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I remember seeing some people recommend starting with the NES rather than the Gameboy - any ideas on this?

• notafraudster 8y ago
  Start with Chip-8 or Space Invaders, both of which are substantially easier than the NES and Gameboy.
  • voltagex_ 8y ago
    Took me a minute to realise you were talking about 8080 emulation - not Atari emulation: https://github.com/superzazu/invaders https://github.com/superzazu/invaders
    • jacobush 8y ago
      How did you reach that conclusion?
• 0xcde4c3db 8y ago
  The main advantage to NES emulation is that it's a very mature area of study. High-quality documentation is much more readily available than for other systems, and there's more public discussion of the specific problems that NES emulator authors encounter (both primarily on nesdev.com [1] [2]). There's even a sort of tool-assisted speedrun of writing an accurate NES emulator, if you're into that sort of thing [3] [4]. [1] https://wiki.nesdev.com https://wiki.nesdev.com [2] https://forums.nesdev.com/viewforum.php?f=3 https://forums.nesdev.com/viewforum.php?f=3 [3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s [4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZWw745wPXY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZWw745wPXY
• hrydgard 8y ago
  Gameboy is actually a bit friendlier than the NES to get started with, because of the low number of mappers (programmable chips in the cartridges to do tricks with addressing, NES had much greater need for these than the GB due to the dearth of tile RAM). But Sega Master System is even friendlier, I hear.