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In all fairness, I think there's value in having both Notepad++ and VSCode installed. Notepad++ is a great, lightweight replacement for Notepad, and it's easily my preferred general text editor.

I wouldn't use VSCode for general purpose text editing, but it's great for other purposes.

I never (well, rarely) post here, but it's one of my most frequently visited sites, for quite a few years. The mix of very technical knowledge in the retro video game space and in the general computer space is extremely appealing to me, and I feel like I learn a lot with nearly every visit here. I m...

I have a Pro controller from launch day (March 2017) and a Smash Bros. Ultimate pro controller from November 2018. I do find myself hard-dropping a little less with the Smash Ultimate controller, but it still does so an infuriating amount. I have two recommendations: 1) Try the tape fix. There are a...

I will be watching this topic very closely in the coming days. I am jumping into GB dev for the first time, and the one big question mark I had after preliminary research was how to efficiently create and play music and sound effects. I would be interested in knowing on a high level what others' pro...

I'm not terribly familiar with C, but can't you just use GOTOs everywhere? It brings be back to when I first learned to program in BASIC... Only thing is you can't return from them, so it'll be annoying to code. In GCC I remember reading that there's a special extension that allows you to get the ad...

Aside from Retro City Rampage, is there any example of an embedded NES emulator on a Playstation or XBox platform? That Mega Man collection with the terrible sounding audio and the swapped A/B buttons? Also Mega Man: Powered Up, a remake of the first Mega Man on PSP. IIRC the buttons weren't as ter...

Dwedit wrote:We allow attachments here, no need for file sharing hosts.
The Famitracker boards also allow attachments.

Thanks for reminding me, I'm used to other forums blocking attachments. :p

I admit I felt a bit silly uploading a 6.35 KB file to a filehost...

That sounds like you weren't in edit mode, maybe? To enter edit mode you can either click the red "record" button, or press the space bar. The current row highlight will change from blue to red. Something about this post made it seem really easy, even though every time I've tried to use a...

Oh, that's very helpful, thanks.

Because it's only one name table, I will probably go with the method like WJYkK described, but the information you've provided will be of great use to me for other things.

I didn't know about adding to labels like +256, nor did I know about indexed addressing...

I see... Thanks for your help. I see that loop1 copies the first 256 bytes from the file to the PPU. But won't loop2 just go back to reading from titlescreengfx + 0, the beginning of the .incbin file? So it would just copy the first 256 bytes of the file to the PPU again? Or is there something I'm m...

So I started doing some NES coding. I have a question. It's probably fairly newbie-ish... I have incbin'd a file from YY-CHR. Basically, it's nametable and attribute table data I made for a title screen. I used a hex editor to look at the binary data of the YY-CHR file, and the format is like this: ...

Thank you. Yes, when I start with ARM, I'm definitely going to do it with the GBA in mind. I thought about starting with the DS for a while, but a lot of factors say no.

However, I'm sort of looking for a nice development environment, like an IDE I guess, to serve as a guide while I learn ARM.

Very interesting. I'm most interested in rom hacks from asm sources, like with Mario. Does Extra Mario Bros. work with the powerpack? Also, you didn't link to Gradius I + II improvement patches. They can be found somewhere on this page: http://messatu.wordpress.com/ I think a more direct link to Gra...

I am the kind of person who is afraid to code until I get fairly comfortable with something. Looking through this forum today, I found this 6502 Simulator . It's the most comfortable thing ever to learn code in, and I feel I'm getting pretty good at it, writing various kinds of subroutines. Basicall...

I tested this in Nestopia and also FCEU GX for the Wii on a CRT (yay 240p!). I am also very impressed. My favorite is kameli (the NES's blues and purples make that one look very natural, like the mountains in the background). testi (Jurassic Park) is also nice, and each frame is very detailed. The f...