Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom) News

The Mojon Twins released their stunning NES homebrew Lala The Magical! Go and get the free ROM to play this great platformer. Read more about Lala The Magical (NES Game)

Dragon Leap is an older NES homebrew game by 64KB Games, which totally slipped under our radar, but better late than never? If you are into platform/puzzle games, this might be a pretty nice game to check. Read more about Dragon Leap (Web-Release) (NES Game)

The Mojon Twins work on a new NES game called Lala The Magical. Now if this doesn't look fancy! Read more about Lala The Magical (WIP) (NES Game)

MintaBOOM by za909 is a new, work-in-progress music player, which aims to make it possible to play sample-based music in games without having to completely suspend gameplay. The additional cost of an IRQ source in a cartridge has also been considered, and as a result, no complicated mapper hardware is needed to make use of the music player, as it runs using the DMC channel for its timing! Read more about MintaBOOM (11-07-2016) (WIP) (NES misc)

Peter McQuillan brings his ZX Spectrum game Falling Blocks to the NES. It's currently a work in progress. Read more about Falling Blocks v0.48 (NES Game)

Peter McQuillan brings his ZX Spectrum game Falling Blocks to the NES. It's currently a work in progress. Read more about Falling Blocks v0.43 (NES Game)

Every Autumn, in the boggy marsh near of the shores of Lake Potoña (Province of Badajoz), one could witness the hatch of the eggs of the rare Romani Heron. Some of the most famous ornithologists have described the scene as one of the most beautiful experiences they had experimented on a Friday evening. Read more about Yun (08-07-2016) (NES Game)

Pilo tried to get into NES development and his first output is Drakaina. The game has no sound and there is room for improvement, but it's a beginning. You play as Drakaina, the angry dragon princess which tries to escape the kingdom of the cursed prince. Read more about Drakaina v1.0.0 (NES Game)

Unchained Nostalgia by VEG is a demo based on the pirate multicart with a romantic storyline and the Unchained Melody in the menu. You have to use a NES emulator (e.g. Nestopia) to run this demo. Also this archive includes Unchained Melody in the NSF and NSFe formats. You can play it, for example, using the foobar2000 with the Game Emu Player plugin. NSFe format is preferable because it contains more meta information and track length, which is not possible in the obsolete format NSF. It means, that playing NSFe melody correctly ends in time, unlike NSF. Read more about Unchained Nostalgia v1.3 (NES misc)

russellsprouts works on a demake of Super Smash Bros. for the Nintendo Entertainment System called Super Smash Bros. NES. The author claims to have a working game engine with platform collisions and a lot of art. The game seems far from being complete and might also suffer from potential copyright claims, but let's keep track via nesdev.com and see how things will turn out. Read more about Super Smash Bros. NES (WIP) (12-06-2016) (NES Game)