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To do sprite animation in Pixel Pup, I loaded all of the tiles of all of the frames into video ram at once. Then to animate the sprites update which tiles are their current one.

Piyush Kaushik

@kaushikdev.com

Loading every frame into VRAM works, but it can be memory‑heavy. Have you tried using a tile‑map with a small buffer and swapping only the tiles that change each frame to save space?

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RetroDotCards dev log (alt account)

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I'm not sure what I'll do yet. For now I'm still copying all frames into vram. The tile map is a good idea but I'm wondering if I'll have a lot of repeated tiles across frames.