I just wanted to chime in and say that I'm very excited about this, and seeing where you go with it.

Last week as a test I had asked it how to program the flash of your GTROM board. It first gave me vague and useless instructions on how to use an external programmer to do it. So I asked it to give me NES sample code to program it. It ended up giving me code that was almost correct, other than it ha...

Very nice! Having your first game running is always a great feeling. Keep it up and I'd love to see where your game ends up. Now that you have the basics of NES development down, this is always my next recommendation: Physics for platformers like this can be tricky. If you haven't read it yet, I sug...

I was just pointing out that there's so much to do after that, but those topics are not brought up as frequently. Ah, I see. I thought you were saying that these areas weren't important. Yes, I agree, there are other things further "up the stack" that are important and give folks trouble....

I see lots of mentions of things like sprite usage, input handling, VRAM updates, and so on, but in my experience, the time spent on those things is a tiny insignificant fraction of a game's development period. While that's true, if you understand them poorly, and thus design them poorly, then they...

I know that the subject seems a little cliche, but I think it would be nice to discuss the most common holdups/problems that beginners in this scene have and what the more experienced users have done in order to overcome those problems. To get back to some common problems, instead of just discussin...

And if we get back now to old games like Contra then it becomes virtually impossible to pass this 'test' One of the things I loved about Contra back in the day was that you could play it two ways: you could use the code, have fun with a friend, and play through the game. Or you could play through a...

I would think the best answer is "it depends on how things move, you'd probably just have to try it and see". My guess is that if things generally move slowly, then it would be fine. But if it's a fast-paced game where things are moving rapidly (multiple pixels every one of your double-fra...

I've been typing and deleting responses to this thread for weeks now. But rainwarrior finally put into well-written words what I've been thinking but couldn't manage to coherently express. To add a little bit: For a lot of old games, the difficulty wasn't EXCESSIVE, it made the games fun. If I got a...

Can you forsake the "same principles as the 4-controller multi-tap"? Because that's a significant barrier. It both effectively prevents using SNES controllers with the multitap, and requires more complicated parts. Yeah, it's doesn't have to be the same as the four-score. But I don't care...

Jedi QuestMaster wrote: ↑Wed Aug 10, 2022 10:44 pm 4x2 d-pads = 8 d-pads or 4 d-pads & 4x4 face buttons.

It's been a dream of mine to build an 8-controller multitap (using the same principles as the 4-controller multi-tap). Let's make it happen.

I agree with Dwedit and Tokumaru ... the confusion will still be out there and trying to erase the "mirroring" term will just add more historical confusion. I don't mind the terminology change, but I think you'd need to be careful to still include text that indicates that this is the oppos...

This is probably not what you're going for, but what about making it multiplayer competitive? Maybe adding the ability to block off passages or something like that, to try to trap other players near monsters while you race for treasure?

I checked out NESst, I'll have to take a deeper look at how to compile it on Linux. Hopefully not too hard, and if I can figure it out I'll share a Makefile or something here I don't think it will compile for Linux, short of a substantial rewrite, but I do think it should run fine in Wine? Yes, Scr...

Goose2k wrote: ↑Thu May 26, 2022 9:57 am I'm not sure what the vast majority of people care about.

There's the rub. Everyone cares about different things anyway.