. Here in Italy I'm too old for a permanent job and too young to retire, so I spend my free time with your tool.

I'm having the same problem as reported here

https://github.com/haroldo-ok/vcs-game-maker/issues/178

Did I miss the solution, or has it not been fixed yet?

I'll try not to bother you again, at least until next year 😁

Hi, it's me again.

I noticed that the vertical scroll introduces a "ghost line." I thought I was doing something wrong, but then I tried one of the examples from your tool and the same thing happens, and I can't delete it.

Hi, sorry for bothering you so much, but this time I just can't figure it out. I'm the one who's stuck and can't see the error or what's happening. Why does the sound from the second routine always play in both routines? All the instructions execute correctly except the sound.

One other thing I'd just like to point out. Sometimes I set the backgrounds with a numeric variable instead of a name. On different occasions, the first background is number 0, and on other occasions, the first background is number 3.

Thanks.

Hi, it's not that important but I'd like to know why when I change the animation duration and exit the screen it goes back to 10. Thanks for your fantastic tool, I'm having a lot of fun.

Will there be a option to make the playfield pixels thinner vertically?

Hey, Harold, I have new idea!

- Lists

Can create lists in which you can store numbers and write them to read them from ROM.

Hey Haroldo! Quick question: Which version of batariBasic does this tool use?

Hey Haroldo! 

I have many ideas for VCS Game Maker!

1: The ability to create many SEPARATE sprites with the same texture but different colors.

2: The ability to draw lines from one sprite to another or from one coordinate to another.

3: The ability to create games ranging in size from 4 KB to the maximum for the Atari 2600.

4: The ability to perform actions over several frames, for example, we take an action that can only be performed once and perform two such actions in a row (or more actions).

5: Ability to use multiple colors per sprite (maximum 8 colors on screen) along a line, as well as for backgrounds.

6: Ability to create music or special effects in a special place (already available in VCS Game Maker).

tem uma verção mais nova disso?

Hey Haroldo! I have an idea. What if you add a reset button, which sets everything into the default settings?

Hi! I want to publish my game, made on your engine, this month. This is very important to me; I feel like I've managed to create something incredibly fun. Yesterday, I made a cool, authentic trailer in a 70s style. All that's left is to finish writing the manual and draw the cover art.

Can you tell me if you could help me embed an emulator on the Itch.io page? I'd like players to be able to try my game directly in their browser. Do you know how to do that?

I started playing around with this very recently so I'm super happy to see that you are still updating it. This is an amazing project that got me into the Atari 2600.

A small bug I noticed while using it (browser version) is that the something the changes made in the Player 0 tab don't get saved when I move back to the Actions tab (images I have imported into frames, and the Duration I've set for said frames) In order for those changes to be saved I need to do something else like creating or deleting a new frame.

And a couple of suggestions: Would it be possible to add a block that allows you to mirror player sprites? 
And would it be possible to add some sort of blocks, folders or tabs that allow you to group different sections of the code? I'm not very familiar with Blockly but the project I'm currently working on has turned quite big and it's starting to be difficult to keep track of everything and have everything organized.

Thanks in advance, and again, amazing work on this!

Cool

Is there a way to make the screen PAL and code the AI?

Thanks for all of the continued hard work. 

part 4 of my video series is now up. 

How does the difficulty A and B work

We need some background music

Just wanted to let everyone know that part 3 of my tutorial series is up. 

The new update looks exciting. Can't wait to play around with it today. Can we expect a win executable of the new version soon? Thanks

Glad to see you're updating the engine. By the way, I made a game on it, but I'll share it a little later.

haroldo-ok
I wanted to let you know that part 1 of our series on this fantastic tool is uploading right now. It will end up being a 4 or 5 part series.

Can you add more buttons into the input feature like the turbo fire, reset game, and game select