Samurai Shodown unplayble demo on MSX+V9990

Cool gfx, v9990 is indeed powerful. Keep it up, I'd like to see it moving/scrolling

P1 Mode.
Background is Layer B, with only 16 colors. Lots of space for the entire bg with animations.

Sprites are pre loaded to vram.
The cool thing is that animation frames are cycled just changing R#25. Sprite Base Address Register. It acts as a "sprite page".

Impressive for a MSX

There are 8 sprites "pages" on VRAM. They are selected by R#25 register.
Each of them is a 256x256 pixel area.

I use only the first 4 pages. The animation uses 4 frames. Each frame of both characters is loaded at one page.

Earthquake (the big guy at right) is using the first 256x128 area, starting at 0,0
The other character uses the second 256x128 area below, starting at 0,128 coordinate.

This way the pattern numbers on SPRATR are always the same.

Just changing R#25 is enough for the sprites pointed by SPRATR be all new ones, a new frame of animation.

I hope my explanation would be good. But in case of any doubt don't hesitate to ask.