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That sounds pretty cool! How did you do it?

MottZilla wrote:Eventually the N64 CIC will probably be cloned. If it was really that important, it's not impossible to find enough dirt cheap and unwanted N64 games to take CIC chips from.

I hope so. :/

tepples wrote:To get the N64 CIC decapped and delayered might take a while. Last time I checked, Visual6502.org was swamped with work on other chips.

Oh.... Good point, though.

tepples wrote:To run games, you can use an N64 flash card. Mass-producing your game won't be feasible until someone finds a replacement for the lockout chip though; this has been done for NES and Super NES but not Nintendo 64.

Couldn't they replicate the lockout chip?

You can design NES graphics in any general purpose graphics editor. You just have to follow the NES limitations, and convert the result into a format acceptable for the NES afterwards, with an existing or custom tool, or manually. OOOOHHH!!!! I see now: So make a sprite sheet in any graphics editor...

I use GIMP to draw a sprite with 6 colours, or whatever it is I'm trying to do, and it has a tool that lets me select all pixels of a colour, which let me easily separate the sprite into 2 layers. From there I import the two layers into whatever I am using to make sprite data for the game. Actually...

I'm not aware of any programs that let you preview layered sprites... AFAIK, you have to draw them using your favorite (unconstrained) graphics editor (Paint, Photoshop, whatever), make two copies and erase from each copy the colors that don't belong, and then you convert the result to CHR. I might...

Can't NES Screen Tool do this with its metasprite editor? Open NES Screen Tool and load your CHR file. Click the Metasprites tab. Right click to drag a tile from the tileset window to the metasprite window. From there you can move a sprite pixel by pixel by clicking it and using the arrow keys. Rig...

I use GIMP to draw a sprite with 6 colours, or whatever it is I'm trying to do, and it has a tool that lets me select all pixels of a colour, which let me easily separate the sprite into 2 layers. From there I import the two layers into whatever I am using to make sprite data for the game. Interest...

I know and understand how it works (ish), but here's my question :?: : If sprite layering is possible, how can you see your progress? I'm using YY-CHR, so could I use some special tool in there (that I'm not aware of), and see my results? What about using something like NES screen tool and try to mi...

This might sound strange, but I not only want to develop for the NES, SNES and GameBoy (Don't ask why I want to), but I'm also interested in the N64.... Could I do it? And if so.... how? I've been trying to look everywhere, but there is surprisingly really small results :? . I kinda understand about...

Wait... That's a sign!

If the NES could have one, other systems can!

The Atari, SNES, Playstation, Dreamcast, even N64!!!!!

The possibilities are just endless!!!

...Anyways, this is super cool!