We now have a trailer! I've had a pit in my stomach this past week just thinking of everything that needs to happen, but I'm also so excited to finally have this out to everyone.
BioCreeps is an action arcade game for the NES coming very soon. #nes #nesdev #indiedev #biocreeps
It is time! Dizzy Sheep Disaster: EX is now available for purchase for your Nintendo E-Reader! Here's the store link: store.nes.science
It contains 30 puzzles to test your reflexes and skills!
I'm so excited to share this with the world!
#indiedev #homebrew #gba
![[YTP] WAT DO????](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkcfv4krge6tacjlml7x64rf/bafkreiftb72rjjvddf5ox7nsfbpo3iqbtwquqhsvam26zbikb237hbrrwu)
What do? indeed
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6WD...
After a procreative hiatus we are happy to announce that the 6502 Collective is back! We are happy to welcome @supernatetendo.bsky.social and @bitethechili.com to the team, and new things are a-brewing in our labs. In the meantime the back catalog is restocked and ready to ship!
HeroQuest? [Or anything else by Neil Baldwin?]
A screenshot of CrossPaint, displaying a piece of built-in sample art using tiled assets from a previous NES homebrew game, The Tower of Turmoil.
Oh, what could have been...
A simple piece of sample art focused around CrossPaint's Tile Copy feature. Some long-time followers may recognize this from my old NESmaker days...
#NES #NESdev #homebrew #ファミコン #indiedev #gamedev #8bit #2bpp
![A screenshot of CrossPaint, displaying an image that renders 200 colors on the canvas [excluding the UI], by using every combination of the NES PPU's color emphasis bits + monochrome bit on the background and sprites.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tkcfv4krge6tacjlml7x64rf/bafkreididzc32mqkyu3dotxmhxwq7jgvkeo5tuaafba6oqizg7mnnyuybq)
A screenshot of CrossPaint, displaying an image that renders 200 colors on the canvas [excluding the UI], by using every combination of the NES PPU's color emphasis bits + monochrome bit on the background and sprites.
Have you ever seen an NES game render 200+ colors on screen?
I'm SLOWLY working on the rest of CrossPaint's 16 sample images. This one shows all color emphasis combos + monochrome mode on sprites and BG.
Color emphasis on every line is pretty cool :)
#NESdev #NEShomebrew #gamedev #indiedev #8bit
In case there's any doubt (and for anyone who knows me, there shouldn't be)... this is my AI policy, specifically as it applies to youtubers, streamers, and other content creators:
a🧵, but the tl;dr: *if you want to cover what I've worked on, and plan to use genAI, DON'T.*
Who did it better:
- A Quick and Dirty NSF to SAP Conversion from 2026?
- A Proper Raster Music Tracker Transcription from 2019?
The answer might surprise you :3c
Featuring music by @cuttercross.bsky.social once again!
Holy SHIT
I made an NES emulator called Family Size VM in December and January. To kick off a video series about it, I made a 4-minute explainer video about how an emulator can improve the player's experience.
youtu.be/qaCEY67VosU
#RetroGaming #Emulation #NESdev
Clearly your favorite toilet must be the Big City Toilet: youtu.be/P72qvW8BAhk
Screenshot of Mesen's Memory Viewer, showing the lack of free space ($00 bytes) at the boundary between 2 PRG-ROM banks.
Have you ever fought to make something fit in a PRG bank where it leaves you with literally 0 bytes free?
Having a chunk of data overflow by only 5 bytes can motivate you to pull off the most desperate byte-optimizations to make it fit.
#NESdev #NEShomebrew #gamedev #indiedev
Exploring some arcade game self-tests to see exactly why some games start up with a glitchy tile soup!
Why Do Arcade Games Boot Up Like This?
youtu.be/LVDbhC5Sve4
I've begun working a bit for @brokestudio.bsky.social on a game concept using their 'rainbow' cart, allowing often rumoured/seldom seen mmc5-style 8x8 attributes & tilecount per scene; NES displayable.
My process thoughts available on patreon, supporter tier & up.
www.patreon.com/posts/148758...
Secret of Evermore is such a beautiful game. I've never seen a SNES game with such unrivaled atmosphere.
I bounced off the early game pretty hard, [jank hitboxes didn't help], but once I understood the charge system, I was HOOKED.
Not related to the driver, but the parallax BG is very nice :)
Side note: Why did I not upgrade straight to RGB?
- My GV-USB2 capture device & splitter box only support as high as S-Video.
- I don't like the idea of RGB modding systems that never natively supported RGB out of the box.
Screenshot of OBS, GV-USB2 capture of the Everdrive N8 Pro menu from my NES via composite video over a direct RCA connection.
Screenshot of OBS, GV-USB2 capture of the Everdrive N8 Pro menu from my NES via composite video over an S-Video connection.
My splitter box will actually send composite video over the S-Video output, which is good for composite-only systems like the NES! Since the S-Video input on my TV overrides the RCA jacks.
But my GV-USB2 does a slightly worse job decoding composite video through the S-Video port than over RCA... 🤔
Super Mario 64 castle grounds, captured via Composite video.
Super Mario 64 castle grounds, captured via S-Video.
Luigi's Mansion intro cutscene, captured via Composite video.
Luigi's Mansion intro cutscene, captured via S-Video.
More obligatory comparison screenshots for N64 and GameCube :)
3 sets of aftermarket Nintendo S-Video cables from Insurrection Industries.
Super Mario World title screen captured via composite video.
Super Mario World title screen captured over S-Video.
This Christmas, I spent way too much money on upgrading my retro console capture setup...
...to S-Video.
3 Insurrection Industries' Nintendo S-Video cables & a bunch of thick-shielded Monoprice cable upgrades for my splitter box later, I can finally see what good S-Video is meant to look like :)
when i see your name on my screen
my stomach flutters and my heart races
you make me weak in the knees
your memory ricochets through my faces
i loved you
i can't help it, in my reckoning
i miss you
come back soon, my rikka-nee
I made a video about off-screen stuff on the NES!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=872v...
It's always fun finding a random VRAM update bug that causes full-screen seizure-inducing disco flashes out of nowhere. 😬
[On that note, NEVER forget the terminator byte in your VRAM transfer buffer.]
#NESdev #homebrew #gamedev #indiedev
Just so you know...
Art directors, Art enjoyers, Art buyers and Artists talk with each other. Nobody wants AI slop, specially when there is real art out there as an alternative. You can totally get blacklisted, not only on the industry, but inside fandoms for defending AI precarization and theft.
Without fail, I ALWAYS misread it as SMB3.
My lizard is the Lizard of Bus.
I'll never forgive generative a.i
Having to ask "is this real?" so often has really done a number on me
I miss being able to trust art.
Throat Sort sounds like a very... interesting[?] algorithm.
