Devlog: February 22, 2026

Feb 22 2026

Persona 3 Dual

My rotating background was not displaying properly the whole time, and I now know why
- You need to explicitly set the bg priority, otherwise they all default and mess up
Try to use the same palette for the silhouette + room bg imgs to save space
- Check the grit docs to use the disable palettes command (-p!)
For rotatingBackground:
- Set opacity so that the asset is see-through (done)
- Create rotating code (done)
- Create actual proper asset (not placeholder)
- 1f58ad, -0.2, 0.7 (pictures)
- D4e4f8 (bg)
I finally created the rotating background, and it looks pretty good!
- I used a sinusoidal fn to make it rotate at different speeds/directions

I think I’m going to make the next screen (after we click “Press Any Button”)
- I’m going to start gathering the textures for that and format it
I just deleted the old GitHub repo and made a new repo called persona-3-ds
- I also renamed the project folder to persona-3-ds
Since we are done with this view, I plan to organize my code and create a state machine for new views!
I made a state machine and moved the intro code from main.cpp to IntroView.cpp
- I cleanly moved instance variables into header files, and made a header file for global variables (which is just frame right now)
The code is now very cleanly organized!
I’m currently trying to format the images for the MainMenu
- I’m having trouble with the fog
- It looks like the DS has a built-in fog effect?
- We can’t use that; only for 3D
Ok, I think if we turn down the opacity, the fog effect looks fine for what we can do
I want to change the order of some stuff
- The background should fade in
- After the person has slid in, the fog should come in
I got the basic menu view down, there are just a few other things to do
- When the silhouette moves in, there is garbage data beyond the 512x512 area. Somehow, we should clear the memory and fix that!
- Need to make the menu dialogs and options on the 2nd screen