So instead of working to get the fireball in, I decided to see if I could put in some animation for the plumber and the enemy. It took a lot of tweaking to the grid, but I finally made it in. When the Odyssey 2 gets stressed with a lot of stuff, it decides to flicker the display starting at the top. This caused a little bit of flickering at a few times at the top of the top pipes. So I decided to move the pipes down more to get rid of it. So this left some room for the animations. And next I will put in the fireball. The animations used up a few hundred bytes, I now have used up 1,507. I have 2,048 if I want to keep it at 2k. So I should have plenty of room for the fireball, that is, if the top part of the screen wants to cooperate. One of the things I did was get rid of the POW block. It wasn't really usable since there's not going to be two enemies walking around. So now the game looks like this:

There are six places for the fireball to go. I mean, you could technically jump on to the highest platform, but since you don't need to, why bother putting the fireball up there? Of course, then you could hide up there, but then you wouldn't get any points for killing the enemies. So I guess there are actually 8 after all. This is a Mario Bros. port that I actually think would benefit from a fireball. Right now, it's too easy and hardly a way to die. But I did the opposite of what I said I would do. I said I would take a break from programming this, but all I did was end up working more on it. But only because I noticed it needed animation and I didn't want there to be no room left for it, so I put it in now. It took a few hours of moving code parts around. So unless anyone spots a bug, I think NOW I'll take a break from this and return to it in August. This game has been a real pain for me to program so far, so I don't know why I kept on with it. I'm also wondering whether I should make this a 4k game or not. One of the reasons I am reluctant to is because I don't know how to switch banks from one part to another. But then again, I also think I could fit it in 2k. But we'll see about that.