CutterCross

@cuttercross.bsky.social

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NES homebrew game developer, FamiTracker NES musician, One-man team living in 240p. #NESdev #indiedev #gamedev Current project: CrossPaint - A native NES paint program

A screenshot of CrossPaint, displaying a piece of built-in sample art using tiled assets from a previous NES homebrew game, The Tower of Turmoil.
A screenshot of CrossPaint, displaying an image that renders 200 colors on the canvas [excluding the UI], by using every combination of the NES PPU's color emphasis bits + monochrome bit on the background and sprites.
Screenshot of Mesen's Memory Viewer, showing the lack of free space ($00 bytes) at the boundary between 2 PRG-ROM banks.
Screenshot of OBS, GV-USB2 capture of the Everdrive N8 Pro menu from my NES via composite video over a direct RCA connection.
Super Mario 64 castle grounds, captured via Composite video.
3 sets of aftermarket Nintendo S-Video cables from Insurrection Industries.
With the 21 dot jitter of PPUSTATUS polling, visual errors can still occur in the NTSC borders - which no normal display would show aside from upscalers and capture devices - but not nearly as visible as before.
This code is nowhere NEAR my actual sound driver. It's in an object event routine! Don't ask.
A single PRG bank for the UNROM512 mapper shown here is 16 KiB in size. 14 music tracks and 27 SFX fits in this PRG bank. [Including the sound driver itself.]