Dynamic Metasprite Engine

Multi-tile sprite characters with dynamic VRAM streaming

Build & Run

cd $OPENSNES_HOME
make -C examples/sprites/dynamic_metasprite

Then open dynamic_metasprite.sfc in your emulator (Mesen2 recommended).

What You'll Learn

• Dynamic VRAM tile streaming for multi-tile sprite characters
• Defining metasprites with MetaspriteItem arrays
• Three OBJSEL size configurations: 8/16, 8/32, 16/32
• Using oamMetaDrawDyn(id, x, y, meta, gfx, OBJ_SMALL/OBJ_LARGE)
• Force blank for glitch-free OBJSEL changes at runtime

Controls

Button	Action
D-PAD Up/Down	Switch OBJSEL size configuration

Modules Used

Module	Purpose
console	System initialization
sprite	OAM management
sprite_dynamic	Dynamic VRAM tile streaming
sprite_dynamic_meta	Metasprite draw functions
sprite_lut	Sprite lookup tables
dma	DMA transfers
background	BG configuration
text	Menu text display
input	Joypad reading