00185: combatsc, combatscj, combatsct: the text "Player 1 (Nick)" or "CPU (Joe)" disappear.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
00185	Graphics	Minor	Have not tried	Jan 26, 2008, 04:26	22 days ago

Tester	RansAckeR	View Status	Public	Platform
Assigned To		Resolution	Fixed	OS
Status [?]	Resolved			Driver	konami/combatsc.cpp
Version	0.102u1	Fixed in Version	0.278	Build
		Fixed in Git Commit	dcfcde4	Github Pull Request #	#13795

Summary	00185: combatsc, combatscj, combatsct: the text "Player 1 (Nick)" or "CPU (Joe)" disappear.
Description	When beginning or ending an excercise, most of the time the last characters of the text "Player 1 (Nick)" or "CPU (Joe)" disappear.
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Affected Sets / Systems	combatsc, combatscj, combatsct

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No.07377 Kale Developer Apr 13, 2011, 21:27	Text is drawn via sprites, a note on the source states that ... - in combatsc (and more generally the 007121) the number of sprites can be increased from 0x40 to 0x80. There is a hack in konamiic.c to handle that, but it is wrong. If you don't pass the Iron Man stage, a few sprites are left dangling on the screen.(*not a bug, 64 sprites are the maximum) That note is however wrong, since that generally a sprite limit is supposed to be per-line. I believe that this bug is too damn obvious (it happens on the very first level!) to not do any counter measure during developing of the game. Finally, there's even a START msg that appears in red that is drawn in the lower 64 sprite bank.
No.11229 AWJ Developer Nov 5, 2014, 16:09	Sprites on the k007121 appear to be frame buffered (look at the contra or hcastle schematics, there's two 64K x 4bit DRAMs connected to each of the k007121s) so it's unlikely there are per-line sprite limits. More likely there's some way of sending two sprite lists to the chip in the same frame.
No.23330 JimCarlTay Tester 22 days ago	Fixed in commit dcfcde4 by jwestfall69.