Priority sprite/bg bugs in Spanky's Quest

ICEknight · Post by **ICEknight** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 3:49 am

Another problem I've noticed that still hasn't been fixed in the last years is that there seems to be some sprite/bg priorities going wrong in the intro scene of this game.

So there's this room with one column on each side, and the characters should appear behind them. Instead, they can be seen in front of them so the game will make these characters disappear suddenly once they were supossed not to be seen anymore.

Pics:

(The shadow should be partially cut by the column on the left)

(The rightmost fruit dude shouldn't be visible at this point)

Info:

---------------------Internal ROM Info----------------------
File: spanky.smc
Name: SPANKY QUEST Company: Natsume
Header: SWC Bank: LoROM
Interleaved: No SRAM: 0 Kb
Type: Normal ROM: 4 Mb
Country: USA Video: NTSC
ROM Speed: 200ns (SlowROM) Revision: 1.0
Checksum: Good 0xC669 CRC32: CA68C5C3
--------------------------Database--------------------------
Name: Spanky's Quest
Country: USA Revision: 1.0
Port 1: Gamepad Port 2: Gamepad
Genre 1: Platform Genre 2: Arcade

zidanax · Post by **zidanax** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:41 am

Um, I'm not sure what you mean. I tried this on a real SNES with my copier, and the game runs exactly as you describe. I don't think there's anything wrong with ZSNES' behavior.

FitzRoy · Post by **FitzRoy** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 5:52 am

zidanax, do you think you could look into the zombies sound "bug" as well on a real snes? I am curious to know if iceknight's other report is legit.

ICEknight · Post by **ICEknight** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 8:50 pm

It might help using a real cartridge to test if the bug is present... Anybody got one?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Apr 04, 2006 9:01 pm

ICEknight wrote:It might help using a real cartridge to test if the bug is present... Anybody got one?

Not to say too much about my knowledge of this game.. but I've really never heard of it.

Anyways, a real cart is not necessarily needed to reproduce said problem. Only if this game uses a special chip, is when the real cartridge is needed.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:08 am

link.. I was talking about the game the original poster was talking about. I doubt the bug post somewhat..

I wouldn't be surprised of the possible sprite priority bug though.. and the second bug about the guy supposed to be missing.. (could be a timing/execution issue or something)

But then again.. I've never played this on the real console, so I cannot validate such claims.

Post by **pagefault** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:28 am

So this is normal behavior for the game?

zidanax · Post by **zidanax** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 3:35 am

pagefault wrote:So this is normal behavior for the game?

If my GDSF7 copier is to be trusted, then yes. I believe the behavior that ICEknight describes is actually what's supposed to happen.

Post by **pagefault** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:11 am

Thats good, one less bug to fix.

adventure_of_link · Post by **adventure_of_link** » Wed Apr 05, 2006 4:13 am

Deathlike2 wrote:link.. I was talking about the game the original poster was talking about. I doubt the bug post somewhat..

D'oh, wrong thread, my bad

ICEknight · Post by **ICEknight** » Sat Apr 08, 2006 5:59 am

Hmm so the same bg layer seems to be used for both the background and the colums. I guess the real game must behave like that (although I doubt it was how the game planners wanted it to look).

Sorry for the bad report, then.