I think they came onto some gbadev irc channel looking for people who had made amateur games, and paid a bit of money for them. They never mentioned it was going on a ps2 / gamecube emulator, or I would have changed the control screens.

Bluesky is not liking that animated gif

We got plenty of villans though

Unlikely to finish like that since the picture includes a working ship

You're out there fighting bugs with two joysticks

Good news - each slot is 16 bytes!

Does the y position increase as things move down the screen? If so you might need to check the player y < enemy y, and also sometimes good to check that the player is currently moving downwards

Thank you

The dancing gators in the title screen are the best!

Can I also be added please

If you don't have control over the tile attributes or palette layouts, you could hide sprites in the hblank where the text box starts, and re-enable them in vblank