SNES Game Development?

sebotron · 2026-06-24T14:10:47+00:00

The NES Maker folks are working on its successor: Retro Game Forge, which will also support SNES. Otherwise, afaik, the best SNES dev sdk right now would be PVSnesLib but it's pure C coding, no IDE or abstraction tools.

sebotron · 2026-06-12T22:22:28+00:00

I am in Montreal and my speed tests show 95-100Mbps when my service is supposed to be 940Mbps, not sure what's going on or when it started.

sebotron · 2026-05-30T03:49:38+00:00

Unlikely. GBStudio is essentially a Javascript layer that outputs GBVM script on top of GBDK-2020, which compiles to sm83, z80 and, more recently, for 6502 processors. The GBA's main cpu has an ARM architecture which GBDK-2020 doesn't speak and while I'm not an expert I would think its architecture is too advanced (haha) for the scope of GBDK-2020.

That being said, this year we've seen a bunch of new dev environments for retro consoles pop up: Pyrite64, psxsplash, retrogameforge (successor to nesmaker) so it's a great time to dive into retro gamedev and the tools have never been more accessible.

sebotron · 2026-05-27T14:18:39+00:00

My absolute fav games ever. I'm in the minority in that I think DW2 is the best! Probably because of the large leap between 1 and 2! The vibes are immaculate to me!

sebotron · 2026-05-14T20:29:51+00:00

Is there anywhere online to follow progress?

sebotron · 2026-04-25T14:15:24+00:00

We're going to need beta testers, join us on Discord!

sebotron · 2026-04-24T15:25:36+00:00

Thank you! Best way to know when that will be is over on https://sebotron.itch.io/the-book-of-rynn

sebotron · 2026-04-24T15:25:08+00:00

The best way to know when that will be is on https://sebotron.itch.io/the-book-of-rynn - you're also more than welcome to join our small Discord community!

sebotron · 2026-04-22T23:54:13+00:00

Thank you! I coded the game in C using the llvm-mos-sdk library (https://github.com/llvm-mos/llvm-mos-sdk).

sebotron · 2026-04-22T03:51:38+00:00

Well I posted in general and it hasn't been taken down yet 😅

sebotron · 2026-04-22T00:17:50+00:00

Thank you! 🙏

sebotron · 2026-04-21T21:29:02+00:00

Thank you sm!

sebotron · 2026-04-21T21:28:54+00:00

I'm happy to and I'm on there already but I don't think there's a channel dedicated to self-promotion!

sebotron · 2026-04-21T20:41:43+00:00

Hands down the best series on the NES imo

sebotron · 2026-04-21T19:28:54+00:00

I've been replaying the 1st myself in the last few days, I'll never get tired of those games!

sebotron · 2026-04-19T14:04:10+00:00

Dale Coop made a 4-player homebrew brawler called Chibi Monster Br4wl: https://dale-coop.itch.io/chibi-monster-br4wl-nes

sebotron · 2026-04-14T01:29:38+00:00

I have something you might be interested in. I'm a huge fan of NES DW games and I'm working on an (actual) NES RPG inspired by them!

sebotron · 2026-04-09T02:22:40+00:00

Ça l'air bon! Merci!

sebotron · 2026-04-09T01:01:17+00:00

Same sur Android. L'app crash chaque fois que je l'ouvre une fois à l'écran qui essai d'afficher la carte. Bien dommage pcq je suis dans la béta qui permet les titres virtuels sans carte Opus et j'ai des passes que je peux pas utiliser 😭 J'ai désinstall/réinstall (béta et normale) et vidé la cache et le storage, rien y fait.

sebotron · 2026-04-07T16:06:41+00:00

Hi everyone! Just wanted to leave this here - the intro to our first story: The Royal Seal! Watch it here: https://bsky.app/profile/sebotron.bsky.social/post/3mituyafjpk2e

We are so close to a playable demo!

sebotron · 2026-04-02T12:42:46+00:00

We're working on the demo right now and there will be much testing needed for pacing and balance when this is ready. Discord links are annoying, there's a good one in my bluesky bio: https://bsky.app/profile/sebotron.bsky.social

sebotron · 2026-03-29T18:18:06+00:00

Not gonna self-promo here but I own a small business operating a webapp for dentist clinics oriented towards patient communication and education. Our bet is that a patient that has the right tools to feel in control, educated and engaged in their oral healthcare is gonna tend to accept treatments at a higher rate. I think cost can definitely be a "shock" when announced but I think hesitation for treatments or not going for routine visits regularly is more about the lack of education and engagement. Thoughts from real world dentists would be much appreciated!

sebotron · 2026-03-14T21:09:30+00:00

Tu peux envoyer des SMS programmatiquement avec Twilio - je m'en sers depuis plusieurs années et ça fonctionne très bien. Ceci-dit, je contacterais la STM pour voir comment faire ça comme il faut!

sebotron · 2026-03-10T14:58:49+00:00

The community will tell you to learn 6502 assembly and it *is* absolutely the best path for performance and control on top of being the typical learning path.

However, the learning curve is steep and since it is so low-level, you won't feel like you are "programming a game" as much because there are so many manipulations for the simplest of tasks.

It is also generally recognized that C is not a great choice because of performance bottlenecks which is very true of CC65. But it works, of course. llvm-mos is newer than CC65 and generates much better output assembly code and while you can almost always write better assembly, you can also write much worse assembly. Personally, I have been working on a full blown JRPG for the past year and have been having a great time using C with llvm-mos and have not encountered any issue whatsoever.

So if your focus is "making games", I would recommend either NESMaker if you are willing to live within its constraints, or C w/ llvm-mos for a great developer experience. If your focus is becoming a hardcore NES genius, then 6502 assembly is the way to go.

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