By putting all the sprites on one horizontal line in the top “border”, the demo also proves it’s not using any of the standard tricks to fake extra sprites. Th

By putting all the sprites on one horizontal line in the top “border”, the demo also proves it’s not using any of the standard tricks to fake extra sprites. The only thing that the C64 will draw up there are real sprites (not character/bitmap graphics), and you can’t multiplex sprites in the same horizontal line of pixels.