March 25, 2011

revengineers:

Anyone who went to our show on thursday got to see this in action but we thought it would be cool to make a video showing off the new Nintendo foot pedal I built. Pretty simple but extremely useful for cuing Nintendo sounds, sfx, and loops when I’m playing the guitar.

Also, fyi, I’ll totally build you one of these for $50, shipped! E-mail me at nickmaynard at gmail dot com.

The Nintendo program has kind of been put on the shelf for a bit but I made this thing in the meantime. I’ve got another controller project in the works right now that’ll take up my programming time.

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February 7, 2011

adeclarationofsorts asked: hey nick,
have you tried or know anyone who has tried this? - http://www.unfungames.com/mariopaint/

it's a downloadable version of the composer feature from mario paint. i think it sounds cool but i didn't know if it's worth downloading.

Yeah!

I actually used it in the first nintendo jam I ever programmed. It’s pretty fun. I remember we would play Mario Paint at summer camp and replace all of the notes in the demo songs with the pig notes because it made the whole song sound like farts.

http://nickmaynard.tumblr.com/post/2407725417/who-would-win-in-a-fight-between-hulk-and-thor

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February 7, 2011

Ode To Gwen Stacy by Star Tropic (Quick Jam on Game Boy + NES)

posted by TerenceJames87

Quick little jam with a song I threw together in 10 minutes. Just messing around with LSDJ and NES Chords (Nick Maynard)

Enjoy!

Wow. This guy just used my program in his song. Incredible.

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February 2, 2011
youve prolly looked at this a thousand times. but i like looking at schematics i think theyre nice - submitted by http://pschlieter.tumblr.com/

youve prolly looked at this a thousand times. but i like looking at schematics i think theyre nice

- submitted by http://pschlieter.tumblr.com/

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January 30, 2011
i was messing around with tilesets and yy-chr today and made this. GALAGLITCH. i just pasted the tileset of super mario brothers into the galaga file. looks really nuts. download it here.

i was messing around with tilesets and yy-chr today and made this. GALAGLITCH.

i just pasted the tileset of super mario brothers into the galaga file. looks really nuts.

download it here.

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January 30, 2011
preparation phase: completed!

so, after that last update i think my skeleton is complete. now all that’s left is to start adding in the code for the actual sections. i’ll probably make a few more demo programs in order to figure out some of the details of certain things but i’m pretty much ready to go!

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January 29, 2011
today’s goal: completed! download it here. and then use the turbo buttons to skip through the screens super fast.

today’s goal: completed!

download it here. and then use the turbo buttons to skip through the screens super fast.

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January 29, 2011
TODAY’S NINTENDO GOAL:

this is a pretty quick goal but it’s important if i want my program to be visually appealing.

right now, i have all the data for my sprites in a table named “sprites”. likewise for my palette info. problem is, a table can only hold 256 different values. and like, per section of my game there are 32 values in the palette info. so, if i wanted each section to have a different palette, i would be limited to only a certain number of sections. some sections would have to use the same palettes, which isn’t a big deal at all but when i start working on graphics for this, i want there to be as few restrictions as possible.

so, each section should be able to have it’s own palette and set of sprites. that’s what i’m going to go add right now!

also, i might replace the font data with the font from an old video game. i feel weird just using no carrier’s .chr file still.

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January 28, 2011
WILLEM PCB5.0 PROGRAMMER W/ CHIP ERASER just won this on ebay, which means i will now have the ability to put these programs on cartridges. very exciting.

WILLEM PCB5.0 PROGRAMMER W/ CHIP ERASER

just won this on ebay, which means i will now have the ability to put these programs on cartridges. very exciting.

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January 25, 2011
download “different screens two.nes” here. but seriously, don’t actually download it. this is essentially an updated version of the last program i posted. the big differences - now instead of just loading different backgrounds, it also loads different palettes along with the nametables. also, there’s a little sprite you can move around. so now, every section of the program has a unique nametable, a unique set of palette info, unique sprites, and it’s all organized really neatly! i also went through the code and added a ton of comments to it.

download “different screens two.nes” here.

but seriously, don’t actually download it. this is essentially an updated version of the last program i posted. the big differences - now instead of just loading different backgrounds, it also loads different palettes along with the nametables. also, there’s a little sprite you can move around.

so now, every section of the program has a unique nametable, a unique set of palette info, unique sprites, and it’s all organized really neatly!

i also went through the code and added a ton of comments to it.

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