right, there's all kinds of staff and noone pulled the brakes, at least not hard enough to stop it

this occured to me while i was just reading the news that the swedish vice prime minister had thrown dirt on a journalist in a speech. only for it to be revealed that the ’dirt’ had been requested from chatGPT, which had happily hallucinated it, with no valid source.

would you consider sms support helpful for MD work, even if MD itself wasn't supported?
Hypothetically, i mean. MD support wouldn't be contingent on that. Just looking for user insights

i haven’t read up on the MD modes yet, but it is on my homework list. i believe i read somewhere that mode 5 is virtually identical to SMS in mode 4?

in any case, i’d be more than interested to see & hear more of your usecase beyond homebrew

oh, and also png/bmp for most things

currently it supports nes-native binaries, 2 flavours of 65xx assembly, and C headers; though these code outputs only cover the most requested areas.

Also, some developers choose to parse the session file itself (which is plain text) for pipeline/versioning reasons

3) since it currently only concerns itself with nes hardware, assets like maps are already ”close to the metal” - meaning you only need a minimum of glue code (often none at all) to transfer it to a real nes project.

that also makes it primed to sork well with other 6502, 65816, z80 targetd

2) nexxt emulated the NES PPU’s rendering rules in-edit. That both lets you leverage its unique capabilities better and more intuively, as well as makes sure your assets are actually error free and hardware displayable

well, tiled is the most able general purpose level editor around, but it’s also *just* a level editor.

1) nexxt does the whole shebang: you design tiles, scenes, create and manage subpalettes, sprite objects; all in tandem. if you edit a pixel you see the effect of it realtime on your map.

yeah likeness to both gb color’s PPU and TMS9918 (colecovision, msx, sega sg-1000 etc) is almost a draw in terms of convenience.

beyond that, i’m awaiting more answers before i weigh in

(for context)

frankengraphics.itch.io/nexxt

My own graphics tool is planned to receive both a ”player animation vs scrolling speed planner”, and hopefully include gb support eventually, so it’ll be interesting to tweak & see if there are sweet spots.

As for mixed quality, i guess the GB scene is both ”young” & has grown explosively lately?

those are some interesting remarks to me.
From a technical standpoint, getting scroll rates ’just right’ seems more challenging than on, say, the NES. A thing to avoid are rates of x.5, which cause the max amount of stutter. But an integer may be too much or too little for the limited resolution

i think the way your concept art comes through on the NES/FC is unparalleled in the homebrew scene. Well done!

right! there’s probably a range of ’healthy’ growth per year, and if it gets real explosively growing, parts of the community might be loose-knit for a while? if that makes sense.

GB seems to have gone from 0-100 in a matter of just a few years

that’s pretty much where i think i am too. there’s still lots of uncharted territories, but at the same time scenes are growing and tools are on the whole incremenrally getting better.

my view is that everyone should learn to make them by joining the retro game jam in oulu, finland later this year itch.io/jam/retro-ga...

ooh, nice! i went ahead and posted this over on the NESdev discord.