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I’ve created this patreon so I can focus more of my time on NES related projects. The math is simple: the more patrons, the more % of my time is spent on NES and less on other freelance. If you like my work and want to see more of it, please consider supporting!

The patreon is divided into two major fronts. NAW and NES game development. I’ll let patrons decide which one should get more attention, but I will work on both to some extent.

A huge thank you to those already supporting, you’re the pioneers!!

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As seen on my twitter post.
I have created a simple ROM for testing this on emulators and flash cartridges without having to rely on having a copy of Megaman 3 around. Currently the sprite scrolling is kind of buggy but it’s not a big deal. I have added some stars as sprites because I have noticed that on Megaman 3 some of them are sprites. There doesn’t seem to be any difference between pixels made of sprites or pixels made of background. Sprites flicker at 30hz as in that stage.

Download NES Signal Tester

D-Pad moves the screen 1 pixel per frame, while A,B,Select and Start move them in directions step by step for a more controlled test.

Changelog:

v1.02: Added sprite flicker and restored sprite movement with the scrolling. Adjusted initial sprites positions. Sprites are still not wrapping correctly.
v1.01: Changed from mapper 3 to mapper 0. Fixed header for CHR banks count.
v1.00: Public release.

As twitter user Dieting Hippo pointed out, the title screen for Super Mario Bros 2 has background elements that are off-puttingly misaligned. This hack fixes it.

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It seems there’s a hoax regarding this game having a secret sound test. Couldn’t get the code to work at all. Investigating the ROM I could not find any information about it having a sound test mode. So I created one. At the title screen, press left / right to use it.

Patching Instructions:

1- Download Darkwing Duck NES Sound Test

2- Get your Darkwing Duck USA ROM (please legally own the game). Make a BACKUP of it!

3- Download Lunar ips

4- Open lunar ips, click “Apply IPS Patch”. Locate the ips file contained in the zip.

5- Locate the Darkwing Duck ROM to apply the patch to.

Done! Now play it on your NES emulator of preference!

Super Hiking League is finally available to Windows systems on Steam! It’s been a long ride, and it’s coming to a milestone. Not an end! There’s a lot of ideas about what to do next. Nevertheless, the game is ready and packing. Really excited to see player’s reactions ^^

You can get it here!

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