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"Fade To Black." it's not just a video game it's a video game concept and one that's worth learning as it definitely looks good for any game cart where you want to not just jump screens but have one fade to black.
Now at first you might be thinking well HECK in order to do this properly I would need to create 16-different fadeout colors for each of the 15-colors yielding ... 240 colors I have to enter into a table !
Well, yes, you could do it that way, but an easier way is just to fade one color only one step.
And you're probably asking, how can you fade a whole picture just by fading one step ?
Because once you fade that one color to another THEN the next pass you fade that NEW color that just appeared.
Oh ! And yes that certainly is a lot easier. So you can see Fading is really not that difficult to do at all.
But we're not just going to fade the 15-colors to another of the 15-colors. We have a new palette. Let's make use of it ! And that's just what the cart above does - using the extended palette to give you 7-frames total in a fade.
Change MODE to 1 to test it with 16-color rectangles AND debug information on each color changed.
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Alright ! So to make use of this fade in your code you can access the function FADEOUT() above which is ready to roll.
HOPE THIS HELPS !