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Thanks, I didn't know Tile Molester had a Mac version.

And thanks cpow, I really appreciate your step-by-step. I'll see if I can get that up and running.

Any other suggestions?

I got started with nesdev a few years ago and made some progress with a few simple programs, but eventually stopped coding. Since then, I read threads here almost daily. The current excitement around new games, utilities and members has given me an itch to start over again. Previously I had access t...

Beautiful. Great work!

Makes sense. Seems similar to backface culling, in that it limits the amount of rendering that needs to be done in any given frame.

Strange that I can't find much online, though. The book tosses off the term like it's common programmer parlance.

I came across the following term in a book on virtual / video game spaces: ...those familiar with FPS games know that unrealistic space display can undermine the realistic features of a game. So-called Z-corridors are used to separate the graphical display of two rooms or large spaces only because c...

I commend you for hanging with it, Brian. I'll definitely be buying the game. It looks great.

Will entries eventually end up on a cart?

Yeah, I've read through the Dossier. It's great. It seems to me that the NES version carries over the ghost behavior, though I'm not sure if the port was accurate enough to replicate the targeting errors. My guess is no, since the NES version corrects the kill screen, but I don't know for certain. H...

I was wondering if anyone with a familiarity with the Tengen Pac-Man port has noticed the small sprite fragment in the upper left corner of the screen. I assume this was cropped on a number of CRT monitors, but I was curious if this was a drawing glitch or intentional for some reason. After seeing t...

The control method might be overcomplicated, but it adds a simple visual cue and possibly prevents accidental moves (if the moves were just mapped to the D-pad, for instance).

Nice work.

Cool, thanks for posting this.

Great artistic work on the first boss. Looks really nice!

Celius, at the time I think SMB1 did look technically and graphically impressive. Back then, scrolling was graphically impressive. As far as I know, SMB1 was the second side-scrolling platformer ever made (after Pac-Land). I think Jump Bug was the first, in 1981. A few others might fit the bill as ...

Really incredible, blargg, thanks for sharing. I haven't checked on real hardware yet, but it looks great in Nestopia (OSX).

Excellent, just what I was looking for. Thanks.