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Tue Jul 28, 2020 1:16 am

Anyone had a peek at the snes source code?
It's looks so bad to me.

The only thing more important than writing "good" code is writing code that both works and hits the deadline. Professional programmers often don't have time for cleanup.

I think that if you intend to make money from a game, you should plan to charge for it, even post-Kickstarter. Paying for something that is 95% complete and will be released for free is a tough sell. Pirates are never going to pay for your game anyway, so it's pointless to make any concessions for t...

I'm kind of a fan of anyone just having whatever weird seal they want. Reminds me of the Tengen diamond or the Wisdom Tree shield. That stuff is just as nostalgic to me as the Nintendo seal. I've also thought it'd be cool if someone did repros of some of those weird old cart shapes as well instead o...

They specifically have a copyright/trademark on the 7 tetromino shapes, not the gameplay mechanics. If you were to build a game around a different set of shapes, that's just fine.

Having been directly involved with just about every aspect of porting Mall Brawl to Switch, the answer to this is no for NES. Nintendo only licenses releases for Switch, 3DS, and Wii U right now. The NES patents expired years ago so it's all pretty meaningless. They have no problem at all with you w...

I wrote Mall Brawl primarily in C, and I consider it to be pretty comparable with other games of its genre from the retail period. I'm not really concerned with what's considered to be "good" or "bad" practice according to modern programming standards when working with the NES. I just go with whatev...

If you're interested in making a Mega Man game, why not create something heavily Mega Man-inspired instead? You avoid all the legal hurdles, and if the game is successful you could even turn a profit from selling it with no legal ramifications whatsoever. If you build up some cred as a developer, yo...

For Alfonzo I used mapper 11 for the cartridge release, so there's nothing special about MMC1 that ties me to that mapper. If I'm trimming it down to a single boss battle I could probably fit it into a nice little NROM release that could easily stitch together with everything else.

Is there a purpose to the sleeping/burping frog? I can't quite figure out what he does.

Whoa! This is hands down my favorite compo entry this year. I was a huge fan of Castle of the Winds when I was a kid. I spent hours playing that game. It was a rogue-like, but it used Windows icons for a tileset and was a bit more streamlined compared to other rogue-likes of its time. This is giving...

https://www.spoonybard.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/32e9f6ca9865920853b0d679d69c1d15_original.png Just in case anyone here missed it, Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure went up on Kickstarter earlier this week. This is the complete version of The Alfonzo Game, which was one of the 2017 compo entries, and ...

I came in fourth. Not too bad considering how poor that demo looks compared to what I've added to the game since the end of the compo.

Can't wait to see the results!

It'll probably work fine, but things like cc65 updates could break it. You can cheat with cc65 to kickstart the asm. Use the memcpy version, and compile with -Ois and the memcpy call should be inlined. I might give that a try. Since I have a fixed length for the arrays it could give me the opportun...