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Thanks for all the helpful insights, everyone! I've now got the name table data down to 124 bytes, a whopping 87.08% compression! @Roth: We should trademark that. It's all about Hella Compression™. @Celius: Your idea of decomposing the title screen into rectangular regions worked beautifully! @teppl...

Okay, here's what I've got so far: There are 4 encoding modes, which are determined by bits 7-6. They are described below. Immediate Mode: %00xxxxxx; x = tile index This mode is used for sequences of tiles whose indices are random but lie in the range [0, 63]. This allows storage of multiple literal...

Cool, that's exactly what I'll do. I'll let you guys know how it goes.

hehe Thanks SSD : ) There's a point where it actually maxes out the score, and you were pretty close! There it is...got the double exclamation points!! Man, seeing these homebrew projects makes me wish I could put my own project together more quickly. But I'm going for commercial quality (whether t...

That's pretty sweet! I made it to 73 before biting the big one.

Right now the name table for my game's title screen is uncompressed (960 bytes), and I'm looking for a good algorithm to reduce its size. The title is drawn at a perspective, kind of like the Mega Man games. I mention this to give you guys a sense of how much tile repetition occurs (not a whole lot)...

Welcome, When I first got started, the first thing I did was read every document I could find on this website. There's so much information here; it's truly amazing. I'd like it if you assume I do not know anything. Could you give us a sense of what you do know? For example, do you know how to progra...

Thanks for your help, gents! @Dwedit: Wow, FamiTracker is insane...ly cool, that is. It'll take some time to get my bearings with that bad boy. @Roth: That sndtest tool is awesome! Previously, I had been setting random bits in the sound registers and rebuilding the ROM to get a sense of how each par...

Greetings everyone, I'm currently writing the sound engine for my NES game, and was wondering how to implement different instruments. I'm no musician, but I have a decent (not expert) understanding of the physics of sound. A friend of mine is composing MIDI files on his Mac, which I then convert to ...