Mega Shocked (./6) :
@tcdev - This Xevious of yours is a masterpiece hats off!

Thanks!

Correct me if I'm wrong but I think you get the title for first tate port to Neo Geo! and first tate game to hit the Neo Geo!

It may well be the first tate port, but Neo XYX is another tate game I'm aware of.

- I notice little horizontal dots across the top the screen they are minor I've seen them show up in my own projects I don't the symptom well enough to officially comment but could it have to do with palette access?
Regardless this is a masterpiece with or without those minor dots!

Yes, I'm going to try to address this in the next beta. It's not palette access as I'm not touching the palette after start-up, more likely accessing sprite registers for the foreground layer (score etc) outside VBLANK.

- Unfortunately it isn't easily possible to orient my TV in Tate Mode which makes my controls awkward...would you consider hacking another control scheme that allows - up to be left, down to be right, right to be up and left to be down?

I could look into that, yes!

- How hard is it to have a reskinned mode? I asked for selfish reasons and badass reasons...

That would be a job for a graphic artist... I'm terrible at that sort of thing.

THE DREAM -tcdev ports Black Tiger to Neo Geo!!!! (A top favorite non-neo geo 68K based game)

I'm not familiar with that game myself, happy to look at it. Next off the rank though is Donkey Kong, then I'll be looking for a horizontal game (like Black Tiger) to port...