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- Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:01 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Game cases for NES cartridges?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2917
Re: Game cases for NES cartridges?
Haradius Zero came in a really nice feeling case from customgamecases.com, feels kind of like what a DS case would feel like if blown up to NES scale. No lip around the edge and relatively compact feeling. The dimnesions are slightly larger than a NES box, especially the thickness, but not far off. ...
- Tue Oct 20, 2020 12:11 pm
- Forum: NESdev
- Topic: How do you publish an NES ROM?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 9215
Re: How do you publish an NES ROM?
If you want it to turn out decent, you'll need to put a bit of work into it. There's no real bundling tool out there to put a game in an emulator. The options are basically write an emulator from scratch yourself, port the game to the target system, cobble something together from existing open-sourc...
- Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:47 am
- Forum: NES Graphics
- Topic: Is $08 "brown" or "olive" ? Why does it vary so much from screen to screen?
- Replies: 29
- Views: 13520
Re: Is $08 "brown" or "olive" ? Why does it vary so much from screen to screen?
Just in case you feel like being even more confused about the concept of brown...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU
- Tue Jul 28, 2020 10:06 am
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Nintendo "Gigaleak"
- Replies: 65
- Views: 39736
- Tue Jul 14, 2020 8:44 am
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Business model idea
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4720
Re: Business model idea
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...
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:49 am
- Forum: Homebrew Projects
- Topic: Official NES Homebrew Seal of Quality
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6553
Re: Official NES Homebrew Seal of Quality
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...
- Sun May 31, 2020 8:54 am
- Forum: Homebrew Projects
- Topic: FROM BELOW [NES Homebrew] COMPLETE!
- Replies: 90
- Views: 52755
Re: What's Kraken (Tetris-like) [WIP NES Homebrew]
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.
- Wed May 27, 2020 12:44 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Where to buy homebrew games?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9997
- Tue May 26, 2020 7:23 pm
- Forum: General Stuff
- Topic: Has anyone tried to obtain an "Official Seal" from Nintendo for their game?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 18352
Re: Has anyone tried to obtain an "Official Seal" from Nintendo for their game?
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...
- Mon May 11, 2020 11:17 am
- Forum: NESdev
- Topic: Aren't you afraid that NES Maker would just bring lazy noobs
- Replies: 138
- Views: 66663
Re: Aren't you afraid that NES Maker would just bring lazy noobs
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...
- Wed Apr 29, 2020 8:43 am
- Forum: Homebrew Projects
- Topic: Mega Man 9 remade into an NES ROM
- Replies: 11
- Views: 6865
Re: Mega Man 9 remade into an NES ROM
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...
- Sat Apr 18, 2020 10:29 am
- Forum: Homebrew Projects
- Topic: HBWC 2020
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3497
Re: HBWC 2020
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.
- Wed Mar 04, 2020 7:07 am
- Forum: 2019 NESdev Competition
- Topic: Böbl
- Replies: 36
- Views: 35501
Re: Böbl
Is there a purpose to the sleeping/burping frog? I can't quite figure out what he does.
- Sat Feb 09, 2019 2:02 pm
- Forum: 2018 NESdev Competition
- Topic: We are Hejickle
- Replies: 46
- Views: 43038
Re: We are Hejickle
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...
- Sat Oct 20, 2018 8:58 pm
- Forum: Homebrew Projects
- Topic: Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure - Kickstarter
- Replies: 0
- Views: 11025
Alfonzo's Arctic Adventure - Kickstarter
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 ...