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Dutch nes gamer God Member Offline Posts: 598 holland Gender:	homebrew cart 03. Mar 2007 at 11:19 when im not collecting,im playing my nes games our do other stuff like building my own cabinet. But when i woke up this morning ,it was if someone told me: MAKE A HOMEBREW CART So im on a mission! could take years,but when my mind is set,nothing can stop me But some help is never wrong,so any idea's?
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coinheaven God Member Offline I don't trust books; they're all fact, no heart. Posts: 500	Re: homebrew cart Reply #1 - 03. Mar 2007 at 11:53 you should make a GOOD simpsons game
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Reply #2 - 04. Mar 2007 at 00:13

ill make a good simpsons game in a week! Angry

Man this will take 2jears! (if whe can pull it off)

I talked with my brother ho is a computer teacher and a good friend ho works with computers,there not sure if whe can do it but will try

with the right information and planning and $$ and love for the project it might work.

Can anybody help us where to look for information?

the plan is to make a porn game,thats interresting to people and it sells!

so whe don't end up selling our houses

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NationalGameDepot God Member Offline The NGD Game List v3.0 is DONE!! Posts: 3976 Knoxville, TN USA Gender:	Re: homebrew cart Reply #3 - 04. Mar 2007 at 00:50 I would think anything you need would be over at NESdev.com. You could also look at this site http://bobrost.com/nes/index.php That guy taught a class on how to make homebrews. His tools and resources are on the site still, so it might be a place to get you started. Hope it helps. ~~NGD
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Dutch nes gamer God Member Offline Posts: 598 holland Gender:	Re: homebrew cart Reply #4 - 04. Mar 2007 at 12:13 thanks,not gone be easy a hack is verry easy tho But the project is about a short,but quality game
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NESaholic God Member Offline Obscurist maximus Posts: 2450 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: homebrew cart Reply #5 - 04. Mar 2007 at 12:27 Hacking would be fastest, but it would be cool if you programmed it yourself.
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Reply #6 - 04. Mar 2007 at 21:43

Not only that but then you could actually sell it. With a little time and good use of all the resources available you should have no problem coming up with a small, fun engine. Assembly isn't that bad if you have programming and data structure background, and it's not plagiarism if you look at decompiled code and use it as a tutorial basis for programming your own original material.

The difficult part is coming up with a full game's worth of graphics, music and then there's designing and populating the levels, working out bugs. It's more than just a program it's a package. That's where nesdev comes in, there's many talented graphics guys and skilled music composers that would love to get their work and credit in an original game...but a little financial consideration woudln't hurt I think and being able to sell a new NES game for a reasonable price helps cover that, make a charitable donation to the sources that helped you along the way and cover the costs of your equipment/supplies or the person to whom you entrust burning your games for release.

Of course you could release it as rom-only, there's always people that - if your game is worthwhile - will make a label with your permission and repro it. But the people you have helping you should know from the start that it's destined to be freeware, I'm sure many of them will be fully willing to work for credit alone but it's good to get that on the table up-front.

BTW on a related note, my Power Pad should be coming in a couple of days, and that should give me the motivation to begin work on my game again

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ThaDuke Junior Member Offline Tanooki Suit Dookie! Posts: 90 Florence, AL Gender:	Re: homebrew cart Reply #7 - 05. Mar 2007 at 02:04 Hmmm..interesting. How exactly would you go about creating your own NES game/cart??
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Reply #8 - 05. Mar 2007 at 05:27

Right on man, that's the same thought I had many years ago. I gathered all the docs I could find (making what became the http://nesdev.com/ site) and learned how to program by experimenting with help. Grab a book on 6502 Assembly if you can find one (they'll all be from 70's-80's), it'll help a lot.

It does take a lot of work (I have many unfinished projects), but anyone can do it.

Read this article:
http://greggman.com/mckids/programming_mc_kids.htm

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NESaholic God Member Offline Obscurist maximus Posts: 2450 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: homebrew cart Reply #9 - 05. Mar 2007 at 12:08 I have been thinking bout this for a while also. I have been gathering some info but it's quite alot. I need more time to ever get this starting, thanks Memblers for the links. Any chance we get to see another Garage cart? i still want to buy the first one you made, have any left?
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NationalGameDepot God Member Offline The NGD Game List v3.0 is DONE!! Posts: 3976 Knoxville, TN USA Gender:	Re: homebrew cart Reply #10 - 05. Mar 2007 at 12:43 He doesn't Hakan, I already asked him about a year ago about. He told me he was thinking about re-releasing it though. I am curious how the Garage Cart #2 is coming along though, I have had my eyes set one one of those babies for a long time. ~~NGD
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Reply #11 - 05. Mar 2007 at 13:20

thanks for the response guys.

Yesterday we spent the hole day gatering information,and it scared the hell out of us.

Its a lot harder than we expected an the 2 year plan is not far off,2 YEARS

but the plans are good

we scraped the porn idea

we wanted to keep it simple,so that we keep going on,kind of like the collecting idea,if you start with rodland and mr gimmick,you will be pissed pretty soon,so start symple,with smb and zelda

THIS IS THE PLAN!

the game will be called the fifth (5) star

its a space shooter like parodius and gradius(love those games)

the story is not clear,but something with destroying a star in 5 pieces

the game itself will be kept simple 1 screen you will keep moving up Wink

smart he,if that works we will try to make it harder for us

the biggest problem until now is getting the info of the computer(rom ) in to the cartridge

BUT WAIT not a simple cartridge a gold 1 like the zelda games,BECAUSE a star shine's

a star has 5 points(punten) so there will be only 5 copies made of the game these wil be spread as follow

- 1 copie for the creator (me)
- 1 copie will be sold on ebay
- 1 copie will be sold at a fleamarket ,by me to a nes collecter without telling him,her Wink

hehe sneaky,for 1euro or so
- 2 copies left got to do something orginel Undecided

whel it will come to me

AND i now this is crazy but in the game, the fifth star will be destroid in 5 pieces,the 5 golden cartridges

SO hang on!

THIS IS CRAZY

... and the hardest part

5 jears after the release of the game the 5 fift star is destroyed in 5 pieces,so after 5 year i want all of the 5 golden cartridges DESTROYED!!

But how i don't now,don't think people will ,but will put it on the cart.

there are only 5 carts but don't want them to become rarety in some closet,so hope the will change many hands with in 5years

BUT first make the game,the story i came up with is great do Cheesy

can i trade mark it Wink

TM

don't steal my idea our i will Angry

huh hahaha Grin

if anybody wants to help there welcome and will be rewarded with eternal fame in the credits

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carlcarlson Full Member Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 246	Re: homebrew cart Reply #12 - 05. Mar 2007 at 18:06 my first thought is that if you work on something for two years you are going to want more than four other people to enjoy it . also, if you have other people helping you I would assume they would want a copy as well. and of course I want one
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dangevin Full Member Offline Nibbly Pibbly Posts: 135 Pottstown, PA Gender:	Re: homebrew cart Reply #13 - 06. Mar 2007 at 00:01 May I suggest a "stellar edition" released as you described in the special casings, and then a wide release in traditional grey for "investors."
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ThaDuke Junior Member Offline Tanooki Suit Dookie! Posts: 90 Florence, AL Gender:	Re: homebrew cart Reply #14 - 06. Mar 2007 at 03:45 Wow - that's some plan you've got there!
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