Does moving the cursor to the next row count as a newline?

Question

Background

SmileBASIC is a BASIC interpreter for the Nintendo 3DS.

Like most versions of BASIC, there is a PRINT command which displays text in the console. (As well as ? which does the same thing)

By default, PRINT moves the cursor to the next row after printing, and this can be disabled by putting a semicolon after the last argument.

Problem

PRINT without ; does NOT output a trailing newline. This can be tested by comparing it with printing a real newline character:

PRINT "TEST1" 'print + move cursor
PRINT "TEST2"+CHR$(10); 'print + newline

Using CHKCHR, you can see that TEST2 has a newline character after it, while TEST1 does not.

You can also use LOCATE to move the cursor without printing newlines or other special characters.

newlines yes

Many challenges ask you to print lines of text separated by newlines (for example, ASCII art). Is it acceptable to move the cursor in a different way (using PRINT or LOCATE)?

newlines no

Other challenges specifically say that trailing newlines are not allowed. Should extra cursor movements not be allowed at all?

Answer 1

Existing consensus supports this

As user Challenger5 mentioned in a comment, a previous question about control characters in ascii-art challenges yielded this consensus, which states that ascii-art challenges are about displaying an image comprised of ASCII characters, NOT about replicating a byte string. Thus the fact that SmileBASIC does not need to use the newline character to separate lines of output is immaterial: Being able to display the requested image means that portion of the challenge is complete, though it does not necessarily exempt an answer from other rules.

With regards to answers banning a trailing newline, I personally think that falls into a similar category as answers banning built-in solutions and if an asker wishes to include the rule anyway then it is THEIR job to be specific about what they ban. Thus, if your solution does not include the newline character after the last line then it doesn't have a trailing newline.

Exceptions

I stated that ascii-art is not about replicating a byte string. However, there is an overlapping tag which IS often about replicating a byte string: kolmogorov-complexity. As a general rule, I would say that any Kolmogorov complexity challenge does require exactly a newline character in the answer's output where there is a newline character in the requested output. This would include challenges which are both ASCII art and Kolmogorov complexity.