The Mojon Twins currently beta test their new game Cheril the Writer for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) / Famicom. Tested via a NES emu running on a Caanoo 🙂

sdm released another demo game called Cybroitek. It’s a Berzerk style game for NES / Famicom.

GodMode9 Explorer by d0k3 is a full access file browser for the Nintendo 3DS console. It gives you access to your SD card, to the FAT partitions inside your SysNAND and EmuNAND and to basically anything else. Among other functionality you can copy, delete, rename files and create folders. You can find the source here.

Changes:

[new] Support for PNG (for splashes, script previews, screenshots) (thanks @Wolfvak)
[new] Display the SD FAT volume label in the drives listing
[fixed] Several smaller bugfixes and improvements
[deprecated] Deprecated PCX support in favor of PNG

Michael Chiaramonte shows us once again how to do some NES Programming.

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After being off for a week we did some small optimizations, messed with how levels are loaded, and then played around with sprite 0 hit detection. It was a pretty fun stream because I was mostly messing around with the NES code and not the asset tool. I need to get map building working properly in the NES asset tool so we can get more serious about building backgrounds. I also need to figure out the sprite 0 hit detection better (or, you know, just figure it out)

The author of Alfonzo’s Arctic Adventure brought another update to our attention.

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New level clear animation! I’m pretty proud of how nicely that spiral effect turned out. Had to use some creative math to get it to work with the scrolling, but definitely worth it. #nesdev #nes #indiedev #gamedev

Star Ark is a science fiction game being developed for the Sega Genesis. The game is set on an interstellar colony ship. The player is a member of the crew who must put down a mutiny and set the ship back on course. The 8 Bit Daddy Daughter Team asks for design feedback, so give them a hand!

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Twitter friends. I am having a wee creative crisis at the moment. In many ways I like the look that our game is taking on but I am not sure about the palettes. Your feedback in the poll would be much appreciated; honesty is also appreciated so don’t hold back.

1985 Alternativo are taking pre-orders for Griel’s Quest for Sega Mega Drive / Sega Genesis. E-Mail to hola@1985alternativo.com for more information. The official page doesn’t seem to be reachable for now. You could also check out their Twitter.

The Retro League Podcast features discussion about the latest retro gaming news, re-releases, community developments and reviews of our favorite games.

This week:

A lot of fun was had at the Midwest Gaming Classic convention this week, but Billy Mitchell is facing some serious heat. The Rampage movie is out and we’ve got reviews of the film and of a couple versions of the game. We are pleasantly surprised to find out about the HD remake of a classic Dreamcast title and we remember children’s educational cassette tapes in this episode of the Retro League.

Ryan Carson has progress news on Flap Happy.

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Sorted the snakes out tonight. Seems to work much better now, yay! #nesdev #gamedev #retro

Taco for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System / Super Famicom makes progress.

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Test play on real SNES console. Fixed bugs and several effects are added.