nesmaker – Set Side B https://setsideb.com The Flipside of Gaming Wed, 04 Dec 2024 23:49:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://setsideb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/cropped-mascot512-32x32.png nesmaker – Set Side B https://setsideb.com 32 32 GB Studio & BB Studio https://setsideb.com/gb-studio-bb-studio/ Fri, 06 Dec 2024 15:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=8885 Continue reading "GB Studio & BB Studio"]]> GB Studio, by Chris Maltby, is fairly well-known now, isn’t it? It’s a free and open source solution to fairly easily making Gameboy roms on your own, that are properly termed not romhacks but homebrew. It has its own website and it’s available on itch.io. It was what Grimace’s Birthday, which we linked to last year, was made with.

GB Studio, from its platformer template

Now there’s a heavily-modified version of GB Studio, called BB Studio, that produces NES roms in a similar manner! It’s made by Michel Iwaniec, and can be gotten from Github here. It’s recommended that you be familiar with GB Studio first, and to read the list of caveats on the page. Particularly, the NES supports fewer sprites per scanline than the Gameboy hardware does, and runs at a slower clock speed. BB Studio is also “early alpha software,” meaning, it might or might not work well for you at the moment.

While we’re on the topic I should also mention NES Maker, which isn’t free, but it also isn’t “early alpha software,” and at $36 isn’t expensive either, and is custom-built for generating runnable NES games.

]]> Computing Pi on a NES https://setsideb.com/computing-pi-on-a-nes/ Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:00:00 +0000 https://setsideb.com/?p=7701 Continue reading "Computing Pi on a NES"]]> Today’s link is to a madperson who explains how to compute digits of pi on a NES’s 6502 to an arbitrary length. As you do. Along the way it explains how to multiply and divide in binary on a processor without hardware support. It’s around nine minutes long, but if you want a machine to get to the end of pi it’ll probably take a tad bit longer.

We link to such a variety of things here. Sometimes we post light videos where someone has Kirby do funny things. Sometimes we show explainers that explain how to do arithmetic on old processors. I presume that you’ll take from these what you want, and leave the rest to the crazy people, by definition the people who are not you. I understand.

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