No NES homebrew?

[tom]

is there any?

Or is Nintendo not allowing it? No chips for the carts available? Can't bypass the OS? Not worth it?
Answers below please

[CosmicMonkey]

There's loads of NES homebrew.

Check this if you want a really impressive NES homebrew: Grand Theftendo (http://www.grandtheftendo.com/)

But this guy, Brian Provinciano, and Kevin Horton can do many interesting things with NES hardware. Such as the CopyNES.

[tom]

cool
thanks.

What about SNES?

[Teknik_SE-R]

don't forget nes reproductions! not really homebrew, but he puts jp and beta games onto NES carts. if its dumped he can make it!

[Femtosecond]

Are there NES flashcarts like there are GBA ones? Grandtheftendo looks like it would be great on a TV.

[jajaja]

Memblers Garage Cart or something is also homebrew. If you count the game hacks theres alot. You might find something here too:

http://nesdev.parodius.com/

[Femtosecond]

I searched around for garage cart and I can't find anything. Maybe he's taken down the info?

[Teknik_SE-R]

wasn't the garage cart like 12 hacked games in one cart and they (the guys that made it) only sold thirty carts, all of which were sold before it was even completed?

If it is what I am thinking of, they should re-release that. I'd buy one.

edited for clarity

[InsaneDavid]

A NES flashcart is in the works...

http://ameba.lpt.fi/~hataarto/nes/

Gonna be a bitch to assemble though.

[Necron99]

wasn't the garage cart like 12 hacked games in one cart and they (the guys that made it) only sold thirty carts, all of which were sold before it was even completed?

If it is what I am thinking of, they should re-release that. I'd buy one.

edited for clarity

there was 24 carts total. I got one :) 2 Were sold by him on Ebay

It had three Homebrew games on it. Munchie Attack, Hot Seat Harry and Solar Wars.

here's the original thread. http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65772&highlight=garage+cart

There's also nesreproductions.com and gamereproductions.com that do NES repro's

[CosmicMonkey]

As far as SNES goes, I've only really seen hacks of Mario World or translation patches for the Japanese RPGs (and the ultimate StarFox2 patch).

Not seen any other SNES coding of interest. Anyone?

[Flack]

Are there NES flashcarts like there are GBA ones? Grandtheftendo looks like it would be great on a TV.
The problem apparently lies within the way the NES uses mappers. An NES flash cart would have to properly emulate all the mappers as well as the ROMs themselves, thus making the project much more complex.

[googlefest1]

any one know where i can get a programing guide for making nes homebrews -- hopeing they have some similar to the atari ones

[jajaja]

any one know where i can get a programing guide for making nes homebrews -- hopeing they have some similar to the atari ones

Best source is http://nesdev.parodius.com/
Theres also some forumlink there.

[googlefest1]

OOOH thanks

man why dosent that com up for me in a search on google

[InsaneDavid]

Are there NES flashcarts like there are GBA ones? Grandtheftendo looks like it would be great on a TV.
The problem apparently lies within the way the NES uses mappers. An NES flash cart would have to properly emulate all the mappers as well as the ROMs themselves, thus making the project much more complex.

Arto's NES Funky Flash Cart will eventually support most of them except for complex ones like MMC5, current list is very impressive...


Implemented mappers so far:

# Discrete logic: NES-AMROM
# NES-ANROM
# NES-AOROM
# NES-BNROM
# NES-CNROM
# NES-CPROM
# NES-NROM
# NES-UNROM
# NES-UOROM
# Color dreams

# MMC2: NES-PNROM

# MMC3: NES-TGROM
# NES-TKROM
# NES-TLROM
# NES-TQROM
# NES-TSROM

[portnoyd]

If you're talking about homebrews made akin to 2600 homebrews and releases like the ones at CGE, yes, the Garage Cart is the only one.

[kirin jensen]

Man, I wish there were some homebrew NES carts. A friend of mine is Nintendo generation.

Iwant to surprise here with a Nintendo and some games; and a homebrew cart or two wouls be just awesome to add to the mix.

Now if she'd just dump her boyfriend and start dating me... :evil laugh:

[noriaki_kakyouin]

Man, I wish there were some homebrew NES carts. A friend of mine is Nintendo generation.

Iwant to surprise here with a Nintendo and some games; and a homebrew cart or two wouls be just awesome to add to the mix.
There is a good site for homebrews HERE (http://www.pdroms.de/roms.php?system=NES&typ=Games&first=0) at PDRoms.

Even without the homebrews there are plenty of good legal roms to get. I, like you, am surprising a friend with the Earthbound Zero cart I am ordering from NES Reproductions (http://www.nesreproductions.com/).

I would like to do these myself, but I am not that skilled in electronics yet and I do not know of any place online to lear the tricks. I found an article HERE (http://www.hackaday.com/entry/1234000493039698/) but I didn't like how he tore the cart apart. The article at NES WORLD (http://www.nesworld.com/devcart.htm) was a bit more informative, but without a step-by-step it really doesn't help me.

The gentleman at NES Reproductions said that he used to charge much more than he does now making me believe that it is tedious work to de-solder and re-solder the pins and time to program the eproms.

I usually try to make step-by-step illustrated pages when I do things myself... so if I learn how to do this you can bet I will put it out there for others.

I'll continue to search for articles that might help us out in this area and post here.

[noriaki_kakyouin]

Found this in some of the homebrew topics on this site.

ROM Laboratory (http://nintendoallstars.w.interia.pl/romlab/neslab.htm)

Exactly what I was thinking of, but could use some installation images and clearer English. But still a great site.

[Jorpho]

There's also some cool stuff here:
http://www.classicgaming.com/epr/
http://www.zophar.net/tech/6502.html
http://www.zophar.net/tech/nes.html

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

If you're talking about homebrews made akin to 2600 homebrews and releases like the ones at CGE, yes, the Garage Cart is the only one.
There's a modern artist named Cory Arcangel who has produced a couple one of a kind NES cartridges. I think they're all hacks of existing games rather than original homebrew, though. And, as I said, one of a kind. The one that sounds the coolest is called I Shot Andy Warhol and is a hack of Hogan's Alley with with targets altered to look like various popular culture figures of the '60s and '70s.

Speaking of hacks, there's some really great ones on the NES. Some lovely work done on Super Mario Bros. Like the Luigi's Quest ones (particularly Luigi & The Christmas Quest). There's also a really cool hack of Donkey Kong called Pink Floyd's The Wall, which is just a brilliant job.

As for homebrew on the SNES, I think there's a handful of demos and "crack-tros" but I don't know of any playable games.


...word is bondage...

[noriaki_kakyouin]

A friend told me that there's a DDR for the NES that someone homebrewed. I've been searching high and low for it with no success. I trust this guy, but I haven't gotten a website from him yet... so I continue to search.

8-bit music, arrows... what else do you need besides it to work for the NES step pad?

[Guru of Time and Space]

A friend told me that there's a DDR for the NES that someone homebrewed. I've been searching high and low for it with no success. I trust this guy, but I haven't gotten a website from him yet... so I continue to search.

8-bit music, arrows... what else do you need besides it to work for the NES step pad?

You're gonna find it at the pirate booths at the mall. You're gonna be let down though. The arrows scroll horendously and nothing is on beat.
Have fun.

-GoTaS