Hacking ROM Hack Cramming Solitaire onto a Nintendo E-Reader card

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Found this at the top of HackerNews today and thought it was relevant to share here.

"I recently finished making Solitaire for the Nintendo E-Reader. I managed to fit it onto a single card, and it's a pretty full featured version of the game. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I figured I'd talk a bit about how I made it in what turned out to be a long blog post :)"

Full post here:
https://mattgreer.dev/blog/cramming-solitaire-onto-a-nintendo-ereader-card/

 

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I wanted to ask "Why?" then I thought.... "Why not?" so I kind of answered my own question xD
haha :)

Yeah Solitaire isn't exactly an amazing game. I chose it more as a proof of concept for the first one.

But the real why is I plan to release e-reader card packs. They will be professionally printed and should be very similar in quality to Nintendo's original cards. I just think this would be really cool. I always really liked the e-reader and was sad Nintendo honestly didn't do too much with it.
 

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haha :)

Yeah Solitaire isn't exactly an amazing game. I chose it more as a proof of concept for the first one.

But the real why is I plan to release e-reader card packs. They will be professionally printed and should be very similar in quality to Nintendo's original cards. I just think this would be really cool. I always really liked the e-reader and was sad Nintendo honestly didn't do too much with it.
Damn I love this so much! Thanks for commenting, I didn't realise you were active on this forum. Love the concept I work for a commercial printer. Let me know if I can do anything to help.
 
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Damn I love this so much! Thanks for commenting, I didn't realise you were active on this forum. Love the concept I work for a commercial printer. Let me know if I can do anything to help.
I just joined. Although I've lurked here for many years as there's lots of good info on this site.

I will eventually need to shift to getting professionally printed cards made. Any advice or help you can offer would be excellent! I'll probably message you when I get closer to that, thanks for the offer!

For now I'm focusing on making a lot more games. For the new games, I hope to have info on them and even a way to try out early versions of them in a web browser soon...ish. I'll post here when that happens.
 
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I just joined. Although I've lurked here for many years as there's lots of good info on this site.

I will eventually need to shift to getting professionally printed cards made. Any advice or help you can offer would be excellent! I'll probably message you when I get closer to that, thanks for the offer!

For now I'm focusing on making a lot more games. For the new games, I hope to have info on them and even a way to try out early versions of them in a web browser soon...ish. I'll post here when that happens.
(Edited because I asked a very silly question)
 

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I just joined. Although I've lurked here for many years as there's lots of good info on this site.

I will eventually need to shift to getting professionally printed cards made. Any advice or help you can offer would be excellent! I'll probably message you when I get closer to that, thanks for the offer!

For now I'm focusing on making a lot more games. For the new games, I hope to have info on them and even a way to try out early versions of them in a web browser soon...ish. I'll post here when that happens.
But will it run Doom?! ;)
 
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According to Stop Skeletons From Fighting, it's over 600



Their math is not totally correct, because e-reader card data is compressed. But still, it'd be a lot of cards :)

Would Tetris in theory work from an e-card? Since its pretty simple
 

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Very cool! As an e-reader fan I will be following this project.

I remember looking into e-reader homebrew years ago but the scene appears to be quite shallow. The only complete homebrew game I found that wasn't an NES inject was Magic Floor. (There was also a flappy bird clone called Flapp-E Mario that I cannot find again. The download link was dead when I found it anyway.)

The e-reader's audio library has voice samples for a male and female counting. I'm not aware of any official cards using it, but I'd like to see a game or demo that speaks the players' score using those voice clips.
 
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Oh cool, I didn't know about Magic Floor. Too bad only the bmp is available, I'll have to see if I can convert that into a binary.

Yeah the counting voices are interesting, there's lots of interesting sounds available. AkBKuKU has made a system resources browsing app where you can see all the backgrounds, sprites and hear all the audio.

https://github.com/AkBKukU/e-reader-dev/tree/main/projects/system-resources/release

You can load it up into mGBA using the .sav file. There are over 800 sounds!
 
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