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Yeah, so life takes exclusive priority again... I was working on my 4-way scrolling engine for an 2D exploration game but unfortunately I got both laid off and hired again and moving to the city my job's in has been a very annoying process. Hopefully I can still finish it for a late category #2 entry.

I always wondered why some of my PIC16s have hard to read writing on the chips, turns out its a dreaded "recycled" chip. I might buy acetone later to see if there's original printing underneath. This is what you usually get when buying ICs from china, aquasnake is correct. But at least they mostly w...

Someday I want to be important enough to have a "username change notice" thread.

Tepples: if I'm doing a Mapper 7 program for the competition, do I need to consider bus conflicts? I'm assuming I don't have to but you never know... not having to deal with them is going to help with some tricky code to map the nametable and/or program memory.

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 ...