Do you miss any NES-related software on Windows?

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Do you miss any NES-related software on Windows?

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I need a new hobby coding-project.. :) I'm curious, do you guys miss any specific kind of software for Windows that's NES-related? ROM-hacking related? Something else?
I need inspiration here on a new project.. :)
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Does it have to be windows? There is lots of existing windows stuff that could be ported to Mac.
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Yes I’m on Windows myself so.. I’d love some coding ideas..
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How about adding VT03 support in Mesen or FCEUx?
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I was more thinking of a stand-alone tool of some sort..
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Perhaps a program that lets you convert PNGs to both tilesets and tilemaps.

Similar to SuperFamiconv, but for NES.
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You could make a desktop/offline version of NEScartdb. I know you said windows but that would also be a really cool offline phone app. So many times I was at thrift shops and I see NES carts but the website is down and I can’t check it. This is something that can work very well offline and not depend on internet.
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I second a PNG2CHR or SuperFamiconv type of program for NES. I use NES Screen Tool for this but it must be done manually and it only supports BMP.
A command-line tool that can be integrated in a BAT file in the build chain and without dependencies would be great.
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https://github.com/clbr/nes/blob/master/tools/png2chr.c

Mine probably runs on Windows with a few minutes' porting.
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How about a new hex editor and disassembler for NES and FDS that also supports both CDL formats for both FCEUX and Mesen-X, supports displaying/exporting NES Stripe Image and Plain Nametables, along with displaying/exporting CHR-ROM/FDS CHR type files

Maybe allowing for generation of Reassemblable code for CA65 and/or ASM6 should be great!

Supported mappers I want: NROM,MMC1,UxROM,CxROM,MMC3/6,AxROM,BxROM,maybe more mappers in future

A hybrid disassembler wouldn't be THAT bad, won't it?
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for that make an import python script for Ghidra.
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Oziphantom wrote: Wed Jan 26, 2022 11:34 pm for that make an import python script for Ghidra.
I do not want to use NSA disassembler for ROM hacking, It is illegal!!!
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Ghidra is quite legal ;)
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See what I said above, it should be under licensing or documentation... I.E. The permission that NSA gave for the use does not allow ROM hacking (illegal activities under Nintendo's guidelines, which I generally doubt. but NSA can be trouble!!!).
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Wait... what we're doing is... illegal? :shock:

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