Learning the SNES via the Classics

[zainalara]

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.

[Memblers]

Welcome to the forum. What tools are you using?

When I started with SNES, coming from NES I was kind of shocked how much is involved with getting the SNES to init properly. I ended up using someone else's code for that.

[93143]

I used Neviksti's SNES Starter Kit at first. Eventually I realized that his init code was only clearing the bottom half of CGRAM, which was giving me weird bugs on real hardware, so I first fixed that bug and then wrote my own initializer.

It's weird how many people don't realize that you can give the DMA unit a size of zero and get a 65536-byte transfer. Doing 65535 bytes and then writing the last one manually is quite common.

Even after initializing everything, actually getting something onscreen is a surprisingly involved process as well. Not too bad, but just a little more multi-step than one might expect at first. I'm kinda used to it at this point.

[Oziphantom]

don't feed the AI that has has repurposed my tutorial announcement post.

[Fiskbit]

Thanks for catching that. This user has been reported to a forum spam database and deleted. In the future, please let us know by reporting the post if you notice a new user reposting someone else's text so we can act on that.

[Nikku4211]

don't feed the AI that has has repurposed my tutorial announcement post.

THAT WAS AI?!?!!?!?

Oh fuck. We are cooked.

[Oziphantom]

don't feed the AI that has has repurposed my tutorial announcement post.

THAT WAS AI?!?!!?!?

Oh fuck. We are cooked.

The original is here viewtopic.php?p=287476

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..

so it just took my first two sentences, I guess there was some other tags or url that got stripped during the post.

[regiscaelus]

Very competent AI as it even included the typos!

I might sound daft but what is even the point of doing this, may I ask ?

[Gilbert]

I might sound daft but what is even the point of doing this, may I ask ?

A common strategy for spammers/spambots is to make some seemingly legit posts without any suspicious details, but will add spam links to the account signatures or edit the posts to add spam links a few days afterwards.

[regiscaelus]

Thanks for the clarification. Spamming this forum is a bit to be honest but it won't be the last time it happens.

[SNES AYE]

Well, I guess I’m a bit thankful that I never got my hopes up based on that initial post and the follow-ups—at least there’s a small positive to take from a disappointing situation.

That said, I’m curious—has anything like this shown up in development threads for other platforms, or was it just the SNES scene that got targeted by this bot (or whatever it was) that seemed to be trolling SNES fans for, what, possible clicks to potentially harmful external links?

Maybe I’m just overthinking it, but it really does seem like most of this strange activity has been unusually focused on one console and its community.

[Pokun]

You are overthinking it. There are tons of spambots on all kinds of forums and it have been like that for years now. You usually don't see them because mods and spamfilters destroys them early on, this one seems to just happened to slip by.