Thanks, and I look forward to any replies. Is there any interest out there in an IDE for NES development? I would be more than willing to fire off a copy of the work in progress to any interested parties.
I have not even touched the music/sfx side of things yet, so that is where I'll ask the burning question: It also has a "ROM snooper" that allows those of you who "legally" can to load a NES ROM file and go trolling for pattern tiles. It has an integrated sourcecode editor, export features for exporting any artifact from the tool in either source or assembled binary format. So far I have it working good enough to generate palettes, pattern tiles, attribute- and name-tables. My vision for this tool is for it to be a complete development environment for NES running in Windows. I even came up with a catchy name.NESICIDE - the NES Incredibly Cool Integrated Development Environment.
So, my ten years of software engineering professional experience prevailed and I decided to create a tool.partly to help myself accomplish the game creation Goal but then unselfishly I realized it quite possibly could help others.
I was spending way too much time trying to figure out how to get the right tool to do the right job. I found the wealth of tools available lacking in their consistency, coherency, or whatever you want to call it.
I have almost no artistic talent and didn't want to just do NES ROM hacks, andĢ. That was where the fun started and soon ended for two reasons:ġ. So, as I was looking into all of it and re-living my youth (and at the same time getting my oldest son almost as Hooked as I was) by playing SMB on my PC, I decided to try my hand at writing a game. I have been amazed by the quantity of technical information available today for NES, the emulators, the in-depth descriptions of programming it, etc. To that end I join the fray here today with a quest.
If I'd have known then that today I would be able to just run the Zelda NES ROM in an emulator on a PC and disassemble it and find the tiles verbatim, I probably still would have spent those many hours playing! My feelings are it was a sad day when 3-d gaming took over the world and 2-d platformers were left struggling for breath. I have been a big fan of NES 8-bit since I can remember glueing my eyes to the screen to figure out the pixels that made up the blocks in Zelda. Married very happily with two sons aged 18 months and 1 week (yes, one week today!). Well, I'm not sure but I could just be pushing the flag up the "oldest" flagpole here. Oooh and Rad Racer, I like that one too! Hmm I almost forgot to mention that wacky one, Mario Brothers.you know the one with the crabs and flies and the icemachine. 1, 2 AND 3! I also like Blades of Steel although sportsgames are usually not very much my taste. My favourite NES Games are: Maniac Mansion, Super Mario Bros. Well, I listen to many different kinds of music actually. My favourite kind of music is Eurobeat, italo-disco, techno, J-pop. I like hanging out with my friends, playing video games, dancing and listening to music. I'm blonde, I have this fluffy 80's kind of haircut, with lots and lots of hairspray, I have a bit of an 80's fever. The name's Gina, I'm 19 years old and I live in Sweden. Please correct me if I make huge mistakes in my posts. Hello! I'm newly registered, thought I might as well write a bit about myself!Īs I mentioned in my first post, my English is not the best but I'm trying!