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i haven’t read up on the MD modes yet, but it is on my homework list. i believe i read somewhere that mode 5 is virtually identical to SMS in mode 4?

in any case, i’d be more than interested to see & hear more of your usecase beyond homebrew

oh, and also png/bmp for most things

currently it supports nes-native binaries, 2 flavours of 65xx assembly, and C headers; though these code outputs only cover the most requested areas.

Also, some developers choose to parse the session file itself (which is plain text) for pipeline/versioning reasons

3) since it currently only concerns itself with nes hardware, assets like maps are already ”close to the metal” - meaning you only need a minimum of glue code (often none at all) to transfer it to a real nes project.

that also makes it primed to sork well with other 6502, 65816, z80 targetd

2) nexxt emulated the NES PPU’s rendering rules in-edit. That both lets you leverage its unique capabilities better and more intuively, as well as makes sure your assets are actually error free and hardware displayable

well, tiled is the most able general purpose level editor around, but it’s also *just* a level editor.

1) nexxt does the whole shebang: you design tiles, scenes, create and manage subpalettes, sprite objects; all in tandem. if you edit a pixel you see the effect of it realtime on your map.

If i’d expand NEXXTstudio’s support to one other console/platform besides NES, which would be your choice?

things to cosider:
-which homebrew scene do you think’d benefit the most?
-what are you personally the modt invested/interested in?

yeah likeness to both gb color’s PPU and TMS9918 (colecovision, msx, sega sg-1000 etc) is almost a draw in terms of convenience.

beyond that, i’m awaiting more answers before i weigh in

NEXXT studio 3.6.4 by FrankenGraphics Featureful NES assets studio based off the classic

(for context)

frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

If i’d expand NEXXTstudio’s support to one other console/platform besides NES, which would be your choice?

things to cosider:
-which homebrew scene do you think’d benefit the most?
-what are you personally the modt invested/interested in?

My own graphics tool is planned to receive both a ”player animation vs scrolling speed planner”, and hopefully include gb support eventually, so it’ll be interesting to tweak & see if there are sweet spots.

As for mixed quality, i guess the GB scene is both ”young” & has grown explosively lately?

those are some interesting remarks to me.
From a technical standpoint, getting scroll rates ’just right’ seems more challenging than on, say, the NES. A thing to avoid are rates of x.5, which cause the max amount of stutter. But an integer may be too much or too little for the limited resolution

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right! there’s probably a range of ’healthy’ growth per year, and if it gets real explosively growing, parts of the community might be loose-knit for a while? if that makes sense.

GB seems to have gone from 0-100 in a matter of just a few years

that’s pretty much where i think i am too. there’s still lots of uncharted territories, but at the same time scenes are growing and tools are on the whole incremenrally getting better.

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ooh, nice! i went ahead and posted this over on the NESdev discord.

truth be told, i haven’t been able to keep track even in the niche i’m mostly in (nes) for some time, and then there’s what’s going on with c64, spectrum, all the others.

which is great! though i’m wondering if there are news sources i’m missing out on

what’s your view on the current state of the homebrew/ new games for retro consoles scene? NES, GB otherwise

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NEXXT is the graphics program I use to create all my NES graphics. I highly recommend it 👾

NEXXT studio 3.6.4 by FrankenGraphics Featureful NES assets studio based off the classic

Just reposting that a new minor version of NEXXT studio is out. It's the tool i make almost all of my NES assets in.

frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

i'm going to get more in the habit of double-posting for whenever i have actual news. Hope you won't mind.

It's a classic. YY-CHR still has one or two tricks up its sleeve that makes it worth keeping on hand still to this day

Though, it was never really designed to do more than tile modifications / rom hacks.

NEXXT is more like a full studio for designing assets for new games from the ground up.

Thanks, i'm happy if it caused any sort of inspiration!

A long term goal is to make it useful not just to strict NES dev, but also people who want to stay close to NES specs for inspiration for modern dev or 'fantasy consoles' too

NEXXT studio 3.6.4 by FrankenGraphics Featureful NES assets studio based off the classic

Just reposting that a new minor version of NEXXT studio is out. It's the tool i make almost all of my NES assets in.

frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

i'm going to get more in the habit of double-posting for whenever i have actual news. Hope you won't mind.

NEXXT studio 3.6.4 by FrankenGraphics Featureful NES assets studio based off the classic

I just released NEXXT studio 3.6.4 (the tool i make most of my NES assets in).
frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

This minor update's most important improvement is that 'metatiles' auto-repair themselves when you swap tiles around, saving a lot of time and hassle.

Plus a good handful fixes and polish

NEXXT studio 3.6.4 by FrankenGraphics Featureful NES assets studio based off the classic

I just released NEXXT studio 3.6.4 (the tool i make most of my NES assets in).
frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

This minor update's most important improvement is that 'metatiles' auto-repair themselves when you swap tiles around, saving a lot of time and hassle.

Plus a good handful fixes and polish

Work in progress forest tiles for an asset pack coming sometime when it's done. #pixelart