About the New Ultimate Spider-Man
So yesterday it was confirmed that the new Ultimate Spider-Man book that was going to be written by Jonathan Hickman would be about an older Peter Parker, who in this new Ultimate Universe is married to Mary Jane Watson and has two kids. Here are the covers and pictures with that confirmations:
I am so fucking excited for this book after this confirmation because before yesterday, we didn't really know if Jonathan Hickman was going to be writing about Peter Parker. The only thing we knew was that he was writing about an older Spider-Man, so to see these covers as confirmation and to see Peter and MJ have kids is so fucking refreshing.
I kind of fell off Amazing Spider-Man after Nick Spencer's run because throughout his whole run he was teasing that Peter and MJ were going to be back together again, maybe even married, but it never happened. My best guess as to why is because Marvel Editorial intervened and that's why Nick Spencer's last arc in the series and the reveal of who kindred was became weak. That's just my speculation though. I feel like Marvel does not want this character to ever grow up, so he's kind of stuck in this arrested development where he can grow for just a tiny bit only to be knocked back down to status quo.
I'm really excited for this series. I have not finished Ultimate Invasion yet, so when i do I'll talk about that on here. I just hope Jonathan Hickman does this character justice. I know a married Peter Parker isn't new. Dan Slott wrote Renew Your Vows which I loved. However, that title is gone and it really is nice to have a married Peter and MJ after not liking what they've been offering in the current Amazing Spider-Man title.
Also, I really hope Hickman stays on this title for a long time and that Marvel let's him do what he wants without too much interference. This isn't the main universe Peter Parker, so I don't think it'll be a problem.
By the way, I don't know if this is because Marvel has teased me so much and for so long, but as much as I'm optimistic about this title, there's also a small part of my brain that think that this is all a ruse or a lie of some kind. Like Peter and MJ are not actually together and in this title, they're divorced who hates each other's guts. That is just the paranoid person in me talking. However, you can't really blame me for thinking that way because Marvel has teased this pairing so much only to go back on their word. I guess I'll just have to wait and read the book to see if my optimistic side is right or the paranoid side of me is right.
Thanks for reading this. I'm going to go read some comics and maybe I'll talk to you guys again.
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LUDOVIKA & JOHANNES
Apparently the side story that was going to come out on 04/14 will be released on 04/24 and these are going to be about Johannes and Ludovika's past.
I can't wait, I was hoping that the next side story would be about Ludo but I wasn't expecting this, she looks very different than how she is portrayed in the manhwa. I want to know all her past now 😭
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Was asked about the Cave Story transition effect, wether or not it can work on the SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis, here's an attempt at it.
Read more for an indepth explanation why this isn't so easy and why it still looks weird:
So the backstory was that, as I was watching someone play a bit of this Cave Story homebrew for the Mega Drive, we've noticed that all transitions were palette fades rather than the usual Diamond effect, and so I explained why the effect is much harder to pull off than one would expect it:
This is the animation itself, 16 frames in length repeated for the whole screen, rather simple and something you might(?) expect from an older game but in reality it's a lot more difficult to pull off.
If it were a 8x8 sized animation, this wouldn't be a big issue, you'd just write over every single tile in VRAM for the tileset and fill it in, no problem, Streets of Rage does this in the credits sequence and title as a fade in.
But since we're dealing with a 16x16 pattern, we cna't do this, at least not without curating the tilemap to be friendly for such an effect, which would limit map editing a lot.
So we have another choice, which is to sacrifice one of the available layers for the transition alone. One could sacrifice one of the tilemap layers but unless the other layer's already filling the screen, this would be too noticeable. One could fade the colours for that layer in particular and then overwrite it with the tiles, but ya may as well be doing a full fade at that point, especially if you're intending to use more than one palette for the layers... so i went with an even worse solution: Sprites.
As it turns out, you can just barely fit an entire screen with just sprites, the biggest size you can have is 32x32 and it takes 80 of them to fill the entire 320x224 (NTSC) / 320x240 (PAL) screen area.
The sprite limit is exactly 80 sprites so the sprite table will be filled up with just the transition effect alone.
Now one might think "Hey, the sprite limit for any given horizontal line is 20 sprites and it only takes 10 sprites to fill the screen horizontally, can't we just move the sprites vertically every 32nd scanline? I thought of that too! but there's unfortunately another limit, a Sprite pixel limit.
You can only have 320px of sprites at any given horizontal line, meaning even with free slots, there are too many sprites already on screen so this isn't going to work, there's no way around it.
Now, one could swap between a 16x16 sized version during the start and swap to the 32x32 sized ones after hitting the threshhold to bypass this issue... quite honestly I didn't think of that at the time, it would halve the px limit and should make it near seamless, definitely something I'd like to workshop in the future!
Sure, all sprites will disappear halfway through the transition, but at that point most of the view will already be blocked by the effect so you're ideally not going to notice this happening.
EDIT : Only now am I told that Cave Story has different kinds of transitions depending on doorways and such, maybe giving me more than just the file for the transition for context for someone who didn't grow up playing Cave Story would be nice x.x
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We had the best round of CAH I've ever had the other day
I also need you to know that the round before one of the cards was "Hanging out with Zendaya"
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