Classical Homebrew

[fargo]

I'm wondering if there are active groups making homebrew games for older consiles, e.g. NES? Is it really diffecult to make games for those consoles?

Thank you h34r:

 

[Orkie]

I've actually been playing around on the GameBoy the past few days. It's not really much of a Z80 in there, so there are a lot of missing opcodes (very useful ones like lddr) and half the registers, but it is a really nice design and fun to work with . Of course, there's no chance of having a decent high level language on it - to get good results, you need to use ASM.

 

[Ravnos]

There's this for anyone interested in doing NES devving. It should simplify the development process somewhat but you would still need to know what you were doing.

 

[fargo]

Thank you Orkie for the info and thank you Ravnos for the link

 

[sand_man]

Is it really diffecult to make games for those consoles?

Older consoles are harder than newer ones, I would say.

 

[Orkie]

Older consoles are harder than newer ones, I would say.

I disagree - newer consoles don't even seem to have any real way of doing 2D any more. On the Gamecube, there is a framebuffer but it isn't RGB and it's a real pain to get anything looking nice out of it.