Trying to understand this specific boss jump movement code for my NES romhack

[Timaeus]

  The game in question is Megaman 1.

  Basically, I want to make a robot master of mine be able to jump and land exactly where Megaman is, on Megaman's X position, which is horizontal.

  I came up with alot of information about some things that could help, and right now, I did managed to make it work, but only with a very low jump Height. The logic that I came out was: set sprite id, set animation related command, set jump height whole value as 6, set jump height fractionated value as 20, set the carry to 1, load Megaman's X position, subtract with the boss's X position, add the whole value to the jump distance whole command and the remainder (in the carry, probably) as the value of the jump distance fractionated command, call a function to make the boss jump at the direction that I am (left or right), move to the next boss code, end (rts)

  Obs: the fractionated commands goes from 00 to FF (0 to 255), and the whole commands goes uses 256 as a base for the value (which means value 01 makes it move 1 pixel per frame, representing 256. Value 2 represents 512, etc.)

  Is this logic correct? If not, I want to know what I did wrong on it, because I want to understand these things better to improve my coding skill.

  Thanks~
 

[Cyneprepou4uk]

Sounds about right.

Is there a reason you're describing your code instead of actually posting it?

Instead of fractionated and whole commands, better call them low and high bytes.

pos_X_lo
pos_X_hi

[Timaeus]

  So that is what high and low numbers are about in this kind of language. Thanks for that.

  I did not had the code in hex when I did the post. Sorry about that.

  It turned out that I had to subtract the boss X position's with Megaman's, and then do some stuff until it reaches the part of doing a division of the result by the number of frames that the jump takes from start to finish (with a specific jump height). Then add high values into a specific high value command and the remainder of the division in a low value command.

  The hardest part was finding out how to handle the remainder value, but I finally managed to make the whole thing work.

  Thank you, dude.