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I just implemented a new Comment Editor: You press Semicolon, you can type in a comment, then hit Enter, and you've just added in a comment to the debugger. No need to create a Label first, or accidentally on the wrong part of the instruction and create the wrong label. If you want to review the cod...

From Datasheet RP2040 is a low-cost, high-performance microcontroller device with flexible digital interfaces. Key features: •Dual Cortex M0+ processor cores, up to 133 MHz •264 kB of embedded SRAM in 6 banks •30 multifunction GPIO •6 dedicated IO for SPI Flash (supporting XIP) •Dedicated hardware f...

Someone get this scam shit out of here. NFT itself is a scam. There is no place in NesDev for scamming people.

I've been asked to describe how Dragon Warrior 2-4 compressed its overworld map. This is a rough outline. (Not a full specification of the actual bit layout used by the game) ==DW2-4 Overworld Map== It's an RLE system. 5 bits are used for Length (0-31 plus 1), 3 bits are used for Tile Type. (0-7) Bu...

I know that a few devs made their own assemblers and linkers to run on MS-DOS machines. I think some of them used RAM-based cartridges as well.

Syncing is hard. You have the NES generating a picture at ~60.0985 FPS (omitting the first pixel from the prerender line about half of every frame) You have the NES generating audio at ~1.7898 MHz. Your video card will output at the monitor's refresh rate, which could be anything from 59.5Hz to 60.4...

Try Shazam or something.

I bet that star effect (appearing exactly that way) could be done without any mapper at all. It's a 12x16 tile area getting redrawn.

If the stars were static and not doing fine scrolling, it couldn't be done.

I'll be calling the game metatiles (16x16) "Squares" just to simplify the names. Let's suppose you have a big map. It could be as big as 4096x4096 squares large. Variables you may have: Camera Coordinates in pixels (16 bits) CameraX (unit: pixels) CameraY Tile Coordinates of upper-left corner in VRA...

PPUCTRL (register $2000) determines which pattern table to fetch the tiles from. Figure out the last timestamp and value written there before the graphics display.

Probably lack of rainbows because it's not generating a picture the way a NES does (no square waves between two specific voltage levels)

Split topic to somewhere else. That's the usual way to deal with derailed threads.

Here is how Super Mario Bros 1 level numbers work. First the RAM variables used: 75C = Displayed number after the dash (Only used for display, and making world 5 harder once you reach 5-3) 75F = WorldNumber, 0 to 7. (1 is added to this number when it is displayed) 760 = AreaNumber, 0 to 4, or 0 to 3...

You're going way too easy on the spambot...

For me, it's an IP ban immediately, then a subnet ban after the second offense.

Also, I can see that the background color is wrong, it should not be separate for each group of 4 colors, it should be the same background color.