SNES programming

Moved.

Unfortunately the SNES, NES and gameboy (original) all use different processors, and assembly is pretty much the only way to go as I don''t know of any C compilers that exist for them.

As the AP said though, the GBA is much easier to get into, supporting C/C++ and with a large developer community that makes it much easier to get started. Check out www.gbadev.org and devrs.com/gba for some excellent resources.

However, if you still want to work on the older systems, there are some excellent resources around:

SNES:
Zophar''s Super Nintendo Page - extremely comprehensive.

NES/Gameboy:
Zophar''s page for general info.

Unless your going for a very processor heavy game then C will be fine on those systems. NES/SNES games were written in C but had a fair amount of asm as well (although i doubt 95%). I have written published GB and GBC games which were 99% C, so there is no real problem there. (just use the GNU compilers, nothing special about compilers its the libs for the console you need).

yup

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Original post by Anonymous Poster
I''ve found some links that I think you might like:

CC65 -- a C compiler for 6502-based systems (like NES and I would assume SNES as well)
WLA -- a set of assemblers for Gameboy, NES, C64, SNES...
an excellent NES programming series
Parodius -- This has been mentioned. Bookmark it.

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Clicky clicky.

Thanks for the clickies Drakonite. That's my post btw. (I lost my password for a little bit there, so the post is anonymous.) EDIT: The anonymous post Drakonite quoted here is mine. The others are not.

I might add that CC65 is not for SNES like I said earlier. I think you could find a SNES C compiler, but frankly, I don't know if I'd even bother. C is a beautiful language, but if your goal is higher-level code and more efficient development, why not go a step farther? With some good work and research, you could instead write a simple Python API that prints 65816 assembler to a file or to standard output. That'd be your code generator. That's an idea, anyway.


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[edited by - Benjamin Heath on April 24, 2004 2:29:22 AM]

[edited by - Benjamin Heath on April 24, 2004 2:01:13 PM]

Ya know, I talked earlier about a potential Python wrapping that generates assembler for NES or SNES. Well, if you take a look at pygame, do you see some potential in that? Suppose pygame were stripped of certain components (CD, for instance) and modified internally so that it essentially arranges assembler code and prints it to a given file or to standard output. Keep the interfaces similar enough at least (as you would be tossing out some things), but other than that, let any game written in pygame without those components "compile" into an SNES ROM! Which you could then test with your emulator.

Hmm. I feel good now. I think I might try this.

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