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Well this video is about fitting all of the vertically-scrolling 4-player run-and-jump action into 40 KB, with some very neat tricks to shave and save everywher
by unwind 8y ago
Well this video is about fitting all of the vertically-scrolling 4-player run-and-jump action into 40 KB, with some very neat tricks to shave and save everywhere. Really interesting if you're into low-level stuff. The NES looks kind of fun to develop for ...
- bopbop 8y agoIt is actually - I've done quite a bit over the past two or three years and 6502 assembly is really nice to program - it's hard to explain, but the fact it only has three registers combined with a relative ton of storage space for variables means you're constantly doing this three-card Monte shuffle that is very satisfying. It's also all eight bit, obviously, so you're also dealing with nice, human manageable numbers of 0 to 255.