Which sprites are lost (8 sprites per scanline)

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Which sprites are lost (8 sprites per scanline)
by rizz1010 on 2012-01-20 (#89080)

Excuse my impatience - I could quickly test this when I get home.

When there are 9 sprites on the same line, which sprite is not drawn? Is it the one with the highest OAM address? Or is it the one with the highest X coordinate?

by Dwedit on 2012-01-20 (#89081)

The sprites with the lowest 8 indexes are drawn, everything else is not. So it's the sprite with the highest index that isn't draw.

by 3gengames on 2012-01-20 (#89082)

The closes to the beginning of sprite OAM are displayed, the ones after get ignored.