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Holy s...., are you serious?! I mean, it doesn't even sound real for some reason... I mean...NES emulator, on. on sony ps4. I mean, approved. Will nintendo not do anything about it? I'm clueless about lawsuits, so sorry If I'm making no sense. I haven't yet signed the contracts. As written Sony own...

Are there any character graphic sets out there? Something like the Sharp MZ-700 or Mattel Aquarius?

Most people savvy enough to program for the NES already have muddled through cobbling together their own solutions - and they like it that way, methinks. The people that need and want a development kit are the same that are thriving in the Atari 2600 community. They thrive because they have these it...

Holy cow! I forget to lurk for a few days and this leaps into life! This project and infiniteneslives flash carts are pretty much the only way someone like me could possibly create their own NES game. I'll be watching and attempting to get this working for myself :) I've mentioned this before, but, ...

Just wanted to mention that my new design is working very well. Every time I write one of these things I get better at it :) I should be ready for a 0.1 release soon, and I'll put it in a new thread. This one was really just meant as an exploration of the idea, and it served it's purpose very well....

I think the Atari 2600 has had a great revival in part from batari BASIC. Coding is not a rite of passage but an art form. We need more types of people making more games.

If I could I'd use the same strategy as batari BASIC here on our NES.

I may have oversimplified my statement that batari BASIC is just a compiler. However limited its got a thriving homebrew community and even managed to "port" Super Mario Brothers over: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5igUFICNB0 Whatever batari BASIC is doing seems to be a very good strateg...

I'm kind of surprised nobody has written a NES game with Atalan (that I know of...), but I guess it's mostly because of the esoteric syntax. Nope. I'd love to use Atalan but the NES page is barely there. Certainly not enough information for a new user to start making games. http://atalan.kutululu.o...

I try to use this tool which seems to be very cool ! Scratchalan http://playpower.pbworks.com/w/page/35075708/Atalan%20Compiler to download the 2 files (beta versions) http://playpower.pbworks.com/w/browse/#view=ViewFolder&param=Atalan%20Compiler No problem to compile exemples to .NES file but ...

batari Basic looks very interesting. It has a number of limitations similar to what I'm talking about. For one there's no parametrized subroutines or functions. Another thing is all math is 8-bit, which works out pretty OK for the 2600. It looks like the final version uses a program-at-a-time banki...

We've heard from the experts coming from a low level background. Now let's hear from a fool tumbling down from high level languages :) Yet another C compiler will be just a curiosity. I don't see the experts using it and the fools still wont know what to do with it. The most successful higher level ...

Thanks for the clarification TheFox. I think ZX Basic for the SMS used a similar technique. Limited, hack-ey, but if it lets higher level language game makers create.. I say.. oh, poo! Both the pynes and ZX Basic for SMS guys seems to be stalled :p

Someone began working on a python compiler for NES: https://github.com/gutomaia/pyNES I personally never got it to install or compile correctly but maybe someone familiar with Python (you) could use it. Still would have to write your own routines or reimplement what you used from pygame but it'd be ...

I wonder if NesterJ uses the same save state format required by this tool?

Also, what makes MMC3 necessary for Family BASIC conversions? Did the original Family BASIC cart also use that chip?

The _README.TXT says something about

Base : MMC3
Mapper : 1
PRG-ROM : 32k
CHR-ROM : 32k

Does that mean if one wants to make an actual cart I'd have to find a donor cart with MMC3 chip and the same PRG/CHR specs?