nesdev.org

I know 3gengames meant to post a link but in the meantime here's my guess:
http://www.nespowerpak.com/

oops.. Tepples beat me to it.. :p

rainwarrior wrote:I like the whoo-yeah intro music.

It takes tepples to make a ROM go write..

@Bregalad: Maybe when you start the C version you could use NESICIDE. I'm sure your feedback from a seasoned developers point of view would be valuable. I've already got the n00b developers point of view covered :p

It seems creating SMB3 comparable games is not a pure ASM vs. C thing then. It's a motivation thing. Also, I suspect that we all know why higher level languages exist. Why EDLIN gave way to EDIT. If more savvy programmers worked on better C libraries then the difference between C and ASM performance...

Thanks guys. I missed alot of those games that had overlayed tiles/sprites. I never got into MegaMan. Contra may have used two seperate sprites but it didn't seem to be overlapping them. I'll have to look harder.

I think I've seen some Genesis games that overlay tiles or overlap sprites in order to fake objects with more than 16 colors. I don't think I've seen this in NES games. Why not? Or, am I missing the instances where they do? I could at least see tile/sprite combinations happening as coarse movement w...

@Sivak: I think it may be remarkable that your first game is now being seen at second hand game shops. Not as a new cart mind you. Also, I appreciated your youtube videos that were kinda half documenting half tutorial on NES development. I hope you have time for more someday. Never got a message bac...

Wizards & Warriors Super Pitfall Zelda II All had unique art styles especially Wizards & Warriors. Super Pitfall is accused of being a Mario clone but it was actually staying true to the Tandy Coco3 and, for the most part, PC88 versions. Zelda II just seemed right. Less cartoony than its fir...

When it finally comes down to the actual soft collision check do people use something like this: declare function rectRect(x1 as integer, y1 as integer, x2 as integer, y2 as integer, x3 as integer, y3 as integer, x4 as integer, y4 as integer) as integer if x1 > x4 then return 0 if x2 < x3 then retur...

Mmmm... an NES port of Food Fight with deathmatch. The original source code is online... and then the Atari 7800 will no longer have a single worthwhile game. Actually, cheating a bit with DPC+ Food Fight could be back-ported to the Atari 2600. The graphics would have to be re-worked to only use on...

That's pretty sad that the NES needs software collision. For that matter, I think the Genesis only has a collision register that is flagged by any sprite intersecting any other sprite. Utterly useless. On topic I'm usually referred to this article when asking about collisions: http://games.greggman....

I guess I don't understand why creating your own arranged 2d array of colors wont work.

If you pre-calculate the table then most of the math goes away, right?

UPDATE: Thank you Drag!

Could you just treat all the NES colors as a 2d array and "walk" the source color to the destination color? A 2D grid of 52 colors should take too much ROM space, right?

tepples wrote:Apple forbids emulators that let users run games other than those built into the emulator.

Exactly.

Package Alter Ego.NES and a checksum file into the .IPA

Okay, maybe checksum isn't the right word. A password file that only allows the appropriate ROM file to run.

So now how do we port Alter Ego to AS3 so that it can go on a Flash game collection like Armor Games? (Just as a stopped clock is right twice a day, spam can occasionally be on-topic.) Why port a single game? Convert an emulator into an xcode project that will run one ROM with a checksum file so it...