Graphics Analysis of an NES Game's Select Menu

http://www.dustmop.io/blog/?p=123

by dustmop • 11 years ago

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gdubs• 11 years ago

Love these types of articles.

Also, if you develop for, say, the Apple Watch, there's a goldmine in looking at classic console games and how they made use of constrained resolution, memory, colors.

djent2• 11 years ago

I feel like mobile developers and the creators of the hardware have given up on heavy optimization to work on minimal hardware and instead just gone with more expensive, top of the line hardware so they can continue current programming practices.

maccard3• 11 years ago

I work on console targeted projects, we still have to optimise for very tight hardware constraints!

JoshTriplett• 11 years ago

It's interesting how much this page relies on the browser behavior of rendering all animated GIFs on the page in sync with each other, such that the palettes rotate in sync with the images.

agumonkey• 11 years ago

Got me to search for NES overclocking and surprisingly people did swap clocks to pump the cpu faster:

https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=nes+cpu+overclock

I already fried my old SNES so I won't touch my NES but still worth reading.

everyone• 11 years ago

I would imagine the limitations would make the UI design itself very effective aswell. Every extra sprite you include bears a serious performance cost so you would pare things down to whats absolutely necessary

digi_owl• 11 years ago

Got me thinking about the Goonies 2 pause map.

Graphics Analysis of an NES Game's Select Menu

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