drawing a 8x8 unit in BitMap Display MIPS

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In my computer structure class we are learning about assembly language and we've got to make a snake game. it needs to use the BitMap display that comes with the MARS IDE and there comes the problem i'm having. I managed to draw and move a "snake" from a point A to a point B with the following code:

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li $a2, 0x00FF0000  #loads the color red into the register $a2
li $s2,  50         #x1 = x position of the tail
li $s3, 200         #y1 = y position of the tail
li $s0, 50          #x2 = x position of the head
li $s1, 200         #y2 = y position of the head

li $t6, 100         #limit of the x axis for painting the snake for the first time

loop:
   blt $s0, $t6, DrawPixel # while the head isnt in the first limit (100) draws a pixel in (s0,s1)

loop2:
   li $t6, 400 #new head limit,when the head gets to 100, it keeps drawing but now it erases the tail
   li $v0, 32 #sleep
   li $a0, 10 #20ms
   syscall #do the sleep

   blt $s0, $t6, DrawPixel2 #draws a pixel, and deletes the tail


   beq $s2, $t6, end #sends to the label of the end of the program



DrawPixel:

addi $s0, $s0, 1         #adds 1 to the X of the head
li $t3, 0x10000100       #t3 = first Pixel of the screen

sll   $t0, $s3, 9        #y = y * 512
addu  $t0, $t0, $s0      # (xy) t0 = x + y
sll   $t0, $t0, 2        # (xy) t0 = xy * 4
addu  $t0, $t3, $t0      # adds xy to the first pixel ( t3 )
sw    $a2, ($t0)         # put the color red ($a2) in $t0


j loop                   #goes back to the drawing loop

DrawPixel2:

addi $s0, $s0, 1         #adds 1 to the X position of the head
addi $s2, $s2, 1         #adds 1 to the X position of the tail
li $t3, 0x10000100       # t3 = first pixel of the screen

#####paint the head (in red)####
sll     $t0, $s3, 9     # y = y * 512
addu    $t0, $t0, $s0   # (xy) t1 = x + y
sll     $t0, $t0, 2     # (xy) t1 = xy * 4
addu    $t0, $t3, $t0   # adds xy to the first pixel ( t3 )
li $a2, 0x00FF0000      # change the color in a2 to red
sw  $a2, ($t0)          # put the color red ($a2) in $t0

#delete the tail( painting it in black )
sll     $t0, $s3, 9     # y = y * 512
addu    $t0, $t0, $s2   # (xy) t1 = x + y
sll     $t0, $t0, 2     # (xy) t1 = xy * 4
addu    $t0, $t3, $t0   # adds xy to the first pixel ( t3 )
li $a2, 0x10000000      # set the color in a2 to black
sw  $a2, ($t0)          # put the color black($a2) in $t0

j loop2 #goes back to the loop


end:

    ####exit########
    li $v0, 10
    syscall

this draws a snake and move it horizontally. the problem is that the snake is 1Px width, so is very thin and it would be a real pain trying to eat something with it. In the bitmapDisplay there is an option to set the unit height in pixels and the unit width in pixels, the default is 1Px*1px, but as i said, is too thin. So i tried to set it to 8x8, but the it doesn't display anything. I suppose that i have to do something in the code to make an unit 8px*8px (instead of 1x1), but i have no clue of what do i need to do. Any help is appreciated. thank you and sorry for any misspell, English isn't my native language.