@mutatedscott.bsky.social
Vidja game maker (He/Him) Mostly just goofing around with NES assembly (very slowly) and taking in retro gaming history. Work in Solar2D and Unity for other current projects. mutatedsoftware.com
The lost source code convo reminded me of a little story about FFX, or how I ended up in the thanks for the remaster.
In the 2000s, I made a FFX & FFX-2 Model and animation viewer. The thing kinda exploded on the neogaf forum as I recall. It was my first work around PS2 reverse engineering.
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Gotta love this Displaced Gamers channel's coverage of NES code execution.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G6v...
I'm not buying that the 1001 PS1s sound better than other models. Couldn't tell the difference between it and a 7001. Tried a few games and a PUP CD. Composite out and multi AV.
On the plus side, it did remind me that PUP has a great video game themed music video
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVuB...
Actually might have been done a lot earlier but didn't realize I had turned on the PPU too early and assumed I'd just screwed up the bank switching (MMC1). Took me a very long time to figure it out since the output is just random graphics corruption and an occasional crash.
19.07.2025 18:15 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
A lesson learned messing around with an asm NES game is how delayed the gratification is. Something I take for granted in modern game images.
I thrust my fists in the air after finally getting a compressed enemy character set to dynamically loaded where I wanted. But this pic is hard to show off :D
Basic state machine with movement and projectiles now working. Up next, rolls & traps! #nesdev #gamedev
09.07.2025 04:00 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 8 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0One nifty feature of my custom sound driver that I gloss over on here is the concept of variants. Each stage has "normal", "cave" and "pause" versions of the music, and I can hop between them at phrase boundaries.
Also shown: a fancy new RTA timer for speedruns :D #nes #gamedev #screenshotsunday
Looks lovely. Thanks for sharing โค๏ธ
30.06.2025 15:27 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Every year Four Job Fiesta sneaks up on me. One of these days I'll participate. www.fourjobfiesta.com
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EM0...
Whole series is great. Loving this channel.
05.06.2025 05:27 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Bumped into these videos by What's Ken Making the other day. Really well produced.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFAv...
Happy pride folks
I'm still fleshing out the entries, but here's a list of over 200 retro games (pre-2010) which were made by trans people or which had trans people on the dev team.
We have always been here.
dotmaetrix.neocities.org/classictrans...
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I just saw this crazy WIP of a #NES #hombrew project that is pushing 3D vector graphics not unlike the ones they used in the NES port of Elite.
This is super impressive to see running so smoothly on the old 8-bit system.
You can find their Twitter here:
x.com/ls_create
#NESdev #Nintendo #retro
I started work on the End Credits for Super Sunny World (my NES platformer).
It's a mess to look at now, but there's cool stuff going on: multi-layered parallax scrolling as well as vertical and horizontal scrolling mixed together!
Posting now for comparisons later!
#nesdev
I made a new chiptune
#chiptune #famitracker #8bit #nesdev #nes #2a03
youtu.be/hsg9QcFpuQ8?...
So, I don't think any of this is mean spirited, but I do take some exception with the term "broken". Kinda wish we moved to "exploited" or a similar term as a community. It pokes at a game for not being perfectly hardened in a way that nobody would actually want in terms of release dates and costs.
01.05.2025 04:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I was impressed at how well he handled that. Don't think I would have been so chill.
01.05.2025 03:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Making progress on VRC6 raster effects...thx to a random CV3 blog with disasm... (you can see the seam being skipped to the left) gmvania.blogspot.com/2012/08/book... #nesdev #gamedev
10.04.2025 22:08 โ ๐ 24 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Couple of Westwood retrospectives that I thought were great
Titans of the Industry: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXbX...
GDC Classic Games Postmortem: Command & Conquer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIXK...
"For your SEN" got a solid chuckle out of me :D
26.03.2025 00:54 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I don't know who is buying Blue-Collar Astronaut on PS4 in 2025, but my $7 quarterly payment made me chuckle. Thanks.
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Stayed up a bit too late last night trying to finish this interview. Really compelling. Loved Westwood growing up.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXbX...
Nice!
Went with MMC1 myself referencing FF1. Fixed the last bank.
Things I stumbled on so far:
* Switching the bank that was currently running code - ended up pushing the address to go to, and jmp (instead of jsr) to bank switch routine (rts)
* Organize files to banks - no good solution yet :(
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That's awesome!
Appreciate you posting these updates. This same issue is a long while down the road for me but it's lovely to see someone conquering it and providing insight :D
05.03.2025 21:51 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Found this delightful
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybs5...
A question I often get is:
"What programming language should I use to make NES games?"
I decided to capture my answer... in blog form!
www.matthughson.com/2025/03/02/c...
