nicetryguy

I thought you just added "ly" and called it a day?

Safe to say PG has a healthy amount of Survivorship Bias.

Nice little article. Learned a new trick or two.

I'd love to see one on the step-thru debugger!

I like how they just EOR'd the data and called it a day =)

Not a question: I followed and really enjoyed your series on [REDACTED] as each video came out =)

Mmhmm... What debugging tools have you written?

When a piece hits the ground, a point is added for every line you were holding the down button. So, you could probably just take the height difference of the ghost piece and the real piece and add it to the score. Remember to set carry when subtracting =p

I'll bet by directly moving the piece coordinates you bypassed this.

I really like your ghost piece =)

I have also added hard drop to NES Tetris. Heh. What are the odds?

This hack strays further away from vanilla NES Tetris though and contains further speed, control and graphics modifications; and lacks that fancy looking ghost piece.

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4973/

My approach of hard drop implementation was different, honestly i just looped the piece down routine until it hit the ground. His approach breaks the scoring system though, mine doesn't =p

Anyway, this was a great article! Nice rundown of the NES architecture.

It's really coming along! It took Dolphin a few years to nail it but i'd imagine a near-perfectly emulated 4k switch in a couple years time.

If you're using wildcards, you're gonna have a bad time.

I'm excited to see where this technology goes. I'm surprised it's taking so much flack in this thread for not being fully fleshed out and compared to materials in use for thousands of years like wood, metal, and concrete by people with barely functional github projects.

I've been permalocked out of a Google account before. It's nothing to balk at. You are completely powerless.

What would be the advantage of this as opposed to, say, a Sega Genesis emulator?

No sadly but i love watching you guys on CuriousMarc!

Dissecting the past brings context and clarity to the present: What a wonderful gift. Your Alto reverse-engineering in particular was masterful wizardry. Thanks for everything you do!

If someone has physical access to your machine, injecting a corrupted boot rom in sleep mode is just about the least of your worries...

Don't have negative thoughts. Remember your mantra!

Yeah... They aren't the same Google of 20 or even 10 years ago...

Unfortunatly i just don't ever see myself putting something on my head with headphones and video screens a couple inches from my eyes. Freaks me out. I'm uncomfortable just thinking about the sensory deprivation. At least when i'm watching a screen, i can be somewhat aware of the rest of the world. I don't think i'm alone with these feelings either.

> What I wanted to try and do was something akin to the Super FX chip used in titles such as Star Fox, where the SNES runs the game logic and hands off a scene description to a chip in the cartridge to generate the visuals.

Bruh. It's in the third paragraph.

> Of course many games shipped with mappers

No. You're thinking of the NES. The SNES handled memory mapping natively. The SNES chips had specific calculation functions, or ended up being co-processors, or both.

> It's still a very cool hack but I was hoping for some ultra-optimized software-only SNES raytracer when I read the title.

Not even the SNES games in the 90s did 3d without an expansion chip. You can't do any raytracing, or any 3d for that matter (without SEVERE compromises) with 3.5 Mhz.

If you read the article, the guy designed his own 3 core chip at 50Mhz... Yes it's more powerful than any chip that was in an SNES, but, it's not entirely period-incorrect.

> standard SNES hardware

It was not uncommon to have expansion chips: even early games such as Super Mario Kart had a (DSP-1) chip to help with 3d calculations. Later chips such as Super FX 1/2 (Star Fox, Doom, Yoshi's Island), Cx4 (Megaman X2/X3), and SA-1 (Kirby's Super Star, Mario RPG) were used in a significant portion of the library.

The SA-1 was basically an additional 10Mhz SNES CPU (which was a 65c816 at about 4Mhz)

Yeah i really give a shit about Bezos' 15th yacht

How does listing your graphics card features and Direct X version lead to a unique fingerprint? Am i missing something here?

Bernie's numbers were huge and dominating with people under 40. It will take a decade or two, but, i think Gen Z and Millenials will finally usher in more progressive change in the Democratic party.

Trump's pivotal point was Super Tuesday where the Republican moderate vote was split between 8 choices: he was able to build an insurmountable lead.

Much like marijuana legislation finally passing now, i think it will take the previous generation to die off before we start seeing more democratic progressive candidates like AOC. Bernie's numbers were Yuge and dominating with people under 40. Give it another decade or so: if gen Z shares values with gen X and Millenials, which is yet to be seen, i think the AOC type candidates will make inroads in many places in the Democratic party.

Sure do. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was fired over it. They also dismantled the superdelegate system. Changes were made. The media was still heavily biased against Bernie before the pandemic; probably due to half of their commercials being for drug and insurance companies.

I'm just looking forward to a period of relative stability the next four years. #MakePoliticsBoringAgain

11 Gigs?!

> nocomplexity.com

nope

Starting and using a Gmail seemed like a great move in 2008: I'm scared to death now.

Instant. No OS. Whatever address word you put into the 6502 reset vector ($FFFC/$FFFD) it will happily jump to on power up or reset and start chugging right along. The PPU (aka GPU) takes roughly 2 frames (33ms) to "warm up" and receive information, so, you want to wait for that by polling PPU_STATUS ($2002) with BIT and waiting for BVS twice when NMI fires. It is a good idea to disable decimal mode, disable audio IRQs, set the stack pointer, and zero the memory in a loop. Any booting and loading speed is entirely code dependent. https://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/Init_code

> As I watch another flat earth debunking video suggested by youtube to have a laugh I'm wondering ... Am I the part of the problem?

I feel the same way. It seems sites like reddit have taken a sharp turn towards pointing out "stupidity" to briefly secure some fleeting sense of mental superiority. I find it mean spirited. It's strange how the zeitgeist of CURRENT_YEAR is fighting both for hyper political correctness and lambasting the mentally unfortunate. I find Gen Z very hypocritical.