SPRITE is a simple test program that demonstrates a wide variety of hardware-provided functionality and general programming techniques.

Screenshot

Below is an animated GIF of the operation of the sprite program, demonstrating a number of the implemented functionality. Key among these are:

• Omni-directional movement
• Palette and orientation changes
• Background priority changes

The buttons that are pressed to perform each of the demonstrated actions is shown at the bottom-left of the image, and is rendered by the FCEUX emulator.

Click the image to view a larger version.

Controls

D-PAD

move the sprite

A

switch the sprite palette

B

flip sprite vertically

SELECT

switch background priority

Download

sprite.nes

Sources

More detailed information regarding this project is available in the Github repository. In particular, the source code used to create this program, as well as technical details regarding the implementation are discussed in the README for the project.