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The Making of: ROM City Rampage (Retro City Rampage)

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What it is

Making-of video about ROM City Rampage, the NES version of Retro City Rampage, covering how the game's core was crunched to run on real 8-bit hardware and how NES games are made.

Why Hacker News recommends it

Recommended as a fascinating look at fitting a modern game into NES constraints.

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 4 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2014, last 2022

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here's a great talk about that process”

    Talk about making a real NES ROM of Retro City Rampage

    anon9001, 2019-09 · Strong recommendation · in “Technical Breakdown of a new NES game written in Lisp”

  2. “There's a great video on Youtube about converting ROM city Rampage over to run on the NES”

    How Retro City Rampage was converted to run on NES

    bluedino, 2014-03 · Recommendation · in “People Making New Games for Atari, Super Nintendo, and Virtual Boy”

  3. “Here's a fun video on how a modern 8-bit style game was ported to actually run on an NES.”

    Fun video on porting a modern 8-bit style game to NES

    corysama, 2014-12 · Recommendation · in “Post mortem of my one game a month”

  4. “There's also a fascinating video of him getting the core of the game to run on NES spec constraints”

    Shows fitting a game core into NES hardware constraints

    broahmed, 2017-02 · Recommendation · in “From PS4 to 1.44 MB Floppy: Porting Retro City Rampage to MS-DOS [video]”

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Topics: retro city rampage, nes, 6502, game porting, 8-bit

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