Re: Just what I was looking for

I figured for a main project, I'd introduce the RPG on SNES. NES seemed like a good building block to start with, but maybe it is better to just jump into 16 bit with both feet.

I'm obviously discussing two different topics here, but Golf is a personal case because of the relationship my dad and I have with the game. I feel pretty confident that most gamers are not golfers (i'm not) and that the interest in hacking it would have been minimal, even in the 27 years since its release. All the hacks I find for the game are visual in nature, for instance, you can golf as any of the members of Kiss if you go to one site. I haven't located anyone that really plays with the course itself.

If NES Golf took a while for emulators to run properly, it would explain why there aren't many hacks of it going around. This rules clearly doesn't apply to SMB3, and I'll tell you why. Hacks of SMB3 are as widespread as they are because ... well, hacks circulated around the U.S. long before emulation even came around. I remember one or two years after SMB3 came out, a hack was already out that "made the last boss harder", enabling him to fire more shots at you at one time. I was never told the name of this hack, though.

Anyway, try out the BASIC languages of the NES first, if you don't want to start with something too overwhelming. If you know someone who's genuinely interested in the NES and the way it runs its programs, he'd be good to have around when you do your work. :-)

I have mixed feelings about the NES overall; I'm much more interested in the "CoCo" home computer (see COCO3.COM) and the Genesis consoles. The TG16 is a curiosity for me, but I honestly haven't done much with it yet. :-(

- Tricob.