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by Burre
Mon Oct 31, 2011 3:07 pm
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

It is now up on pouet.net (http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=57971)
by Burre
Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:46 pm
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

Cool, it's NTSC compatible too. Not like some of the other PAL NES intros that weren't doing anything intensive, but were still NTSC incompatible. Yes, it runs. But it doesn't compensate for speed or resolution. However, it was accidentally run in that mode during the compo by the organizers so it ...
by Burre
Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:42 pm
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

Yeah, that's what I was thinking you did. You can write to the others during VBlank and when done, switch to that and change the other. And with 4 you could upload 4 and just spin all 4 of those. :wink: Ok cool. I thought I wasn't allowed to touch $2006 unless in vblank or with bg rendering off. Th...
by Burre
Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:39 pm
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

thefox wrote:Another tip: Always make the PRG and CHR bank sizes a power of two, or you may have problems with certain emulators and PowerPak.
Just the .org/bank adresses or do I have to set something else?
by Burre
Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:33 pm
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

No PPU RAM, only PPU ROM (2x 4kb). Is that a MMC3 feature? He meant for name tables. With 2 extra KB of RAM you get a total of 4 name tables to work with (i.e. 4-screen mirroring). It's not specific to the MMC3, any mapper can have that. Ah, ok. Didn't think about that. Would it have been possible ...
by Burre
Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:27 am
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

Just curious, did you use 2KB more PPU RAM? And that's cool that you did GBA development too. What games did you work on? Yeah but still cool that you used an NES, good job. Hopefully most are of at least this quality. And so did you find the NESDev wiki hard to use and what details weren't highlig...
by Burre
Wed Oct 26, 2011 5:16 am
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

Cool demo, I liked it! There's never too many of these. :) And yeah, it's always good idea to upscale videos before uploading to YouTube even if the source material is 240p or whatnot, because the audio quality depends on the video resolution as well. The latest beta version of the PowerPak mappers...
by Burre
Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:49 pm
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

I'm guessing this probably runs in PAL mode, just a wild guess judging by how quickly it switches screens, you admitted you were new to the platform, and because most of the NES demos listed on pouet.net are for PAL mode. Really glad to see a real NES demo, and not the bad joke that someone else ma...
by Burre
Tue Oct 25, 2011 2:45 pm
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

Cool, glad you won. Whatched the demo, nice animations. What PPU Quirks were used? None, really. By quirks I mostly meant poorly documented features I needed to understand the basics. I've done development for GBA before (professionally) so I know a bit about how Nintendo likes to design their hard...
by Burre
Tue Oct 25, 2011 1:56 pm
Forum: Homebrew Projects
Topic: ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting
Replies: 23
Views: 12422

ALTParty 2011 NES demo entry + greeting

Hi. Last weekend I traveled to Helsinki, Finland with a three man team and competed in the demo party ALTparty. We actually managed to win, to our big suprise. I just wanted to pass this on because I decided to add nesdev.com in the greetings list as a sign of gratitude for all the excellent informa...