Famicom Party

Making NES Games in Assembly

Table of Contents

Part I: The Setup

• Introduction
• 1. A Brief History of the NES
• 2. Fundamental Concepts
• 3. Getting Started
• 4. NES Hardware
• 5. Introducing 6502 Assembly
• 6. Headers and Interrupt Vectors
• 7. Why Would Anyone Do This?
• 8. Refactoring

Part II: Graphics

• 9. The Picture Processing Unit (PPU)
• 10. Sprite Graphics
• 11. More Assembly: Branching and Loops
• 12. Practical Loops
• 13. Background Graphics
• 14. Sprite Movement
• 15. Background Scrolling

Part III: Gameplay

• 16. Controller Input
• 17. Object Pools

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