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I know of a few SNES controllers with a six button layout; the Hori Fighting Commander looks like a regular SNES controller but has a six button layout: http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NDgwWDY0MA==/z/IPUAAOSwRLZT2zTs/$_1.JPG Capcom released some weird looking controller with SF2 in Japan: https://www.esta...

posting by request per above post

NGGTool can convert split c1/c2 (or c3/c4, etc.) files to SNES format. decode16 is what you're looking for. Some later games may require decrypting the C ROMs first. (edit: This works for the sprites, anyways. decode8 (used for the fix tiles) has palette problems for some reason, so I ended up writ...

YY-CHR prefers images use 256-color palettes, even if you're only using 16 colors in the image.

There's also the option of copying the data from the clipboard to YY-CHR's 8bpp Bitmap tab (if you're using YY-CHR.NET, anyways), but you'll still need to have the image use a 256 color palette.

I don't understand how you differentiate the 16x16 pixel areas. Do you start in the top left corner and move left to right, top to bottom throughout your entire background? Thanks in advance for clarification, especially visual clarification! That sounds about right... this came up on ROMHacking.ne...

My preferences are unprefixed $00ff (which might not be simple/easy to handle; it's been a bit since I've looked at the code) or an a:$00ff prefix like ca65 supports. The former would be my preferred solution in a perfect world, and the latter would be my preferred solution in the real world

tokumaru wrote:

freem wrote:asm6 (simpler)

ASM6 on the other hand never uses absolute addressing for $0000-$00FF.

good to know, I thought it would do that if you just put $00xx. (guess that's something I should look into for my fork)

NESASM requires < before a zero page variable due to the fact that it's derived from a PC Engine/TurboGrafx 16 assembler (on that system, Zero Page is in the $2000 area).

My suggestions for alternative assemblers include asm6 (simpler) and ca65 (more complex).

Front page saves the day:

NESdev.com wrote:Solar Wars A freeware Scorched Earth type of game. Code, graphics, and design by Chris Covell, music by Memblers, and sound code by Bananmos. Here is the source code.

You might need to do a hard refresh if you've loaded the repro forum beforehand; I had to do that in order for the new style to show up.

I found a version 0.4 of the first linked document (updated in what looks to be 2011) here. Doing a quick diff between the two files, it seems there's a lot more info in 0.4.

The nescom part of site seems to be work for me... The git server looks like it's down, though.

The first press to start the game should also launch the bird into the air; having to double tap a button to properly start feels weird. The falling speed also feels too fast, but that could just be me. Overall though, this is a pretty good port.

Charles MacDonald's CPS2 hardware notes: http://cgfm2.emuviews.com/txt/cps2tech.txt

There's also the source code for Frog Feast on CPS1, if you prefer to look through code. I also recall a "Chaos demo" for CPS1 with source.

There's also http://www.spoonybard.com/contact, in case Toma doesn't have an account here/doesn't see this message for some reason.