nesdev.com

Alright, time for another update... I've decided to fork off a section of my site for things like this: http://archive.nes.science - I'll expand this as needed. Right now it has: nerdy nights the nesdev wiki the nesdev forums. (I have one more thing that may go up in the next couple days, but it's v...

Added to the nerdy nights backup, alongside a thread on atariage about the 6502. (And a hex editing page I had been scraping but forgot to expose before >_>) These are in a new "miscellaneous" section. This is probably starting to push the limits for what I should store on a single html page. for no...

Couple updates... First off, the mirror now has chapters 8 and 9, as well as advanced chapter 4. NintendoAge has two directories of the topics, and one was a little out of date. Please take a look and let me know if anything else is missing. (May have to do a hard refresh/clear cache to get the late...

I should probably note that the site I made is on github, but I have it private while I do a little bit of cleanup. (The scripts I used to grab the content are also there and they're a bit ugly/unclear right now)

I fully plan to release it though!

Recently in another topic some discussion started about preserving some of the learning resources people used to get started with NES development. This conversation stemmed from the links to some of the nerdy nights sound tutorials going offline. This led me to question: what if the nerdy nights tut...

That's awesome! That leads me to wonder... is there a need for a bigger preservation project here? I'm sure there's a lot of other things that helped people get where they are. I know for a fact some of the tutorials I used are already offline :( I'm not sure what to suggest - the thing I made is pr...

Huh, not a bad point... it probably wouldn't be too hard to include them - I just need to figure out how to put them on the page without distracting too much from the main tutorial. I may very well do that! Do you think the first page of comments would be enough, or is it worth saving all of them? (...

Hey! I brought this up on the nintendoage brewery discord, and someone there actually saved all of them down a while back. His collection is attached to my post: NerdyNightsSoundSourceCollection.zip This has triad in it, and all the others too. Hope it helps! Update Actually... this nudged me to do ...

Pretty much everyone else has already hit the nail on the head with when to choose C over ASM. In short, while execution time is slower, C code is way simpler than ASM, and thus easier to read and write. (Even with the weird quirks it has) I've run into performance problems a few times, but I genera...

Hello! The tool itself can do everything except change the graphics right now; your understanding is correct! The only thing is that I do not give a good way to replace the built-in graphics. (Though that could be a fun extension some day) If you have graphics that you are willing to let others use,...

Welcome!

cc65/ca65 are my go-tos.. it takes a little bit more work to set up, but I use macros in assembly a lot, and ca65 does them well. I also like how it has you organize your code/banks/etc. At this point I'm also super used to the syntax.

For C, cc65 is also sorta unparalleled in NES dev.

I made a couple small tweaks to the site today - they should make it easier to download a ROM without having to share to the site. (In retrospect, this should have been something people would obviously want. Hindsight's 20/20 and all that...) I'd welcome some input on how to make the editor more int...

Happy New Year! I've been working on a little toy that I suspect some folks here might enjoy. It's a little puzzle game maker that runs on the NES. Created games can be downloaded as their own separate roms, as well! https://i.imgur.com/QNjp3yJ.png The site linked above provides a javascript emulato...

I had a bit of luck using a different emulator: https://github.com/peteward44/WebNES (It's MIT licensed) ... might be worth trying to see if it avoids your bug. There's a demo site you can load your rom in w/o setting it up to see: http://peteward44.github.io/WebNES The version they use for their de...

I'll be happy to have that discussion in a topic about nesicide, however I would prefer keep this topic about nes-starter-kit. I don't currently have plans to move IDEs. Feel free to post a link for anyone interested, though. (And to remind me to post!) Thanks for the detail you added. One semi-rele...