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I've never tried it, but there is a devkitSMS that goes with the SDCC compiler and that would allow you to use C to make games for the Master System, Game Gear or SG-1000.

https://github.com/sverx/devkitSMS

 

Perhaps though your problems with collision detection would not be solved even by changing programming language, plus that your hand written assembly language code will likely run faster than the compiled code.

I don't know anything about Game Gear or assembly, so my response may not be applicable, but couldn't you write a routine with a condition that checks whether an object is within vicinity of another... ie (for 8x8 sprite with a bit labelled "collision")

 

if player0x<=player1x+8 && player0x>=player1x-8 && if player0y<=player1y+8 && player0y>=player1y-8 then collision=1 else collision=0

 

I haven't yet taken the time to get hardware collision working in bB and this is the sort of thing I have used.

@mojofltr - that's what I tried to do in assembly, although I couldn't get it working very well, especially from behind the player.