New tutorials for SNES - Learning the SNES via the Classics

[Oziphantom]

I aim to do the "Classic games" at least to some Programmer art level, then main polish them up a bit with "SNES effects" latter.

First port though is Hello World which is mostly, how to get init the SNES and get chars on the screen.
https://github.com/oziphantom/ElementsS ... HelloWorld

Boy the SNES takes a lot to fire it up

I'm sure it has some mistakes in it..

[Señor Ventura]

I aim to do the "Classic games" at least to some Programmer art level, then main polish them up a bit with "SNES effects" latter.

First port though is Hello World which is mostly, how to get init the SNES and get chars on the screen.
https://github.com/oziphantom/ElementsS ... HelloWorld

Boy the SNES takes a lot to fire it up

I'm sure it has some mistakes in it..

Great!.

I'm speechless, this is a must read for all who want to start.

[Guest34546]

Going a bit off-topic here.

"For reasons that will soon become apparent, I've decided to go with the C64 Font in Screen Code layout as per its CHARGEN rom. Luckily this is a bitmap font so is not covered by copyright, and they nicked it from Atari anyway. Open petscii.png and have a look at it."

This is interesting, I've never heard of this before. Google agrees that at least in the US, bitmap fonts are not copyrightable. How come bitmap fonts aren't copyrightable when many other arbitrary forms of data are? This seems strange.

[Oziphantom]

I don't know why, I guess because they are 8x8 or 9x16 and the amount of ways you can put an S and or a p in them is deemed finite and not "design". Maybe it was because they predate the 1988 copyright act and are seen as "data" not art or font or design as they are just bytes in a ROM at the point. But then the law got updated as they got more sophisticated?


Any way Part 2 SNakES is out https://github.com/oziphantom/ElementsS ... cs/2_Snake

[lidnariq]

wikipedia:Intellectual property protection of typefaces

[jeffythedragonslayer]

Time to quit using PVSnesLib's multicolor madness and nab that Final Fantasy Mystic Quest font!

[Oziphantom]

Part 3 - 1 Player Squash
This introduces sprites and collision detection.

https://github.com/oziphantom/ElementsS ... s/3_Squash