Nintendo Entertainment System (Famicom) News

Jaffe is working on a remake of Chips Challenge for the Nintendo Entertainment System. It's in early stages and could not be really called a game yet, but it's the second preview which he made public via the NESdev boards. You may want to have a look at it and motivate him to continue! Read more about Chips Challenge (10-02-2010) (NES misc)

Battle of the Bits released their chipdisk "Winter Chip V". Read more about Winter Chip V ROM Flier (NES Chipdisk)

Pulsewave is a monthly NYC chiptune party held at The Tank. This is the Pulsewave Invitro for January 2010. Read more about Pulsewave – January 2010 (NES misc)

Back in 2007 "No Carrier" created Vegavox for Alex Mauer. Long out of print, it was the first NES album ever released on a cart. Now you can do the same. Read more about VegaPlay v0.1 (NES misc)

scrollNES is a tool to display scrolling text on the NES. The large font is created dynamically by reading character data from a single file and representing each bit as a tile in the background. The ROM has been tested to work in Nestopia, FCEUX, and actual NES hardware via the PowerPak. Read more about scrollNES v0.1 (NES misc)

Tall Pixel demonstrates a way to stretch still images vertically by a factor of 3/2, using mixed $2006/$2005 writes and timed code, so that the CHR data for your cut scenes takes 33% less space. Read more about Tall Pixel (09-12-2009) (NES Techdemo)

Do you want to control you NES with Arduino? Read more about Control a NES with Arduino (NES misc)

Tokumaru has released a ROM of his raycaster engine for NES/Famicom. Read more about Tokumaru Raycaster (17-11-2009) (NES Techdemo)

Damian Yerrick, aka tepples, has released an update to his game LJ65, formerly known as Tetramino. Read more about LJ65 v0.41 (NES Game)

Super Snake is a NES game by Chinese developer hd380000. Read more about Super Snake (30-10-2009) (R2) (NES Game)