thezerobit 🚀🎧🌹 @thezerobit@anticapitalist.party

I picked up a Sony 27" 480i Trinitron TV with component inputs for free off craigslist for pure retro gaming perfection. Should breathe new life into my old 240p/480i consoles (NES, SNES, Genesis, PS2, original XBox). #retrogaming

They're fuckin delicious anyways.

https://anticapitalist.party/media/XBePfXaTLUXPv7Atly8 gingersnaps recipe says to roll batter into 2 inch balls and put 2 inches apart. This is exactly that, LOL. Why even have measurements on your recipe if they are wrong.

Fancy Bros is just SMB with the mirroring set wrong so the screen is glitched.

https://anticapitalist.party/media/pi8bmyZ2bmbVTnI2Gl8 This old NES multicart I picked up has some classics. Who can forget playing Fancy Bros or Milk Nuts? #nes

Must read article about how the recent trend in retrogaming has lead to several companies building products off of illegal use of open source, community-based projects: https://www.libretro.com/index.php/appeal-to-game-journalists-about-retro-bit-and-about-the-new-retro-emulation-industry-in-general/

In particular, don't buy anything from Retro-Bit or Hyperkin (or any of the other garbage companies abusing the community).

#retrogaming #boycott

I couldn't sleep the other night, so I ended up devising ways a compiler could generate highly efficient code for the 6502 (CPU in the NES). Basically, all variables have to be static and globally allocated and overlapping for functions that do not call each other. Apparently, other people have come to this conclusion such as David A. Wheeler and the creators the Atalan language. https://www.dwheeler.com/6502/ http://atalan.kutululu.org/ #nes #homebrew

I learned a lesson (destroying a NES repro board in the process) yesterday: decades old, used EPROMs with dirty pins may work fine when popped into a double wipe socket, but will likely fail when soldered directly onto a PCB. The solution turned out to be polishing the pins down to the clean metal with fine grained sandpaper or similar before soldering. #NES #repros

Write the PRG and CHR ROM images (had to double the CHR for Dig Dug to fit 16K). Pop them into ReproX board that I socketed and setup as an NROM test board, pop it in the NES, and... Dig Dug on the NES! #nes #repros https://anticapitalist.party/media/0PipCE_sAtLazRM_etc https://anticapitalist.party/media/1nRMJkkyTOq_eTNwX4c https://anticapitalist.party/media/Y0Eeqxt2ye_3dPEjsho

Erasing some cheap, used 16K EPROMs to make a Dig Dug repro cart for the NES. The game was originally only released on The Famicom in Japan. #nes #repros https://anticapitalist.party/media/ZdxSdqTeqkDvgrrqzTQ

I wrote a quick python script to split a .nes file into its constituent ROM images for writing to EPROMs, https://github.com/thezerobit/romtools/blob/master/splitnes.py
#nes #repros

Mostly Unpublished NES Cheats
http://cah4e3.shedevr.org.ru/cheatsbase.php
#nes #cheats #retrogaming

What is so special about the NES that emulators run slower than Genesis/Mega Drive emulators? The NES has a 1MHz 6502 processor, and the Genesis has a 7.6 MHz 68000, a 3.6 MHz Z80, and a much more capable video display processor.
#retrogaming #nes #genesis

I put Lakka (http://www.lakka.tv/) on my Raspberry Pi, and I really like it. My Pi is a model 1, so it only runs NES games at full speed after overclocking to 1GHz. Gameboy (Color) runs fine, as does Genesis/MD. The interface is good, though heavily inspired by Sony's "XrossMediaBar" interface. It boots a hell of a lot faster than RetroPie. I attached a dual SNES to USB controller interface so I'm playing on original SNES gamepads, which is fab.

#retrogaming #nes #snes

the two main ways to pronounce "elegiac" are pretty different and confusing--that word always trips me up

The fix is, of course, to overclock the Pi to 1000 MHz. 🙄

I used to play NES games (emulated) at full speed on a 66 Mhz 486 (32 bit intel CPU). Somehow, the 700 Mhz Raspberry Pi (which also has a 24 GFLOPS video processor) is too slow to handle it, though with modern emulators.