# Xenon 2 Megablast
**URL:** https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618
**Category:** Game Design
**Created:** [January 6, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618 "2022-01-06T01:02:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Napomex](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Napomex)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618/1 "2022-01-06T01:02:15Z")
> **[Xenon 2 Megablast](https://arcade.makecode.com/37271-00569-13892-25688)**
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> Erstellt mit ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.
Hello to all currently it has grabbed me again a small remake of my absolute shoot em up hit to create everything in blocks.
Attached is the first demo.
A big thanks goes to UnsignedArduino for the tool to convert the midi files (music).
Currently I am facing several problems.
-The enemies should come in groups and follow a path which I want to set for each spawn separately.
-Projectiles should fly through walls and enemies as well.
-Menu animation I will still adapt.
-Perhaps I will go to 8x8 Tiles so that the scale is right again. But here the resolution will suffer quite a bit
-Currently it does not run on real hardware (except pi).
maybe it’s possible to optimize the whole thing but i think the amount of sprites doesn’t allow it.
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### Author:  [@edubsky](https://forum.makecode.com/u/edubsky)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618/2 "2022-01-06T17:03:18Z")
Wow - that’s really impressive. Two questions and an idea:
I see you’re using an extension called Musical Images. I haven’t seen that before. Do you have a link to documentation about it?
How did you set the custom colour palette?
Idea re hardware support: At a glance I can’t tell what’s preventing the game from working on hardware, but it appears you have only 18 or 19 sprites on screen at once, which doesn’t feel like a dealbreaker to me. Perhaps shave that down a bit, but also make bells and whistles like the paralax scrolling background only turn on if you’re not on a gaming device? Just an idea.
Love the game!
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### Author:  [@Kiwiphoenix364](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Kiwiphoenix364)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618/3 "2022-01-06T22:31:06Z")
The music is probably the reason why it doesn’t work on hardware because when I took it off, it worked. Also, while trying to optimize it, I made an effect that looks really cool and runs on hardware. Hardware doesn’t like the scrolling background for some reason and just crashes, but the effect that I made (using 1x1 sprites) works. Here’s the version that runs on hardware:
> **[Xenon 2 Megablast NO MUSIC COOL SCROLLING](https://arcade.makecode.com/78323-79695-06716-38008)**
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> Made with ❤️ in Microsoft MakeCode Arcade.
Also, as @edubsky said, how did you get the custom color palette? Also, @edubsky, that extension is actually on [a post](https://forum.makecode.com/t/music-requests/6454/22) from @UnsignedArduino.
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### Author:  [@UnsignedArduino](https://forum.makecode.com/u/UnsignedArduino)
#### Post date: [January 6, 2022, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618/4 "2022-01-06T23:46:20Z")
Yea I did _not_ optimize the music player for hardware lol.
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### Author:  [@Napomex](https://forum.makecode.com/u/Napomex)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2022, 8:05am UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618/5 "2022-01-09T08:05:39Z")
custom color has been discussed here on the forum many times.
Music is discussed in the Musi thread by UnsignedArduino.
the performens went well until i integrated the statusbar addon since then it is no longer possible to play on real hardware.
the music is not the problem!
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### Author:  [@personalnote](https://forum.makecode.com/u/personalnote)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2022, 8:21pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618/6 "2022-02-14T20:21:37Z")
> [@Napomex](#):
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> custom color has been discussed here on the forum many times.
sorry, but i looked through your code (blocks and javascript), but i couldn’t find anything that would have set a custom colour palette in your game
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### Author:  [@jackal](https://forum.makecode.com/u/jackal)
#### Post date: [December 5, 2022, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.makecode.com/t/xenon-2-megablast/11618/7 "2022-12-05T18:02:21Z")
The culprit has been found… HE’S BEEN USING BETA TOOLS THIS WHOLE TIME!