Re: Hacking or creating games

Some games are easier to hack than others; the most commonly hacked NES games are the SMB series, ZELDA series, and Ms. Pacman (Tengen). As for adding new levels to a game, it's probably more practical to replace a level than add a new one; remember that you have strict memory limits on NES ROMs; large numbers of ROMs won't even go one byte over 64K, or 64,000 bytes.

As for writing your own NES games from scratch, you might try NES-BASIC, if I have its name right. There's a little info at this link, but I don't know if the links still work. You might try searching the keyword "nesdev" in Google, too.

http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showfile&file=development/cross/nes_dev.lha

- Tricob.

"Glass Tiger for life! "

How tough is it to hack games? could i add a different course to the original Golf for NES? Does anyone already do this?

Also, how difficult is it to make 8- or 16-bit games from scratch? I've been thinking about putting my long-time D&D campaign into a playable Final Fantasy-type format and sharing it with the world. Maybe I'm just dreaming.

-Matt