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Ranma Battle (for GBA):

You can choose in the main menu between 4 points. You can go back to the start screen if you press start.
Following things you can make in the current version:

• Battle mode:
  Fight with one of the two characters. The fight has no end at the moment, that means you can't beat your enemy.
  In the middle of the 2 health displays is normally a timer. But I don't have an end at the moment in my game, so I changed it that it shows now the frames per second.
  As I started to program this game I had some slowdowns, because I wanted 256 colours for the sprites of the 2 players and because of this I had to include this information. At the moment it's only there because I haven't included the timer yet.
• Ending mode:
  Watch a short animation with music. The animation is compressed with the RLE-XOR-LZSS Compression of Goldmomo. The music was compressed with Tepples 8ad Audio Compression Codec. As you can see i've tried here to make a good compressed but also smooth running animation demo.
• Test mode:
  I don't want to only copy the graphics from the original, but also to overwork them. That's the reaseon why I use sprites with 256 colours, because I wanted to make new grapics with 32 colours. So here you can see my first try to make this reality. I'm not a graphic artist but I've tried my best. You can't walk or do anything else, because I've only overworked the 3 stand animation frames.
• Options menu (will be saved now):
  - You can change the game level to choose between some simple AI commands for the computer player.
  - You can change the colours of the players. There are 4 colour combinations (like in the original game).
  - You can change the control of the 2 characters. "HUMAN vs. CPU" let you play with Ranma-Chan (girl) and "CPU vs. HUMAN" let you control Ranma-Kun (boy).
  - Debug Mode let's you choose between some modes that show the collision rectangles in different situations.
  
  • 0 : Here you see no rectangles
  • 1 : Shows the rectangles for the walking collisions
  • 2 : Shows the rectangles for the attacks of Ranma-Chan
  • 3 : Shows the rectangles for the attacks of Ranma-Kun
  - You can now select what the timer should show up. You can choose between FPS and a percentage advice, that shows the CPU usage.
  - The other points you can see, have no function at the moment.