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I'd say keep it as is unless you're trying to make a square binary fit into a round ROM. Who knows what edge case/bug can be triggered by having some routines relocated, but that would otherwise show no symptoms and allow the game to run as intended... that always happens to me :lol: If that's neede...

Strider does this "freeze frame" thing but they actually relocate the sprite in another spot on the screen and show the "level clear" text on a black bg; the way this is handled feels glitchy, so it's the opposite effect, it looks really lame.

It's a shame that LCD support implies variable lag, I actually changed my mind and I honestly think it's not good enough. I really wish you could have a gun usable on the NES that accepted any screen but I guess it's not to be.

I used Notepad++ religiously but nowadays I only use VS Code with that one 6502 syntax plugin and some custom configs. It's not perfect but it's not giving me any annoyance in writing code unlike Notepad++ which I always fought with... I don't really recommend it but I use it myself because I haven'...

Just passing by to say thanks, I've finally got time to play with my AN1ROM game and your .exe saved my skin, because having to deal with the 32kb bankswitch is already annoying as it is... if I had to write my own python script or similar for this I'd probably have abandoned the idea of using that ...

Oh jeez, I didn't know any of that, I changed my vote to keep the deadline. That's kinda disappointing to read.

You're overthinking this. It's an ad for an "8-bit (NES) inspired" PC game and you're asking if this unique, improbable piece of hardware + software that the ad relies on is real.

I was disappointed with the last two contests and their delays. The volunteers deserve cheer, but I think they have bitten off more than they can chew. My own motivation for entering is tied to my view of the contest and its prizes, which right now, is poor. I don't think I'll spend more than a few...

I think an extra month is more than enough, maybe two but that's stretching a little bit. My main worries would be people submitting incomplete/truncated versions of their projects because of the deadline (the lack of any project threads in the last two months of the competition makes this more like...

This is great. Gonna try it out when I get home

Win by default is the best kind of win :beer: Is the situation of the current compo really that dire? I can see some games popping up in the final week, I mean I know at least of one person working on something (me) and you have NESMaker and the C nes compiler to account for, plus old projects and ...

Saw this video, and thought it might be fun to discuss here. Posting in General cause it's obviously fake, but I'm kinda curious where they're going with it. Or maybe mission already accomplished cause I'm sure a lot of people will watch this either way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA5ATX7YKLI ...

Separating the model (level map) from the view (name tables) is a common practice in software engineering. One of the many advantages is portability - having a model that's platform-independent means you only need to re-engineer the view logic when porting games to other platforms. The NES is not a...

I agree with Tokumaru, just lose the black bg on the NesDev logo on the header and make the dark theme the default one, everything else is completely fine.

I'm not a big fan of having two technically decoupled variables for this but it's the alternative who makes the most sense to me right now. The way it works makes me weary of desync bugs... but I guess it can't be helped