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Er, speaking of frontloader problems, mine has broken down. However, I'm not sure whether it's the connector or something else, as when I turn it on, instead of blanking to color 0 as it normally should, it blanks to color $20 or $30. My attempts to fly blind and save a game on Final Fantasy have no...

Yeah, velocity-based jumping is definitely the way to go - simpler methods just feel so fake. Depending on the game, velocity-based horizontal motion can work well too (SMB, again.)

Hah, I'm working on-and-off on a project that comes out to 520KB - it's a port of another game, and it breaks down to 8KB of code and game data, 8KB of VROM, and 504KB of speech samples =) (8-bit speech samples directly outputted, that is, not DMC samples. And I have to pause whatever else I'm doin...

Hah, I'm working on-and-off on a project that comes out to 520KB - it's a port of another game, and it breaks down to 8KB of code and game data, 8KB of VROM, and 504KB of speech samples =) (8-bit speech samples directly outputted, that is, not DMC samples. And I have to pause whatever else I'm doing...

Free time and motivation are the biggest problems. I had a port of another game in the works but I had to redo the code in a readable form and I haven't touched it in a couple months.

While I'm no fan of the modern Disney corporation, the linked article is pretty ludicrously psychotic if you read through it. Among other things, it regurgitates such old tropes as "good teenagers take off their clothes," "S-E-X," the phallus cover, and Jessica's naughty bit's, t...

We can always use more of these. Personally, I'd like to see someone take apart Final Fantasy or another RPG (Dragon Warrior, maybe, it's only 80KB.)

DS Homebrew is quite easy, really. Like PSP homebrew, it involves firmware flashing, but since there's no real firmware upgrades for DS it's not such a big deal (you don't have to re-flash it each time you upgrade.) I got the devkitPro package installed and successfully compiled one of the examples ...

The NES version is still my favorite, but the DS version is quite a nice remake, what with the 3d and all. And the really nice thing is that they didn't water it down like they did FF1&2 Advance; while the difficulty has been slightly adjusted to compensate for the fact that they couldn't have t...

Yeah, Brazil's government is kinda =( Not as much as a lot of south/central American countries though. Anyway, assuming you're not burdened by electronics tariffs, the DS is a pretty nice system. Although most of the official titles that use the touchscreen are gimmick titles with which your enjoy m...

As expected, their cartridges seem to contain the small games nobody cares about (along with a few small-but-good games like SMB and a very few larger titles like Megaman 5.) Not the sort of stuff I'd want to play on a handheld, really.

Here you go. Written in FreeBasic.

Yeah, hold off on the keyboard for now, but if you are going to do a telnet client, it'd be much easier to use than an onscreen keyboard.

Only works with Famicoms, unless a connector were added to the cart, and is hard to obtain. PS/2 keyboards are all over the place for dirt cheap and are, in my experience, sturdier and more reliable than USB keyboards.

Makes me wonder what kind of drugs those coders were on. Heh, it's funny when you look at the comments of 8-bit coders (more on home computers than consoles, but still,) just how many of them mention alcohol and drugs =) "I may be a great programmer when I'm sober, but I'm a MASTER when I'm ta...