One of the first tech explorations i did for "Borscht".
In NES graphics, there's no intuitive way to cause a *vertical* scroll split like shown here.
Instead in this case, forest tiles to the left & right get bankswapped with position shifted content. This means the far backround *appears* to stay put, but it is really scrolling.
This costs quite a bit of ROM and is usually best done sparingly for a visual treat unusual on the system.
@FrankenGraphics This is awesome!
It doesn't even look like a hack. It's so natural I had to watch three times before I even realized what was going on.
But now that I've spotted it, I have to say it's amazing how an effect that's trivial on thirty-year-old hardware is STILL impressive just because the NES can't do that, and here it is doing it anyway!
I wonder, can you re-draw the tiles on the fly so you don't have to store each scroll position in ROM? Probably too CPU-heavy to be worth it.
Matthew C. 🖖🏻
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