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I guess you guys raise some points regarding hobbyists turning to 'professional' programmers. I would say this hypothetical game would be a one-off project and not an entry into mainstream game development. Think of it as finding staffers who are capable and willing to fulfill the project, and recei...

@Kasumi: I understand wholehartedly where you are coming from, and your post raises a few issues; specifically the implementation of more complex stuff. They do take a long time to create, so why shouldn't the effort be split between several people? One guy does the scrolling, the other does the dia...

I was anticipating a budget for this game to be around $250,000 to $500,000, depending on how big the game will be and how big the staff would be. Maybe $750,000 if we want to push the budget over, and possibly give this game some unique hardware to work as intended. While those are huge numbers, th...

I am aware the NES is a niche market, and why I suggested there to be an eShop version of the game in addition to the cartridges. As Tepples put it, developing your game on quicker software and then downporting it would work, and you will have developed two similar games for the cost of one. I think...

Give it a whirl, I'd like to see what it'd be like. Maybe you could take advantage of how the triangle wave isn't exactly in-tune like the other instruments for Lavender town, and maybe use some of the lower octaves or the mid-upper pitches.

I just got done listening to your Palet Town cover. While I'm impressed with how closely you matched the GB's sawtooth (can the VRC6 even do it?), I really wanted to hear how the Pokemon music would sound with a triangle wave instead. I really love the NES' TriWave sound, I don't know why. Listen to...

While Mario 3 is an impressive game, I don't think it can be seen as the pinnacle of NES technology; it looks like it was designed for something far greater or the ideas were too ambitious, but the programmers or the hardware wasn't up to the task. This also completely goes against the notion that Y...

Wow, I'm actually surprised to see discussion taking place over my question. To clear up one thing, this was about a hypothetical NES game, a game that would hopefully aim to be as good of a game as possible, also hoping to match or even supersede professionally made NES games. But that's one of the...

This is just a curiosity rather than a project, but I figure this would be a great place to get input from programmers on the feasibility. That and it could sort of be seen as a response to Tepples' comment about 'if I have an idea for an NES game, write up a design document and share it', but this ...

Ah. I'm still more concerned with how you can add a whole function to a board that was never made for such a thing in the first place.

Actually what he means is that he charges you $3 to replace a dead battery in a cartridge, he doesn't add anything new. Still don't know why this warranted a thread, and I don't know why I replied.

Impressive, but I think Strobe's song is ultimately very messy; it doesn't have much musical quality to it, and then tries to become unmelodious EDM music. That said, I reckon that a DPCM heavy song would play either during the credits (when there's nothing to really push around), or for the soundtr...

I find Streemerz to be the most impressive game, Tepple's Missile Command clone (I forget the name) is cool, and all of Shiru's games to be stellar. Everything else ranges from 'okay' to 'bad', understandable since these games were obviously not made by a team of 12 Japanese programmers. I find it i...

That's interesting. Most development stuff is born out of curiosity, in this case if it's entirely possible for an unofficial Pokemon game on the NES being able to give and receive Pokemon to the GameBoy games. What the games really do is simply delete the Pokemon from one end and copy it to the nex...

Apologies for a bump of an old thread, but I had a question. I was recently playing the second generation of Pokemon games (Gold/Silver/Crystal), and I was wondering if it would be possible to recreate on the NES. More specifically, what if Pokemon was an NES game, but the programmers still wanted t...