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Blue Shadow, Batman, Journey to Silius, Ninja Gaiden 2.

And for the european style (which I know some people here dislike, but I don't); Solstice, Silver Surfer, Darkman, Asterix, Smurfs.

But if being being hip is your top priority when seeking a job, I suggest you rule out programming altogether.

..and being a member of a NESDev message board.

Because there isn't many game developpers searching employeers arround, especially outside of japan. Huh? I know there's a few here in Sweden, in the UK, France, Italy and of course the US. I was in touch with two studios back when I was looking for a job, but by the time they got their thumbs out ...

Mappers 1.2 was a downgrade compared to 1.0 for MMC3. With 1.0 I can play SMB3 without problems. With 1.2 the status bar gets a grand mal epilepsy attack whenever the screen scrolls.

Then again, for speech-specific compression, there are better codecs to use. But most of them are very CPU-demanding IIRC. Yeah, try to do an AMR decoder. It might be doable if the NES' CPU was running at, say, 30-40 MHz.. Sounds very interesting. Could the NES perform a such process in real-time ?...

The 2 attribute bits select which out of the 4 palettes that a tile is using. You don't have 2 bits for every tile though, they are shared on a 2x2 tile basis. So each attribute table byte contains attributes for 4x4 tiles (2x2 + 2x2 + 2x2 + 2x2).

I wrote this macro a while back to copy data onto a portion of a nametable using nesasm (I'm using $20-$24 as temporaries): copy_nametable_data .macro lda #(\1 / 256) sta <$21 lda #(\1 % 256) sta <$20 lda #\4 sta <$22 lda #(\2 % 256) sta <$23 lda #(\2 / 256) sta <$24 .y\@: lda <$21 sta $2006 lda <$2...

Remember to use CLC before ADC and SEC before SBC if you want them to behave like ADD/SUB.

Yeah, that the swedish post serice is a joke. So is the Swedish customs department. They don't even bother telling you when they snatch your stuff. They just send it back (if the sender accepts the charges) or destroy it (or keep it for themselves for all I know). Still sucks that you didn't get yo...

I seem to remember also not being able to do anything but 32k NROM games... You can use any mapper you'd like afaik. I've used MMC1 and MMC3. The problems for me started when I needed more than 8 banks (64k). I got a bunch of address conflicts when assembling. But you can get around this by assembl...

NEStopia runs them.

So should Nintendulator. I know I ran High Hopes in it.

It's a pity though that knowing the NES inside out takes away most of the impressiveness for us.

I'd say the opposite. I think knowing the NES and its capabilities makes it more impressive than it would have been otherwise.

I have a bunch of macros that I've written to perform various tasks, and some of them require local labels (.x\@ etc). This all worked fine until I needed more than 32kB of PRGROM. When I try to use my macros in code that is in .bank 4 or beyond I get an error saying "Local symbol not allowed h...

The one annoying thing about the second world is when you get outside and there are those guys in the grey gowns standing at the edges of the platforms throwing stuff at you. If you jump into them you might fall to your death, but once you know where they are you can take them out pretty easily. And...

How can you attack an ennemy wich isn't in the screen yet before you jump on a platform, and that appears just when you're about to land on the said platform just to push you down to your doom ? You just cannot kill them nor avoid them, even if you know they're gonna to be there. Where in the game ...