DPC+ game plays in Stella but not on real Harmony Encore cart with RGB card or Javatari

[oceanix42]

26 minutes ago, RevEng said:

Thanks!   md5sum confirms that arm file is the same one being distributed with bB since v1.4.

I was afraid you were going to say that. Thanks for checking! Alas, a sad day for development. I'll keep looking into it. I also confirmed that Atari Dev Studio in Visual Studio Code is using v1.7 bB.

[RevEng]

Taking a step back.. if you double-check the size, is your generated rom 32k?

[+Karl G]

15 minutes ago, RevEng said:

Taking a step back.. if you double-check the size, is your generated rom 32k?

I ran into issues when I compiled his source file, too, and my ROM is 32768 bytes as expected. I did not find any issues with his source file, and the ROM also runs fine in both Stella (in developer mode) and Gopher.

 

I compiled the 13 object demo the same way with the latest bB, and the ROM works fine on my Harmony cart, so at this point I'm pretty sure it's not a bB regression of any kind.

[oceanix42]

2 hours ago, Karl G said:

I ran into issues when I compiled his source file, too, and my ROM is 32768 bytes as expected. I did not find any issues with his source file, and the ROM also runs fine in both Stella (in developer mode) and Gopher.

 

I compiled the 13 object demo the same way with the latest bB, and the ROM works fine on my Harmony cart, so at this point I'm pretty sure it's not a bB regression of any kind.

Yes, my rom is 32kb and the 13 objects runs fine for me on my harmony cart. very interesting. I agree with it now being an issue with the rom.

 

Thanks again for all the help! I will let you know how it goes

 

[+Karl G]

2 hours ago, oceanix42 said:

Yes, my rom is 32kb and the 13 objects runs fine for me on my harmony cart. very interesting. I agree with it now being an issue with the rom.

 

Thanks again for all the help! I will let you know how it goes

 

I don't know if it is somehow related to your issue, but I noticed you have a number of lines that should be moved out of your main loop, and placed before the __Main_Loop label:

 

   ;***************************************************************
   ; sets player position and sets up score field
   player0x = 76 : player0y = 140
   NUSIZ2 = 2
   player2x = 59 : player2y = 120
   
   ;***************************************************************
   ; set up score and lives/health bar
   const pfscore = 1
   score = 619
   ; score color
   scorecolor   = $B4 ; sets color of score for visibility
   pfscorecolor = $64 ;
   pfscore1 = %01010100
   pfscore2 = %11111111

 

[oceanix42]

11 hours ago, Karl G said:

I don't know if it is somehow related to your issue, but I noticed you have a number of lines that should be moved out of your main loop, and placed before the __Main_Loop label:

 

   ;***************************************************************
   ; sets player position and sets up score field
   player0x = 76 : player0y = 140
   NUSIZ2 = 2
   player2x = 59 : player2y = 120
   
   ;***************************************************************
   ; set up score and lives/health bar
   const pfscore = 1
   score = 619
   ; score color
   scorecolor   = $B4 ; sets color of score for visibility
   pfscorecolor = $64 ;
   pfscore1 = %01010100
   pfscore2 = %11111111

 

Thanks for the help. I'm going to start from a clean example and incrementally add my changes to see what the trigger for failure is. I really appreciate all the attention you cats have giving this. Thanks again!

[oceanix42]

On 9/29/2023 at 11:47 PM, Karl G said:

I don't know if it is somehow related to your issue, but I noticed you have a number of lines that should be moved out of your main loop, and placed before the __Main_Loop label:

 

   ;***************************************************************
   ; sets player position and sets up score field
   player0x = 76 : player0y = 140
   NUSIZ2 = 2
   player2x = 59 : player2y = 120
   
   ;***************************************************************
   ; set up score and lives/health bar
   const pfscore = 1
   score = 619
   ; score color
   scorecolor   = $B4 ; sets color of score for visibility
   pfscorecolor = $64 ;
   pfscore1 = %01010100
   pfscore2 = %11111111

 

 

An update. I've discovered that the error was coming from my animate monster subroutine. For a reason that I am unaware of, the call to the animate subroutine needed to be placed after the drawscreen in the main loop, and not prior.

 

Edited October 2 by oceanix42

[+Random Terrain]

Subroutines are usually outside of the main loop. Is that bit of code running twice?