mastodon 4.3.5I'm a hobbyist game developer who mostly focuses on old Nintendo consoles, but I've done projects on PC too.
I'm a furry and I like to make cute characters and also make games about them! Check out my Toyhouse to see my characters: https://toyhou.se/NovaSquirrel
I'd like to meet other people who like to do lighthearted, story-driven roleplay.
I post NSFW sometimes but I tag it, so please be 18+ if you follow.
Feel free to reach out if you have common interests and wanna be friends!
Here's some Care Bear styled art I just got of my character Rosy Sky, by https://creaturelingart.carrd.co/
The artist gave multiple very good sketch ideas when we were trying to figure out a commission initially and I ended up coming back to get another one of them finished up.
I made some SNES test ROMs that let you explore the offset-per-tile feature and input values to see how it changes https://forums.nesdev.org/viewtopic.php?t=26590
I also made a pull request for the new community Mesen fork with my fixes and updated https://snes.nesdev.org/wiki/Offset-per-tile with the things I saw and confirmed.
Surprisingly, at least for certain test values, this is something where the current snes9x matches hardware but Ares/bsnes doesn't. The behavior also contradicts how the official SNES development manual describes offset-per-tile.
My house's power went out last night for an hour, and I was like "I guess I'll get my Switch out and finally get around to trying more Virtual Boy games" and maybe that was a bad idea because some of them are kind of eerie. I did have a good time with Dragon Hopper though, which is just cute instead of vaguely eerie sci-fi vibes.
Then the power came back on and everything looked a lot more cyan than usual while my eyes adjusted. Maybe I should play with it set to grayscale instead.
Tried to compile my favorite nonogram game (Drymouth for Game Boy Color) so I could try tweaking some mechanics, but it turns out that 26 year old code targeting a 27 year old SDK does not necessarily work well with modern operating systems.
I have been trying to make it work in a Windows XP virtual machine but there's some errors I haven't resolved yet. I also tried making it work with newer versions of GBDK but there's been a lot of breaking changes since then.
Maybe at a certain point it's easiest to just try to romhack it. There's also the option of just making my own game that plays how I want (since I don't think anyone else is going to do it), and uhhh maybe after I complete game dev projects I already have.
I took the Super Game Boy code I made for Petal Crash GBC and made a code example that shows off booting custom SNES code and then having the Game Boy side send files to the SNES as needed.
Code and ROM (under "releases"): https://code.novasquirrel.com/Maffi/SuperGameBoyStorageServer
Art: https://opengameart.org/content/tiny-16-basic
The text at the top is the result of asking the Game Boy to calculate $AA + $BB and send the answer to the SNES, as an example of doing other tasks than just getting files.
I miss BYOND (from when it was full of chat/sandbox stuff and fan games, instead of everyone just playing one game) even though I already cloned and improved my favorite game from it
Having it be really easy for people to make 2D virtual worlds and having that be a popular thing a lot of people did was really cool
I wanted to get more art of Rebecca, my beaver taur, so here's a picture by https://twitter.com/luvporbol
