{"author_name":"NeiloGD","cat":"LD #17 - Islands - 2010","comments":[{"author_name":"","time":"April 22, 2010 3:09 pm","epoch":1271966940,"text":"That’s interesting. I should mix things up and go more pixelated this time. Some of those limitations sound pretty severe though.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"sf17k","time":"April 22, 2010 6:16 pm","epoch":1271978160,"text":"That does sound kinda harsh, but interesting. Are you going to limit yourself to 8-bit chars for the game logic?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 23, 2010 4:01 am","epoch":1272013260,"text":"Afraid I’m not being so cruel to myself, if I was going to do that I’d stick with 6502 assembly & make a ROM. Maybe next LD I’ll give myself a harsher programming challenge, rather than a style challenge.","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1271965140,"likes":0,"metadata":{"p_key":"71510","p_author":"NeiloGD","p_authorkey":"1154","p_urlkey":"107332","p_title":"My personal LD challenge \u2013 Authentic NES look and feel","p_cat":"LD #17 - Islands - 2010","p_event":"LD17","p_time":"1271965140","p_likes":"0","p_comments":"3","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"1154","us_name":"NeiloGD","us_username":"neilo","event_start":"1271980800","event_key":"3","event_name":"LD17"},"text":"

Well, LD17 is just over a day away, and the final theme has not been announced just yet. My last LD challenge was ASCII art, and to continue the “challenge” theme, I have a new one this time round. I’ve seen a fair share of “8-bit” games, or so they claim – the only “8-bit” thing about them is they use a 256 colour palette. Now myself, that’s cheating! I want to take it to the next step, “8-bit” to me does not mean colours, it means CPU. Originally I was going to do LD17 in 6502 assembly for the NES, but after a brief look at doing it – there is no way I would finish anything even slightly respectable, or even to be proud of.\u00a0 No, you won’t get to see this from me:<\/p>\n 

.WaitV:\n lda $2002\n bpl .WaitV\n ldx #$00\n stx $2000\n stx $2001\n dex\n txs\n ldy #$06\n sty <$01\n ldy #$00\n sty <$00\n lda #$00<\/pre>\n 
So yeah, I feel I’m not doing this quite as authentically as I should be – I’m not going to limit myself to an 8-bit architecture running at ~1.79Mhz for the game code. I am going to be limiting myself to the same capabilities as the NES’s PPU and APU though! Sprite count, single background, 2-bit colour per cell limits, the lot. It’s all still fresh on my mind due to writing a NES emulator not too long ago (still unfinished, but works for most mapper 0 games). I shall be logging my progress on here, and posting pictures and screenshots as I go.<\/p>\n 
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Super Mario Brother running inside Nestopia<\/p><\/div>\n 
","time":"April 22nd, 2010 2:39 pm","title":"My personal LD challenge \u2013 Authentic NES look and feel"}