nes maker

March 15, 2019

Suddenly, Sixty New NES Games Are Live And Playable

Peter Paltridge demo, demos, homebrew, NES, nes maker, nintendo, Retro Gaming 0

NESMaker is a PC software creator introduced last year that allows anyone to create their own fully functional game for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The program creates an authentic .nes ROM that will run on any emulator, and even includes a “Burn” function that sends the data to a cart flasher (assuming you have a blank NES cartridge lying around). Early this year, the NESMaker creators introduced the first-ever “Byte-Off Contest.” The NESMaker community was given one month to construct a demo for a 8-bit game and submit it before a panel of judges that included Nintendo’s Howard Phillips, NES box art painter Mark Erickson, and others. Approximately sixty entries made it under the deadline, and now all the candidates are playable in your computer browser. If you’ve got a spare afternoon, it is spare no longer. Highlights include: DIMENSION SHIFT: With incredible graphics that rival 16-bit systems, a killer soundtrack and unique hand-coded mechanics like the wall grip, this game could easily take home every prize. NYX: THE PARADOX

February 5, 2018

The NES Maker Campaign Enters Its Home Stretch

Peter Paltridge crowdfunding, homebrew, Kickstarter, NES, nes maker, video games 0

One of the coolest Kickstarter products we’ve ever seen is for NES Maker, a PC software development kit that will allow anyone to build their own 8-bit Nintendo Entertainment System games from nothing. NES Maker uses GUI menus and graphics editors instead of code, and yet it’s surprisingly robust in options and features even at this early stage. “Early” being in terms of introduction to the general public. NES Maker’s creators started building the game creator years ago, out of necessity while coding Mystic Searches, their homebrew NES game. You may have noticed most indie NES titles happen to be hacks of popular games. This is because the NES only understands Assembly language, a primitive and cumbersome way to program. Most coding today is done with plain English words, but Assembly requires an involved knowledge of the very ones and zeroes the game is made up of. Not many people have the patience for it, especially when no job today requires it. Now the campaign is entering its final five