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I'd worry about NROM first, with 32K program and 8K graphics. If your 1st game is over that, you might be getting a -tad- froggy. :o I'm not sure what that means but im not asking about this stuff for my first game ...im asking to keep my conceptual knowledge ahead of my technical knowledge so i kn...

Sure, there are bigger flash chips than the 29F040 used by SUROM, but they aren't always 5.0 V 8-bit parallel NOR flash like the 29F series. A lot of big flash chips are 3.3 V, or I2C serial, or block-organized NAND. To use serial or block memory effectively, you need a big PRG RAM. FDS (disk is se...

What about circuit chips?
You can certainly get much bigger ones then were available for most NES games along with new ones like FlashMemory.

I've been reading into a lot of cart hardware documents but it's hard to wrap my head around, especially since i'm thinking with a focus on newly made games whereas most documents are aimed at reproductions. So say you wanted to make a game cart with as little donor parts as possible and as much res...

The 8 sprite limit: Does that refer to 8 sprites or 8 sprite-tiles? For example, every sprite in SMB is at least 2 tiles wide so 4 sprites would contain at least 8 sprite-tiles. Also is the limit >8 (8 max) or >=8 (7 max)? Color in sprites: Fire-Mario in SMB and Kunio in River City Ransom are approx...