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Interesting...what emulators support it for testing?

Converting the IRQ values would be a bit trickier since its a CPU cycle counter but I'll give it a look at some point.

Partly just to see if I could. It didn't take long( a few days). The main benefits for TSB would be 1. Added SRAM (For additional stats, you could have an editable team). Currently the SRAM has just a few free bytes of space. (Most of it is used to save season stats, the rest is for temporary graphi...

Just wanted to say thanks. Between the wiki and various posts I was able to convert Tecmo Super Bowl from MMC3 to MMC5. The trickiest things were 1. Getting the CHR bank switching correct. I thought I needed to switch back and forth between 1KB and 2KB mode depending on if sprites or BG's were being...

As long as you don't get close to running out of stack space its a reasonable way to do it. What I am describing below only applies if the function you are jumping to has multiple possible return address. Usually it will or it wouldn't be a function. Push return address - 1 onto stack Push variables...

Will you have enough sprites left for the players with the amount of sprites the heavy rain and snow take up?

You're right it wasn't a great question. And I can imagine the iterative testing would definitely take a good chunk of the time.

Just curious. How long (roughly) did the c++ standalone implementation take vs the assembly version.

The trick of updating the tint color is a great idea for performance profiling...I used it on a well known game to get an idea of how much "frame time was left".

I ended up using greyscale because it was the easiest to notice for the game I was looking at

Maybe its a graphics driver/card issue?

My old tiny netbook that has windows 7 runs fcuex just fine as does my 64 bit desktop running windows 7.

Not sure if this is the right section but one of the members of our tecmo super bol cumminity manged to track down and do a high level interview with Tecmo Super Bowl's lead programmer Akihiko Shimoji (lead programmer) and Shinchiro Tomie (director). http://louraguse.com/2016/02/the-fathers-of-tecmo...

dougeff wrote:Actual NES.

I have 2 CRT TVs in storage. I don't use them because they have lousy image quality.

Might be worth trying said games on your CRT's if possible to see if the timing feels just as hard. Many LCD TV's will lag pretty badly when upscaling the NES video output.

I was playing on a new LCD flatscreen. My only complaint is that my TV noticably sharpens the picture. Do you think my TV has some kind of image latency? No wonder....most likely the upscaling and/or image processing is adding quite a bit of latency making timing sensitive games very hard. This lat...

I'm sorry, but I've been hearing about some "top-secret", area 51 type stuff called "quantum computing" and how it's (according to some dumb YouTube video) "100 million times faster" than traditional computing, and they always say that it's because of some magical thing called a "qubit". Now, I'm n...

I assume that the actual code for a football game wouldn't be extremely complex, so you could probably fit it in 128KB or less (probably less!), which would leave you with 384KB of a 512KB ROM where to store compressed graphics. With a good compression scheme and without the redundant graphics, tho...

Thanks for the answers!