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Wow, I'm floored by the quick response to the poll! Thank you all for your input. I don't have one of these devices either, and the main barrier to entry for me is the cost. Personally I think I'd use it for all of the above, but experience has taught me that many toys I buy don't get their intended...

The INL-Retro software works on Windows 8, you just have to jump through some hoops to get the unsigned driver installed.

Saying that I "got it working" on Linux is a bit generous But yea, Linux software is available with source and works on 64-bit systems as well.

You could argue that the attitude that you should make your game for NES instead of PC is unproductive by exactly the same logic. And yes, there's a zillion valid reasons not to target MMC3, but I'll just state the most obvious one here: You intentionally chose to work with this platform because of...

I'm just wondering what everyone uses their PowerPaks and EverDrives for. Please select all options that apply in the poll above. Also, if anyone has comments they'd like to share about what they love or hate about either product, I'd love to hear them.

In my notes I have written for scrolling: * Always do scrolling LAST in NMI routine * Always clear PPU address latches prior to writing to PPUSCROLL (bit PPUSTATUS does the trick) So try chaning your NMI to this: .proc nmi ; Added this line to reset PPU address latches bit PPUSTATUS lda $28 clc adc ...

The attitude that you don't need MMC3 if you don't have gobs of CHR data, or that you don't need anything more than UxROM unless you absolutely have to have WRAM, and that you don't need WRAM and can do everything in system RAM unless you want to provide battery-backed saves, and that you don't need...

That's great to hear! For a long time there was a thought within the community that there would be no MMC3 development cart until someone made an MMC3 homebrew worth publishing. I'm glad to see that the presence of an easily accessible MMC3-based development board is promoting it as a target

Wow, that's pretty! What is this exactly? A menu?

The ca65 Documentation Page is a very good reference for the assembler syntax, especially the directives.

Ah, well in that case, you still need to decide what mapper to use and whether to use CHR-ROM or CHR-RAM. My personal choice in this matter was to use MMC3 with 32KB CHR-RAM. This gives me flexible PRG-ROM banking, WRAM, the flexability of CHR-RAM and the ability to do graphical effects that require...

Ah, didn't get that this was "Mario Bros." instead of SMB. I'm at work so I didn't watch the video

My guess is the disassemblies that have been posted in the past 10 years would be better to base a rework on than the original sources

To order a board with pre-populated flash you need to add both the board and the flash update to your cart, like this: http://i.imgur.com/ztk5t2G.png And the programmer is sold separately. Please note that Linux and Windows 8 is not supported by the author, although I have ported the Anago dumper pr...

Yea, I mean uc65 should produce code that's very near the speed of hand-optimized assembly in most cases. The only cases I've found where I can do a better job than the optimizer I have currently implemented is with branch joins. Like when you have an if/else structure, on the other side of that the...

Wait, so they used UV-erasable memory but soldered it directly onto to board? Or are those stickers there for looks?