Making my own NES game (Part 1)

First part of my journey into the world of NES game development.
Here I'm introducing the system and it's capabilities. Also talking about my project.

My NES game's repository on Github:
The ROM:

Development tools:

Misc:

Borrowed VCR the video from here:

[cavemanzach]

Bro I hope you get picked up by the algorithm and gain more traction. You popped up in my recommended out of nowhere and I'm hooked. Instantly subbed!

[Harcix]

Everybody knows, the best NES is Dendy

[dnKsTaH]

Is the Home-brew NES market (so to speak) any good? Active?
If so, I got ideas for games.
Also, are there Homebrew NES games that people can battle each other over LAN (or net) with?
That's kinda a bonus if so...

[atherum]

Thank you I’m working on a NES game too

[pritmas]

I have heard about those NES limitations for a 100th time, but never understood what it meant when coding the game :) the game looks promising so far, nicely made sprites, cool premise

[DaWhiteTyger]

STOP! NO! Do not hinder yourself with OLD ASSED hardware, GET to know EMULATION! PLEASE!!!! I am an ID10T... dot dot dot

[violator]

Instant sub ! ^^
Man, you're just insanely amazing... I hope you planed to keep explaining everything in further videos.
This is like a gold mine.
Thank you for making these videos. 👍

[zzeck]

Nice! The Mesen emulator has a really good debugger. Can show you when events happen during screen draw and can use debug symbols from cc65.

[wildside]

Rewatching this series, really great stuff thanks

[DaWhiteTyger]

I hate that you know the ins-and-outs of NES hardware... you suck in a good way. KUDOS!😄

[JampleyDevEs]

Cool, it seems you are still working on this, good luck.

[DaWhiteTyger]

IDGAF about who you are, I LOVE YOU! just keep on, keepn' on!

[andriusmeldaikis]

Loved it! Cant wait for season 2 episode 2 :D

[retrosorkas]

Labai idomiai, o dar tik pradzia. Mane gali uzrasyt i testerius, einu iskart Roma parsisiust, bandysiu ant Mega Drive. Zaidimo zanra irgi gera issirinkai, nors jei daryciau as, tai greiciausiai Rogue-Like butu.

[alexboehm]

very good! Excited to see the next part ☺️👍👍👍👍👍

[domeshtan]

I used DASM with Crimson Editor for writing my NES games. I don't know about your flash cart but I used an Everdrive N8. My work looked fine on Mesen, FCEUX and real hardware with my Everdrive. When I wrote them to Eproms and soldered them into an old Ice Hockey cartridge I got square patches of wrong colors on the screen and garbage characters on the top and bottom of the screen. I didn't clear out OAM to zero out the color palette selections and I didn't fill the top and bottom of the screen with empty spaces. Emulators and the Everdrive seemed to do it automatically. Just something to keep in mind. Took me about a week to figure out what was going on and fix it. Adding music and sound effects I used FamiTracker to make them and Famitone2 tools to convert them to use in my games. Took a little work to figure out where to place stuff and had to make a couple minor changes to the code but works quite nice.

[BITPLAKIS]

Nieko nesuprantu, bet vistiek įdomu!🙂👍

[Lonersquare]

That's very interesting how you managed to take parts of the Mario Sprite, and made it into whole different character.
I would love to see more videos like that if possible. 💯💯💯💯💯💯

[Luigi_Dirbtuve]

Buvo idomu, suintrigavai. 👍Lauksiu sekančio epizodo. 🙂Visada pavydėdavau tiems kurie moka programuot. Bravo 👍🙂

[DaWhiteTyger]

ok, ok i didn't know about the 64KB address space... You win, shutting down.