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I'll do my take on this. Imagine a big deal of equally-sized boxes, like at a post office. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/USPS_Post_office_boxes_2.jpg/220px-USPS_Post_office_boxes_2.jpg That's RAM. When the "world starts", they're all empty. Completely empty, with...

ASM6 for a "simple" but flexible assembler. The next logical suggestion is ca65. I haven't really used that one though.

By definition, Java should be more inefficient than say C. It compiles down to byte code for a virtual machine (in an effort to make Java a compile-once, run-everywhere language) so the virtual machine has to translate that into actual machine instructions. I imagine that the VM for Windows x86 must...

Dwedit wrote:I don't like the "bugfix" patch because it also changes some graphics for no good reason.

Did they keep the safety pin intact, at least?

Zepper wrote:Probably because it sounds like ROM hacking, unauthorized stuff..? Gray area.

Gray area? Please no! This is 100% new code, ain't it? This project is too awesome to stop. If you find no better way of extracting the levels, I'll see if I can lend a hand with the conversion process.

All solid stuff. Thanks guys.

Nah. For my project right now I'm just changing small tiles all over the screen. I was trying to come up with an excuse for using that CHR-RAM technique though.

Great advice in this thread. Thanks, everybody! MMC5 seems to be a great mapper for your text routine, Just re-implent it in ExRAM and enable the ExAttribute mode for it! Saves you some space in both RAM areas too, But isn't MMC5 a rare mapper? If ever I wanted to convert my ROM into an actual cart,...

If you consistently use a standardized buffer system that satisfies all parts of the game you can utilize it for the whole program. I implemented a really weird system that's really inflexible for this. I was wondering if you have any designs for such a system. The new one I'm working on is like a ...

Thanks. I've actually got the RTS/Jump trick implemented in that ROM.

I suppose the way to do it is to have multiple gameloops and then have a pointer to each one. Then, at the end have a and just switch the pointer between modes. Am I on the right track?

Alt. Title: How the hell do I even start making a text box? So I'm sort of new to NES development, but I just can't figure out how to structure my programs. I am not a complete newbie; I've coded something a bit more elaborate than a simple Hello, World! program. But after that, I'm a bit lost. Sur...