Ops, I'm late to this topic!! Very cool that you are working on a sequel, and also cool to see interesting work on MSX1 smooth scroll! I know it's easy to say "just switch to MSX2". But I for one am very happy to see people trying to take on the challenge of doing it on MSX1 machines 
Where's the fun if the hardware does it all for you! haha
Ops, I'm late to this topic!! Very cool that you are working on a sequel, and also cool to see interesting work on MSX1 smooth scroll! I know it's easy to say "just switch to MSX2". But I for one am very happy to see people trying to take on the challenge of doing it on MSX1 machines Where's the fun if the hardware does it all for you! haha
where is the fun if you cannot get a decent colorful (like you want to get) background because of the combined limitations of colour clash + smooth scroll tile definitions, that make your efforts absolutely pointless?
having to design graphics with a striped patterns without the chance of a signle squared outline or border and being totally constrained to 1/8 of the possible tileset without any alternative possible is not funny. not at all
Wow, you are going way too strong there! Why is it "pointless"? I personally find it very cool and interesting how people find creative solutions around the hardware limitations! If you don't find it fun, sure, don't do it. But I for one find it a lot of fun, so, I'll keep at it, and I hope others do too!
I agree 
I had fun coding Freedom Fighter and now coding Farty Pig too...
Recording directly from OpenMSX using -triplesize option has also the (very good) side effect to create a video fully compatible to YouTube: video processing, after upload, is really fast.
Btw, one of the likes in your video on YT is mine 
you are doing a good job! Keep it up!
Wow, you are going way too strong there! Why is it "pointless"? I personally find it very cool and interesting how people find creative solutions around the hardware limitations! If you don't find it fun, sure, don't do it. But I for one find it a lot of fun, so, I'll keep at it, and I hope others do too!
ok, so try to find "a creative solution" to have hw nine sprite on a row on msx1 without flickering, and i will change my point of view.
Limitations are limitations, some are more workaround-able, others not, and if the workaround (or creative solution) gives even poor results compared to the effort spents i think the efforts should be directed in others directions instead of an - perhaps always loosing - attempt to overcome them with relatively modeste results.
That is not the point! The point is NOT to find a way to have 9 hw sprites in a row without flickering. The point is to find a way to design your game so that the player perceives it as if the restriction wasn't there!
I see it a little bit as magicians: what they do is NOT to find a way to break the laws of physics, but to find a way so that the spectator believes that. And that's where the fun and the puzzle is! How can you find ways to do that?!
