Developpement on NES or SNES

[Ben_j]

I'd like to try doing games on NES and SNES, and I'd like to know how to do. My searches were not successful so far...

 

[cheesyPOOF5]

http://drunkencoders.com/index.php?system_...&page=Tutorials

 

[Ben_j]

thanks, but dead links on that

 

[FAST6191]

I am not aware of any (free/non comercial) development kits for high level languages but in all honesty I have not looked, I should imagine there is a C compiler somewhere in the world and maybe a C++ one.

ASM on the other hand is readily done for rom hacks, the 6052 that the nes uses and SNES ASM in general have some of the best Assembly tutorials and docs I have ever read and due to their nature focus heavily on the systems concerned:
http://www.romhacking.net/

There are flash carts for the NES/SNES as well (hell there is even a NES to GBA adaptor) but in a move that will likely not endear me to the dev community I will say just use an emulator.

Edit:
http://neshla.sourceforge.net/
http://www.bripro.com/
(made by the same person that did GBAGI)
Purprtedly it is an assembler with C type features.

 

[Ben_j]

Thanks a lot. Maybe ASM is a bit too hard... I think I'll stick to GBA dev for the moment.

 

[Elrinth]

Thanks a lot. Maybe ASM is a bit too hard... I think I'll stick to GBA dev for the moment.

no ASM isn't that hard if you just give it time.

and besides coding straight against the hardware is cool

 

[Ben_j]

Thanks a lot. Maybe ASM is a bit too hard... I think I'll stick to GBA dev for the moment.


no ASM isn't that hard if you just give it time.

and besides coding straight against the hardware is cool

Yeah but as I'm in a computer engineering school, and I'll be learning ASM only next year, I prefer to try coding with higher level languages for the moment

 

[FAST6191]

If the nes assembler I linked is anything like the PC HLA (and initial reading says yes: there are a few nice libraries in there dealing with most of the stuff you will need for now) then high level (i.e. C) is pretty much what you are going to be tapping in there (of course you can write "old school" ASM as well). 6502 is not hard compared to x86 and some ARM either.

The hard part will come with dealing with the registers and stack which considering the simple nature of the systems involved and will all due respect the fact you are not going to be coding chrono trigger - 15 years on just yet means it should not be that much of a struggle.

Also getting a drop on ASM now will help with everything to come (people only tend to learn ASM nowadays to help them with high level or for real performance boosts).

 

[rest0re]

one guy i know made demo for nes here

The recommended emulators for viewing this demo are the latest
     versions of Nintendulator and Nestopia. All others suck at
     various parts (tricky timing, PPU tricks etc.). Do remember,
     that emulation will probably never be as accurate as the real
     hardware. Even the best emulators will fsck up some of the
     effects. So sorry, Linux users, but FCEU really doesn't cut it.

so... try it if you wanna see something cool, but it got naked woman in middle